sewer QUOTES

21 " Well,” I said, “you obviously have some power. You chased off those hooligans with rotten fruit. Perhaps you have banana-kinesis? Or you can control garbage? I once knew a Roman goddess, Cloacina, who presided over the city’s sewer system. Perhaps you’re related…?”

Meg pouted. I got the impression I might have said something wrong, though I couldn’t imagine what. "

― Rick Riordan , The Hidden Oracle (The Trials of Apollo, #1)

22 " The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry, superstition and filth and then beneath the cloak of political surveillance. Now...cyberspace exists exclusively to promote commerce, gossip and pornography. And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it. "

― Ben Elton , Blind Faith

23 " It wasn't a lack of attraction to her husband that caused her problems. It was life. It was traffic. It was the Miami Dade Water and Sewer bills, it was trying to get ahead, and trying to be on time. Petty little thing, but zillions of them fused together. "

― Heather Graham , A Magical Christmas

24 " I don't know about you, but I only have one life, and I don't want to spend it in a sewer of injustice. "

― Wallace Shawn

25 " I always say the truth is best even when we find it unpleasant. Any rat in a sewer can lie. It's how rats are. It's what makes them rats. But a human doesn't run and hide in dark places, because he's something more. Lying is the most personal act of cowardice there is. "

― Nancy Farmer , The House of the Scorpion (Matteo Alacran, #1)

26 " Well, Mr Thomas, while I'm in favour of education, I couldn't in good conscience recommend a university career in anything but the hard sciences. As a working environment, the rest of academia is a sewer of irrationality, hate mongering, envy, and self-interest. I'm getting out the moment I earn my twenty-five-year pension package, and then I'm going to write novels... "

― Dean Koontz , Odd Thomas (Odd Thomas, #1)

27 " A reformer is a guy who rides through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat. "

28 " 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. "

29 " 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. "

1
2