Quotes About Manhole

#1. I've always liked Richard Pryor. I've always responded to rhythmic profanity.

David Rees

#2. I just want to do great work: work that inspires people ... To know that you are given this gift in life and that you can gift other people with it, that's the most rewarding thing for me.

Tammy Blanchard

#3. Tragedy is when I stub my toe. Comedy is when you fall into an open manhole and die.

Mel Brooks

#4. The Why's of suffering keep us shrouded in a seemingly bottomless void of abstraction where God is reduced to a finite ethical agent, a limited psychological personality, whose purposes measure on the same scale as ours.

Tullian Tchividjian

#5. Grizzly Adams did have a beard

Lee Trevino

#6. Next to a mother she wanted a quiet place where she could be alone when she wanted to be; to listen to the wind telling her strange tales, or hold the big spotted shell that murmured of the sea to her ear, or talk to the roses in the garden.

L.M. Montgomery

#7. The lows were absolutely horrible. It was like falling into a manhole and not being able to lift the lid and climb out.

Linda Hamilton

#8. How children adapt to available surfaces, using curbstones, stoops and manhole covers. How they take the pockmarked world and turn a delicate inversion, making something brainy and rule-bound and smooth, and then spend the rest of their lives trying to repeat the process.

Don DeLillo

#9. She looks tan ... -ish."
"There's a fine line between 'tan', and looking like you just rolled around in a giant bag of Doritos. And Miranda seems to prefer the nacho cheese variety.

Jena Leigh

#10. She was playing with semantics. I felt certain that she understood the word "tip" in English. She enjoyed pretending that she thought I wanted the Duchess to be upside down with her face buried in the sewage of some manhole while her beautifully shod feet waved desperate high-heels in the air.

Caroline Blackwood

#11. If I got a paper cut, that's a tragedy. If you fell down an open manhole and died, that's comedy.

Woody Allen

#12. And he had a Boston accent that could scrape the rust from a manhole cover.

Neal Stephenson

#13. Love is illogical. You fall into it like a manhole. Then you're just stuck. You die in love more than you live in love.

Tarryn Fisher

#14. To avoid stabs on the back
you have to look behind
while moving forward.
I'd rather have knives in my back
than fall into a manhole!

Manoj Vaz

#15. There were bad guys on flying manhole covers after me, and a guy with an armored crotch and a mirrored face.

Neil Gaiman

#16. leaning in to vulnerability

Brene Brown

#17. The way my luck is at the moment," said Polly, "I probably will get a tiny bit of money back, and as I leave the bank after picking it up, a bolt of lightning will come out of the sky and set it on fire. Then a piano will fall on my head and knock me down a manhole.

Jenny Colgan

#18. A feminist jumps out of a manhole - oh, and she didn't like that.

Bill Bailey

#19. Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.

Jean De La Bruyere

#20. If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut.

Ali MacGraw

#21. This is the most exciting place in the world to live. Oh yeah! There are so many ways to die in New York City! Race riots, drive by shootings, subway crashes, construction cranes collapsing on the sidewalks, manhole covers blowing up and asbestos shooting into the sky.

Denis Leary