Cleaning Quotes

• From the age of 11, I was cleaning floors, washing dishes, making sandwiches and being a cashier. Survival was the name of the game. Life was so hard that I had to struggle to keep up my standards. Under these conditions, I didn't think about science too much.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Life
  • Up
  • Age

• I am not anti-gun. I'm pro-knife. Consider the merits of the knife. In the first place, you have to catch up with someone in order to stab him. A general substitution of knives for guns would promote physical fitness. We'd turn into a whole nation of great runners. Plus, knives don't ricochet. And people are seldom killed while cleaning their knives.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • People
  • Gun
  • Order

• I go to the dentist every six months, I get a cleaning, so... I'm fortunate enough that those fluoride treatments as a child worked. Not getting any cavities.

  

  Daniel Tosh
  • Cleaning

• When I go home, the first thing I do is wash the dishes. It feels real and it feels like home and it's humbling, it's something you don't do when you're living in a hotel, everyone cleaning up after you.

  

  V V Brown
  • Up
  • Real
  • Home

• The musket, always a muzzleloader, took minutes to reload; an archer could aim and fire up to a dozen arrows in a minute. Muskets required continual cleaning and repair; bows were quickly made and easily maintained.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Up
  • Fire
  • Aim

• The House Rules Committee is perhaps the free world's outstanding bureaucratic abomination - a tiny, airless closet deep in the labyrinth of the Capitol where some of the very meanest people on earth spend their days cleaning democracy like a fish.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • People
  • World
  • House

• In my house every Sunday, everybody was cleaning the house. There was always music, and everybody was dancing, sometimes naked, around the house. Not hippie, but very free.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Music
  • House
  • Free

• Building a professional relationship on respect as opposed to affection is a very good idea. Running your art projects the way you'd run a dry-cleaning business is also a really good idea. You shouldn't go into work like you're going on a date, like you're hanging out with friends.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • Good
  • Work
  • Art

• I think you can totally be a totally normal kid from the suburbs of Chicago and go off and play shows. It's one of those things that when you go home, you're still the nerd you were when you left, and your parents still get to yell at you about cleaning up your room, and your girlfriend still drags you to the pet store.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Up
  • Home
  • Parents

• I did some research once on the way people in the past imagined the year 2000. They tended to picture the things they already had getting more sophisticated - flying cars, self-cleaning windows. And the folks in the early 1900s had a wildly optimistic estimate of the future of pneumatic tubes.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Future
  • Past

• I did a lot of blue collar work. I also worked as a temp. I did, you know, light construction and cleaning. I did clerical temping. I also fix cars and motorcycles and electronics.

  

  David Autor
  • Work
  • Light
  • Blue

• I try my best to keep the house looking clean, but honestly, with four kids, you can find plenty of messes. I don't have a special technique other than I can't focus when the house is a wreck, so cleaning is therapeutic for me. That works in my favor sometimes.

  

  Joanna Gaines
  • Kids
  • House
  • Focus

• Cleaning up the mess in Washington is gonna take a whole lot of Iowa common sense.

  

  Joni Ernst
  • Up
  • Cleaning

• I think I've done everything on 'The X Factor' apart from the cleaning.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Done
  • Think
  • Cleaning

• I've spent a lot on clothes. I'm not kidding when I say I could have bought several country homes with the money. I've also given a lot away over time. I had a lovely Yves Saint Laurent jacket that I'd only worn once or twice, but I'm one for spring cleaning rather than storing my clothes.

  

  Donna Air
  • Time
  • Country
  • Money

• There we times when everybody in the house has the flu. You're cleaning up vomit and it's 2 in the morning, and you're wishing there was somebody else there to help you.

  

  Meg Tilly
  • Up
  • Help
  • House

• Even if my job for the day is cleaning the vents or fixing the toilet, it still feels good to be a part of the space program and advancing exploration.

  

  Peggy Whitson
  • Good
  • Job
  • Space

• My father always told me, 'Before you become a queen, you have to learn how to take care of your own things.' So I knew how to do all of it, but I had never really done it on a daily basis. So I was cleaning houses, and I started working restaurants.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Done
  • Father
  • Daily

• I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.

  

  Berkeley Breathed
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Cleaning

• I am really bad with cleaning my closet.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Cleaning
  • Closet

• My mother was a cleaning lady all her life.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Cleaning

• Cleaning is my favorite way to relax. I clear things out and get rid of the stuff I don't need. When the food pantry and the refrigerator are organized, I feel less stressed.

  

  Jennifer Morrison
  • Food
  • Relax
  • Cleaning

• My mom grew up with horses, and when I turned 14, 15, she's like, 'Do you want to take a riding lesson?' I thought, 'Oh, gross, dirty.' She was like, 'Okay.' And then I did, and now I'm the one cleaning those damn stalls out. You can't get me away from the barn now. It shocks even me.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Up
  • She
  • Mom

• Cleaning cat litter is an unpleasant daily chore for me, but the DuraScoop makes it much less unpleasant.

  

  Mark Frauenfelder
  • Daily
  • Cat
  • Cleaning

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