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Quotes About Tub

Shunning the upstart shower, / The cold and cursory scrub, / I celebrate the power / That lies within the Tub.
~ Phyllis McGinley
Logan had thought he couldn't get any wetter or any colder, but he'd been wrong. So very, very wrong. Like the kind of wrong he was when he had bet Maddie that he could eat all the ice cream in the White House deep freeze and then found out they were preparing for a state dinner and had a hundred gallons. He made it through half of one huge tub before she took pity on him and made him stop.
~ Ally Carter
I have to sit on the edge of the tub for a minute. As the adrenaline in my system winds down, the holes in my chest and back start to get to me. I have to hold on and breathe for a while until the dizziness passes.
~ Richard Kadrey
choosing sites for the Wild West to play-began to show up in greatly diminished receipts. Losses mounted as the decrepit old tub chugged south. By the time they neared New Orleans, Cody decided that he'd better go on ahead and look into Pony Bob's arrangements himself. At the site of the exposition, he hired a hack and headed through a pouring rain for the show grounds. The first man he saw there was traveling across the arena in a rowboat. Fortunately, Cody was
~ Robert A. Carter
The room was plainly but adequately furnished; she noted the shower stall in the bathroom beyond. Actually, she would have preferred a tub, but this would do.
~ Robert Bloch
Hey, buddy," Liberty yelled, "back away from the saddlebag. My snacks are in there!" The man looked shocked, backed up, and fell over into a tub beside the road. Water splashed over a woman dressed in fine clothes, who yelled at the man. Wet in the tub, the man pointed at Liberty, who looked just like any horse on the street. The drenched woman
~ Rush Limbaugh
It was as if the room beyond the blast furnace was a tub and someone had turned the faucets on the cold and hot running snakes.
~ Joe Hill
Rub-a-dub-dub,Three men in a tub,And who do you think they be?The butcher, the baker,The candlestick-maker;And all of them went to sea!
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
I'd performed numerous calculations on the abacus of my soul concerning the price of the room and the loveliness of the slipper tub.
~ Elizabeth McCracken
I asked you a question. What are you doing here?" Resting his elbows on the side of the tub, he smiled lazily. She hated it when he smiled lazily. "Waiting for the bubbles to evaporate," he said.
~ Sandra Hill
Good morning—through in a minute—I'll leave the tub filled for you
~ Shirley Jackson
The author has endeavored to combat their theory in the manner in which Diogenes confuted the skeptical reasonings against the possibility of motion; remembering that Diogenes's argument would have been equally conclusive, though his individual perambulations might not have extended beyond the circuit of his own tub.
~ John Stuart Mill
I asked you a question. What are you doing here?"Resting his elbows on the side of the tub, he smiled lazily. She hated it when he smiled lazily. "Waiting for the bubbles to evaporate, " he said.
~ Sandra Hill, The Last Viking
This is a fair tale of a tub told of his election.
~ Sir Thomas More
I grew up and live in the Boston area, so hands down, I'd rather have a Boston Tub Party. In fact, from my studio at FableVision, I have a view of the Boston Tea Party ship.
~ Megan McDonald
Silly humans. Banging on a tub to make a bear dance when we would move the stars to pity.
~ Michael Cunningham
In this particular tub, two knees jut up like icebergs, while minute brown hairs rise on arms and legs in a fringe of kelp; green soap navigates the tidal slosh of seas breaking on legendary beaches; in faith we shall board our imagined ship and wildly sail among sacred islands of the mad till death shatters the fabulous stars and makes us real. --from Tale of a Tub, written 1956
~ Sylvia Plath
Seducing him in the tub smelling of vinegar was out of the question. There had to be some boundaries.
~ Ilona Andrews
cracked. The tub was as old as God and pitted. There
~ Carolyn Brown
I never had an apartment before, so just finally having my own place. And it was magical. It was gorgeous - beautiful tub. I never could use the tub because I was afraid of the roaches.
~ Ari Lennox
I love Epsom salt and just use the inexpensive unscented ones from CVS. It's better than oils... those make the tub so gross, and I never feel like cleaning it right before I go out.
~ Julia Restoin Roitfeld
god, love is more strange than numerals more strange than grass on fire more strange than the dead body of a child drowned in the bottom of a tub, we know so little, we know so much, we don't know enough.
~ Charles Bukowski
Why am I standing in this stupid empty, empty tub?" she asked. "So it catches all the blood," he replied.
~ Kevin O'Brien
The bathhouse had been thick with the steam rising off the water and Jaime had come walking through that mist naked as his name day, looking half a corpse and half a god. He climbed into the tub with me , she remembered, blushing.
~ George R.R. Martin