Sewer Quotes

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

So, the point I'm making is, we are not going to cut spending in Washington if we think it's the job of every congressman and senator is to pave local parking lots and build local sewer plants. These parochial interests are getting in the way of the national interests.

The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.

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.

There are 10,000 local governments in the state of New York. Ten thousand! Town, village, lighting district, water district, sewer district, a special district to count the other districts in case you missed a district.

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

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

Rigging a loudspeaker and a microphone at both ends of a sewer pipe.

The sea is the universal sewer.

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

Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton.

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

I say we have not even had the decency to maintain the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us - our roads, our bridges, our wastewater systems, our sewer systems; by the way, those weren't Bolsheviks, those weren't socialists that built those things for us - much less build the infrastructure we need for the 21st century.