Quotes of Washing - somelinesforyou

“ People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing — that's why we recommend it daily. ”

- Zig Ziglar

“ People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you'll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow. ”

- Erma Bombeck

“ I do not like being in my bathing suit. Especially in front of strangers, especially in front of cameras. I can't say that I would ever do a movie in a bikini again. ”

- Jessica Alba

“ Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. ”

- Phyllis Diller

“ It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week. ”

- Laurence Peter

“ Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. ”

- Leo Tolstoy

“ The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping. ”

- Cathy Guisewite

“ We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room. We want an equal share in government and we mean to get it. ”

- Bella Abzug

“ Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants. ”

- Vivien Leigh

“ Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis. ”

- Zig Ziglar

“ Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color. ”

- Unknown

“ Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up. ”

- Wendy Cope

“ I'm a hygiene freak. I'm like obsessive-compulsive when it comes to washing your hands. ”

- Kelly Clarkson

“ The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water. ”

- Amy Tan

“ Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. ”

- Paulo Freire

“ I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about. ”

- Chuck Palahniuk

“ The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ Caring for others is accomplished by a dazzling array of skills in an endless variety of circumstances. As well as cooking, shopping, cleaning, laundering, planting, tending, harvesting for others, women comfort and guide, nurse and teach, arrange and advise, discipline and encourage, fight for and pacify… ”

- Selma James

“ Here's to the red of it, There's not a thread of it, No, not a shred of it, In all the spread of it, From foot to head, Not heroes bled for it, Faced steel and lead for it, Precious blood shed for it, Bathing in red. ”

- John Daly

“ Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don't put a big glow to it. Voting is about as essential as washing yourself. It's something you're supposed to do. Now, you can't go around bragging, expecting to get props because you voted. That's stupid. ”

- Chuck D.

“ Can you see the holiness in those things you take for granted — a paved road or a washing machine? If you concentrate on finding what is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul. ”

- Rabbi Harold Kushner

“ I started singing in coffeehouses when I was still in high school, in Santa Barbara. I took a job washing dishes and busing tables in the coffeehouse, so I could be there, and would beg permission to sing harmony with the guy who was singing onstage. ”

- David Crosby

“ Tatooine. The suns burned down out of a cloudless blue sky, washing the vast desert wastes of the planet in brilliant white light. The resultant glare rose off the flat, sandy surface in a wet shimmer of blistering heat to fill the gaps between the massive cliff faces and solitary outcroppings of the mountains that were the planet's sole distinguishing feature… ”

- Terry Brooks

“ You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film — you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up. ”

- Daniel Day Lewis
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