Cleaning Quotes - Page 13

• He was not used to the smell of dragon breath, which is best described as a combination of the stench of burning rubber and the stink of old socks, with overtones of a hamster cage in dire need of a cleaning.

  Angie Sage

  Dragons, Smell, Needs

  Angie Sage (2012). “Physik: Septimus Heap”, p.149, A&C Black

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• normal person's weekly chore list: 1. clean kitchen. 2. clean bathroom. 3. clean entire rest of domicile. cleaning impaired person's weekly chore list: 1. don't get peanut butter on sheets.

  Dave Barry

  Kitchen, Peanut Butter, Lists

  Dave Barry (2001). “All the Dave Barry you could ever want: four classic books in one from America's foremost humorist”

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• Stain Boy Of all the super heroes, the strangest one by far, doesn't have a special power, or drive a fancy car. next to Superman and batman, I guess he must seem tame. But to me he is quite special, and Stain Boy is his name. He can't fly around tall buildings, or outrun a speeding train, the only talent he seems to have is to leave a nasty stain. Sometimes I know it bothers him, that he can't run or swim or fly, and because of this one ability, his dry cleaning bill is sky-high.

  Tim Burton

  Running, Hero, Boys

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• As Cinderella would probably tell you, even a prince who only recognizes your footwear is preferable to a lifetime of cleaning grates.

  Barbara Hambly

  Lifetime, Footwear, Grate

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• Austin and I proceeded to knock back a couple of Ketel One and grapefruit juices, which happened to be my drink of the moment. Someone told me that grapefruit was a great detoxifier and I decided I wanted to start cleaning out my liver WHILE I was having a cocktail.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Couple, Humor

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• Angela had done a marvelous job, I tell you. The puke was everywhere except the toilet. The walls, the floor, the sinks - even on the ceiling, though don't ask me how she did that. So there I was, perched on all fours, cleaning up the puke at the homecoming dance in my best blue suit, which was exactly what I had wanted to avoid in the first place. And Jamie, my date, was on all fours, too, doing exactly the same thing.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Jobs, Wall, Blue

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• The problem with being grounded is it gives you a whole lot of unavoidable time to think. NOt even pulling weeds can take away your ability to plot all the varied and wonderful things you might do to get even, or at least to make up, just get a smidgen for time lost to TV and yard work and house cleaning.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Weed, Thinking, Giving

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• The combination of ammonia and chloride can be lethal but I've discovered it can work miracles as long as you keep telling yourself, "I want to love, I want to live.

  David Sedaris

  Long, Miracle, Want

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• I think all mothers are alike, regardless of cultural background, when it comes to illogical cleaning.

  Neal Shusterman

  Mom, Mother, Thinking

  Neal Shusterman (2008). “Antsy Does Time”, p.149, Penguin

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• Those single-track military minds never think to ask their cleaning staff for help in giant lethal marauding creature matters.

  Robin McKinley

  Military, Thinking, Track

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• My home is not a place, it is people.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Life, Home, People

  "Barrayar". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1991.

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• Being a celebrity stylist, there are many tricks of the trade that I use in my house and with my clients. The Mr. Clean Magic Eraser has so many uses, so it's my secret cleaning tool for keeping my shoes - like the vintage Air Jordan's I am obsessing over now - and my clients' shoes, scuff and dirt free.

  Brad Goreski

  Air, Vintage, Shoes

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• But here I am today recording this and I'm in the studio with all the others on a clean mic. It's extraordinary, the actor's found a way of doing it for himself.

  John Leeson

  Here I Am, Actors, Today

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• 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

  Spring, Kissing, Forget

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.129, 谷月社

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• What, after all,is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

  Christopher Fry

  Halos, Virtue, Clean

  The Lady's not for Burning (1949) act 1

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• The lines of Pearl Art Glass are clean, certainly not cluttered.

  James Lafferty

  Art, Glasses, Lines

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• Apologizing is like spring cleaning.

  Katherine Hannigan

  Spring, Apologizing, Spring Cleaning

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• in the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - our houses.

  Alan Weisman

  House, Disappear, Humans

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• Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

  Bill Gates

  Life, Success, Education

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• Eric moved the broom experimentally and made an attempt to sweep the glass into the pan while it lay in the middle of the floor. Of course, the pan slid away. Eric scowled. I'd finally found something Eric did poorly.

  Charlaine Harris

  Glasses, Eric, Middle

  Charlaine Harris (2003). “Dead in Dixie”

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• No enthusiasm will ever stand the strain that Jesus Christ will put upon His worker, only one thing will, and that is a personal relationship to Himself which has gone through the mill of His spring-cleaning until there is only one purpose left--I am here for God to send me where He will.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Spring, Purpose

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Called of God: Extracts from My Utmost for His Highest on the Missionary Call”, p.35, Discovery House

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• A middle-aged woman who looked like someone's cleaning lady, a shrieking adolescent lunatic and a talkshow host with an orange face... It didn't add up. Suicide wasn't invented for people like this. It was invented for people like Virginia Woolf and Nick Drake. And Me. Suicide was supposed to be cool.

  Nick Hornby

  Suicide, Virginia, Orange

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• They did a lot of cleaning in their house, which I considered to be a sign of immoral parenting. The job of parents, as I saw it, was to watch television and step into a child's life only when absolutely necessary, like in the event of a tornado or a potential kidnapping.

  Haven Kimmel

  Jobs, Children, House

  Haven Kimmel (2002). “A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana”, p.111, Broadway Books

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• Life is not a straight line leading from one blessing to the next and then finally to heaven. Life is a winding and troubled road. Switchback after switchback. And the point of biblical stories like Joseph and Job and Esther and Ruth is to help us feel in our bones (not just know in our heads) that God is for us in all these strange turns. God is not just showing up after the trouble and cleaning it up. He is plotting the course and managing the troubles with far-reaching purposes for our good and for the glory of Jesus Christ.

  John Piper

  Jesus, Jobs, Biblical

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• Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.

  Bram Stoker

  Men, Feet, White

  Bram Stoker (2016). “Dracula”, p.30, Noodle-Doo Studios

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