Top 25 Sewer Quotes

We need a national infrastructure bank to rebuild our crumbling highways and water and sewer systems, thereby putting additional people back to work.

When I say infrastructure it’s not just roads and bridges and subways – it’s also housing. It’s also schools and fire departments and water departments and sewer departments. That’s all infrastructure and it’s all important. Little by little this country is crumbling and everyone knows it.

I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.

I started out printing silk screen t-shirts. I sold ink pens. I worked construction. I worked at a gas station. I pumped gas. I was a mechanic for a little bit. I went into sewers, down into sewer lines. I had a lot of somewhat unpleasant gigs for a time there.

Sewer rats are really gross.

Junk is the ideal product… the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy.

Joseph Bazalgette created a sewer system which he originally sized for London’s needs of the time – he then doubled it to anticipate the future beyond. These are the qualities that I admire.

The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.

My first book was called ‘Buried Dreams,’ about a serial-killer, which was probably about ten years ahead of the serial-killer curve. It was a national bestseller, but it was three years of living in the sewer of this guy’s mind.

I’ve stood around bogs wearing half a million dollars’ worth of jewelry, up to my knees in the rot, thinking how much more or less the place smelled like a sewer than it did the day before.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

In 2004, Lawrence Wright wrote in the ‘New Yorker’ about ‘The Kingdom of Silence,’ where a massive sewer project in Jeddah was really a series of manhole covers across the city with no actual pipes underneath. I, as the editor of a major paper at the time, can say that we all knew – and we never reported on it.

The sea is the universal sewer.

One goal of the Clean Water Act of 1972 was to upgrade the nation’s sewer systems, many of them built more than a century ago, to handle growing populations and increasing runoff of rainwater and waste.

Tanushree Dutta is the real pig and not me. She is the sewer and not me. Just look at her face, she has become like a fat ugly buffalo.

We have managed to acquire $13 trillion of debt on our balance sheet. In my view we have nothing to show for it. We haven’t invested in our roads, our bridges, our waste-water systems, our sewer systems. We haven’t even maintained the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us.

And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.

Life is like a sewer: what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

I hope I succeed in demonstrating that you may equally find compelling and significant narratives – stories that alter or add to our understanding of history – in unprepossessing places: a Victorian sewer system; a Cold War bunker; derelict hospitals.

Look at the commercial and industrial development that is going on along the 101. A lot of the infrastructure – the sewer lines and drainage that make development possible – was put in during the freeway construction.

For three months, when I was 23 years old, I worked as a clerk at Wandsworth Sewer.

I worked three summers putting in sewer pipe and guardrail on the road in Ohio.

As soon as you sit down to write about something you are pressing your nose deeper into the sewer of facts.

I’m not a professional sewer, so I just go to YouTube and figure it out and I experiment but that’s the fun part of it. I love watching. Seeing fabric transform into my gear is just a feeling of satisfaction.

Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton.