Down The Drain Sayings

#1. It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever and from a greater diversity of artists.

Daniel Ek

#2. Redundancy is like a plug being pulled out in a bath tub. Everything goes down the drain, your livelihood, your dreams, your car, your house, and your family.

Tania Gardana

#3. Stress and pain go down the drain. Leave me feeling good again.

Deborah Blake

#4. If liberals want to send tens of millions of dollars down the drain, I have no problem with that.

Paul Weyrich

#5. It can be a simple sentence that makes one single point and you build for that. You zero in on one moment that gets that character, you go for it, that's it, man, and if you fail the whole thing is down the drain, but if you make it you hit the moon.

Jack Lemmon

#6. Draw every bad word you've ever called yourself on your body. Stand in the shower and pay attention to the way the words turn back into ink and disappear down the drain.

Iain S. Thomas

#7. Christ, seven years of college, down the drain.

John Belushi

#8. In truth we re-create our reputation every day. Journalists with thirty years of credibility have washed their careers down the drain with one plagiarized paragraph.

Anonymous

#9. Today's today. Tomorrow we may be ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity.

Euripides

#10. As I ran water to wash my hands, my earbud fell out of my ear and went down the drain.
"Crap!"
I hauled my cellphone out of my bag and texted Ranger. Bad news. Your earbud just went down the drain in the ladies room.
It was only a matter of time, he textd back.

Janet Evanovich

#11. Each year, a shipping publicist told me, 'More oil is poured down the drain by mechanics changing their engine oil than is spilled by the world's fleet of oil tankers.

Rose George

#12. Some families sell their stocks off a little bit at a time to live high, and then - boom - somebody takes them over, and it all goes down the drain.

Sam Walton

#13. I see through your brain like I see through the water that runs down the drain.

Bob Dylan

#14. Listen," said Harry firmly. "If you don't take it, I'm throwing it down the drain. I don't want it and I don't need it. But I could do with a few laughs. We could all do with a few laughs. I've got a feeling we're going to need them more than usual before long.

J.K. Rowling

#15. Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.

John Oliver

#16. I think it is safe to say that no one understands quantum mechanics. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, "But how can it be like that?" because you will go "down the drain" into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. - Nobel physicist Richard Feynman

Robert Lanza

#17. Viva Las Vegas with your neon flashin' and your one arm bandits crashin' all those hopes down the drain. Viva Las Vegas turnin' day into nighttime, turnin night into daytime. If you see it once, you'll never be the same again.

Elvis Presley

#18. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, 'But how can it be like that?' because you will get 'down the drain,' into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.

Richard P. Feynman

#19. Real family values have gone down the drain in modern families.

Wes Borland

#20. Who wants to become a writer? And why? ... It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower of life, even if it's a cactus.

Enid Bagnold

#21. I've found a great hiding place for all my money, down the drain

Benny Bellamacina

#22. If we don't find a way to keep women in the workforce, keep them productive, keep them happy, we are literally just throwing our investment down the drain, and we can't afford to do that.

Debora Spar

#23. I've always seen myself as a winner, even as a kid. If I hadn't, I just might have gone down the drain a couple of times. I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it 'til the end of the race.

Truman Capote

#24. Most of the people I know, their marriages went down the drain, like mine - something I am not proud of.

Don McCullin

#25. It's the same girl-who-has-everything story. You know, the one where she's insecure and scared and unhappy and has marriage problems and doesn't know how to handle stardom and screws up right and left and gets in with the wrong people and goes down the drain.

Natalie Cole

#26. Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

A.P. Herbert

#27. There's that 15 quid we put on One Direction to win down the drain.

Alex Turner

#28. My personal life absolutely goes down the drain when I start working; that's something that I'm incapable of doing.

Joaquin Phoenix

#29. Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.

Paul Dickson

#30. Too often, our minds are locked on one track. We are looking for red - so we overlook blue. Many Nobel Prizes have been washed down the drain because someone did not expect the unexpected.

John Turner

#31. It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.

Marat Safin

#32. The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.

Wim Wenders

#33. I believe that what a woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly. What we fear is not so much that our energy may be leaking away through small outlets as that it may be going down the drain.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#34. Maybe I'm overcast. And maybe all my lucks washed down the drain.

Switchfoot

#35. I can fall in and out of love, have marriages that barely last a month. When they go down the drain, I'll blame it on the fame.

Brad Paisley

#36. The inability to hold cash and the pressure to be fully invested at all times meant that when the plug was pulled out of the tub, all boats dropped as the water rushed down the drain.

Seth Klarman

#37. Have you ever had a large spider in the tub, figuring you'll wash it down the drain you turn on the shower, and set it to hot?
Only to have the stupid thing grab onto the edge of the drain and hiss at you!!

