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Quotes About Leak

A lawyer calls a plumber to fix a leak in his shower. After about thirty minutes the plumber hands him a bill for $300. The lawyer is furious and says, "I'm a lawyer, and even I don't make that kind of money for thirty minutes of work!" The plumber replies, "Neither did I, when I was a lawyer.
~ Scott McNeely
She believed her campaign had failed her—not the other way around—and she wanted "to see who was talking to who, who was leaking to who," said
~ Jonathan Allen
The leak annoyed but didn't surprise me; I had learned that's how Washington works.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
Beware of little expenses; A small Leak will sink a great Ship; and again, Who Dainties love, shall Beggars prove; and moreover, Fools make Feasts, and wise Men eat them.
~ Benjamin Franklin
A small leak will sink a great ship,
~ Benjamin Franklin
Beware of little expenses, a small leak will sink a great ship.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I worry about my sides. I worry where everything goes. I worry that I'm going to be the leak. I give all my scripts back!
~ Miranda Otto
Some of the worst things that have happened in my career, like things getting leaked, have actually been what's best for me, because people knew when I was on that show that I was really growing up.
~ Miley Cyrus
A single night is stuffed with minutes, but they leak out, one by one.
~ David Mitchell, number9dream
So one time when I was working in this motel one of the toilets leaked and I had to replace the flapper ball. Here's what it said on the package; I kept it till I knew it by heart: 'Please Note. Parts are included for all installations, but no installation requires all of the parts.' That's kind of my philosophy about men. I don't think there's an installation out there that could use all my parts.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
So one time when I was working in this motel one of the toilets leaked and I had to replace the flapper ball. Here's what it said on the package; I kept it till I knew it by heart: 'Please Note. Parts are included for all installations, but no installation requires all of the parts.' That's kind of my philosophy about men. I don't think there's an installation out there that could use all of my parts.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
If their occupation is actual work they prefer to pump water into cisterns, two of which leak through holes in the bottom and one of which is water-tight. A, of course, has the good one;
~ Stephen Leacock
But standing in the atrium of Building 99, it's impossible not to think that this space was designed to conjure up a different kind of flow: the collective flow of energized minds forming liquid networks in their mixing spaces and situation rooms. Building 99—like Building 20 before it—is a space that sees information spillover as a feature, not a flaw. It is designed to leak. In this, it shares some core values with the liquid networks of dense cities.
~ Steven Johnson
There once was a mouse who lived in a tavern. One night the mouse found a leaky barrel of beer, and he drank all he could hold. When the mouse had finished, he sat up, twirled his whiskers, and looked around arrogantly. "Now then," he said, "where's that damned cat?
~ Ernest Shackleton
Of-course we did, but we didn't reply because we knew once this leaks the others will scatter, so in the few days we moved quickly before the press got hold of it. The press did get hold of it a few days later, we nabbed, we were able to get 15, the others got away.
~ Lee Kuan Yew
was Thomas Paine's misfortune, as mentioned, that he not only became involved but indiscreetly leaked privileged, sensitive information entrusted to him as secretary of the Committee of Foreign Affairs.
~ Benson Bobrick
If he believed it all, he was just like those theologians who store their theology somewhere in a locked compartment of the brain, or rather, perhaps, like those travellers who carry a bottle of iodine in their luggage and take care to keep it tightly corked in case it leaks and ruins their belongings.
~ Halldor Laxness
The leak that comes from the outside harms no one,' he stated once more. 'It is the leak that one finds indoors that is the worst.' When one is unmarried, one must tell people to shut up in a roundabout fashion.
~ Halldor Laxness
A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source.
~ Arthur Baer
This morning I, too, am in a hurry. The plumber who has reneged four times has promised that he will show up to fix the leak in our bathroom. "Mother-promise, Madam," he pronounced solemnly, when I phoned him last night. "God-promise." "Don't say that," I admonished. "If you don't come tomorrow, your mother will die." I didn't know then that his mother was already dead.
~ Shoba Narayan
Reince Priebus - if you want to leak something - he'll be asked to resign very shortly.
~ Anthony Scaramucci
Potentially significant, by the way, because we don't know exactly what's in Matt Cooper's notes, and we don't know - and we don't still know the answer to the crucial question of whether it was Rove or somebody else that revealed Valerie Plame's name to him.
~ Michael Isikoff
Love, it's such a night, laced with running water, irreparable, riddled with a million leaks. A night shaped like a shadow thrown by your absence. Every crack trickles, every overhang drips. The screech of nighthawks has been replaced by the splash of rain. The rain falls from the height of streetlights. Each drop contains its own shattering blue bulb.
~ Stuart Dybek
Some say Edward Snowden is a hero and a patriot. Others say he's a fool and a traitor. The evidence is mounting that the guy who leaked the details about the National Security Agency's Internet-eavesdropping program may be something more sinister - namely, a willing tool in China's ongoing cyberwar against our nation.
~ Arthur L. Herman