Top 100 Quotes About Washing
#1. Matter how sharp the corner they turned or how deep the pothole they plunged into, Ghastly and Tanith remained perfectly still. Fletcher, on the other hand, was being thrown about like an old shoe in a washing machine, and he did not appreciate it.
Derek Landy
#2. He liked washing up; the simple act of cleanliness had immediately visible results.
James Runcie
#3. I lower my chin to smell the shirt again. I want to wear this forever, without washing it. His dark, spicy aroma consumes the material. I peek at him from the corner of my eye, wondering if he spots me catching a whiff or if he knows how addicting his scent is to girls.
Katie McGarry
#4. When a husband says, "I run things in my home" he may mean the washing machine, the dishwasher and the vacuum cleaner.
Sam Ewing
#5. At school I was lazy. But I started working when I was 15, washing dishes at a local truck stop restaurant. I was really, really bored with school, and I wanted to get a job as fast as I could. School was just so easy. There was just no challenge to it.
Chuck Palahniuk
#6. I've always had a great work ethic, even when I was washing dishes.
Leon Bridges
#7. There are a great many aspects to feline life, but the three most important - the Holy Trinity, if you will - are eating, sleeping and washing.
Jem Vanston
#8. 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
#9. Alone at home,
Washing dishes while thinking about her that
How beautiful it would've been if she was here.
Ahmed Ali Anjum
#10. They began with the fact of sin - a fact as practical as potatoes. Whether or no man could be washed in miraculous waters, there was no doubt at any rate that he wanted washing.
G.K. Chesterton
#11. The relentless touring and endless repetition of the same songs over and over again promoted a creeping awareness that my music had begun to sound like my washing machine.
Linda Ronstadt
#12. There can be too much washing but there can never be too many bunnies.
Anna McQuinn
#13. I've had a lot of luck. If I didn't I'd be washing bottles in Russia.
Marat Safin
#14. Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.
Ian McEwan
#15. Trying to educate the dumb with a dumb teacher is nothing but washing the dirty clothes in a dirty water!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#16. The whole dream of having your own place is great, but the reality is having to cook and clean yourself and do the washing and make sure there's milk in the fridge. But you have to grow up some time.
Michelle Ryan
#17. What was very interesting to me about Clementine Hunter's work is that she couldn't read or write, and she has recorded history of the plantation life and the southern part of the U.S. - the cotton harvests, pecan picking, washing clothes, funerals, marriages - in pictures.
Robert Wilson
#18. I linger on the flathouse roof, the moonlight is divine. But my heart is all aflutter like the washing on the line.
Nathalia Crane
#19. He [Samuel Butler] made a practise of doing the forks last when washing up, on the grounds that he might die before he got to them. This is very much his principle of 'eating the grapes downwards', so that however many grapes you have eaten the next is always the best of the remainder.
Philip Larkin
#20. It would be so easy to stop getting up. To stop washing. To stop eating. Being alone required such constant effort.
Rachel Joyce
#21. What a lot of people don't realise is that damage to hair starts from washing your hair in a rush and not taking all the product out such as leave-in conditioners. So I always make sure that I cleanse my hair properly and get the shampoo and conditioner completely out.
Genelia D'Souza
#22. Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing and scouring, and a drop of water added to a clear liquid like Absinthe, muddles it.
Alfred Jarry
#23. From the age of 11, I was cleaning floors, washing dishes, making sandwiches and being a cashier. Survival was the name of the game. Life was so hard that I had to struggle to keep up my standards. Under these conditions, I didn't think about science too much.
Ada Yonath
#24. I used to get bummed out when it rained; then I realized that it's God's way of washing off hippies.
Demetri Martin
#25. Polly had been washing up when she'd heard the men talking late one night, and it's a poor woman who can't eavesdrop while making a noise at the same time.
Terry Pratchett
#26. (When I'd asked Mrs. Barbour where the washing machine was, she'd looked at me as if I'd asked for lye and lard to boil up for soap.)
