Quotes about Waterproofing

Jen Lancaster

I hesitated before buying a Kindle. I wasn't worried that the digital reader would ruin literature as we know it. Rather, my concern centered on using an electronic device in the bathtub.

Laura Linney

I'm very hard on my bags because I tend to carry a lot of stuff with me.

Flying Lotus

I had a little Walkman, the worst Walkman ever. It was the yellow one, that underwater Walkman. Like you need to take a Walkman under water.

Stephen King

The boat dipped and swayed and sometimes took on water, but it did not sink; the two brothers had waterproofed it well. I do not know where it finally fetched up, if it ever did; perhaps it reached the sea and sails there forever, like a magic boat in a fairytale. All I know is that it was still afloat and still running on the breast of the flood when it passed the incorporated town limits of Derry, Maine, and there it passes out of this tale forever.

Umberto Eco

I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.

Frederick Banting

The place where we were operating was not fit to be called an operating room. Aseptic work had not been done in it for some years. The floor could not be scrubbed properly, or the water would go through on the laboratories below.

Dave Barry

It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.

Nik Wallenda

If you take suede leather and put it on a piece of steel, and put moisture on it, it actually sticks.

U. S. Navy

Thatch Weave

This was an official Navy Air Fighiting Tactic named for the flier who invented it, John S. Thach. In WWII the Japanese Zero fighter plane was much superior to the Navy Wildcat, in speed, maneuvrability, and other factors. The Thatch Weave was created to offset that Japanese advantage. It was so effective that despite the superiority ot the Zeros, the ratio of Zero losses to Wildcat losses in arial combat was an incredible 9 to 1. It enabled the U. S. to handle the Japanese fighters until there was a new generation of American fighters came on line.

Jamie Hyneman

If you ever decide to build a boat out of wet newspaper, it's important to remember to lay down the sheets like shingles on a house: One issue at a time, starting at the bow and moving aft, so water flows over the layers, not under them.

Demetri Martin

I was thinking how strange it is that water is one of the best, simplest things on this planet, and still with a simple glass of water you can neutralize so many of the greatest technological advances that we provide. Like with my blackberry, I can get in touch with so many people, but if I dip it in a small glass of water I'm completely disconnected.

Pete Conrad

I think we need to do a little more all-weather testing.

Waterproofing Quotes