Hoovering's Quotes

#1. I absolutely hate mowing the lawn. When I hear the mowers starting, I want to kill myself: it's the sound of death approaching. Hoovering's OK, but I never in my life wanted to have a lawn and certainly never wanted to mow one.

Peter Capaldi

#2. What you need is a good Hoovering.

J. Edgar Hoover

#3. You cannot 'rationalize' what is not rational to begin with - as if lying were called 'truthization.' There is no way to obtain more truth for a proposition by bribery, flattery, or the most passionate argument - you can make more people believe the proposition, but you cannot make it more true.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#4. So, what do they pay you for ... exactly?"
Slapped around. Tied up. Beaten. Given orders, made to do things."
"What kind of things?"
"You know."
No, I can't even begin to imagine."
"Lick my boots, crawl on floor, eat like dog."
"Nothing useful, then, like hoovering?

Kate Atkinson

#5. I love washing, hoovering, ironing, you name it. I find it very therapeutic.

Keeley Hawes

#6. I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong.

Damian Loeb

#7. While I was in Shock Trauma unit, Mom and Dad talked to my nurse, Mike, who told them they could stay at the Ronal McDonald House, which is only one block from the hospital

Amy Rankin

#8. What is happening in Detroit is not good so I don't even want to be a part of that, but there is something on the other side that I may want to be a part of so I don't know yet.

Kwame Kilpatrick

#9. These leaders are like the drug lords who ruled America's ghettos in the crack age, men (and some women) interested in just two things: staying in power, and hoovering up enough of what's left of the cash on their blocks to drive around in an Escalade or a 633i for however long they have left.

Matt Taibbi

#10. Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.

Mason Cooley

#11. Dress for the job you want aka always dress like the Ultimate Warrior

Brian Murphy

#12. The restriction of religion to private life therefore does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion, if there is one, and it protects minority religions from tyranny of the majority.

Phillip E. Johnson

#13. No, she is right up there with the best I've worked with. I was very impressed with her, I really was.

Albert Finney

#14. America, the land of the free, is turning itself into the land of the free ride. [U.S. airlines] are operating in protected markets. They are hoovering up public funds and they still can't make a profit.

Rod Eddington

#15. Even if they had it in the streets, I wouldn't go.

Samuel Goldwyn

#16. It's so important to me to do the washing, do the Hoovering. I don't ever want to lose contact with that.

Kate Bush

#17. I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.

Norton Juster

#18. Some of these guys wear beards to make them look intimidating, but they don't look so tough when they have to deliver the ball. Their abilities and their attitudes don't back up their beards.

Don Drysdale

#19. You had to give credit to anyone who managed to excel at their chosen pastime, be it golf, hang-gliding or hoovering up cocaine with the speed and efficacy of a Dyson Turbo.

Jamie Holoran

#20. Books seem the most potent source: each one is the sum total of a life that can be inhaled in a single day. I read fast, so I'm hoovering up lives at a ferocious pace, six or seven or eight in a week. I particularly love autobiographies: I can eat a whole person by sundown.

Caitlin Moran