Donna Tartt
#27. - Exactly as you imagine. They remain tied to us through the feeling of bitterness. That is why Jesus said: "before going to the temple, go back and forgive your brother." One must be forever washing one's soul with the water of forgiveness.
Paulo Coelho
#28. I can't breathe," she said. "I feel like I'm drowning in a gray sea, like they're flooding the whole city, washing away our past and people, dashing everything from the face of the earth." Jammed
Diane Ackerman
#29. Under the circumstances, washing without soap wasn't even as good as kissing your sister.
Tom Clancy
#30. Writing a book is like washing an elephant. You don't know from where you should start and where you should end.
Yashvardhan Shukla
#31. I liked fetching the washing from the Moscrops', and my mother liked washing for Mrs. Moscrop better than for anyone else. That was because Mrs. Moscrop wrapped a bar of yellow soap in with the washing. There wasn't anyone else who thought of a thing like that.
Howard Spring
#32. The dreaming world, they'd think we were crazy. Those people still in bed, they'd be asleep another hour, then washing their faces, under their arms, and between their legs, before going to the same work they did every day. Living that same life, every day.
Chuck Palahniuk
#33. Somewhere, in a distant land he barely knew the name of, people had stopped buying washing machines, and so his city had died.
Cory Doctorow
#35. I had a really nice childhood; I had great parents. I earned my allowance by washing dishes, and in the summer I earned my allowance by working in daddy's garden.
Nikki Giovanni
#36. I'm really trying to respond to the foods that are in the stores and just pulling the things that are the very best and cook what looks beautiful and is seasonal. That's the way to go. I love going to the grocery store and the market. None of it's drudgery for me. Washing dishes is the drudgery.
Ted Allen
#37. We also pass a farmer in his yard, power-washing a donkey with a high-pressure hose.
Simon Armitage
#39. When "doing" becomes divorced from "being", pious thoughts become a poor substitute for washing dirty feet.
Brennan Manning
#40. Some miners' wives take in washing and make more money than their husbands do. In every gold rush from this one to the Klondike, the suppliers and service industries will gather up the dust while ninety-nine per cent of the miners go home with empty pokes.
John McPhee
#41. If you're at the sink washing the cup, wash the cup. Don't worry about everything else ... We forget to appreciate the simplest moments of the day, the sublime in the ordinary.
Julia Roberts
#42. Another Christmas Poem
Blood Christmas, here again.
Let us raise a loving cup:
Peace on earth, goodwill to men,
And make them do the washing-up.
Wendy Cope
#43. Right now he's like the ocean at night- you know it's there, but even though the lights are coming on you can't see it and all you know of it is washing sound somewhere sighing in the back room of a house when they think no one is listening.
Polly Johnson
#44. I never thought I'd be one of those old hams who favours theatre over everything, but I'm getting that way. Telly and film seemed more fun when I was younger; turning left on planes and washing up in nice places. But there are things that you only learn in theatre.
Paul McGann
#45. Let's not forget how beautiful simply washing dishes can be.
Noah Hawley
#46. The freedom of women was achieved by two things: One, the Pill. Two ... by labour-saving devices like the washing machine. By science, not feminism.
Doris Lessing
#47. Put your sins in the chalice for the precious blood to wash away. One drop is capable of washing away the sins of the world.
Mother Teresa
#48. Sex is like washing your face - just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it.
Sophia Loren
#49. I am not a huge follower of music and tend to like one CD and play it to death, usually when I am washing up.
Martin Parr
#50. After washing there was no place to pour the water except out of the window onto the heads of the people in the streets, which is the proper place to throw everything that is not wanted.
Ellsworth Huntington
#51. Washing your car and polishing it all up is a never failing sign of rain.
Kin Hubbard
#52. He who crosses the ocean twice without washing is a dirty double crosser.
