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Letter "P" » pipe
«It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes»
«Bring me a hundred reeds of decent growth,/ To make a pipe for my capacious mouth.»
«After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they shall prophesy: / And the Spirit of the LORD will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man.»
«It is quite a three-pipe problem.»
«Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.»
«And Lord, we are especially thankful for nuclear power, the cleanest, safest energy source there is. Except for solar, which is just a pipe dream.»
Author: Dan Castellaneta
(Actor, Writer)
| Keywords:
cleanest, especially, nuclear, nuclear energy, nuclear power, pipe, piped, pipe dream, pipe in, piping, safest, solar, solar energy, thankful
«Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard / Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; / Not to the sensual ear, but, more endeared, / Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone.»
«... the hydrostatic paradox of controversy. Don't you know what that means? Well, I will tell you. You know that, if you had a bent tube, one arm of which was of the size of a pipe-stem, and the other big enough to hold the ocean, water would stand at the same height in one as in the other. Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way. And the fools know it.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
arm, bent, controversy, equalize, equalized, equalizes, equalizing, height, hold water, hydrostatic, one-armed, paradox, pipe, The Tube, tube, tubes, Wise Men
«How happy the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. No cashier writes a letter to the press complaining about the incomprehensibility of Modern Mathematics and comparing it unfavorably with the good old days when mathematicians were content to paper irregularly shaped rooms and fill bathtubs without closing the waste pipe.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| Keywords:
bathtub, cashier, cashiers, closing, colleague, incomprehensibility, irregularly, pipe, rival, shaped, the good old days, The Standard, unfavorably, waste paper, waste pipe
«Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.»
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