Top 100 Quotes About Laundry
#1. Even if you start your laundry before 8 AM on Saturday, you will not finish folding it until after midnight on Sunday.
Karl Lehenbauer
#2. Another round," she goads, and holds out a hand for the cards. "I bet a week of laundry."
Across from us, Cal stops his preparatory stretching to snort. "You think Mare does laundry?"
"Do you, Your Highness?" I snap back, grinning. He just pretends not to hear me.
Victoria Aveyard
#3. My father was a restaurant man, laundry man in his lifetime. And I've often wondered how and why did I become an actor? Where did I get the so-called talent to express myself? And I look back, and I see that my mother was very animated. I can remember that she used to, what she called 'bei zhu.'
James Hong
#4. An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt.
Fred Allen
#5. I suppose you could be a member of a terrorist organization in a non-violent way, in the laundry or the catering department.
Bill Bailey
#6. Maddie breathed in deep, inhaling the scent of breakfast and dish soap, clean laundry and wood floors, sunshine and a room filled with love. It smelled like home.
Crissi Langwell
#7. Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down. Our daily tasks, whether we perceive them as drudgery or essential, life-supporting work, do not define who we are as women or as human beings.
Kathleen Norris
#8. Sometimes it seems as if writing a group of songs is like getting groceries, or doing the laundry - banal things I do more or less on a day-to-day basis. We deal with the issues involved in our mundane activities as they come up,
David Byrne
#9. I was raising seven kids. I lived in the bedrooms, in the laundry room, in the kitchen, in the car - car pooling all over. I just didn't have time to sit down and watch a lot of TV. So I really didn't.
Karolyn Grimes
#10. Night soil oozed onto my cloak, and I wondered why all my adventures involved foul odour. Why could I not for once frolic in a meadow of flowers, or escape in a hamper of fresh laundry? No, I must endure night soil and prison cells and unwashed soldiers ...
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
#11. Folding the laundry, completing another project at work, or watching television for the next hour doesn't build your writing muscles. It only leaves them flabby.
Rob Bignell, Editor
#12. Marriage is more about work than about divine luck, more about finding someone to love than about finding someone to meet your own laundry list of personal needs.
Mark Gungor
#13. The problem with State of the Union speeches is that they are, by their nature and design, alphabet soup. It's hard to know what a president really cares about when they run down a laundry list and check every issue box under the sun for fear they will offend some constituency if they don't.
Mark McKinnon
#14. I have a couple of guys to do my laundry. Just because I'm lazy and rich.
Kid Rock
#15. You, too," she answered. She counted out all eighteen steps as he headed back up to the basement. To be safe, she even listened for his footsteps across the floor and down the hall to the laundry room. She knew he was more annoying than dangerous, but sometimes he managed to blur the line.
Peter Clines
#16. I mean, it's a bit of a double-edged sword being a celebrity and being an actor as I'm sure you know. Your public laundry is constantly aired out and I thought that maybe I could do some good.
Daniel Baldwin
#17. What to one person is common courtesy is to another tender words of life - and by the same token, what one person intends to show as great affection may be to his beloved an irrelevant show of frivolousness compared to the kindness of simply doing the laundry sometimes.
Anna Broadway
#18. I think those little laundry detergent capsules are an amazing thing to have.
Josh Brolin
#19. The laundry has its hands on my dirty shirts, sheets, towels and tablecloths, and who knows what tales they tell.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#20. An actress once advised me, 'Make sure you do your own laundry - it will keep you honest.'
Cate Blanchett
#21. Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem. Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash.
Jerry Seinfeld
#22. My life has been in shambles, like my personal relationships, my laundry, paying bills now I have someone who pays my bills and it's always been a challenge because it overwhelms me.
Adam Rapp
#23. The cultural work done in the past by gods and epic sagas is now done by laundry-detergent commercials and comic-strip character
Roland Barthes
#24. Maybe a good rule in life is never become too important to do your own laundry.
Barry Sanders
#25. I don't even have children, it's just been an excuse to play jenga and hit softballs in my backyard with a box of laundry detergant wearing baby clothes.
