Quotes About Clean House

#1. I smelled the clean house
and the wood-frame bed. It was all filler. The noise, the sound, they existed
just to take up space. My muscles flexed into the emptiness I still called home.

Kevin Powers

#2. It was his habit, when he rewrote anything, to shed himself of all earlier versions. He kept a clean house.

Barbara Kingsolver

#3. I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'

Ann Richards

#4. When a new president comes in, a new president gets to clean house.

Hillary Clinton

#5. We dream of having a clean house - but who dreams of actually doing the cleaning? We don't have to dream about doing the work, because doing the work is always within our grasp; the dream, in this sense, is to attain the goal without the work.

Marcus Buckingham

#6. People have been living in my head rent-free, and I'm just now beginning to realize I'm actually the fucking landlord. Time to clean house.

Theo Fleury

#7. Because I'm always away, coming home to a clean house means a lot to me. Trust me, I've lived with a lot of roommates, and straight guys are just kids who don't pick up after themselves.

Kellan Lutz

#8. My favorite six words in recovery are: trust God, clean house, and help others.

Matthew Perry

#9. Phase two of Operation Fish and CHIPs (Clean House of the Idiot Piranhas)

Brenda Pandos

#10. I am allergic to domestic goddesses. Men would prefer a woman with a dirty mind to a clean house.

Kathy Lette

#11. I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.

James Thurber

#12. Paige? Why does the house smell like a swimming pool?" Laura yells from the kitchen. "I opened the windows. It shouldn't be too bad," I call back. She pokes her head in. "It's pretty bad." "But it's clean! Isn't it a lovely feeling to have a clean house?

Bria Starr

#13. when there doesn't seem to be enough time for all you hope to accomplish, must you give things up (sleep, income, a clean house), or can you learn to condense activities, to do more in less time, to "work smarter, not harder,

Mason Currey

#14. More important than a clean house is a close family.

Ann Voskamp

#15. A clean house is a sad house.

Marty Rubin

#16. Come on," he said in a bored voice to the shadow. "We have to clean house first.

J.R. Ward

#17. Everything's going to be fine. She'll be back at work soon. Let's just keep the house clean. Oh yeah, I want to say, because a clean house will result in peace in the Middle East as well.

Melina Marchetta

#18. The poet is at the disposal of the night. His role is humble, he must clean house and await its due visitation.

Jean Cocteau

#19. First things first: A clean house simply looks better than a messy house. A room where everything has its place is nicer than a room filled with chaotic stacks and clutter. If you want your house to look nicer and have a better ambiance, the first and simplest thing you can do is to clean.

Katie Sawyer

#20. I clean out my house weekly. I just keep a lot of silly little things that are meaningful to me.

Cassie Scerbo

#21. That's why he'd bought her. He'd already imagined the children she'd bear and the cotton she'd pick and the house she'd clean every day of her life.

Daniel Black

#22. Mrs Downs, a large sad lady who described herself, to Rupert's delight, as bulky but fragile, now came four mornings a week to clean the house. She was one of those people who habitually looked on the black side of everything with a cheerfulness that bordered upon the macabre.

Elizabeth Jane Howard

#23. We deeply regret that some Senators are still willing to do Big Oil?s bidding, and we now turn to the House where the Arctic drilling scheme should be dead on arrival. Americans are clamoring for a clean Congress and a clean energy plan, but sadly they were shortchanged on both today.

Carl Pope

#24. They said it was to be a revolutionary house, free of class struggle, no servants' rooms because they didn't believe in laundry maids or cooks.
Nobody does, really. Why should they? Only in having clean clothes, clean floors, and enchiladas tapatias.

Barbara Kingsolver

#25. The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man said, "Am I your debtor?" And the Lord
"Not yet: but make it as clean as you can, And then I will let you a better.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#26. House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year?

Bill Pascrell

#27. I didn't respond to him. Couldn't speak at all. Couldn't look at his self-mutilation
not even the clean, bandaged version of it. Instead, I looked at my own rough, stained house painter's hand. They seemed more like puppets than hands. I had no feelings in it either.

