Zitat des Tages über Kanal / Sewer:
Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton.
Life is like a sewer: what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
We have managed to acquire $13 trillion of debt on our balance sheet. In my view we have nothing to show for it. We haven't invested in our roads, our bridges, our waste-water systems, our sewer systems. We haven't even maintained the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us.
I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.
The sea is the universal sewer.
The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.
State and federal studies indicate that thousands of water and sewer systems may be too old to function properly.
So, the point I'm making is, we are not going to cut spending in Washington if we think it's the job of every congressman and senator is to pave local parking lots and build local sewer plants. These parochial interests are getting in the way of the national interests.
The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
As soon as you sit down to write about something you are pressing your nose deeper into the sewer of facts.
I say we have not even had the decency to maintain the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us - our roads, our bridges, our wastewater systems, our sewer systems; by the way, those weren't Bolsheviks, those weren't socialists that built those things for us - much less build the infrastructure we need for the 21st century.
Joseph Bazalgette created a sewer system which he originally sized for London's needs of the time - he then doubled it to anticipate the future beyond. These are the qualities that I admire.
I've stood around bogs wearing half a million dollars' worth of jewelry, up to my knees in the rot, thinking how much more or less the place smelled like a sewer than it did the day before.
Look at the commercial and industrial development that is going on along the 101. A lot of the infrastructure - the sewer lines and drainage that make development possible - was put in during the freeway construction.
