[On William Lyon Phelps's Happiness:] It is second only to a rubber duck as the ideal bathtub companion. It may be held in the hand without causing muscular fatigue. . . and it may be read through before the water has cooled. And if it slips down the drain pipe, all right, it slips down the drain pipe.
I long to create something that can't be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.
It is a pipe dream to think that that bill is going to the floor and be voted on.
The scale relates to everything. The thickness of a pipe, the thickness of a leg of the furniture. Even color could have a scale.
The only sport I really get into is snowboarding. Cause that's the only sport where they perform a half pipe just after smoking a full pipe.
Melodies die out, like the pipe of Pan, with the ears that love them and listen for them.
Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.
By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books. I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view. School is basically about one point of view -- the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle. Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
I do but sing because I must; and pipe but as the linnets sing.
It was a cookie, not a crack pipe.
After some time he felt for his pipe. It was not broken, and that was something. Then he felt for his pouch, and there was some tobacco in it, and that was something more. Then he felt for matches and he could not find any at all, and that shattered his hopes completely.
I don't know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe.
Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and the plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them. But when dear Sebastian speaks it is like a little sphere of soapsud drifting off the end of an old clay pipe, anywhere, full of rainbow light for a second and then - phut! vanished, with nothing left at all, nothing.
i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.
He dances well to whom Fortune pipes.
Shall we go dance the hay, the hay? Never pipe could ever play Better shepherd's roundelay.
A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source.
A pipe in the mouth makes it clear that there has been no mistake-you are undoubtedly a man.
"Lord bless you!" said Mr. Omer, resuming his pipe, "a man must take the fat with the lean; that's what he must make up his mind to, in this life. "
Just because you're a belter doesn't make you funny; it just means that's how your pipes are set up.
