Leaky Quotes

#1. He breathed like an old Ford with a leaky head gasket.

Raymond Chandler

#2. An ironic death for someone with a leaky space suit: too much oxygen.

Andy Weir

#3. The shelter of excuses has a leaky roof.

Ron Kaufman

#4. Good sex is an all-day affair. You can't treat your wife like a servant and expect her to be eager to sleep with you at night. Your wife's sexual responsiveness will be determined by how willingly you help out with the dishes, the kids' homework, or that leaky faucet that drips throughout the night.

Kevin Leman

#5. It takes a lot of wind to sail a leaky boat.

Tom Morrison

#6. Have an eye to the molasses tierce, Mr. Stubb; it was a little leaky, I thought. If ye touch at the islands, Mr. Flask, beware of fornication.

Herman Melville

#7. I've had my say out, and I shall be the' easier for't all my life. There's no pleasure i' living, if you're to be corked up forever, and only dribble your mind out by the sly, like a leaky barrel.

George Eliot

#8. A leaky faucet, a barking dog-those are things you tolerate.

Candace Gingrich-Jones

#9. People are leaky.

Douglas Coupland

#10. It wasn't what we needed then that was hurting us, it was what we was paying for that we had already used up. The country was just buying gasoline for a leaky tank. Everything was going into a gopher hole and you couldent see where you was going to get any of it back.

Will Rogers

#11. Her feet tingled. One whole hour to forget about the leaky kitchen sink, her father's retirement party, and her mother's relentless questions about it. She closed her eyes. One whole hour to completely unwind and indulge her thoughts in something beside caterers, plumbers, and homicide cases.

Lisa Harris

#12. Sending money to Washington to have it administered and sent back is like getting a blood transfusion from your right arm to your left arm with a leaky valve.

Ernest Hollings

#13. I love like a leaky faucet or I love like a dam breaking. There is nothing in between.

Shinji Moon

#14. I've never been tempted to sleep with the same woman every night myself. Let alone reproduce myself in a leaky, noisy miniature human.

Eloisa James

#15. A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source.

Arthur Baer

#16. Society can transport money from rich to poor only in a leaky bucket

Arthur Melvin Okun

#17. For it seems that long before the first enterprising man bent some twigs into a leaky roof, many animals were already accomplished builders.

Bernard Rudofsky

#18. [On the Netherlands:] There is not a richer or more carefully tilled garden spot in the whole world than this leaky, springy little country.

Mary Mapes Dodge

#19. I am a lone monk walking the world with a leaky umbrella.

Mao Tse-tung

#20. In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.

Charles Caleb Colton

#21. It's hard navigating life in a leaky boat. Meet me on the water, Lord.

Crissy Shreve

#22. But you, you foolish girl, you have gone home to a leaky castle across the sea to lie awake in linen smelling of lavender, and hear the nightingale, and long for me.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#23. If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.

Hanna Rosin

#24. The reality was decaying, dingy cities, where underfed people shuffled to and fro in leaky shoes, in patched-up nineteenth-century houses

George Orwell

#25. Daemon followed me home after school. Literally. He tailed me in his new Infiniti SUV. My old Camry, with its leaky exhaust and loud muffler, was no match for the speed he wanted to go. I'd brake-checked him several times. He'd blown his horn. It made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#26. The girls Iris went through wound up cracked vases no longer fit for flowers, leaky dust collectors. After Iris, girls left town or started fucking boys. She ruined everyone.

Michelle Tea

#27. Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone else; but if it does rain, the person in the cheap tent chances soaking in his sleeping bag, and possibly dying of hypothermia.

William T. Vollmann

#28. [The biographer] must be as ruthless as a board meeting smelling out embezzlement, as suspicious as a secret agent riding the Simplon-Orient Express, as cold-eyed as a pawnbroker viewing a leaky concertina.

Paul Murray Kendall

#29. You want a valve that doesn't leak and you try everything possible to develop one. But the real world provides you with a leaky valve. You have to determine how much leakiness you can tolerate.

Arthur Rudolph

#30. My roommate is a 240-pound homicidal hermit. For dinner he's fixing me a dead fox he scraped off the highway near Ponchatoula, and after that we're taking a leaky tin boat out on a windy lake to spy on some semi-retarded fishermen. Don't you wish you were here?

Carl Hiaasen

#31. I live in a dumb house. Which is not to say that I don't love its quirky charm, its drafty windows and leaky fireplaces and an electrical system that protests when too many people are trying to vacuum and microwave at the same time. But charm is not always user-friendly.

Nancy Gibbs

#32. If your environment keeps draining your energy, it's like having a leaky bank account, where any money you're putting into the bank, such as by seeing an energy healer, keeps slipping out. You have to change your environment, including any harmful beliefs, before the energy can stay high.

Bruce Lipton

#33. I just bought a great gift for my boss - a leaky ant farm.

Milton Berle

#34. Information can't be put in any container that isn't leaky.

Spider Robinson

#35. Educational equality doesn't guarantee equality on the labor market. Even the most developed countries are not gender-equal. There are still glass ceilings and 'leaky pipelines' that prevent women from getting ahead in the workplace.

Michelle Bachelet

#36. The economy which prefers fictitious money to real, is, at best, like that which prefers a leaky ship to a sound one.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

#37. Poor Crookshanks, that witch said he'd been in there for ages; no one wanted him." "I wonder why," said Ron sarcastically as they set off toward the Leaky Cauldron.

J.K. Rowling

#38. Money is like water in a leaky bucket: no sooner there, it begins to drip.

John Updike

#39. The fact is, we are leaky vessels, and we have to keep right under the fountain all the time to keep full of Christ, and so have fresh supply.

Dwight L. Moody

#40. Looking for a snack? Try wheat or a wheat by-product. Dinner? Wheat &/or its by-product. Trying to patch a leaky roof? We have just the thing for you, and we also have its by-product.

Joseph Fink

#41. Those who have no real virtue within but outwardly rely on flowery cleverness are like leaky boats brightly painted - if you put manikins in them and set them on dry ground they look all right, but once they go into the rivers and lakes, into the wind and waves, are they not in danger?

Shambhala Publications

#42. Romance often begins by a splashing waterfall and ends over a leaky sink.

Ellen DeGeneres

#43. [We must] deal with all of the contributing factors to gun violence as a whole, because it's like a leaky bucket - if you've got a bucket with six holes shot through it, [and] you plug up five, you've still got a leaky bucket.

Joycelyn Elders

#44. All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.

Joel Spolsky

#45. ..allegation[s] of flirting dripping from his lips like drops from a leaky faucet.

Michael Callahan

#46. Sometimes I felt like the mundane details of our lives were the only things tethering me to the world. I could hold onto them - distractions necessitating action. They gave me a sense of purpose. If not for the leaky faucet, the sandwiches, the bills, I might not know what to do with my hands.

T. Greenwood