Floor Scrubbing Quotes

#1. I told Sabe floor-scrubbing was winter

Sue Monk Kidd

#2. Inside the (Domestic) Sphere women did things which weren't too demanding like childcare, scrubbing the floor, washing the sheets and curtains, sewing on buttons, and coalmining.

Jacky Fleming

#3. I think we ought to do all we can to make these creatures friendly. It might turn out to be well worth the trouble.

Richard Adams

#4. Rewriting is like scrubbing the basement floor with a toothbrush.

Peter Murphy

#5. The money in the chorus isn't very good, is it?!" she said. "No." It was less than you'd get for scrubbing floors. The reason was that, when you advertised a dirty floor, hundreds of hopefuls didn't turn up.

Terry Pratchett

#6. They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.

Andre Gide

#7. He couldn't imagine, couldn't imagine the horror of scrubbing your own father's blood out of the floor. Better to set the whole house on fire, better to leave and never come back."

pg 338

Veronica Roth

#8. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Confucius

#9. I'm a dual citizen, as are my husband and children. We have got eight passports between us; we're weighed down by them whenever we go anywhere.

Emily Mortimer

#10. After 'Skins' I became mildly famous, which was a bit of a disaster.

Nicholas Hoult

#11. Carlton was a blade; sharp and hard and well built.

Kate Harper

#12. For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is credit due? To the designer of the camera? to the finger on the button? to the law of averages?

Gore Vidal

#13. If you're involved with imagination and the creative process, it's not such a difficult thing to believe in a God. But I'm not involved in any religions, and I've never intended to make religious records or records that preach some kind of point of view.

Nick Cave

#14. Could I pick some flowers for Miranda?' I asked.
'You cannot take these flowers,' said Zoran. 'They belong to the government.

Doug MacLeod

#15. The wrongful arrest of tens of thousands of British Muslims after the September 11 attacks can be explained by the very poor intelligence the police had, and, just possibly, excused by the fact that a terrorist action in Britain linked to British Muslims would have been hugely damaging.

Geoff Mulgan

#16. Intelligence is the effort to do the best you can at your particular job; the quality that gives dignity to that job, whether it happens to be scrubbing a floor or running a corporation.

James Cash Penney

#17. As always, with acting, you can't be too self-conscious. You shouldn't care about what people are thinking about you at the time because they're not caring about you, they're caring about the character.

Freddie Highmore

#18. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.

John Parker

#19. Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can't be with her, the least I can do is act like her sometimes.

Veronica Roth

#20. I've been going through a lot of ... stuff. I need some space, which people were very kind enough to give me, and I feel really gracious about that. Nobody forces me to do things or say things or do interviews.

Bradford Cox