There is nothing like scrubbing toilets for a living to make you question the choices you have made in life.
I'm horrible to live with. I don't clean. My clothes end up wherever I take them off. I forget to flush the toilet.
Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.
In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.
I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I'm learning how to do basic wiring.
You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.
[Todd Chester stares in horror at Eddie draining the RV toilet] Eddie: Merry Christmas. Shitter was full.
On a ship that's made of paper, I would sail the seven seas. (Just to be with you.)
If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent.
It was a lame string, for sure, but it was the one I had left and every paper girl needs at least one string, right? (58)
I use the old Strathmore vellum surface paper, which is the best paper you can get in the Western world for ink line drawing. It has a good, hard surface.
I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper.
It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do.
No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did.
It had run as a column - I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it.
In the cramped confines of the toilet I had trouble getting out of my wet trousers, which clung to my legs like a drowning man. The new ones were quite complicated too in that they had more legs than a spider; either that or they didn't have enough l...
Even a sheet of paper is lighter when two people lift it.
If you make me lunch," he said, "will you put it in a brown paper bag?...Because when I see kids come to school with their lunch in a paper bag, that means that someone cares about them. Miss Laura, can I please have my lunch in a paper bag?
I always leave the toilet seat up. It’s just easier to wash my hair that way.
I didn't understand how. But the toilets had responded to me. I had become one with the plumbing...
The main part of the house is a deep red and I have butterscotch carpet. And I have a bathroom with leopard skin floor, wallpaper and toilet.