Thom Yorke
#26. Dear wife, I'm sorry that I am mysteriously incapable of folding clean laundry, but I iron, oh, I iron. Sweetheart, I'll make your white shirt so crisp and sharp that it will split atoms as you walk.
Sherman Alexie
#27. Hanging laundry on a line is a very ordinary task. It is as ordinary as scraped knees and lost keys, as fixing the same simple dish for supper again, and again. Ordinary is most days, and Lord helps is if we overlook them.
Jerusalem Jackson Greer
#29. The days are long, the years are short, but the laundry is forever.
Anonymous
#30. My solo album is different from the Black Eyed Peas albums because I'm a singer first and foremost. There are more ballads and more intimacy between me and the listener because sometimes when you're in a group you don't have space to air out your dirty laundry.
Fergie
#31. We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry.
Umberto Eco
#32. I pulled a dirty black sweatshirt from the laundry basket on my son's floor and tried to drink in his scent, to savor the essence of my sweet boy. I inhaled it long and hard, wanting to permanently implant all of him in my brain, to make him last forever.
Shelley Ramsey
#33. Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get his laundry done.
Burt Reynolds
#34. What are you doing here?" "Obviously I'm doing laundry, Harriet." I raise my eyebrow. He looks completely at ease with this terrible excuse, which - considering the fact that he has no laundry with him - is a little worrying.
Holly Smale
#35. There are tiny choices that everyone can make that profoundly affect our collective water use. Like not having the tap on while brushing your teeth, not starting your shower ten minutes in advance, not doing laundry until you have a full load. In this particular issue, education really is power.
Kristen Bell
#36. Forgiveness lives alone and far off down the road, but bitterness and art are close, gossipy neighbors, sharing the same clothesline, hanging out their things, getting their laundry confused.
Lorrie Moore
#37. If I don't do laundry today, I'm gonna have to buy new clothes tomorrow.
Anna Paquin
#38. Knowing Myrnin, there could be anything inside, from a body he'd forgotten about to his dirty laundry.
Rachel Caine
#39. Bosun!" "Aye, skipper?" "Reinforce the mainmast, hang out all the laundry, and warn the witchmen! Let's make the old bitch fly!
Jim Butcher
#40. There's a laundry list of reasons why not to borrow from your 401(k). While the money is on loan, it's not working for you - and if you leave your job, you'll have to pay it back in 60 days or treat it as a taxable withdrawal.
Jean Chatzky
#41. If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in leaves, dancing to pop music, throwing socks in a laundry basket - they could be sowing the seeds of great habits that could last a lifetime. It is all about turning it into a game.
Magnus Scheving
#42. Man, who did you piss off today? Laundry and kitchen? Just take the damn drugs next time, Blanky, you might live longer.
Ashley Newell
#43. Live your life. Do the dishes. Do the laundry. Take your kids to kindergarten. Raise your children and your grandchildren. Take care of the community in which you live. Make all of that your path, and follow your path with heart.
Dipa Ma
#44. I'd sleep in a little, work out, do laundry, run errands, buy presents for people with birthdays coming up. I like it when I don't have to be anywhere, and anything I do is my choice.
Carrie Underwood
#45. Spiders evidently as surprised by the weather as the rest of us: their webs were still everywhere - little silken laundry lines with perfect snowflakes hung out in rows to dry.
Leslie Land
#46. Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.
Charlotte Bunch
#47. Now I'm in real trouble. First my laundry called and said they lost my shirt and then my broker said the same thing.
Leopold Fechtner
#48. I got famous in my 30s. I already had a real life and kids and responsibilities, like laundry and cleaning bathrooms. It's hard not be grounded when you have that. I think, if you get super-famous and everyone tells you you're wonderful when you're 12, it's probably a lot harder.
Stephenie Meyer
#50. We try to be conscious of the amount of trash we have. Having a water filter allows us to be aware of not using too many water bottles. Since I am not able to hand wash due to my schedule, I use Seventh Generation laundry detergent, and I feel less guilty.
Tia Mowry
#51. We could smell each other's shampoo and the laundry detergents we had chosen and I smelled that she didn't smoke but someone she loved did[...]
