quotes about Cleaning
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Of course I was delighted the flight was over, but I still had to worry about cleaning up inside the cabin, I had to worry about the hatch, how to get in the sling, and so on.
-- Alan Shepard -
in the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - our houses.
-- Alan Weisman -
A great statesman, like a good housekeeper, knows that cleaning has to be done every morning.
-- Andre Maurois -
No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic.
-- Ann Landers -
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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.
-- Ann OakleySource : Ann Oakley (1974). “Woman's work: the housewife, past and present”, Vintage
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Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.
-- Anne Lamott -
There's no getting away from it: you have to clean.
-- Anthea Turner -
As Cinderella would probably tell you, even a prince who only recognizes your footwear is preferable to a lifetime of cleaning grates.
-- Barbara Hambly -
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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
-- Bette Midler -
we learn the process of emptying out, cleaning house, both within and without.
-- Brenda Shoshanna -
The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output.
-- Buffy Sainte-Marie -
I always clean before the cleaning lady comes. If not, when I come home, I can't find anything. Cleaning ladies are always hiding things you leave out.
-- Celia Cruz -
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Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
-- Charles Dickens -
I love cleaning the house. I'd never have a cleaner - I wouldn't trust them to do it.
-- Chloe Sevigny -
When you make something, cleaning it out of structural debris is one of the most vital things you do.
-- Christopher Alexander -
I was so emotional. Choked up. I could hardly talk all day. I'll be cleaning out my trailer and saying goodbye soon, realizing what a wonderful experience this has been.
-- Dennis Franz -
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My favorite way of getting out of doing chores is by acting like I'm asleep. But it never works.
-- Devon Werkheiser -
Some of us are like a shovel brigade that follow a parade down Main Street cleaning up.
-- Donald T. ReganSource : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran, Donald T. Regan, Caspar W. Weinberger, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition (1988). “Iran-Contra investigation: joint hearings before the House Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran and the Senate Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition, One Hundredth Congress, first session, 100-10, July 30, 31, and August 3, 1987 : testimony of Donald T. Regan and Caspar W. Weinberger”
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It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.
-- Dwight Yoakam -
Are you polluting the world or cleaning up the mess? You are responsible for your inner space; nobody else is, just as you are responsible for the planet. As within, so without: If humans clear inner pollution, then they will also cease to create outer pollution.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
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In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
-- Ed Koch -
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt -
I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.
-- Elvis Presley -
Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady.
-- Eric Alterman -
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I'm going through an evolution. I'm completely cleaning out my closet. I'm purging, because I saw that show 'Hoarders.' I had a sweatshirt from sixth grade, and I'm going, 'Why do I hold on to this?'
-- FergieSource : "Fergie: The Superstar". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. November 1, 2010.
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There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.
-- Fiorello H. La Guardia -
I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.
-- Francois Truffaut -
If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have.
-- Franz Schubert -
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I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.
-- Gail Porter -
You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.
-- Harold Geneen -
The meals were served in a large hall, in which Moctezuma was accustomed to eat, and the dishes quite filled the room, which was covered with mats and kept very clean.
-- Hernando Cortes -
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I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.
-- Jack Kevorkian -
You won't forget me, Peter, will you, before spring-cleaning time comes? Of course Peter promised, and then he flew away. He took Mrs. Darling's kiss with him. The kiss that had been for no one else Peter took quite easily. Funny. But she seemd satisfied.
-- James M. Barrie -
If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.
-- James Taylor -
Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.
-- Jean KerrSource : Jean Kerr (1962). “The Snake Has all the Lines”
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It's not like I was an alkie or anything. Alcohol is for cleaning needles
-- Jerry Stahl -
I love cleaning, weird but true. It really relaxes me.
-- Jessie J -
Life is a constant series of cleaning up the last mess.
-- Jillian LaurenSource : Jillian Lauren (2011). “Pretty: A Novel”, p.31, Penguin
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In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of consciousness a few times a year.
-- Karl Kraus -
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Technology is a servant who makes so much noise cleaning up in the next room that his master cannot make music.
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Got to be the worst place in the world, inside a oven. You in here, you either cleaning or you getting cooked.
-- Kathryn Stockett -
I look forward to spring cleaning and putting things in their place. It's therapeutic for me.
-- Kimora Lee Simmons -
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Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets.
-- Klaus KinskiSource : "Klaus Kinski & The Thing" by Marcelle Clements. Playboy, Vol. 32, Iss. 11, November 1985.
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Surrender happens by Grace. All we're doing is cleaning up the room so when Surrender walks in, He can sit down.
-- Krishna DasSource : Twitter post from Sep 25, 2013
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A bureaucrat's idea of cleaning up his files is to make a copy of every paper before he destroys it.
-- Laurence J. Peter -
All I'm thinking about today is cleaning my bathroom.
-- Linda FiorentinoSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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After living with Richard, I discovered that men are only good at cleaning stuff they can hose down.
