Bathing Quotes - Page 3

• It is unlikely that someone could proclaim "truths" that are counter to physical laws for very long (for example, that it is healthy for children to run around in bathing suits in winter and in fur coats in summer) without appearing ridiculous. But it is perfectly normal to speak of the necessity of striking and humiliating children and robbing them of their autonomy, at the same time using such high-sounding words as chastising, upbringing, and guiding onto the right path.

  Alice Miller

  Summer, Running, Children

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.16, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• The larger the German body, the smaller the German bathing suit and the louder the German voice issuing German demands and German orders to everybody who doesn't speak German. For this, and several other reasons, Germany is known as 'the land where Israelis learned their manners'.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Order, Land, Voice

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.15, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I often think I am a better person because I lived for many years of my life with a flashlight. I have developed skills I did not think were possible - bathing with a cup of water by candlelight, for instance, and writing a story with a headlamp on.

  Janine di Giovanni

  Writing, Thinking, Years

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• The right hon. Gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Clothes, Gentleman, Caught

  Benjamin Disraeli's speech in the House of Commons, February 28, 1845.

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• The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Shopping, People, Stories

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• Yes, I have four children. Four children with whom I spend a good part of every day: bathing them, combing their hair, sitting with them while they do their homework, holding them while they weep their tragic tears. But I'm not in love with any of them. I am in love with my husband.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Children, Husband, Hair

  "The centre of my universe" by Ayelet Waldman, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2005.

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• Fit men walking around and bathing, it would be just like being in Ancient Rome [on a footballers dressing room

  John Barrowman

  Men, Rome, Would Be

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• I grew up in Florida riding horses, so for the majority of my life I was either in boots and jeans or a bathing suit.

  Kate Upton

  Horse, Florida, Jeans

  "Kate Upton: American Bombshell" by Mark Kirbi, www.gq.com. June 19, 2012.

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• I remember very distinctly being so tall I didn't fit sleeves, so I ended up modeling lingerie and bathing suits, sleeveless stuff, basically. I didn't have a good body, but I believed I knew how to stand or pose to mask it.

  Geena Davis

  Body, Stuff, Lingerie

  "The Conversation With Geena Davis, Leading The Charge On Gender Equity In Entertainment". Interview with Alison Glock, www.espn.com. October 30, 2015.

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• When you have a gown, there's much more to be concerned about. Where is this crease falling? Are you making a weird shape with the dress? Are you doing the designer justice? With a bathing suit, it's more about you and the mood you convey.

  Brooklyn Decker

  Fall, Justice, Dresses

  "Brooklyn Decker is everywhere before movies' debut". Interview with Samantha Critchell, www.yahoo.com. May 17, 2012.

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• The hand of a bride becomes the hand of a mother. Ever so gently she cares for her precious child. Bathing, dressing, feeding, comforting-there is no hand like mother's. Nor does its tender care diminish through the years.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Mother, Children, Hands

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• When the tide goes out, you get to see who's swimming naked. PIMCO has had its bathing suit on for a long time

  Bill Gross

  Swimming, Long, Naked

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• If you think about it now, it's kind of ridiculous. All these hot girls on Baywatch in tiny little red bathing suits running around saving lives.

  Carmen Electra

  Girl, Running, Thinking

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• My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves.

  Moon Unit Zappa

  Dad, Long, Black

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• Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Giving, Childhood, Intuition

  "Carlos Ghosn: In The Driver’s Seat". Interview with Richard M. Smith, www.newsweek.com. June 20, 2008.

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• Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouragement

  Zig Ziglar (2002). “Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World”, p.34, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Sep 22, 2016

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• It's my job in Hollywood to find roles where I get to be a character not a bathing suit.

  Amber Heard

  Jobs, Character, Hollywood

  "SDCC 2010: Amber Heard DRIVE ANGRY 3D Interview". Interview with Hunter Daniels, collider.com. July 24, 2010.

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• The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Clothes, Gentleman, Conservative

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Embracing Novels, Romances, Plays, Poems, Biography, Short Stories and Great Speeches: Coningsby, v. 2. Selected speeches”

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• What does it mean to be yourself?” he asked. “If it means to do what you think you ought to do, then you’re doing that already. If it means to act like you’re exempt from society’s influence, that’s the worst advice in the world; you would probably stop bathing and wearing clothes. The advice to ‘be yourself’ is obviously nonsense. But our brains accept this tripe as wisdom because it is more comfortable to believe we have a strategy for life than to believe we have no idea how to behave.

  Scott Adams

  Being Yourself, Believe, Mean

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• For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female bodies can't possibly fit. Without these visual references, each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. We stop being comparatives. We begin to be unique.

  Gloria Steinem

  Real, Unique, Feminist

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• Shudder, in fact, is not quite the word for the feeling. Feeling is not quite the word for the feeling. How's bathing at knifepoint in the phlegm of the dead? Is that a feeling?

  Sam Lipsyte

  Feelings, Facts

  Sam Lipsyte (2005). “Home Land: A Novel”, p.13, Macmillan

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• Dona Crista laughed a bit. "Oh, Pip, I'd be glad for you to try. But do believe me, my dear friend, touching her heart is like bathing in ice." I imagine. I imagine it feels like bathing in ice to the person touching her. But how does it feel to her? Cold as she is, it must surely burn like fire.

  Orson Scott Card

  Believe, Heart, Fire

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• This, she thought, isn’t just for today. It’s for everything. For the heartache that still felt like a punch in the gut each time it struck, fresh as new, at unpredictable moments; for the smiling lies and the mental images she couldn’t shake; for the shame of having been so naive. For the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve—like the soul’s version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable.

  Laini Taylor

  Loneliness, Lying, Heartache

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.20, Hachette UK

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• Performance wasnt something that I intended to do. I was doing work that was about process, about the meaning of the making, trying to have a love-hate relationship with the object. I always feel safer if I can bring the viewer back to the making of it. I try to do that in a lot of different ways, by residue, by touch, by these processes that are basic to all of our lives...that people might relate to in terms of process, everyday activities- bathing, eating, etc.

  Janine Antoni

  Art, Hate, People

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