Washing Quotes - Page 7

• Emotions weren't like washing. There was no call to peg them out for all the world to view.

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Views, World, Emotion

  Beryl Bainbridge (1989). “An awfully big adventure”, Gerald Duckworth & Company

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• 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

  Appreciate, Worry, Sublime

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• The plot is not very important to me, though a novel must have one, of course. It's just a line to hang the washing on.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Important, Plot, Lines

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• 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

  Music, Song, Sound

  Linda Ronstadt (2014). “Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• See the cat at love, rolling with its sweetheart, up and over, with shriek and moan. But if a person comes by, they break away, sit separate upon a fence washing their faces - and might never have met at all.

  Stevie Smith

  Cat, Rolling, Might

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• There are always meaningful songs for somebody. People are doing their courting, people are finding their wives, people are making babies, people are washing their dishes, people are getting through the day, with songs that we may find insignificant. But their significance is affirmed by others. There’s always someone affirming the significance of a song by taking a woman into his arms or by getting through the night. That’s what dignifies the song. Songs don’t dignify human activity. Human activity dignifies the song.

  Leonard Cohen

  Meaningful, Song, Baby

  "My favourite word in songwriting history is 'that" by Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2007.

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• Deliver me from the long drought
  of the mind. Let leaves
  from the deciduous Cross
  fall on us, washing
  us clean, turning our autumn
  to gold by the affluence of their fountain.

  R. S. Thomas

  Fall, Autumn, Long

  "Laboratories of the Spirit" by R. S. Thomas, ("Prayer", p. 10), 1975.

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• If you make a decision in your life, even one as eminently logical and self-improving as "Why'd you start washing your hair every day?" and you start getting questioned hourly about it, you're going to start second-guessing yourself.

  Keith Olbermann

  Hair, Self, Decision

  "ESPN: Mea Culpa". www.salon.com. November 18, 2002.

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• From what cause the rite of baptism first proceeded is not expressed formally in the scripture, but it may be probably thought to be an imitation of the law of Moses concerning leprosy, wherein the leprous man was commanded to be kept out of the camp of Israel for a certain time, after which time being judged by the priest to be clean, he was admitted into the camp after a solemn washing. And this may therefore be a type of the washing in baptism, wherein such men as are cleansed of the leprosy of Sin by Faith, are received into the church with the solemnity of baptism.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Israel, Law

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.357, Simon and Schuster

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• I linger on the flathouse roof, the moonlight is divine. But my heart is all aflutter like the washing on the line.

  Nathalia Crane

  Heart, Lines, Moonlight

  Nathalia Crane (1925). “The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems”

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• I did my own thinking. I have never given it out to be done by others as one gives out washing.

  William Mulock

  Thinking, Giving, Done

  "Sir William Mulock Reviews the Past". The Newmarket Era, pp. 1-2, news.ourontario.ca. April 06, 1934.

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• I truly believe fishing is like a washing machine for your brain

  Henry Winkler

  Believe, Lakes, Sea

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• I have observed, on board a steamer, how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtation, because water has the power of washing away our sense of responsibility, and those who on land resemble the oak in their firmness behave like floating seaweed when on the sea.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Responsibility, Men, Sea

  Rabindranath Tagore (2015). “Letters to a Friend”, p.175, Routledge

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• I have made myself two or three caps to wear of evenings since I came home, and they save me a world of torment as to hair-dressing, which at present gives me no trouble beyond washing and brushing, for my long hair is always plaited up out of sight, and my short hair curls well enough to want no papering.

  Jane Austen

  Home, Hair, Sight

  Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (2011). “Jane Austen's Letters”, p.25, Oxford University Press

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• 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

  Book, Trying, Use

  "The Invisible Computer". Book by Donald A. Norman, Ch. 10, 1998.

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• The Japanese have hit the shores like dead fish. They're just like dead fish washing up on the shores.

  Steve Jobs

  Fishes, Shore

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.52, Prabhat Prakashan

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• I love the night. I love to feel the tide of darkness rising, slowly and slowly washing, turning over and over, lifting, floating, all that lies strewn upon the dark beach, all that lies hid in rocky hollows.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Beach, Lying, Dark

  Katherine Mansfield (2006). “The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield”, p.362, Wordsworth Editions

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• At Christmas, individuals are apportioned their roles in the family script - you're either the funny one or the sensitive one; or you either do the cooking or the washing up. And those roles aren't easy to change.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Cooking, Roles, Scripts

  "Archipelago - Tom Hiddleston interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• At almost every step in life we meet with young men from whom we anticipate wonderful things, but of whom, after careful inquiry, we never hear another word. Life certain chintzes, calicoes, and ginghams, they show finely on their first newness, but cannot stand the sun and rain, and assume a very sober aspect after washing day.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Rain, Men, Inquiry

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• Washing the Dead is an illuminating and intricately layered novel about the complicated legacies that pass from mother to daughter, and about the ways that understanding our own history helps make us who we are. Michelle Brafman is an insightful writer who never falters or flinches in her quest to uncover the hearts of her characters.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Daughter, Mother, Heart

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• But, o, photography! as no art is,Faithful and disappointing! That recordsDull days as dull, and hold-it smiles as frauds,And will not censor blemishes,Like washing-lines, and Hall's-Distemper boards

  Philip Larkin

  Photography, Art, Faithful

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.34, Faber & Faber

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

  Trisha Goddard

  Machines, Normal, Humans

  "Trisha Goddard: this much I know" by Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 20`3.

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• All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.

  Edmund Burke

  Believe, Men, Hands

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• [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

  Water Of Life, Baptism, Divine Power

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• 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

  Mother, Book, Yellow

  Howard Spring (2016). “My Son, My Son”, p.11, Head of Zeus

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