Done Cleaning My Room Quotes

#1. Crammed among the stacks of books in his room, the author treated literature as if each book were a window in a city of unstable skyscrapers, and he was the window-washer tasked with the impossible job of cleaning them all. - From "Pageturner" in 365 Tomorrows

Joseph Patrick Pascale

#2. My workspace is a white room with a big computer monitor and a light box. It can be very messy. Sometimes I get into trouble with my husband for that. Then I run around like a lunatic cleaning up and creating the appearance of order.

Catherine Martin

#3. 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

#4. I'm not a fucking thinker, wisher, dancer, or whiner. I'm a fucking doer. Can't expect God to do it all now, can we? The man's got plenty to do already, I'm just doing my part and cleaning up my side of the room.

Lucian Bane

#5. He glanced at Flat Finn, who was positioned in one corner of the room, facing the wall. "What is Flat Finn doing? If he's urinating on the floor, you're cleaning it up."
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"Is he in trouble? He has to stand in the corner and think about what he's done?

Jessica Park

#6. Because I know where everything in this room is. All the books, the papers-and the moment they start cleaning, those things get hopelessly organized and tucked away, and I can never find them again.

Sarah J. Maas

#7. Housework was comforting. In cleaning and restoring a room, one could assert control. One could even pretend, briefly, that life could be tidied the same way.

Robin Hobb

#8. Surrender happens by Grace. All we're doing is cleaning up the room so when Surrender walks in, He can sit down.

Krishna Das

#9. Great," Shane said. "Look i'd rather not be on janitorial duty. I have allergies to cleaners."
"And to cleaning," Michael said.
"Look who's talking, Didn't the do one of those Animal Planet documentaries about the roaches in your room?

Rachel Caine

#10. I fully grant that mysterious invisible room-cleaning is in a way great, every true slob's fantasy, somebody materializing and deslobbing your room and then dematerializing - like having a mom without the guilt.

David Foster Wallace

#11. Life is not a malfunction. It's beautiful. But if you do not see it that way, it's simply because your room needs cleaning.

Frederick Lenz

#12. It was the same principle as cleaning a really messy room. You don't think about everything you have to do. You focus on one thing and get it done, then more onto the next.

Jim Butcher

#13. I don't like people cleaning my room.

Larry David

#14. My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.

Erma Bombeck

#15. Technology is a servant who makes so much noise cleaning up in the next room that his master cannot make music.

Karl Kraus