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Tubs Quotes

I've got huge tubs full of X-Files memorobilia that I can sell on eBay.

"X-Files Archive: David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson in conversation". Interview with Nick De Semlyen, www.empireonline.com. January 1, 2013.

Gee, this isn't like I imagined it would be in the bathtub.

Dianne Wiest's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 30, 1987.

Every tub must stand upon its bottom.

"The Man of the World". Comedy by Charles Macklin, Act i. Sc. 2, 1781.

A nude by Degas is chaste. But his women wash in tubs!

Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

Diogenes found more rest in his tub than Alexander on his throne.

Francis Quarles (1856). “Enchiridon: containing institutions divine, moral”, p.106

Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.78, Harvard University Press

Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.

Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt