Quotes About Washing Machines

#1. 'Minute to Win It' is a variation on a game show from the 1950s called 'Beat the Clock,' in which contestants won washing machines and fox stoles by doing such pointless stunts as catching a tennis ball in a paper cup or knocking a hat off one's wife's head with a whipped-cream spritzer.

Tom Shales

#2. I'm not a Luddite completely; I believe in refrigerators to cool my martinis, and washing machines because I hate to see women smacking their laundry against a rock. When I hear about hardware, I think of pots and pans, and when I hear about software, I think of sheets and towels.

Studs Terkel

#3. A successful argument for a government manufacturing policy has to go beyond the feeling that it's better to produce 'real things' than services. American consumers value health care and haircuts as much as washing machines and hair dryers.

Christina Romer

#4. Two hundred women, no phones, no washing machines, no hair dryers
it was like Lord of the Flies on estrogen.

Piper Kerman

#5. 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

#6. Why do washing machines eat socks? Do they taste good? Should I eat socks?

Jessica Park

#7. 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

#8. If you have democracy, people will vote for washing machines. They love them!

Hans Rosling

#9. Softball is the reason Washing Machines and Bleach are so popular. Don't think so? Just ask a softball Mom.

Mary Roach

#10. Go to the bookstore and look at how many bookshelves are filled with books trying to explain how to work the devices. We don't see shelves of books on how to use television sets, telephones, refrigerators or washing machines. Why should we for computer-based applications?

Donald A. Norman

#11. The civilized want people to make their living individually, and they want them to live separately, behind locked doors - one family to a house, each house fully stocked with refrigerators, television sets, washing machines, and so on.

Daniel Quinn

#12. (You think you know suffering? What about life before dishwashers? Washing machines? Tampons? Vacuum cleaners? You have no idea. No idea!)

Magnus Flyte

#13. The mark was from the glue that once held a folder into which a library card would have fitted back in the day when dinosaurs roamed the earth and computers were the size of washing machines.

Ben Aaronovitch

#14. They do not usually deal with amenities - features that are not essential but make living a little easier, such as drapes, washing machines, swimming pools, saunas, parking places, intercoms, and dishwashers.

Janet Portman

#15. Vacuuming is great. I do the laundry. I love washing machines. I'm the maid in my house.

Denis Leary

#16. Sometimes the very struggle of getting the words down on paper does result in unexpected discoveries or clarifications.

David McCullough

#17. Don't take life so serious. It ain't nohow permanent.

Walt Kelly

#18. Normal is a cycle on a washing machine.

Emmylou Harris

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. The washing machine changed the world more than the Internet.

Ha-Joon Chang

#22. Adam fluttered like a bewildered bee confused by too many flowers.

John Steinbeck

#23. Weakness is emanating from the crowd

Mick Wall

#24. I took my courage in both hands and went to the Laundromat to do my washing. I had to use three machines.

Julie Doucet

#25. It's not nothing when you're abroad and you don't have a washing machine.

Darryl Pinckney

#26. Vibration is always good. Sitting on top of the washing machine thats going.

Gillian Anderson

#27. Normal is a cycle on the washing machine. There is no such thing when it comes to human beings.

Trisha Goddard

#28. Being unique is what's cool. Normal? What's normal? A setting on a washing machine. No one wants to be that.

Ashley Purdy

#29. The past can be escaped only by embracing something better.

Nicholas Sparks