Confucius
#53. There won't be any revolution in America ... The people are all too clean. They spend all their time changing shirts and washing themselves. You can't feel fierce and revolutionary in a bathroom.
Eric Linklater
#54. If your posture is that of one washing dirty feet, you are prevented from looking down on others and, instead, look up to them.
Jonah Books
#55. My creative process is quite slow. I hear melodies in my head while I'm washing the dishes and I allow my subconscious to do the work.
Sinead O'Connor
#56. Along the Chilean coast, with cold and winter,
when rain falls washing the weeks.
Listen: solitude becomes music once more,
and it seems its appearance is that of air, of rain,
that time, something with wave and wings, passes by,
grows. And the harp awakes from oblivion.
Pablo Neruda
#57. I live in the country, so I get a fair amount of exercise. We heat our house with wood, so I split wood. We also live on a steep hill, and I have to rake and put in cross-stitches to keep the road from washing out when there's a big rain.
Pete Seeger
#58. During the Depression, much of my career was dictated by a fanatical aversion to washing dishes. The only job I could find to finance college involved washing dishes,so I joined the Navy instead.
Keith Robertson
#59. I was washing dishes at the Greyhound bus station at the time and I said, 'Awap bop a lup bop a wop bam boom, take 'em out!'
Little Richard
#60. You talk about 'Obama is going to herd us into FEMA brainwashing camps.' Maybe your brain needs a little washing.
Bill Maher
#61. Romantic comedies very rarely deal with washing your lover's dishes because she has to be up early for work, since no one wants to see the mundane truth when they can flip the channel to a desperate, emotionally-limited frottage.
Thomm Quackenbush
#62. [Martin] Luther did not regard the water in baptism as common water, but as a water which had become, through the Word with its inherent divine power, a gracious water of life, a washing of regeneration. Through this divine efficacy of the Word the sacrament effects regeneration.
Louis Berkhof
#63. And tar is washing up onto the beaches - big globs of tar. And people are saying, 'Is that going to ruin our summer at the beach?' No, of course not. You take the big blobs of tar and you use them to hold down your blanket.
David Letterman
#64. If I wasn't writing poems, I'd be washing my hands all the time.
Sherman Alexie
#65. Nobody should ever doubt that in the washing of rebirth (Titus 3:5) absolutely all sins, from the least to the greatest, are altogether forgiven.
Saint Augustine
#66. When I was growing up, hand washing was a ritual, but now it's a necessity. A child dies every 15 seconds from preventable causes, which has got to stop.
Kajol
#67. It is like operating a new washing machine or videodisc player, all lights and buttons. You have to know how to operate it before you can understand the instruction booklet (it was written by someone who already knew).
J.-C. Spender
#68. If you have democracy, people will vote for washing machines. They love them!
Hans Rosling
#69. Bringing my two children up while writing was just a part of life. I'd much rather have had their interruptions than been stuck in a sterile office. This way, I had welcome distractions. I had to load the washing machine, I had to go out and buy lemons.
Deborah Moggach
#70. I've had my fair share of colds, which last longer than they should and can cause wheezing, so I avoid people who are sneezing like the plague and am scrupulous about hygiene and hand-washing.
Kevin McCloud
#71. This man was so absent-mindedly clever that he could paint pictures that didn't just follow you around the room but went home with you and did the washing-up.
Terry Pratchett
#72. And then they were inside, and out of the wind, and surrounded by comforting walls and walls of books. The rich, delightful smell of old paper, leather and ink permeated the place, washing away the pettier odours of blood and oil and smog.
Genevieve Cogman
#73. I couldn't sleep for nights on end, as my brain felt like there were thoughts colliding within it; I obsessed over small details, from saving pennies and polishing each one of them to washing my clothing over and over in the washing machine.
Andy Behrman
#74. Buying phosphate-free soap allows you to say, 'My detergent doesn't have the harsh chemicals others do.' The question is, how are you washing with it? The very worst thing for the Earth about detergent is that we heat water to use it.
