#tub

The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis. ↗

— Leon Edel

#admired #always #answer #building #busy

For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive. ↗

— Jeff Flake

#i #i think #missionary #persuasive #stubborn

My parents took an interest in nothing, at home no books, no records. My mother and my father are the emblem of indifference, dryness and bad taste. My father is also terribly stingy, in life as well as in feelings: I have never seen him filling up the bathtub. ↗

— Vincent Gallo

#bad #bad taste #bathtub #books #emblem

You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. ↗

— H. R. Haldeman

#put #toothpaste #tube #you

We're also fairly stubborn, I think, fairly independent. We have our share of difficulties with our federal government, although I've tried to as I am here encourage a better way of discussing those problems. ↗

— Dan Miller

#although #am #better #better way #difficulties

Back in the '40s and early '50s, building simple electronic projects was a popular hobby of many people. Back then, you could buy, you know, a few parts and - with tubes and build something on your kitchen table, and it would actually work. ↗

— Robert Moog

#back #build #building #buy #could

I noticed every time I spent a lot of time in the bathtub, I would just get fantastic realizations about myself, and they were so valuable and liberating. ↗

— Leonard Orr

#bathtub #every #every time #fantastic #get

The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface of the body, but turned inwards and thus hidden in the organism. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#canal #communicating #digestive #entire #external

Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#concentrated #edible #enables #evoke #food

I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#deal #endeavor #existence #facts #fancy