Michael Greger

When I was a child, doctors sent my grandmother home in a wheelchair to die. Diagnosed with end-stage heart disease, she already had so much scar tissue from bypass operations that the surgeons had essentially run out of plumbing. There was nothing more to do, they said; her life was over at 65.

American Author

Andrew O'Hagan

Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while plumbing them, but if you are serious about it you also get to put something into the world that wasn't quite there before.

Scottish Novelist

John W. Gardner

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

American Educator

Luke Campbell

I tried to go to college; I just picked a trade, did a plumbing test - and failed. And then I thought, 'I may as well look at things I have a passion for and enjoy.' And I went forward with my boxing.

British Boxer

John Eldredge

I'm married. I have three children. I have a mortgage to pay. The plumbing breaks and the yard needs trimming. However, what my wife and children need most from me is my passion for them.

Jacqueline Winspear

It's really important in any historical fiction, I think, to anchor the story in its time. And you do that by weaving in those details, by, believe it or not, by the plumbing.

English Writer

Hal Linden

I rarely repeat playing the same role in a show. I figured I'd plumbed 90 percent the first time around, so let's move on to something where I'm starting from scratch.

American Actor

David Sedaris

They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. If anything, they were too kind, too generous and too knowledgable in the fields of plumbing and electricity.

American Writer

Nikolai Gogol

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.

Russian Writer

Spencer Tracy

Acting is not an important job in the scheme of things. Plumbing is.

Used in casual conversation, not for formal writing.

Colloquial Usage

Often used to emphasize the degree or intensity of an action.

Intensity Emphasis

In technical contexts, it means measuring how deep something goes.

Depth Measurement

Implies something is straightforward without deviations.

Directness

Sometimes used to agree completely with someone.

Complete Agreement

Relates to construction, ensuring structures are correctly aligned.

Building Precision

Means to uncover or understand all aspects of a complex topic.

Deep Understanding

Used when someone investigates or researches very thoroughly.

Thorough Investigation

 This an emulation plumber who remembers that every day, for the last 20 years, they only ever worked two hours a day, a life of leisure. But what really happened is, every day they had a thousand copies, each of whom did a two-hour plumbing job, and only one of them went on to the next day.

What would happen if we...

 Not only that, but on top -- the lifeblood -- that plumbing system turns off every year or so. Their plumbing system turns off, so the sites have to move. And then there's earthquakes, and then volcanic eruptions, on the order of one every five years, that completely wipes the area out.

David Gallo: The deep...

 This really was a needle in a haystack sort of search, so she asked everything she could think of. Had the children eaten boiled sweets? Had they consumed colored drinks? Did they eat fish and chips? Did they have indoor or outdoor plumbing? What time of life had they started school?

Dare to disagree PIPE...

 And most importantly, commit you to a lifetime of anticoagulation therapy. Normally, warfarin. The thought of the surgery was not attractive. The thought of the warfarin was really quite frightening. So I said to myself, "I'm an engineer, I'm in R&D, this is just a plumbing problem."

Tal Golesworthy: How I...

 well you know there's a lot of pressure for me to provide for my family but also get a steady income and a job and and I supposed to care so what should I do and thinking that she probably said well you've got a you know pick up this banner again and get perhaps a plumbing

Confronting big waves PIPE...

 in one of the most maligned cities in the world. If we can do it in Detroit, you can do it wherever you're from, too. What I've learned over the last decade, building my house, wasn't so much about wiring or plumbing or carpentry -- although I did learn these things --

My $500 house in Detroit...

 they're fighting about who he is and the life that he lives there's one thing more there's just one more thing you better understand I've taught myself to so cook fix plumbing build furniture I can even pet myself in a back when

The myth of the gay...

 I've taught myself to sew, cook, fix plumbing, build furniture, I can even pat myself on the back when necessary, all so I don't have to ask anyone for anything. There's nothing I need from anyone except for love and respect,

LZ Granderson: The myth...

 this is what gets me so fired up about them it's so rare to see these ecosystems you need for things to just align perfectly you need a tremendous source of heat a tremendous source of water the right plumbing system to get

Iceland's Volcanic World...

 But it is different down here at the end, where severe plumbing on this southwest lifeline have sucked it dry, so we can eat baby spinach in January.