Cleaning Lady Sayings

#1. Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.

P. J. O'Rourke

#2. My mother was a cleaning lady all her life.

Raf Simons

#3. I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.

Berkeley Breathed

#4. I'm not a natural employer. I live very privately, and we like our privacy at home. To be sitting and talking with your wife or your family and to have somebody walking around and you're ignoring them, I couldn't handle that at all. I can barely handle a cleaning lady coming in every so often.

Jim Carter

#5. You stop belonging to yourself," she said. "I belong to my child, my husband, my home, my work, my babysitter, my cleaning lady. The time that remains, like after-tax dollars, doesn't last longer than a two-minute sonata by Scarlatti."
"And you don't even like Scarlatti," I said.

Andre Aciman

#6. home, I've been cleaning, and you need to fire your cleaning lady! The gunk I got out of your carpet and kitchen counters? Grrr-oss!" Sam grinned.

David Archer

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

Eric Alterman

#8. cleaning lady! The gunk I got out of your carpet and kitchen counters? Grrr-oss!" Sam grinned. "We'll talk about it when I get there. Bye!" He called

David Archer

#9. One of the great thing about New York is the neighborhood - you go for your walk in the morning and you know your dry cleaning lady, you know the guy in your coffee shop - that's your neighborhood and I love that.

Piper Perabo

#10. Friend, the cleaning lady, the bank clerk. But be careful:

Joel Dicker

#11. I always clean before the cleaning lady comes. If not, when I come home, I can't find anything. Cleaning ladies are always hiding things you leave out.

Celia Cruz

#12. 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

#13. He had an invisible sword. Really?
He walked through the lobby, got into a full elevator, and no one stared. He passed a cleaning lady in the hallway outside his room, and all she said was,"Hello there."
He had an invisible sword. Really.

Nils Johnson-Shelton

#14. If Israel sent the IDF three kilometers into Lebanon and started digging trenches and building bunkers it would make news all over the world. But Syria does it and everyone shrugs. Hardly anyone even knows it happened at all.

Michael Totten

#15. Was true love when you wanted to slap someone and kiss him madly at the same time?

Nancy Werlin

#16. Your world of poverty can be recreated to that of affluence simply by speaking the Prince's language.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#17. You can't help people that don't want to be helped.

John Armstrong

#18. I refuse to go out with a man whose ass is smaller than mine.

Elizabeth Perkins

#19. When your sense of worth exceeds your conditions, conditions will shift to match your vision.

Alan Cohen

#20. (Advice to cleaning women: Take everything that your lady gives you and say Thank you. You can leave it on the bus, in the crack.)

Lucia Berlin

#21. It puzzles the will.

William Shakespeare

#22. Imagination", one of nature's most powerful forces.

Theo

#23. All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.

Robert McKee

#24. A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman.

Heinrich Heine

#25. I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock ... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.

Jimmy Page

#26. For me, trying to expand the energy to make one movie in Hollywood would be the equivalent in terms of energy to making 10 movies in Japan.

Takashi Miike

#27. We as a people, as a state, and as a community, have too much promise, too much potential, and too much at stake to go any other way than forward. We are too strong in our hearts, too innovative in our minds, and too firm in our beliefs to retreat from our goals.

Bill Richardson

#28. Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.

Plato

#29. Some lady at a bridge party somewhere started the rumor that to test the honesty of a cleaning woman you leave little rosebud ashtrays around with loose change in them, here and there. My solution to this is to always add a few pennies, even a dime.

Lucia Berlin