A Quote by George Carlin

Isn’t making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool?

George Carlin

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Like Making Pool Restaurant Section Smoking Swimming Swimming Pool

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George Carlin
American - Comedian
May 12, 1937 - June 22, 2008

When we go to a restaurant, they don't ask, 'Do you want the asbestos section or the non-asbestos section?' They do ask, 'Do you want smoking or nonsmoking?'

John Roberts

I shop a lot from the children's section and, sometimes, from the men's section. You'll find skirts, shirts and shoes from the children's section. My friends buy me more adult-like clothes, and I love those. But I cannot do away with the colourful stuff.

Shweta Tripathi

For me, while writing I am an engineer, so if I decide to change the format, I want to add a section, to move a section, reorganize the section, anything I want to do, I just boot words, and I do what I want to do. So, I feel completely empowered when I'm a writer.

Guy Kawasaki

There is a small, but important, difference between peeing in the pool, and peeing into the pool.

Demetri Martin

I hate smoking sections. Unless we're talking about the movie 'The Mask' with Jim Carrey. Then the smoking section is my favorite part.

Harris Wittels

If I'm practicing making up what the characters will do, it's never good. In fact, when I catch myself doing that, I try to get rid of that section, and try and let them start making the decisions.

William Gibson

We're kind of like the smoking section in high school. We're immature, keep to ourselves.

Matt Stone

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Frank Lloyd Wright

There's no smoking section in heaven.

Robert Duvall

We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to the other section by bayonets.

Horace Greeley

If you look for me, I'm in the fiction section. Romance has its own section.

Nicholas Sparks

New Labour has systematically alienated section after section of the coalition we need to win and retain power.

John McDonnell

You can't just look at the back section of the newspaper or the sports section by itself. You need to understand everything that's going on.

Mike Tirico

The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.

Mark Twain

I would love young girls to look up and see my string section or my brass section or the steel band and be like, 'Wow! I never thought I could do that, that's wicked! I want to be up there doing that.'