Soap Quotes - Page 6

• A pioneer is not someone who makes her own soap. She is one who takes up her burdens and walks toward the future.

  Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

  Pioneers, Burden, Walks

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• My family suffered. My hair turned up in every corner, every drawer, every meal. Even in the rice puddings Tessie made, covering each little bowl with wax paper before putting it away in the fridge--even into these prophylactically secure desserts my hair found its way! Jet black hairs wound themselves around bars of soap. They lay pressed like flower stems between the pages of books. They turned up in eyeglass cases, birthday cards, once--I swear--inside an egg Tessie had just cracked. The next-door neighbor's cat coughed up a hairball one day and the hair was not the cat's.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Flower, Book, Cat

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.306, A&C Black

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• They always gives me bath salts," complained Nobby. "And bath soap and bubble bath and herbal bath lumps and tons of bath stuff and I can't think why, 'cos it's not as if I hardly ever has a bath. You'd think they'd take the hint, wouldn't you?

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, Giving, Hints

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• If a mute kid swears, should his mother wash his hands with soap?

  Steven Wright

  Mother, Kids, Hands

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• The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap and much more difficult to find.

  Terry Pratchett

  Pages, Truth Is, Discworld

  FaceBook post by Terry Pratchett from Feb 22, 2017

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• In order to get the things I want, it helps me to pretend I’m a figure in a daytime drama, a schemer. Soap opera characters make emphatic pronouncements. They ball up their fists and state their goals out loud. ‘I will destroy Buchanan Enterprises,’ they say. ‘Phoebe Wallingford will pay for what she’s done to our family.’ Walking home with the back half of the twelve-foot ladder, I turned to look in the direction of Hugh’s loft. ‘You will be mine,’ I commanded.

  David Sedaris

  Drama, Home, Character

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• In the middle of the night I am awakened by a sound. I sit up abruptly in bed. I hear it again. It's music. Wait, it sounds like the ice cream man, in our house. Is this some kind of twisted nightmare? The flipping ice cream man, breaking in to chop us all up in our beds to the tune of 'Zippity Do Dah'?... My heart slows. I remember. There is no psycho ice cream man here. It is just our new musical soap dispenser.

  Deb Caletti

  Heart, Night, Men

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• I wish there really was such a thing as a Time-Clock Puncher, though. I wish some gigantic, surly, stone-fisted Soap Mahoney-type guy went around the world smashing every clock in sight till there weren't any more and people got so confused about when to go to the mill or school or church that they gave up and did something interesting instead.

  David James Duncan

  Confused, School, Sight

  David James Duncan (2010). “The Brothers K”, p.94, Dial Press

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• With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future... all of it felt as tenuous as a soap bubble, shivering and empty.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Life, Reality, Perfect

  Scott Westerfeld (2010). “Pretties”, p.297, Simon and Schuster

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• He shifted over without comment, lifting the blankets, and I scrambled into the warm sheets beside him. He smelled like soap and sleep and bare skin. He smelled familiar. Not the deja vu familiar of Guy or Mel. Familiar like...the ache in your chest of homesickness, of longing for harbor after weeks of rough seas or craving a fire's warmth after snow--or wanting back something you should never have given away.

  Josh Lanyon

  Sleep, Sea, Fire

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• The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and police, agony columns and commercials for soap, income tax and cheap restaurants, magazines and credit cards and streetlights and computers... 'It is escapism, true,' he said, aloud. 'But is not the highest impulse in mankind the urge toward freedom, the drive to escape?

  Neil Gaiman

  Men, Agony, Car

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• Zen is like soap. First you wash with it, and then you wash off the soap.

  Yamaoka Tesshu

  Firsts

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• I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.

  Bob Edwards

  Grandmother, Opera, Used

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• The learning curve on soaps is through the roof because it's a three-camera setup. There's a master and then there's two singles. And the great thing about soaps, and soap actors will tell you, is that when you get your line wrong, they don't re-shoot it. They just cut to the person listening.

  John C. McGinley

  Cutting, Curves, Two

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 10, 2006.

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• Religion is an illusion and every illusion has the inevitable destiny of a soap bubble!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Destiny, Soap Bubbles, Illusion

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• Even the Beatles lived their lives as a soap opera.

  Chris Lowe

  Opera, Soap Operas

  "The Pet Shop Boys' Commandments". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2003.

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• Promise me you’ll marry me. Not now. Someday. Because I need to know.” Claire felt a flutter inside, like a bird trying to fly, and a rush of heat that made her dizzy. And something else, something fragile as a soap bubble, and just as beautiful. Joy, in the middle of all this horror and heartbreak. “Yes,” she whispered back. “I promise.” And she kissed him, and kissed him, and kissed him, while the sun came up and bathed Morganville in one last, shining day.

  Rachel Caine

  Beautiful, Bird, Joy

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• I knew it, I just knew it! The person who had the job of writing my life's dialogue used to work on a very low budget soap opera.

  Marian Keyes

  Jobs, Writing, Opera

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• If you like your remote messaging fat, dumb, and interoperable, you could also look into the SOAP libraries distributed with Ruby.

  Dave Thomas

  Design, Dumb, Library

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• Since we're keeping it primal, you smell good," he observed. "It's called a shower...," I began automatically, then trailed off. My memory snagged, taken aback by a compelling and forceful sense of undue familiarity. "Soap, shampoo, hot water," I added, almost as an afterthought. "Naked. I know the drill," Jev said, something unreadeble passing over his eyes.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Memories, Taken, Eye

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• I think some period drama can be quite alienating, but 'Downton' isn't. This is going to sound quite, um, pretentious, but someone said that it's like a soap written by a poet.

  Michelle Dockery

  Drama, Thinking, Sound

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Many years ago I was in another soap opera called The Newcomers which was on twice a week for three years. I really don't think I could do another stint like that again.

  Jeremy Bulloch

  Thinking, Years, Three

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• To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.

  Cam Gigandet

  Letting Go, Not Good Enough, World

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• Baseball is a soap opera that plays out day after day, one that a lot of elderly women watch until the characters and the plot becomes a part of their life. She got to enjoy the personal side of the players. They were her kids. The Braves were her family.

  Bob Hope

  Baseball, Character, Kids

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• I am a living soap opera.

  Virginia Graham

  Opera, Soap Operas

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