Cleaning Quotes - Page 18

• Tell it to the cleaning lady on Monday. Because you'll be dust on Monday. Because I'll be pulverizing you sometime over the weekend. And the cleaning lady... cleans up... dust. She dusts. And she has weekends off, so... Monday. Right?

  Bryan Lee O'Malley

  Monday, Weekend, Dust

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• Granny bit her lip. She was never quite certain about children, thinking of them-when she thought about them at all-as coming somewhere between animals and people. She understood babies. You put milk in one end and kept the other as clean as possible. Adults were even easier, because they did the feeding and cleaning themselves. But in between was a world of experience that she had never really inquired about. As far as she was aware, you just tried to stop them catching anything fatal and hoped that it would all turn out all right.

  Terry Pratchett

  Baby, Children, Thinking

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• After living with Richard, I discovered that men are only good at cleaning stuff they can hose down.

  Linda Sunshine

  Men, Stuff, Housework

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• Great," Shane said. "Look i'd rather not be on janitorial duty. I have allergies to cleaners." "And to cleaning," Michael said. "Look who's talking, Didn't the do one of those Animal Planet documentaries about the roaches in your room?

  Rachel Caine

  Animal, Talking, Allergies

  Rachel Caine (2012). “Black Dawn: The Morganville Vampires”, p.85, Penguin

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• Don't you ever touch my car again," Santangelo says with the same fury he had on his face when Jonah Griggs made comments about his mother. Raffy touches the car with her finger in a very dramatic way. "You've just made our hit list," he says, getting a hanky out of his pocket and cleaning off some imaginary mark.

  Melina Marchetta

  Mother, Car, Pockets

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• She remembered how she had felt cleaning out her father's clothes, wanting at once to hold on to every dirty handkerchief and musty page of sheet much, and yet wishing she were anywhere else on earth, free of it all.

  J. Courtney Sullivan

  Father, Dirty, Clothes

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• Mr. Branwell and Mr. Carstairs seem to have no problem cleaning their boots,” Sophie said, looking darkly from Will to Tessa. “Perhaps you could learn from their example.” “Perhaps,” said Will. “But I doubt it.” Sophie scowled, and started off along the corridor again, her shoulders tightly set with indignation. Tessa looked at Will in amazement. “What was that?” Will shrugged lazily. “Sophie enjoys pretending she doesn’t like me.” “Doesn’t like you? She hates you!

  Cassandra Clare

  Hate, Doubt, Example

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• Monsters don't die. They just dissipate into smoke and dust, which saves heroes a lot of trouble cleaning up after a fight.

  Rick Riordan

  Hero, Fighting, Dust

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• I wondered about Mrs. Winterbottom and what she meant about living a tiny life. If she didn't like all that baking and cleaning and jumping up to get bottles of nail polish remover and sewing hems, why did she do it? Why didn't she tell them to do some of the things themselves? Maybe she was afraid there would be nothing left for her to do. There would be no need for her and she would become invisible and no one would notice.

  Sharon Creech

  Jumping, Nails, Would Be

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• Nancy Pelosi said that when it comes to cleaning up government, the Democrats have drained the swamp. The only problem with that is what's left after you drain the swamp: snakes everywhere.

  Jay Leno

  Government, Snakes, Swamps

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• And you're a bad boy?" I asked. Ollie's grin was contagious. "Oh, I'm a bad, bad boy." Cam shot his friend a look. "Yeah, as in bad at spelling, math, english, cleaning up after yourself, talking to people, and I could go on.

  J. Lynn

  Math, Boys, Talking

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• Getting fired can produce a particularly bountiful payday for a CEO. Indeed, he can 'earn' more in that single day, while cleaning out his desk, than an American worker earns in a lifetime of cleaning toilets. Forget the old maxim about nothing succeeding like success: Today, in the executive suite, the all-too-prevalent rule is that nothing succeeds like failure.

  Warren Buffett

  Toilets, Today, Succeed

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.89, John Wiley & Sons

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• I throw down the gauntlet to chance. For example, I prepare the ground for a picture by cleaning my brush over the canvas. Spilling a little turpentine can also be helpful.

  Joan Miro

  Example, Littles, Chance

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• Wives, girlfriends, fiancees - clean out your closets. I'm cleaning out my old bell bottoms. We can touch millions.

  Deion Sanders

  Girlfriend, Wife, Bells

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• I love cleaning the house. I'd never have a cleaner - I wouldn't trust them to do it.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Trust, House, Cleaners

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• A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.

  Puzant Kevork Thomajan

  Happiness, Laughter, Dry Cleaning

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• I have rituals for cleaning out resentments, disappointments, heartbreak, depression and for work. One of the things I do is go over old stuff if I have been unable to write for a while.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Disappointment, Writing, Stuff

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• There is no such thing as a self-cleaning oven.

  Wes Smith

  Self, Revelations, Ovens

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• My parents paid me small amounts for cleaning my room or cleaning the dishes and stuff, but I never really had a real job before I started on my professional tennis career.

  Caroline Wozniacki

  Jobs, Real, Careers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's times when I'm cleaning the kitchen, and while I'm doing that, I'm singing and air guitaring with a broom to 'You Should Be Dancing.'

  Corey Taylor

  Air, Dancing, Kitchen

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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

  Ideas, Paper, Bureaucracy

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• Most incredible, however, are the times we know Christ is with us in the midst of our daily, routine lives. In the middle of cleaning the house or driving somewhere in the pick-up, He stops us. . . in our tracks and makes His presence known. Often it's in the middle of the most mundane task that He lets us know He is there with us. We realize, then, that there can be no "ordinary" moments for people who live their lives with Jesus.

  Michael Card

  Jesus, Routine Life, People

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• Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctor's appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops.

  Sloane Crosley

  Inspirational, Funny, Birthday

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• I have a cat. I'm not a cat-person, but she came with the house that I'm renting. I don't know how many hundreds of dollars worth of bump removals, teeth removals, cleanings and vet fees I've been through. But of course I love her and she's worth it.

  Nathan Fillion

  Cat, House, Teeth

  "Waitress - Nathan Fillion interview" by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• There is no more important task in Washington than cleaning up the culture of corruption. Yet the president - whose White House has become the cradle of Republican corruption - is not taking responsibility for the costs of that corruption.

  Harry Reid

  Responsibility, White, House

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