Chris Hardwick

I think for a lot of people, bowling is sort of a joke. But I love it, and it means a lot to me, so any chance to help promote it or celebrate it or not make the hackiest jokes - 'Bowlers are like plumbers and they wear the craziest shirts!' - I'm way into.

American Comedian

Gareth Barry

I've got three brothers and two sisters. Dad was a plumber who worked really hard to support six children, and Mum was busy at home. The four brothers shared a room, a bunk bed on each side. It wasn't luxurious.

English Athlete

Robert Fripp

I recommend my students not to be professional unless they really have to be. I tell them, 'If you love music, sell Hoovers or be a plumber. Do something useful with your life.

English Musician

Kevin Cramer

I really see the vocation of politics like I see every vocation - whether it's being a reporter or serving in public life or being a plumber - as an extension of ministry.

American Politician

Rodney Dangerfield

I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.

Lee Marvin

A guy digging ditches or a plumber wiping joints - it solves problems, you know? You have to dig this hole so wide, so long, so deep. You dig it, and that's it.

American Actor

Jacques Barzun

By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.

American Educator

Nell Newman

I used to tell people my father was a plumber, because that would mean we had a normal life.

American Businesswoman

Woody Allen

Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.

American Director

Joe Cole

English Actor

A plumber is a skilled trade person; it's a respected job that requires special training.

Trade Profession

Plumbers are often called in emergencies, like when pipes burst.

Emergency Services

Plumbers are commonly associated with maintaining homes, not just fixing problems.

Home Maintenance

 They don't know which way the future's going. This is an em designer, who conceives of a large system and then breaks recursively into copies who elaborate that, so ems can implement larger, more coherent designs. 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.

What would happen if we...

 didn't sing strung out at all the two guys there was one guy was a little more gentle and he just looked like he was like passing out with his eyes open and then the bigger guy the tough guy I think he was a plumber or something he actually really shocked and just the experience humbled him he said that he wanted to actually leave and go home

On the Set of Sleep PIPE...

 Now, I make my living talking to Nobel Prize winners, truck drivers, billionaires, kindergarten teachers, heads of state, plumbers. I talk to people that I like. I talk to people that I don't like. I talk to some people that I disagree with deeply on a personal level. But I still have a great conversation with them.

Celeste Headlee: 10 ways...

 She comes home to find that her water heater has broken, and there is now water all over her basement. If you've ever had anything like this happen to you, you know it is a hugely damaging, frightening, sopping mess. So she's dealing with the immediate aftermath that night, next day she's got plumbers coming in,

How to gain control of...

 Now, I make my living talking to people. Nobel Prize winners, truck drivers, billionaires, kindergarten teachers, heads of state, plumbers. I talk to people that I like. I talk to people that I don't like. I talk to some people that I disagree with deeply on a personal level.

The keys to a great...

 The infrastructure is a huge deal. This war on work that I suppose exists, has casualties like any other war. The infrastructure is the first one, declining trade school enrollments are the second one. Every single year, fewer electricians, fewer carpenters, fewer plumbers,

Learning from dirty jobs...

 when faced with problems that we've never seen before. It's when every day brings a little bit of a surprise that we have designed work for humans and not for robots. Our entrepreneurs and engineers already live in this world, but so do our nurses and our plumbers

Why jobs of the future...

 or your kitchen renovated. Typically, there's a general contractor who is responsible for coordinating the efforts of all the different an architect to draw the plans, an earth-moving company to dig the foundation, a plumber, a carpenter and so on.

The real reason...

 school I I sort of said this to my career's officer and then sir things not that conventional and it just didn't fit in with the boxes that I've got got you know provided so I ended up being a plumber and after my college course I

Confronting big waves PIPE...

 I believe that women and girls today have to partner in a powerful way with men -- with their fathers, with their sons, with their brothers, with the plumbers, the road builders,