Urinal Quotes

“There probably was a time when the idea of having a toilet inside a house was repulsive.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Most people would rather eat inside a windowless room in which they have just defecated than eat inside one in which someone else has just farted, even if the room does not have a toilet.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It is weird when one of those copies is put out on the display to observe people taking the thing so seriously. You see hordes of unsmiling art-worshippers craning their heads around the object, staring at it for ages, standing back, looking at it from all angles. It’s a urinal! It’s not even the original. The art is in the idea, not the object.”
― Will Gompertz, What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell

“In the cinema and games that formed the basis of Prax's understanding of how people of violence interacted, the cocking of a gun was less a threat than a kind of punctuation mark. A security agent questioning someone might begin with threats and slaps, but when he cocked his gun, that meant it was time to take him seriously. It wasn't something Prax had considered any more carefully than which urinal to use when he wasn't the only one in the men's room or how to step on and off the transport tube. It was the untaught etiquette of received wisdom. You yelled, you threatened, you cocked your gun, and then people talked.”
― James S.A. Corey, Caliban’s War

“Passing their toilet training is the very last thing that some adults did that has made their parents proud of them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Yes, the hermitage is underground--miles beneath the surface of Antarctica. And yes, Ike refers to it as unten--literally 'under' or 'below.' But, hello, it's 'hyperborean'--of or relating to the arctic, frigid, very cold. The opposite of infernally hot. Well, what if it's WAY underground down near the inner core of the earth, where it's like 10,000 degrees? Well, what if it's up your ass where it's like 10,000,000 degrees? Well, what if you're a cocksucking dwarf racist retard midget dickwad? Well, what if you're a fucking scatological-bakery urinal-cake- Boss motherfucking fist-fucked cow-pie anal-fissureman mother fucker?”
― Mark Leyner, The Sugar Frosted Nutsack

“We're dudes, Vince. The world is our urinal.”
― Alistair Cross, The Midnight Ripper