Top 56 Ironing's Quotes
#1. Ironing's nice and simple,' he said. 'I get all tangled up in words when I'm putting together those interminable papers ...
Angela Carter
#2. Radio, sewing machine, bookends, ironing board and that great big piano lamp - peace, that's what I like. Butterbean vines planted all along the front where the strings are.
Eudora Welty
#4. You have no spirit of culinary adventure. You need to be more like that snarky guy on the Travel Channel. He goes all over the world eating kangaroo a**holes and snail throw-up. He'd eat anything. He don't care how sick he gets. He's another one of my role models, except he needs ironing.
Janet Evanovich
#5. I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#6. My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
Erma Bombeck
#7. I feel like I've been ironing all day in high heels and no brassiere. ~Tizzy Donovan, Laid Out and Candle Lit
Ann Everett
#8. Recently started flat ironing my ball hair. Come on ladies, you know how it is; if you have curly hair you just want straight hair.
Daniel Tosh
#9. Sophia Loren is the embodiment of what a woman should be
the epitome of femaleness. Most of the young people today are just ironing boards.
Rona Barrett
#10. A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn't want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.
Alfred Hitchcock
#11. I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon.
Ida B. Wells
#12. But first I had to get through the ironing. It took a lot of patience. I had none. It took forever, and then I had to press the whole shirt again to get out the creases I'd pressed into it.
Jennifer Echols
#13. I find vacuuming very therapeutic, but I hate ironing. I usually have no shirt on while ironing, because I'm ironing it, and I end up burning my chest.
Warwick Davis
#14. I am grateful for the lessons I learned from my parents' sacrifices. They often had trouble making ends meet, so we moved for them to find work. I remember my mom would sometimes take on second jobs, like ironing, just so we could buy groceries.
Rick Scott
#15. When something needs to be ironed I put it in the ironing basket. If a year goes by and the item is still in the basket I throw the item away. This is a good system since eventually I end up only with clothes that don't need ironing.
Janet Evanovich
#16. I pressed and I prayed. It was only right that pressing went with prayer. That and being sorry. Every wrinkle was a patch of sorry to be smoothed and flattened.
Rita Williams-Garcia
#17. Roses are red, Violettes are bllue,
Valentines day is consumerous crap,now don't you have ironing to do
Unlikely thing to read in a valentines day card
Mock Of The Week The Show
#18. You guys look like you shipped back here in a crate," Quirk said.
"Clothes are fresh from the dryer," I said. "Just need a little ironing."
"So does your life," Belson said.
Robert B. Parker
#19. When people, women included, hear that you are writing, they assume that it is simply a hobby to fill in the time between doing the washing-up and the ironing. It couldn't possibly be a profession.
Rachel Billington
#20. What's beautiful, grey and wears glass slippers? Cinderelephant. Why are elephants wrinkled? They don't fit on the ironing board. How do you get down from an elephant? You don't. You get down from a goose. Why do elephants have trunks? Because they'd look funny with a glove compartments
Jodi Picoult
#21. Further and further we go, and the sun keeps ironing us and ironing us and ironing us.
NoViolet Bulawayo
#22. I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.
Vince Cable
#23. To be true to an idea, you have to value expression over perfection, vitality over finish, movement over the static, and form over function. Put your personality before practicality and your individuality into everything. Ironing out impracticalities irons out what is unique.
Rod Judkins
#24. One Direction have to do their own ironing you don't see Take That doing their own ironing!
Liam Payne
#25. I love washing, hoovering, ironing, you name it. I find it very therapeutic.
Keeley Hawes
#26. Andre had never mastered the art of ironing. He usually ironed more wrinkles in than out. Pistols, knives, and explosives he could handle, but put a hot iron in his hands and chances were that he'd get hurt.
Toby Joyce
#27. The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.
Phyllis Diller
#28. Time passes and the pain begins to roll in and out as though it's a woman standing at an ironing board, passing the iron back and forth, back and forth across a white tablecloth.
