Bathtub Quotes

“Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?”

“Another explanation for the failure of logic and observation alone to advance medicine is that unlike, say, physics, which uses a form of logic - mathematics - as its natural language, biology does not lend itself to logic. Leo Szilard, a prominent physicist, made this point when he complained that after switching from physics to biology he never had a peaceful bath again. As a physicist he would soak in the warmth of a bathtub and contemplate a problem, turn it in his mind, reason his way through it. But once he became a biologist, he constantly had to climb out of the bathtub to look up a fact.”

“Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.”

“We were so poor we had no hot water. But it didn't matter because we had no bathtub to put it in anyway.”

“For some it is harder towrite a novel than to row a bathtub across the North Atlantic.”

“You can swim, too." he says. "Where did you learn that in District Twelve?""We have a very big bathtub.”

“Where does love reveal itself? In beds, sofas, bathtubs – each section of a department store has its advantages.”

“The police, finding a corpse with twenty-eight stab wounds in a bathtub, suspected foul play.”

“Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.”