-- Linda Sunshine -
Let's clean up our environment. Let's clean up our bodies, but most importantly, let's not permit our babies of the future to be polluted before they are even born.
-- Louise Slaughter -
As security or firewall administrators, we've got basically the same concerns [as plumbers]: the size of the pipe, the contents of the pipe, making sure the correct traffic is in the correct pipes, and keeping the pipes from splitting and leaking all over the place. Of course, like plumbers, when the pipes do leak, we're the ones responsible for cleaning up the mess, and we're the ones who come up smelling awful...
-- Marcus J. Ranum -
Cleaning up with children around is like shoveling during a blizzard
-- Margaret Culkin Banning -
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We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your own house - which we never do.
-- Marina Abramovic -
My favorite dish is cleaning out the fridge on Sunday night and improvising a great medley.
-- Matthew McConaughey -
I understand people have doubts, but I'm totally clean.
-- Michael Irvin -
A great thing about these trees is that they are excellent for cleaning, both groundwater, and of course, air.
-- Mike Lowry -
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I think all mothers are alike, regardless of cultural background, when it comes to illogical cleaning.
-- Neal ShustermanSource : Neal Shusterman (2008). “Antsy Does Time”, p.149, Penguin
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The efficiency of the cleaning solution in liquefying wizards suggested the operation of an antithetical principal,which-" "Did you have to get him started?" Cimorene asked reproachfully.
-- Patricia C. Wrede -
I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.
-- Patricia Highsmith -
I clean my house, although I have help. I'm on the floor getting spots. I can't stand a dirty house. I'm a cleaning fanatic.
-- Patti LaBelle -
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There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.
-- Paul HindemithSource : 1938 Letter to Willy Strecker
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I'm always happy when I'm cleaning, and besides, I had just found out that I was going to have a baby.
-- Peggy Lee -
At least I'm going into the job with clean hands.
-- Pete Rozelle -
Life was a series of messes, and one spent one's time cleaning them up; if one had any heart at all one also gave a part of one's time to cleaning up those of other people.
-- Phyllis Bottome -
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I've always enjoyed doing dishes. Maybe it was the fashionable yellow gloves that I loved so much. It's weird, I know, but I find cleaning cathartic.
-- Rachel Nichols -
After years of hotels, I'm horribly inept at cleaning up after myself.
-- Rufus Wainwright -
Cleaning isn't all that interesting to me. I'm disorganized.
-- Ruth Wilson -
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You could eat sushi off my bookshelf. My cleaning regime is like a battleground. I'm Genghis Khan and my cleaning products are my Mongolian army and I take no prisoners. The rest of my life is an experiment in chaos so I like to keep my flat neat.
-- Ryan AdamsSource : "Is this it?". www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2008.
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I love cleaning. I love mopping the floor. If you need your floor mopped, I'm there.
-- Saoirse RonanSource : "Saoirse Ronan: 200 years young". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2013.
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I kind of have to be a master of cleaning, extracting and trusting my data before I do anything with it.
-- Scott Nicholson -
Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.
-- Simone de Beauvoir -
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The rocks, to a great extent, look swept clean. It's a much cleaner surface than what we had a right to hope for.
-- Steve SquyresSource : "NASA rover wakes up on Mars" By Richard Stenger, www.cnn.com. January 4, 2004.
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When all else fails, cleaning house is the perfect antidote to most of life's ills.
-- Sue Grafton -
If you have debt I'm willing to bet that general clutter is a problem for you too.
-- Suze Orman -
Housework is like cleaning fish. No matter how often you do it, it still stinks.
-- Thelma Harper -
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There is no such thing as a self-cleaning oven.
-- Wes Smith -
Tawbah is the cleaning of the heart, dhikr is the feeding of the heart.
-- Yasmin Mogahed -
Soap, a cleaning product, can be made from decay.
-- Leonardo Drew -
You have to make a film and make it interesting, so you can't have a shot of you cleaning your teeth just because you did that. It's boring!
-- Shane Meadows -
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I'm a great cleaner. I'm actually kind of addicted to cleaning. I could clean anything.
-- Sinead O'Connor -
I'm great at washing dishes and I'm great at cleaning the house and all that kind of stuff. I don't like doing it, but I'm.
-- Sinead O'Connor -
Audition is the worst thing. It's like cleaning furniture in a department store.
-- Udo Kier -
I feel the change. I feel the relationship with New York changing. It's a personal relationship you have with the city when you move there. I definitely romanticize the early 2000s. As much as I prefer the city then as opposed to now, I'm sure if I were 23 and I moved to the New York of right now, I could have the same exact experience. I don't really hate the cleaning up of New York, even though it's not my preferred version of New York.
-- Brian Degraw -
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If I was as rich as Rockefeller I'd be richer than Rockefeller, because I'd do a bit of window cleaning on the side.
-- Ronnie BarkerSource : Ronnie Barker (2013). “Fork Handles: The Bery Vest of Ronnie Barker”, p.127, Random House
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I am careful about my conduct because I know this cause requires clean men.
-- James Larkin