Wet Pipe System

Famous quotes containing the words wet, pipe and/or system:

    I’m getting bored with it,
    I tell the typewriter,
    this constantly walking around
    in wet shoes and then, surprise!
    Somehow DECEASED keeps getting
    stamped in red over the word HOPE.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    On a cloud I saw a child,
    And he laughing said to me,

    Pipe a song about a Lamb”;
    So I piped with merry chear.
    “Piper pipe that song again”—
    So I piped, he wept to hear.

    “Drop thy pipe thy happy pipe
    Sing thy songs of happy chear”;
    So I sung the same again
    While he wept with joy to hear.
    William Blake (1757–1827)

    Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary masterplan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people’s own failure as individuals.
    Václav Havel (b. 1936)