Miranda July
#52. I bet I could've done a week's worth of laundry on his stomach. Probably would be a heck of a lot more fun way to wash clothes.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#53. In retrospect, it was easy to want to sleep with someone whose laundry I did not have to fold.
Marcia DeSanctis
#54. How do I speak Spanish? Not too well. Paz taught me a few words that, if people weren't nice to me, I could tell them a few things. I got to study with [chef] Thomas Keller, who we all love as a guy and Jim had a relationship with him at [his restaurant] the French Laundry.
Adam Sandler
#55. We're well aware of how intelligent our audience is. We're well aware that Fringe is a show that you really need to lean forward into and pay attention to and think about. It's not designed to be a show that you can watch while you're folding laundry.
Jeff Pinkner
#56. I'm kind of ashamed to be a celebrity. I don't understand wanting to read about other people's dirty laundry. I think celebrity is the biggest red herring society has ever pulled on itself.
Jude Law
#57. After the Cardinals traded their No. 6 pick, I didn't know where I was going, ... The first thing I thought about was me and Ray Lewis doing that commercial, and how he made me do his laundry. And now it's actually going to be a reality.
Terrell Suggs
#58. I was talking to a homeless man at the laundry mat recently, and he said that when we reduce Christian spirituality to math we defile the Holy. I thought that was very beautiful and comforting because I have never been good at math.
Donald Miller
#59. This. I live in this place, make porridge, scrub toilets, do laundry, and for days, weeks, I am brave and I do get out of bed and I think on this. I study this, the full life, the being fully ready for the end. I start to think that maybe there is a way out of nightmares to dreams? Maybe?
Ann Voskamp
#60. The same tired people who dragged bags and baskets full of their dirty laundry out in public when they had a rare spare moment. It was a certain breed of people that used Laundromats and Ren had it down to such a fine science she could have probably recognized them on the street.
Amity Lassiter
#61. Given that you're meeting a sloth, that feeling is generally joy, excitement, warmth, and love. What do those feelings smell like, you ask? Like laundry, watermelon rind, the top of a baby's head, boiling water, and fresh cut grass all mixed together.
Ann Burton
#62. Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color." - - Unknown
"Racism rests upon and functions as a kind of seesaw: the persecutor rises by debasing and inferiorizing his victim.
Albert Memmi
#63. Humanity is the washerwoman of society that wrings out its dirty laundry in tears.
Karl Kraus
#64. If we practice stopping while attending to e-mails, surfing the Web, attending meetings or appointments, folding the laundry, washing the dishes, or taking a shower, we are living deeply.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#65. The facts of life are simple and trivial. Only our imagination gives life to them. It makes the laundry pole of facts a flagstaff of dreams.
Erich Maria Remarque
#66. The reality is that we do not wash our own laundry - it just gets dirtier.
Frank Serpico
#67. There are lots of animals in the house.
There's an elephant in the hall,
a seal in the bathtub,
a crane in the laundry,
a tiger on the stairs,
and a polar bear by the fridge.
Does this have anything to do with you?
John Burningham
#68. Apparel, n.: There are times I don't mind doing the laundry, because folding your clothes reminds me of the shape of you.
David Levithan
#69. I do my laundry on a weekly basis.
Kesha
#70. You don't realize how hard it is to live on your own. But there's no mom to do your laundry, and make you dinner and to do things for you, and you don't think about little things like buying paper towels and salt.
Emma Roberts
#71. We don't treat Jesus like a puppy, soaking in his excitement over our coming home and then leading him back to stay in the laundry room when we go out to begin another day.
Holly Sprink
#73. I just told you to be quiet. That's one step away from asking you to wash my laundry and make me a sandwich.
Richelle Mead
#74. Then, as if by magic, everything changed. Of course, it wasn't magic, was it? It was just Teza, talking. It was just a visit to a laundry.
Karen Connelly
#75. The secret to finding your passion is to bring it to everything you do.
Marie Forleo (Yes, even doing the laundry!)
