Quotes About Chimney Sweeps

#1. He had never spoken to Uncle Richard, but he knew that he was a radiologist who put tubes into people's groins and pushed them up into their brains to clear blockages like chimney sweeps did and this was a glorious idea.

Mark Haddon

#2. She'd become a governess. It was one of the few jobs a known lady could do.
And she'd taken to it well. She'd sworn that if she did indeed ever find
herself dancing on rooftops with chimney sweeps she'd beat herself to death with her own umbrella.

Terry Pratchett

#3. Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.

Terence McKenna

#4. I want to inspire, and be inspired.

Sam Mendes

#5. Pissing is the least of my talents. You ought to see me shit

George R R Martin

#6. One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.

Idries Shah

#7. There's a whole generation that's retiring. It is unconscionable that the average salary of a lawyer is $79,000 a year and the average salary of a teacher is $39,000 a year.

John McCain

#8. The Iraqi people are living a long-running tragedy because of the legacy of the old regime, the Americans and their actions that are unsuitable for Iraqi society, and the weakness of national resolve.

Ahmed Chalabi

#9. But there are some persons who wouldpersuade the people never to make use of their constitutional rights.

Samuel Adams

#10. I'll be a lady tomorrow

L.A. Meyer

#11. If you cannot avoid a quarrel with a blackguard, let your lawyer manage it, rather than yourself. No man sweeps his own chimney, but employs a chimney-sweeper, who has no objection to dirty work, because it is his trade.

Charles Caleb Colton

#12. In 1788, the Chimney Sweepers Act was passed in Parliament, preventing master sweeps from employing children under eight (children over eight were allowed to be apprenticed).

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#13. When a hunger pain happens, that's your bodies way of saying it's too late, you're a fat storing machine now. The key and all trainers know the secret is that you should always take portable snacks with you and try to feed yourself every couple of hours.

Jackie Warner