Cleaning Quotes - Page 6

• The dirty wax of egotism accumulated in the heart prevents us from clearly hearing the Lord's voice within. A guru, with the stick of knowledge, cleans our hearts. It's really ugly to see what may come out, but by following patiently, we keep cleaning.

  Radhanath Swami

  Dirty, Heart, Voice

  Radhanath Swami (2016). “The Journey Home”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• When I made my Broadway debut, I was still cleaning houses, something I'd done since I went out on my own at 15.

  Aida Turturro

  House, Done, Broadway

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• Well, I can do certain jobs because smells don't bother me. But that means I'm usually the one at the ranch cleaning up all the manure.

  Bill Pullman

  Jobs, Mean, Smell

  "A Minute With: Bill Pullman about 'Torchwood'". Interview with Iain Blair, www.reuters.com. July 6, 2011.

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• Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.

  Bill Vaughan

  Smoking, Filling, Mischief

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• Ecologically speaking, a spilt tanker load is like sticking a safety pin into an elephant's foot. The planet barely notices. After the Exxon Valdez accident in Alaska the oil company spent billions tidying up the coastline, but it was a waste of money because the waves were cleaning up faster than Exxon could. Environmentalists can never accept the planet's ability to self-heal.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Nature, Science, Elephants

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• What the federal government should have done is accept the assistance of foreign countries, of entrepreneurial Americans who have had solution that they wanted presented ... The Dutch and the Norwegians, they are known for dikes and for cleaning up water and for dealing with spills.

  Sarah Palin

  Country, Government, Should Have

  "Sarah Palin On Oil Spill: Send In Dutch Dike Builders" By Nick Wing, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2010.

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• If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, 'Who could have done this? We have no enemies!'

  Phyllis Diller

  Doors, House, Enemy

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• When you make something, cleaning it out of structural debris is one of the most vital things you do.

  Christopher Alexander

  Debris

  "To be a good builder, you need a feel for what surrounds you. Christopher Alexander knows." by Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. February 3, 2006.

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• Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady.

  Eric Alterman

  Income, Pay, Percentages

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• There's a man upon that ledge, he's only cleaning windows. What a shame for the pain we're missing. Gonna lean back on my wall and pray for him to fall.

  Pete Townshend

  Wall, Pain, Fall

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• If we want to eliminate bad qualities like hatred, envy, pride and ostentation, we have to employ Sathya, Dharma, Santhi and Prema and Ahimsa as the cleaning instruments.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Pride, Envy, Hatred

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• Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward - and since I can start thinking and striving again that much sooner.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Laughter, Frustration, Thinking

  "Palm Sunday". Kurt Vonnegut's sermon at St. Clement's Church in New York City (1980), originally published in The Nation as "Hypocrites You Always Have With You", 1980.

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• God's not afraid of a mess. He wants to do a cleaning.

  James MacDonald

  Want, Not Afraid, Mess

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• And so Harry became proficient in the task of cleaning up vomit.

  Julia Quinn

  Tasks, Cleaning Up

  Julia Quinn (2009). “What Happens in London”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• 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

  Spiritual, Space, World

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.79, New World Library

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• We have focused on the miracle-thing and I think we often overlook the message of Hanukkah. To me, the core of the holiday is the cleaning of the temple.... The accomplishment was in restoring the temple to the purpose for which it was built. Now think of the temple as a symbol. Perhaps it represents my life. The world has tried to use me for its own (perhaps good, but none-the-less extrinsic) purposes. But now I can rededicate myself to my own original purpose.

  Ralph Levy

  Holiday, Thinking, Accomplishment

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• The day I worry about cleaning my house is the day Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner.

  Roseanne Barr

  Funny Relationship, Worry, House

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• It turns out dentists don't like it very much when you show up for a cleaning in full vampire gear.

  Demetri Martin

  Vampire, Gears, Dentist

  Twitter post from Jun 12, 2012

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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

  Mean, Trying, Life Is

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• Siamese Cats have a way of staring at you. Those who have walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will know the expression.

  Douglas Adams

  Queens, Cat, Expression

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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 Barker

  Sides, Wealth, Window

  Ronnie Barker (2013). “Fork Handles: The Bery Vest of Ronnie Barker”, p.127, Random House

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• Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it's still snowing.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mom, Children, Home

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• 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

  Running, Art, Ideas

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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 Kerr

  Women, Wish, Speak

  Jean Kerr (1962). “The Snake Has all the Lines”

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• One thing I have frankly decided is that when it comes to political reform we have two conservative parties in British politics. Both the Labour and Conservative parties have constantly and repeatedly failed to honour promises they have made about reforming, cleaning, modernising our clapped-out system.

  Nick Clegg

  Party, Two, Political

  "Nick Clegg takes thorny path out of the Rose Garden". Interview with Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2012.

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