Bottom Pipe

Famous quotes containing the words bottom and/or pipe:

“The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“I am dead against art’s being self-expression. I see an inherent failure in any story which fails to detach itself from the author—detach itself in the sense that a well-blown soap-bubble detaches itself from the bowl of the blower’s pipe and spherically takes off into the air as a new, whole, pure, iridescent world. Whereas the ill-blown bubble, as children know, timidly adheres to the bowl’s lip, then either bursts or sinks flatly back again.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)