Wally Lamb

#28. If I were Osama , and the United States government were actually looking for me, I'd be clean-shaven by now, crewcutted, wearing jeans and a ZZ Top T-shirt, and living in a nice little house in Lincoln, Nebraska.

L. Neil Smith

#29. You know, you got to get the devil out the house 'fore you can clean it up!

Ron Hall

#30. There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point.
What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house.
That says enough.

Mother Teresa

#31. It is the house of my dreams. My Tuscan dream! [Every Italophile's dream]

Kate Fitzroy

#32. Slash sat me down at his house and said, You've got to clean up your act. You know you've gone too far when Slash is saying, Look, you've got to get into rehab.

Charlie Sheen

#33. It is often said that the Japanese are extremely clean at home, or inside any house or office, but dirty and untidy outside. 'Go and look at a railway station,' I was told, 'and you'll be horrified.' I went and was horrified; horrified by the cleanliness of the place.

George Mikes

#34. We've got DNA tests; we can convict someone by his saliva. Hell, if the killer had farted in that house the forensic team would probably have some gadget that could pick it up. How can the crime scenes be so clean?

Chris Carter

#35. I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that.

Vanessa Paradis

#36. I have someone else clean my house so that it will actually get cleaned, and I let kids in my house survive on Peeps and 'SpongeBob.'

Julia London

#37. I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don't work. When you clean your house, you don't get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

Narendra Modi

#38. I asked him if he'd come to clean the windows and he said no he'd come to demolish the house. He didn't tell me straight away of course. Oh no. First he wiped a couple of windows and charged me a fiver. Then he told me.

Douglas Adams

#39. I love Prada shirts because they're so decorative and figure-hugging, but I also like Reiss shirts because they're clean, simple and look as if they've come off the peg from a design house.

Jamie Bamber

#40. I have a lot of glass in my house, and I remember saying as a joke once that I clean my stuff with Windex while my friends are over, but then I found myself actually doing that the other day. It's horrible.

Courteney Cox

#41. Right now I just want to chill for a while. Take a hiatus from all the craziness. To clean my house, see my family. Just see some movies and pick some strawberries.

Lauren Ambrose

#42. Sometimes it's nice to have a man around the house. But a dog will clean the dishes.

Lois Greiman

#43. Your neighbors will make judgments about you based on how your lawn and house look, and people who see you passing will judge you based on how clean you keep your car. It's not always fair, but it has always been true. Appearances matter, so make yours a good one.

Lou Holtz

#44. They went into his kitchen, which was in the state his house always was - basically clean but cluttered with books, unopened mail, and grocery bags,

Noelle Adams

#45. When I'm not working, I dress like a surfer. I look like I'm going to come into your house and clean your pool.

Alec Baldwin

#46. The charity work is just a part of what I do. Like ... I make time to clean my house, to care for my pets, to visit my extended family, because those things are important to me. Same with helping others.

Lori Foster

#47. Come clean with a child heart
Laugh as peaches in the summer wind
Let rain on a house roof be a song
Let the writing on your face
be a smell of apple orchards on late June.

Carl Sandburg

#48. You may not know it but the keeping of a large house by one girl is the hardest work going on earth. I heard there's fire in hell but I'll bet the Devil just hands you a bucket and tells you to get moving, this place ain't gonna clean itself.

Catherynne M Valente

#49. Like interviewing a new cleaner. Do you want someone who can give you the history of cleaning and the theory of cleaning, or do you want someone who'll just get down and clean your fucking house? They chose you because they think you'll clean their fucking house.

Robert Harris

#50. Republicans are for clean water, clean air, and clean energy. We are not for taxing people out of their house, home and business to pay for it. And that is the fundamental difference between the Democrats and Republicans on this issue.

Marsha Blackburn

#51. I don't work. I keep telling people I'm unemployed. And I don't wash dishes, and I don't wash clothes, and I don't clean my house. Somebody else does that.

Toni Morrison

#52. The house seemed almost without smells at all, pleasant or foul, leaving me to wonder if the upper class existed on a different sort of air from the rest of the world, a breeze piped into their homes from above the clouds, so clean you had to pay for it.

