Laundry Quotes - Page 9

• Postal inspectors have been given advanced warning that Publishers Clearinghouse is sending packets of laundry detergent that could be mistaken for anthrax. Oh, good timing. What genius came up with this promotion? What's next - a ticking alarm clock? Let's put that in a box.

  Jay Leno

  Genius, Warning, Next

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• For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish ora German girl scrubbing floors in that home, a Welsh boy mining coal to keep the home-baked goodies warm, a black girl doing the family laundry, a black mother and child picking cotton to be made into clothes for the family, and a Jewish or an Italian daughter in a sweatshop making "ladies" dresses or artificial flowers for the family to purchase.

  Stephanie Coontz

  Girl, Daughter, Mother

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• When someone kisses someone or flushes the toilet
  it is my other who sits in a ball and cries.
  My other beats a tin drum in my heart.
  My other hangs up laundry as I try to sleep.
  My other cries and cries and cries
  when I put on a cocktail dress.

  Anne Sexton

  Sleep, Heart, Kissing

  Anne Sexton, “The Other”

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• Having been in a relationship since I was 18, I'm very domestic, but I don't enjoy cooking for myself. I don't mind cooking for other people... But I don't like cleaning or washing dishes, although I don't mind doing laundry.

  Megan Fox

  People, Cooking, Mind

  Interview with Zach Galifianakis, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 22, 2010.

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• We're well aware of how intelligent our audience is. We're well aware that Fringe is a show that you really need to lean forward into and pay attention to and think about. It's not designed to be a show that you can watch while you're folding laundry.

  Jeff Pinkner

  Intelligent, Thinking, Watches

  Source: collider.com

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• Most baby books also tend to romanticize the mother who stays at home, as if she really spends her entire day doing nothing but beaming at the baby and whipping up educational toys from pieces of string, rather than balancing cooing time with laundry, cleaning, shopping and cooking.

  Susan Chira

  Mother, Baby, Educational

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• It wasn't so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it's just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.

  Michelle Obama

  Mom, Hate, Kids

  Remarks of First Lady Michelle Obama Let’s Move! Launch Anniversary Speech to Parents, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 9, 2011.

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• Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.

  Rafael Nadal

  Worry, Want, Fridges

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• Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that.

  Rose Schneiderman

  Beauty, Years, Bread

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• I just told you to be quiet. That's one step away from asking you to wash my laundry and make me a sandwich.

  Richelle Mead

  Sandwiches, Asking, Steps

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• I'm not one to air my dirty laundry for the whole world.

  Jenna Fischer

  Dirty, Naughty, Air

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• We got the bubble headed bleached blonde comes on at five, She can tell you 'bout the plane crash with a gleam in her eye, It's interesting when people die give us dirty laundry...

  Don Henley

  Song, Dirty, Eye

  "Dirty Laundry". Song by Don Henley, Danny Kortchmar, October 12, 1982.

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• Valentine's Day is a time to celebrate the joy of being in love. Unless you're single & lonely then it's called Laundry Day.

  Dane Cook

  Valentines Day, Lonely, Being In Love

  FaceBook post by Dane Cook from Sep 04, 2014

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• I'm good at doing the laundry. At least that. And it's a religious experience...Water, earth, fire-polarities of wet and dry, hot and cold, dirty and clean. The great cycles-round and round-beginning and end-Alpha and Omega, amen.

  Robert Fulghum

  Religious, Work, Dirty

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• I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.

  Dana Spiotta

  Writing, Wells, Procrastinator

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• I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.

  Wallace Shawn

  Thinking, Buying, Supplies

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

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• Staying focused on a project or plan is one of the most difficult challenges we face. There is always the house to clean, calls to make, laundry to fold, deadlines to meet. Actually, there is only one thing that keeps us from our goals - lack of focus. And very often, lack of focus is caused by fear.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Goal, Focus, House

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Jan 04, 2014

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• Keep your shirt on," she said with a laugh at her bad joke. "Your clothes are at the laundry. They'll deliver them as soon as they're ready." "And in the meantime?" "Looks like you're naked." His jaw worked as if he couldn't believe what he was hearing. "I beg your pardon?" "Beg all you want, you're still going to be naked." Tabitha paused at the wicked image in her mind. "Come to think of it, a gorgeous, begging, naked man… that's the stuff of fantasies. Begging won't get you your clothes, but it could get you something else." She wiggled her eyebrows at him.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Believe, Thinking, Men

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• If you two were going to be that obvious about it, why didn't you guys come down in your Team Daniel and Team Miles T-shirts?" "We should order those," Shelby said. "Mine's in the laundry," Arriane said.

  Lauren Kate

  Team, Order, Two

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.618, Delacorte Press

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• He laced his fingers through mine and lifted my hand to his lips. I had gloves on, but he kissed exactly where I wore his ring. “Why are you so sweet?” I asked, my voice small. My heart beat rapidly, and every star peeping through the clouds seemed to be shining just for me. “I don’t think I’m that sweet. I mean, I just told you to be quiet. That’s one step away from asking you to wash my laundry and make me a sandwich.” “You know what I mean.” Seth pressed another kiss to my forehead. “I’m sweet because you make it easy to be sweet.

  Richelle Mead

  Sweet, Stars, Heart

  Richelle Mead (2012). “Succubus Dreams”, p.117, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Leadership, Teamwork, Mistake

  Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable”, p.42, John Wiley & Sons

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• Abby: I could be a slave to your darkest desires. I can do things. Anything you want. Tommy: Well, that's terrific, because we have a lot of laundry piled up and the apartment is a wreck. Abby: Anything you desire, my lord. I can do laundry, clean, bring you small creatures to quench your thirst until I am worthy.

  Christopher Moore

  Desire, Wrecks, Want

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• In the past, I had particularly loved her smell. She always smelled freshed, freshly washed or of freshed laundry or fresh sweat or freshly loved

  Bernhard Schlink

  Past, Sweat, Smell

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• But I live very simply. I farm - there is something visceral about being attached to the land. I am a recording engineer. I do my own laundry most days and I get on with the business of living.

  Sandra Lerner

  Land, Visceral, Engineers

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• The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

  Jesse Owens

  Quilts, Men, African American

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