Indoor Plumbing Quotes:

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

- Alfred Hitchcock

source: NY Journal-American, August 25, 1965.

topic: Change, Media, People, Indoor Plumbing, Plumbing

One time at the University of Colorado, at a faculty dinner, this professor said to me, 'Well, my goodness, a boy from Appa-lay-chee-a with a Ph.D!' The dinner was in her house. And I said, 'My grandparents didn't have indoor plumbing, but they had more books in their house than you do.' I was a little insulted by the Appa-lay-chee-a business.

- Charles Frazier

topic: Book, Boys, Grandparent, Indoor Plumbing, Plumbing

We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and the much longer lives that accompany them. Yet we should remember that the vast majority of humans ever born died before the age of 10 from an infectious disease.

- S. Jay Olshansky

topic: Engineering, Water, Age, Indoor Plumbing, Infectious Diseases

It was only in the late nineteenth century and then the twentieth century, with the maturation of consumer capitalism, that a shift was made toward the cultivation of unbounded desire. We must appreciate this to realize that late modern consumption, consumption as we now know it, is not fundamentally about materialism or the consumption of physical goods. Affluence and consumer-oriented capitalism have moved us well beyond the undeniable efficiencies and benefits of refrigeration and indoor plumbing.

- Rodney Clapp

topic: Appreciate, Desire, Benefits, Indoor Plumbing, Cultivation

You know what I hate? The outdoors. I mean, generally. I don't like outside. I'm an inside person. I'm all about refrigeration and indoor plumbing and Judge Judy.

- John Green

source: John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.158, Penguin

topic: Hate, Mean, Judging, Indoor Plumbing, Judge Judy

To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, the luxuries of electricity, indoor plumbing, central heating, instant electronic communication and such, have taught me to relearn and enjoy the basic human satisfactions of dipping water from a cold clear mountain stream; of building a wood fire in a cast-iron stove; of using long winter nights for making music, making things, making love; of writing long letters, in longhand with a fountain pen, to the few people on this earth I truly care about.

- Edward Abbey

source: Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

topic: Communication, Writing, Winter, Indoor Plumbing, Mountain Streams

I suppose now I'm obliged to wish you happiness in your new life. Although happiness in the absence of indoor plumbing is a debatable concept.

- Lisa Kleypas

topic: Wish, New Life, Absence, Indoor Plumbing, Plumbing

All that proves is that most of the world is too poor to build bowling alleys, golf courses, tennis courts and baseball fields. There's hundreds of millions of poor people out there who still ain't got indoor plumbing, but that don't mean there's something great about an outhouse. Soccer is boring. I've never seen a more boring sport.

- Mike Royko

topic: Soccer, Sports, Baseball, Indoor Plumbing, Tennis Courts

Liberals hate America, they hate "flag-wavers", they hate abortion opponents, they hate all religions except Islam (post 9/11). Even Islamic terrorists don't hate America like liberals do. They don't have the energy. If they had that much energy, they'd have indoor plumbing by now.

- Ann Coulter

source: "Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right". Book by Ann Coulter, 2002.

topic: Hate, Islamic, Usa, Indoor Plumbing, Plumbing