Clotheslines Quotes

• If we all used clotheslines, we could save 30 million tons of coal a year, or shut down 15 nuclear power plants. And you don't have to wait to start. Yours could be up by this afternoon. To be specific, buy 50 feet of clothesline and a $3 bag of clothespins and become a solar energy pioneer.

  Bill McKibben

  Years, Feet, Waiting

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• My happiest childhood memories are of times in our backyard. My mother had an old clothesline that hung out in front. It seemed like it stretched a mile long, and I loved sitting in the sun while she hung clothes.

  Traci Lords

  Mother, Memories, Clothes

  Traci Lords (2013). “Traci Lords: Underneath It All”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• 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

  Forgiveness, Art, Confused

  Lorrie Moore (2012). “Self-Help”, p.59, Vintage

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• It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline.

  George Lindsey

  Stupidity, Paper, Toilets

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• You might be a redneck if your daughter's Barbie's Dream House has a clothesline in the front yard.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Daughter, Dream, Redneck

  Jeff Foxworthy (2004). “You Might Be A Redneck If ...This Is The Biggest Book You've Ever Read”, p.25, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I see myself as a very successful entrepreneur. Maybe making films or else starting my own clothesline. I see myself as a corporate woman, sitting on the 16th floor of a swank office with a glass window that overlooks the Manhattan skyline.

  Sushmita Sen

  Successful, Glasses, Office

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• She was the only doctor's wife in Branford, Maine, who hung her wash on an outdoor clothesline instead of putting it through a dryer, because she liked to look out the window and see the clothes blowing in the wind. She had been especially delighted, one day, when one sleeve of the top of her husband's pajamas, prodded by the stiff breeze off the bay, reached over and grabbed her nightgown around the waist.

  Lois Lowry

  Husband, Doctors, Wind

  Lois Lowry (1978). “Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Most reformers, like a pair of trousers on a windy clothesline, go through a vast deal of vehement motion, but stay in the same place.

  Austin O'Malley

  Reform, Vehement, Pairs

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• Canada is not so much a country as a clothesline nearly 4,000 miles long. St John's in Newfoundland is closer to Milan, Italy than to Vancouver.

  Simon Hoggart

  Country, Long, Vancouver

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• A generating function is a clothesline on which we hang up a sequence of numbers for display.

  Herbert Wilf

  Numbers, Mathematics, Function

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• Good fences make good neighbors, and these were apparently good enough that they had not felt the need for razor wire at the top. I crested the fence, threw myself into the yard beyond, fell, rolled to my feet, and ran with the expectation of being garroted by a taut clothesline. I heard panting, looked down, and saw a gold retriever running at my side, ears flapping. The dog glanced up at me tongue rolling, grinning, as though jazzed by the prospect of an unscheduled play session.

  Dean Koontz

  Running, Dog, Play

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.950, Bantam

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• I see these guys, they throw a guy into the ropes and they do a back flip and then clothesline the guy and it looks stupid. Why don't you just clothesline the guy?

  Owen Hart

  Stupid, Guy, Rope

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• I don't want to know about the constitution of the rapist--I want to kill him! I don't care if he is white or black, if he is middle-class or poor, if his mother hung him from the clothesline by his balls: I only want to kill him! Any woman who has been raped will agree.

  Diamanda Galas

  Mother, Class, White

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• South African schoolchildren set a world record this week by creating the world's longest clothesline. Hey, what do South Africans wash their clothes with? Apar-Tide!

  Dennis Miller

  Clothes, Creating, Hey

  "The Dennis Miller Show", June 28, 2004.

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