Neil Leckman

#38. See things for what they are. Drop your blinders and raise the sewer to eye level. Admit that your swimming in shit. If you don't acknowledge the turd heading down the drain towards you; you can't dodge it.

Karen Marie Moning

#39. I do not laugh; I do not cry;
I'm sweating out the will to die.
My past is sliding down the drain;
I soon will be myself again.

Theodore Roethke

#40. Rationality went down the drain donkey's years ago and hasn't been seen since.

Harold Pinter

#41. The unfortunate Elizabeth Bathori was said to bathe in the blood of young girls in order to preserve her youth and beauty. Apparently more than 600 maidens went down the drain before anyone noticed something amiss at the castle. How very inobservant the neighbors must have been.

Robert Dunbar

#42. Anthony massaged his left thumb with his right, scraping off blood he couldn't remember bleeding. Brown clouds swirled down the drain.

S.M. Reine

#43. What happens if one day we're standing in a kitchen, dishwasher empty, oven and air full, you're washing and I'm drying, and the ring slips down the drain and flushes out to sea?

Darnell Lamont Walker

#44. When you're silent, your silence condones it. Thus, whatever you believe in goes down the drain.

Jennifer Tindugan-Adoviso

#45. I'm not suggesting our music is the only music, but I am suggesting that there are certain elements in America's culture that are so precious that it would be a shame for them to go down the drain.

Johnny Otis

#46. The ruling class is smarter than you, and they're more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain. Because if they weren't, they wouldn't be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been.

Al Lewis

#47. I'm willing to take the blame if the strip goes down the drain, and I want the credit if it succeeds. So long as it has my name on it, I want it to be mine.

Bill Watterson

#48. Basically, financial reporting is this sinking hole at the centre of journalism. You start by swimming around it until finally, reluctantly, you can't fight the pull anymore and you get sucked down the drain into the biz pages.

Tom Rachman

#49. Florida is an awesome place to find sweaters. People buy a really nice sweater for their trips up north, then they just keep it in the closet forever, so you're finding super nice sweaters down here at the Salvation Army. It's hard to say no sometimes.

Jim Drain

#50. I don't like to sing things that just sound like they're going straight down the tubes, and they're circling the drain, and there's no hope. It doesn't feel good in any way to sing.

Jakob Dylan

#51. At long last, I had found myself vulnerable to the worst of New York City, because at 44 my life was not so different from the way it was at 24.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#52. Learn to forgive. First others, then yourself - mostly yourself. But you have to forgive. "Get rid of the negativity. So much of your life can go down this dark drain if you let it. Every negative feeling makes you sicker. Every positive feeling makes you better.

Lionel Fisher

#53. Without God's power in your life, you are just running on your own energy. God never meant for you to do that. It's like having a laptop that's unplugged; the battery will eventually drain and shut down the computer. Why would you live like that when God created you for so much more?

Rick Warren

#54. It reminded him of his Uncle Seamus, the notorious and poetic drunk, who would sit down at the breakfast table the morning after a bender, drain a bottle of stout and say 'Ah, the chill of consciousness returns

Molly O'Neill

#55. He has a vision of the top of his neck, opening up into his head like a bathroom drain. Fragments of words are swirling down it, in a grey liquid he realizes is his dissolving brain.

Margaret Atwood

#56. If you speak of this I will tear out your voice and top it down the nearest drain

Patricia A. McKillip

#57. I can't get his bones
to go down the fucking drain.
I try to stuff the tiny holes,
too tiny for this pain.
I can't get his bones
to break any way for my gain.
Break them back a little too far,
never too far for the sake of sane.

Casey Renee Kiser

#58. The civilization you sit in ... is now obvious in crisis, perhaps death pangs, twisting grotesquely like a dying animal, swirling down the garbage drain-this civilization was founded on God's road map.

Peter Kreeft

#59. Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help much. Basically, it's going to have to be legislation because the impact is so huge and diversified.

Ted Danson

#60. I personally have my own idea of an efficient house. It would be totally concrete with a big drain in the middle, a large fiberglass tree for my kids to swing from and a hose hanging in the corner.

Colleen Down

#61. Another chunk of my childhood dreams had just run down the reality drain in the form of a horny unicorn, no less.

Allison Pang

#62. You from the IRS? The man's voice was deep and wet, like mud slipping down a drain.

Carl Hiaasen

#63. We're throwing money down a rat hole drain of public education! We lead the world in public education spending. We lead the world in getting the least for it.

Rush Limbaugh

#64. I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.

Georgia O'Keeffe

#65. Basically, unless you're willing to write down debts and save the economy, you're going to have deflation and a steady drain in purchasing power - that is, shrinking markets.

Michael Hudson