Marie Forleo
#77. Reading an endless litany of study after study-one article found this, and another experiment found this, and another study found this-is like watching laundry spinning in a dryer, except that something good eventually comes out of a dryer!
Paul J. Silvia
#78. Have you noticed that if you leave the laundry in the hamper long enough, it's ready to wear again?
Elayne Boosler
#79. He had thought on the train of sending his head to a laundry, it was true, but he had been drawn not so much to the idea of the laundered head as to that of the sleeping body. A very pleasant sleep, with head detached.
Yasunari Kawabata
#80. Oh, let there be nothing on earth but laundry,
Nothing but rosy hands in the rising steam
And clear dances done in the sight of heaven.
Richard Wilbur
#81. The Laundry field operations manual is notably short on advice for how to comport one's self when being held prisoner aboard a mad billionaire necromancer's yacht, other than the usual stern admonition to keep receipts for all expenses incurred in the line of duty.
Charles Stross
#82. The stock market resembles a huge laundry in which institutions take in large blocks of each others washing ... without rhyme or reason.
Benjamin Graham
#83. I like to do things for my wife on Valentine's Day. I open the door for her when she puts laundry in the washing machine.
Milton Berle
#85. Can I ask you a question?" "I'd be disappointed if you didn't." "How many of those suits do you have? Do you like, send them to the laundry, or throw them out and put on a new one when it gets all gamey?" - Bobby talking to Saint Dane, RR
D.J. MacHale
#86. She glanced over her shoulder to look at the forty-foot cabin cruiser where Captain Tarwater posed on the bow looking like an advertisement for a particularly rigid laundry detergent - Bumstick Go-Be-Bright, perhaps
Christopher Moore
#87. People ask me what I do in my spare time, and I look at them blankly, truly believing that I don't even have spare time, and if I did, I'd probably use it for something mundane, like chipping away at the mound of laundry rising to dangerous proportions in the back room.
Kim Harrison
#88. Six-pack? Was it possible to have an eight-pack?
I think he had one. Smooth skin stretched over tightly rolled muscles. I bet I could've done a week's worth of laundry on his stomach.
Probably would be a heck of a lot more fun that way to wash clothes.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#89. I've always had this American-pie face that would get work in commercials ... I'd say things like, 'Hi, Marge, how's your laundry?' and 'Hi, I'm a real nice Georgia peach.' Sometimes this work is one step above being a cocktail waitress.
Teri Garr
#90. I think it was one of the better meetings that I've had with those guys, because I was honestly able to say everything I wanted to say, and I pretty much aired out the dirty laundry. So from that point on, I thought all of that was behind us.
Latrell Sprewell
#91. I'm a dude, obviously, and when I'm not in a relationship, I don't do laundry until I want to. But if I live with a girl, you have to do it when she wants to or when we want to, which sucks.
Chris D'Elia
#92. I stop the spinning thoughts, the probing questions, the hands sorting, the laundry work, because God needs knees more than hands.
Ann Voskamp
#93. The fog that slowly tumbled like great masses of dripping white laundry gradually gave way to sheer curtains and then to isolated tattered scraps.
Dean Koontz
#94. I decide to put love in everything I do from this day forward. With every fold of laundry, every push of the grocery cart, every stir of a pot, and every word spoken, I will emanate love.
Karen Todd Scarpulla
#95. When I was 11 years old, my family had to leave East Germany and begin a new life in West Germany overnight. Until my father could get back into his original profession as a government employee, my parents operated a small laundry business in our little town. I became the laundry delivery boy.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#96. I made a dollar a day sweeping a laundry out. Then we made a record that was number two in Los Angeles. We got so excited hearing it on the radio that Carl threw up.
Dennis Wilson
#97. There is profundity to explore, but also laundry to do.
Bruce Feiler
#98. Whether it's destiny or fate or whatever, I don't think I could do a French Laundry anywhere else.
Thomas Keller
#99. My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets.
Patti Smith
#100. The results of family disintegration are seen all around us. Runaways. Child abuse. Abortions. It is dirty laundry - once hung in the nation's backyard, but now hung shamelessly in front yards - flaunted in headlines and glamorized on television and in films.
Billy Graham