Daniel Goleman
#75. Because wars you can do, and famines you can do and floods are relatively easy, but no one survives when the cook scratches his arse and then decides not to bother washing his hands.
Anne Enright
#76. You look like you got more of a bath than the car. I never
thought washing a car would be so hard, but after watching you for the last fifteen minutes, I'm convinced it should be an Olympic sport.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#77. No matter how you have searched, there will always be one teaspoon left at the bottom of the washing-up water.
Irene Thomas
#78. Other people his age had houses and washing machines, cars and television sets, furniture and gardens and mountain bikes and lawnmowers: he had four boxes of crap, and a set of matchless memories.
Robert Galbraith
#79. I narrate the story but he dies off-stage between commercials. A washing machine ad later, we are dressed in our funereal best. We sniffle and indulge in product placement for Kleenex. The credits roll.
Thomm Quackenbush
#80. She sees washing lines and women squatting by a stream, and the creaking ropes of a swing beneath a big tree, and a big dog, cowering from the taunts of the village boys, and a hawk-nosed man digging a ditch, shirt plastered to his back with sweat, and a veiled woman bent over a cooking fire.
Khaled Hosseini
#81. Dear family,
I am drafting a new laundry protocol for better and more considerate usage of the washing machine
Koh Choon Hwee
#82. Jesus' life as a foot-washing servant would eventually lead to the adoption of humility as a widely admired virtue.
John Ortberg
#83. Define normal, Clara?"
I laughed when I tried to figure out the true definition.
"Normal is a function on a washing machine, Alex." I said seriously.
Kathryn Morgan Parry
#84. Human beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.
Germaine Greer
#85. I don't really see the point in washing your hair. If you don't care if your hair's clean or not then why would you wash it?
Robert Pattinson
#86. We all have anger in our hearts at times from past situations or even present. These thoughts hurt one's self more than anything. Without the effort of washing those thoughts from our minds there can be no inner peace.
Ron Baratono
#87. If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I'd hear a loud 'A-hem!' from my mother or grandmother. Now I count on other people to do the same.
Maya Angelou
#88. 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
#89. Her tongue was a restless, restless river washing words ashore its banks.
Lena Aisha
#90. Valentine's Day money-saving tips: Break up on February 13th, get back together on the 15th. In place of bubble bath, use lavender-scented dish-washing liquid. Forget rose petals. Sprinkle the bed with sliced beets!
David Letterman
#91. Death cannot be avoided forever, but it can be postponed - in that respect it's very like the washing up.
Jasper Fforde
#92. The washing machine changed the world more than the Internet.
Ha-Joon Chang
#93. When Negroes are average, they fail, unless they are very, very lucky. Now, if you're average and white, honey, you can go far. Just look at Dan Quayle. If that boy was colored he'd be washing dishes somewhere.
Annie Elizabeth Delany
#94. The funeral was held at St. Mary's Catherdral of San Francisco, which has the distinction of being the only church in the world designed after a washing-machine agitator.
Christopher Moore
#95. He was doing Tony's dirty work, in a way - like Tony had done his in New York. One hand washing the other, neither of them getting clean.
Aleksandr Voinov
#96. 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
#97. As far as the Pharisees were concerned, if you gave a dish to the poor it became unclean, because the poor were the great unwashed who didn't fulfill ceremonial washing. But Jesus says the dish becomes clean because it expresses love.
Tim Chester
#98. Watching a dog try to chew a large piece of toffee is a pastime fit for gods. Mr. Fusspot's mixed ancestry had given him a dexterity of jaw that was truly awesome. He somersaulted happily around the floor, making faces like a rubber gargoyle in a washing machine.
Terry Pratchett
#99. Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows.
Isaac Asimov
#100. I glared at Grimalkin, calmly washing his paws on a nearby rock. That's just fabulous. And you expect us to kill that things? It's the size of Walmart.
Julie Kagawa
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