Ami McKay

#53. I clean my house, although I have help. I'm on the floor getting spots. I can't stand a dirty house. I'm a cleaning fanatic.

Patti LaBelle

#54. Keep your own house and its surroundings pure and clean. This hygiene will keep you healthy and benefit your worldly life.

Sathya Sai Baba

#55. Not that anyone cares, but there's a right and wrong way to clean a house.

Joan Crawford

#56. The number of hours women devote to housework has not changed since 1930, despite all the advances. All the vacuum cleaners, washer-dryers, trash compactors, garbage disposals, wash-and-wear fabrics ... Why does it still take as long to clean the house as it did in 1930?

Michael Crichton

#57. I love hiking in the hills not far from my house. I'm invested in my hikes. Sometimes kids go up there and spray-paint over the signs; I've found a biodegradable paint cleaner, and I'll scrub the signs so they're nice and clean.

Nathan Fillion

#58. When you have cat stealers over for tea, you clean the house, buy bagels and cream cheese, and try to figure out how to trap your guests in a lie.

Caroline Paul

#59. At a time when our planet is warming due to climate change, the last thing our environment needs is more drilling. What we need is for Congress and the White House to move toward clean energy such as solar, wind and geothermal.

Bernie Sanders

#60. Cost to clean deeply soiled rugs: $200.
Cost to replace shiny, black, stack-heeled, pilgrim-toed boots: $185.
Cost to fix every single delicious table and chair leg in the house: $490.
Life with two shelter dogs: fucking priceless.

Jen Lancaster

#61. Our house contains all that's high-end and high-tech and shiny clean. And three people who would rather be somewhere else.

Huntley Fitzpatrick

#62. My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started giving interviews.

Alan King

#63. I can clean my own house. Now, maybe a couple of times a year we have a cleaning crew come in before we have a party, but otherwise, I'm able to maintain it myself.

Jen Lancaster

#64. I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping.

Patricia Heaton

#65. I did research when I was pregnant with my first daughter and was horrified by the chemicals in products, even those meant for babies. I would have to go to 50 different places just to get my house and my kid clean.

Jessica Alba

#66. To keep it simple you run your gym like you run your house. Keep it clean and in good running order. No jerks allowed, members pay on time and if they give you any crap, throw them out. There's peace where there's order.

Joe Gold

#67. For a while I had somebody that came to clean my house that turned out to be in a band that I really loved.

Carrie Brownstein

#68. Without a doubt, first thing we should do is clean up our fiscal house, and that starts with balancing our budgets and digging out of this red ink. We cannot expect to continue in this fashion and remain the leader of the free world.

Marcy Kaptur

#69. I'm not a clean freak. My house is a mess.

Kate Walsh

#70. It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else's sexuality. It's like telling someone else how to clean their house.

River Phoenix

#71. With three boys in the house, my mother was always on us when growing up about keeping our faces clean, washing behind our ears, and brushing our teeth. So I still take my morning routine seriously.

Cam Newton

#72. God can't clean the house of you when you're still in it.

Anne Lamott

#73. I'm sure nobody wants to know this, but my husband does all the cleaning - rather too much cleaning. It is too clean, the house!

Harriet Harman

#74. Water, we go to you dirty and rise from you clean.

P.C. Cast

#75. When you ask for the house, car, cat, dog and all the fish when you're dealing with a player who's got questions about his health, no GM in his right mind is going to say yes and offer to clean the aquarium, too.

Eric Lindros

#76. My house is very clean apart from a very small part of it that looks as if we've been burgled, which is my office.

David Morrissey

#77. I live the most boring life, away from what you see me on camera doing. The other 300 days out of the year [not touring], I'm just the most normal person in the universe. I'm a wife. I'm a mother to my doggies. I'm a maid, and I clean the house. I'm pretty boring.

Carrie Underwood

#78. On Christmas morning, before we could open our Christmas presents, we would go to this stranger's home and bring them presents. I remember helping clean the house up and putting up a tree. My father believed that you have a responsibility to look after everyone else.

George Clooney

#79. My house is really clean. It's a really big house so I have three ladies who come in and clean it twice a week, but let's just say that, in between times, maybe it's not quite so clean.

