The Laundromat Quotes

#1. Sometimes just explaining your predicament--to a bartender, a priest, the old woman in a shift and flip-flops cleaning the lint traps in the Laundromat dryers--is all it takes to see a way out of it.

Julia Claiborne Johnson

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

Julie Doucet

#3. Did you hear about what happened at the Laundromat last night? Three clothes-pins held

Various

#4. History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We're not especially interested in what it consists of. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar.

Mal Peet

#5. I remember you organized the big laundry party and all of our friends took their dirty clothes to the laundromat and drank wine out of a wineskin until the manager threw us out because you kept yelling that there ought to be a prize given to the owner of the biggest pair of boxer shorts.

Guy Vanderhaeghe

#6. Is there any place on earth that smells better than a Laundromat? It's like a rainy Sunday when you don't have to get out from under your covers, or like lying back on the grass your father's just mowed--comfort food for your nose.

Jodi Picoult

#7. If you will die for me, I will die for you and our graves will be like two lovers washing their clothes together in a laundromat If you will bring the soap I will bring the bleach.

Richard Brautigan

#8. If you can dress as a stormtrooper and go to a laundromat, or wear a sexy cheese gown in public, you might start to find "normal" social interactions a little less daunting.

Misha Collins

#9. I have detected disturbances in the wash.'
'The wash?'
'The space-time wash.'
'Are we talking about some sort of Vogon laundromat, or what are we talking about?'
'Eddies in the space-time continuum.'
'Ah ... is he. Is he.'
'What?'
'Er, who is Eddy, then, exactly?

Douglas Adams

#10. The first time I met Patti Smith was in a laundromat. We knew some of the same people, including Richard Hell.

Tom Verlaine

#11. I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up.

Rod Blagojevich

#12. If a small town doesn't have a laundromat, and if you open one up, you can be pretty confident you'll have customers. If your laundromat is unique in any way, then perhaps you can scale it.

James Altucher

#13. Every single laundromat, grocery store, everything is called 'Lupita' in Mexico.

Lupita Nyong'o

#14. America has been very open to immigrants in terms of laws, getting loans - it has been helping immigrants more than it's been helping African Americans in starting a small business. That's key, whether you're starting a restaurant or a laundromat.

Marcus Samuelsson

#15. Hey G-Town Gal: turn your underwear inside out! Then u only have to do laundry every 2 weeks - saves on detergent & trips to Laundromat!

Patricia Heaton

#16. Laundromat, mini-mart, nail salon, pet shop, Books of Darkness.

Michelle Knudsen

#17. But, Jesus, Tommy, what do you expect me to say? I grew up with you. When we were kids your fly was open more often than the twenty-four-hour laundromat. If your dick had been a gun you could have outdrawn Doc Holliday.

Bart Yates

#18. Agent Julianne was always looking for ways to spin things. She would have been better off owning a laundromat.

Jonas Eriksson