Audrey Niffenegger
#29. What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it's going to go up in price and their own power bills when they switch the iron on are going to go up.
Tony Abbott
#30. Hair is an issue for most women, and after washing, blow-drying, flat-ironing, curling, braiding, twisting and spending the time and money on it, who wants to mess it up by sweating and having to do it all over again?
Nicole Ari Parker
#31. The brilliant thing about swimming is that, while you're doing it, there's nothing else you could be getting on with, like the ironing or sorting out the children. My mind goes into free-float mode; some of the best ideas for plots come into my head while I'm ploughing up and down the pool.
Sophie Hannah
#32. Speaking of birthday suits, I think Mae Young's needs ironing!
Jerry Lawler
#33. In Sardinia one summer my best friend Marisa Berenson and I ironed each other's hair. We used a hot laundry iron and took turns putting our hair on the ironing board, literally ironing it. That's a recipe for straightening that may be highly successful, but is definitely not recommended.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#34. I was inspecting eyeglass lenses for a while. And I worked as a concession girl in a movie theater. And I was ironing before that. I always had some kind of a job. And then I started modeling.
Rene Russo
#35. Nothing should be perfect. I think that's the most important thing. I do wear my jackets almost exaggeratedly short. So that's probably the most mussed up. Along with, you know, not ironing my shirt.
Thom Browne
#36. I don't mind ironing at all. There's a special satisfaction in making wrinkled things smooth.
Haruki Murakami
#37. Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out.
Paul Thomas Anderson
#38. A Polish man had a bandage on each ear. What happened? "I was ironing, and the phone rang!" "What about the other ear?" "Had to call the doctor!"
Henny Youngman
#39. Every day, hands are creating the world"
-from "In Praise of Ironing
Pablo Neruda
#41. Ironing was an act of annihilation in which wrinkles would die and give way to order: something she required more than anything.
Laura Esquivel
#42. I don't care what he thinks. Only what you think." He holds me tighter. "Like if you think I need to stop biting my nails."
"You've worn your pinkies to nubs," I say cheerfully.
"Or if I need to start ironing my bed spread."
"I DO NOT IRON MY BED SPREAD."
"You do. And I love it.
Stephanie Perkins
#43. My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My mother took in ironing and she was a waitress. My father was working in the factory and he did people's tax returns.
Patti Smith
#44. A kitchen without an ironing board? Are you kidding? It's un-American. It's like Simon without Garfunkel.
Erma Bombeck
#45. I still can't set up the ironing-board. A complete Luddite.
Jenny Eclair
#47. My golf swing is a bit like ironing a shirt. You get one side smoothed out, turn it over and there is a big wrinkle on the other side. Then you iron that one out, turn it over and there is yet another wrinkle.
Tom Watson
#48. Ironing is a great diversion from the reality you don't want to face.
Melissa McBride
#49. I find it soothing to take something wrinkled and make it smooth. It feels anticipatory. It's what I do before a celebration. And nobody bothers me when I'm ironing.
Alexandra Stoddard
#50. I try to take care of my hair because it sort of has to withstand a lot of blowdrying and ironing.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#51. Ironing is comfort. It's control. I'm a nutty person who likes to make sure everything is in its place.
Sandra Bullock
#52. For men obsessed with women's underwear, a course in washing, ironing and mending is recommended.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#53. You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.
Meryl Streep
#54. Arab League summits often served as forums for letting off steam or ironing out differences. At times the way this took place was the stuff of caricature.
Yevgeny Primakov
#55. Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things. Funny ironing board covers - I hate them.
Daniel Radcliffe
#56. You made the paper again," Grandma said. "And the phone's been ringing off the hook. Your mother's in the kitchen, ironing."
My mother always irons during times of disaster. Some people drink, some take drugs. My mother irons.
Janet Evanovich