Tommy Lee

#80. Morning sun fills the house, creamy as lemon chiffon, lighting the insides of cupboards and empty closets and clean, bare floors.

Celeste Ng

#81. You buy a house and you get it checked out and you feel like you've kind of made your mark here in some way. And then an act of God just comes up the coast and has the potential to just completely wipe it clean. Weather like that is certainly humbling.

James Van Der Beek

#82. I tell her all the time I'd gladly retire and hang out with the kids and clean the house. I want to have a good life and great family, and from a professional standpoint I want to be successful, but it's not the most important thing at all.

Nick Lachey

#83. Make sure your bathroom is clean. If you're having a girl over the house for the first time, make sure your toilet is clean, not disgusting. Guys' bathrooms are always the most disgusting thing.

Carly Aquilino

#84. There was so much filth to clean up; so many broken pieces to fix; so many errors to correct. Every morning she left her house she let out a quiet sigh, as if in one breath she could will away detritus of the previous day.

--Three Daughters of Eve

Elif Shafak

#85. None of us can be in the present and the past at the same time. Not even when we
try to understand the things that happen to us. Close the door, change the record, clean the house. Stop being who you were, become who you are NOW.

Paulo Coelho

#86. The reason why women think men should spend a lot of money on an engagement ring is because women are the ones who get to clean up all the poop (stains and toilet bowl swirls included) that is provided by every family member living in the house until they die.

Heather Chapple

#87. There are so many bad influences out there. I don't care if a kid is rich or poor, if he lives in a million-dollar house or the ghetto, he is going to find some sick things on the street. And if we don't clean it up soon, we're all going to pay the price.

Warren Moon

#88. You have got to clean your own house first before you tell other people that they aren't doing it right.

Dan Webster

#89. I am black," she said, and a shudder rippled through me. "I am foul with a
thousand years of demon curses. Don't cross me or I will bring you and your house down. Rachel is the only clean thing I have, and you won't sully her to
further your high ideas.

Kim Harrison

#90. Whenever you wash dishes, cook, or clean, if you make no sound, this is smartness itself. A person who enters a house and makes a lot of noise is revealing a lack of spirituality; even cats and dogs do not make unnecessary sounds, and man as he naturally is does not make any either.

Michio Kushi

#91. While fathers are pleasant figureheads, there is a special bond between children and their mothers. 'Do you help your mother clean up the house?' I asked one girl of seven. 'No,' she sweetly replied, 'I help make the mess.' It's a dirty job but somebody's got to do it.

Bill Cosby

#92. Christian was well aware how hard it was to keep the house clean, the clothes laundered, and the meals cooked. His mom had an extremely hard job. He would argue with anyone who hinted otherwise.

Lindy Zart

#93. I love Switzerland. It's so clean and cool. We don't get much snow where I live so I get real excited in Lausanne and Geneva. I'd like to buy a house there when I'm older and settle down. It's all so cute that it looks like a movie set.

Michael Jackson

#94. I rented a place that I could have dogs - not in my house. I rented a big place. And I was able to have the SPCA every end of the week bring many, many dogs to me. They all were in nice places, clean, everything was fine. I took good care of them. And so many people called.

Doris Day

#95. I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first.

Astrid Lindgren

#96. It's your chili dog. Clean it up."
"It's your turn to clean."
"The house. Not your trash, which you can walk your leatherfaced-ass unto the kitchen to throw away.

Rachel Caine

#97. I had always been told that you shouldn't clean the litter box when you're pregnant, because of your cat. And I think that is overblown - unless you have, like, three kittens in your house that are living outside and eating raw meat, this shouldn't really be a significant source of concern.

Emily Oster

#98. I want to clean myself like the window of a house, make myself clear for things to pass through. Flat and quiet.

Elizabeth Rosner

#99. $100,000 donors buy access to Congress and the White House. We believe it's long past time to clean up Washington.

William J. Clinton

#100. Electing clean-energy leaders into the Senate, the House, and the Oval Office - and getting it done in the next few years - is the only real solution to climate stabilization at acceptable levels.

Eban Goodstein