Soap Quotes - Page 4

• For awhile I taped soap operas and watched them at night when I thought I might be forgetting what it was like to be human. After a while I stopped, because from the examples I saw on those shows, forgetting humanity was a good thing.

  Charlaine Harris

  Night, Humanity, Example

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.58, Penguin

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• Ash, ash —- You poke and stir. Flesh, bone, there is nothing there—— A cake of soap, A wedding ring, A gold filling. Herr God, Herr Lucifer Beware Beware. Out of the ash I rise with my red hair And I eat men like air.

  Sylvia Plath

  Men, Hair, Cake

  "Lady Lazarus" l. 82 (1963)

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• It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap opera. And to save Fablehaven, I would read a book, okay, are you happy?" You had best be careful, Seth," Grandma warned. "The love of reading can be contagious." I just lost my appetite," he declared.

  Brandon Mull

  Fun, Book, Grandma

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• [in reference to turkey bowling] He [Tommy] squinted and picked his target, then took his steps and sent the bird sliding down the aisle. A collective gasp rose from the crew as the fourteen-pound, self-basting, fresh-frozen projectile of wholesome savory goodness plowed into the soap bottles like a freight train into a chorus line of drunken grandmothers.

  Christopher Moore

  Grandmother, Self, Turkeys

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• Justification is a remarkable thing-takes all those solid lines and blurs them, so that honor becomes as supple as a willow, and ethics burst like soap bubbles.

  Jodi Picoult

  Honor, Soap Bubbles, Lines

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.305, Simon and Schuster

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• Then she did something that really surprised me. She blinked back tears and put out her arms. I stepped forward and hugged her. Butterflies started turning my stomach into a mosh pit. "Hey, it's... it's okay." I patted her back. I was aware of everything in the room. I felt like I could read the tiniest print on any book on the shelves. Annabeth's hair smelled like lemon soap. She was shivering.

  Rick Riordan

  Book, Butterfly, Hair

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• Nobody needs to go anywhere else. We are all, if we only knew it, already there. If I only knew who in fact I am, I should cease to behave as what I think I am; and if I stopped behaving as what I think I am, I should know who I am. What in fact I am, if only the Manichee I think I am would allow me to know it, is the reconciliation of yes and no lived out in total acceptance and the blessed experience of Not-Two. In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap.

  Aldous Huxley

  Dirty, Blessed, Acceptance

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• Her perfume or soap or whatever it was reminded him of sandalwood and something else. Oh, right...orgasms.

  J.R. Ward

  Perfume, Sandalwood

  J.R. Ward (2011). “Lover Unleashed: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.159, Penguin

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• I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair.

  Sadie Frost

  Stars, Character, Hair

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Even without them touching me, I feel dirty about what I do. Alex does even filthier things but says it all washes off with soap. I don’t believe that. I think it all leaves stains. Indelible stains.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Believe, Dirty, Thinking

  Ellen Hopkins (2009). “Tricks”, p.561, Simon and Schuster

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• I intend to stay on her like hair on soap.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Hair

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.147, Penguin

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• He shifted over without comment, lifting the blankets, and I scrambled into the warm sheets beside him. He smelled like soap and sleep and bare skin. He smelled familiar. Not the deja vu familiar of Guy or Mel. Familiar like...the ache in your chest of homesickness, of longing for harbor after weeks of rough seas or craving a fire's warmth after snow--or wanting back something you should never have given away.

  Josh Lanyon

  Sleep, Sea, Fire

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• The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and police, agony columns and commercials for soap, income tax and cheap restaurants, magazines and credit cards and streetlights and computers... 'It is escapism, true,' he said, aloud. 'But is not the highest impulse in mankind the urge toward freedom, the drive to escape?

  Neil Gaiman

  Men, Agony, Car

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• Since we're keeping it primal, you smell good," he observed. "It's called a shower...," I began automatically, then trailed off. My memory snagged, taken aback by a compelling and forceful sense of undue familiarity. "Soap, shampoo, hot water," I added, almost as an afterthought. "Naked. I know the drill," Jev said, something unreadeble passing over his eyes.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Memories, Taken, Eye

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• I knew it, I just knew it! The person who had the job of writing my life's dialogue used to work on a very low budget soap opera.

  Marian Keyes

  Jobs, Writing, Opera

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• Promise me you’ll marry me. Not now. Someday. Because I need to know.” Claire felt a flutter inside, like a bird trying to fly, and a rush of heat that made her dizzy. And something else, something fragile as a soap bubble, and just as beautiful. Joy, in the middle of all this horror and heartbreak. “Yes,” she whispered back. “I promise.” And she kissed him, and kissed him, and kissed him, while the sun came up and bathed Morganville in one last, shining day.

  Rachel Caine

  Beautiful, Bird, Joy

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• How many evangelism programs have you encountered in which sharing the gospel assumes no relationship with the customer and Jesus is sold like soap?

  Reggie McNeal

  Jesus, Religion, Assuming

  Reggie McNeal (2009). “The Present Future: Six Tough Questions for the Church”, p.37, John Wiley & Sons

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• They do the soaps differently in Mexico. You just have to know the storyline and not memorize the lines. There would be someone feeding you lines while you were performing.

  Erik Estrada

  Would Be, Mexico, Lines

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• I am dead against art's being self-expression. I see an inherent failure in any story which fails to detach itself from the author-detach itself in the sense that a well-blown soap-bubble detaches itself from the bowl of the blower's pipe and spherically takes off into the air as a new, whole, pure, iridescent world. Whereas the ill-blown bubble, as children know, timidly adheres to the bowl's lip, then either bursts or sinks flatly back again.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Art, Children, Air

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• The voices of conformity speak so loudly. Don't listen to them. No one does the right thing out of fear. If you ever utter the words, 'We've always done it that way,' I urge you to wash out your mouth with soap.

  Anna Quindlen

  Voice, Doe, Done

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• A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on.

  William Devane

  Missing You, Doe, Opera

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• Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.

  Dan Stevens

  Dirty, Opera, Shows

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I swear to much for this to be a television special. Did you guys ever have your mouth washed out with soap? My mom did that to me a lot. I think I swear more because of it. I started liking the taste of soap, I would eat it just to spite her. (pause) I'd bite off bars of soap.

  Andrew McMahon

  Mom, Thinking, Guy

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• I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera.

  Dorothy Malone

  Stars, Night, Opera

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I wash with my own soap-wear my own perfume...got to bed on my own sheets... have my own food products. I live on me.

  Pierre Cardin

  Fashion, Bed, Sheets

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