Washing Quotes - Page 6

• The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Freedom Of Speech, Brain, Mind

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• Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way. We're reaching the point where you can be a truly dedicated, state-of-the-art fan or you can have a life. Take your pick.

  Thomas Boswell

  Baseball, Art, Hands

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• I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs, writing divorce scenes symbolized by the very slow washing of dishes.

  Teju Cole

  Writing, Divorce, Plies

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 21, 2014.

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• I'm looking forward to getting back to my house and my Ugg boots and not washing sometimes, and getting back to writing.

  E. L. James

  Writing, Uggs, House

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

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• Sssh says the ocean
  Sssh says the small wave at the shore
  sssh not so violent, not so proud, not so remarkable.
  Sssh says the surf crowding around the outcrops, washing the shore.
  Sssh, they say to people, this is our Earth, our eternity.

  Rolf Jacobsen

  Ocean, People, Earth

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• It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself up out of the dark abyss of pish and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash.

  H. L. Mencken

  Dog, Humor, Dark

  "On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1956.

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• What's the point of washing off your ball when teeing off on a water hole?

  Bruce Lansky

  Golf, Water, Balls

  Bruce Lansky (2011). “Golf, It's Just a Game: The Best Quotes & Cartoons About Golf”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• And each one is a partaker of this spiritual origin in regeneration; and to every one when he is re-born, the water of baptism is like the Virgin's womb; for the same Holy Spirit fills the font, Who filled the Virgin, that the sin, which that sacred conception overthrew, may be taken away by this mystical washing.

  Pope Leo I

  Spiritual, Taken, Water

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• We know one another. This is the present. There is no past and no future. Here I am washing my hands, and the cracked mirror shows me to myself, suspended as it were, in time; this is me, this moment will not pass.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Time, Past, Here I Am

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• I wear [socks and underwear] once and throw them out. Even when I'm home...I wouldn't think of washing them.

  JC Chasez

  Home, Thinking, Underwear

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• I am a futility. The life of prayer begins with that. And God is not a comfort, to be offered like Kleenex. God is a poisoned sea, with broken syringes washing up on the beach. God is shopping malls stretching to the horizon and warplanes in the sky. God is a flat tire in a rainstorm and beer cans in the ditch, a bottle shattered on a highway and the taste of gunmetal in your mouth.

  Tim Farrington

  Beach, Prayer, Beer

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• A washing machine needs constant maintenance. It doesn't want any harm. It wants tranquility, and you need someone to - you're not going to harm it by continuously monitoring it and adjusting it.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Needs, Maintenance, Machines

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When you sing the same song over and over and over again, it stops meaning what it originally meant to you. It starts sounding like white noise, or my washing machine.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Song, White, Machines

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows, it is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs. To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Lying, Healing, Fighting

  Sinclair Lewis (1956). “Dodsworth”

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• Our bodies need regular washing because we get dirty everyday. But so do our hearts! Because each day, people hurt us, offend us, forget us, snub us, step on us, reject us. But if we choose to forgive everyone everyday, we cleanse our hearts! We wake up the next morning refreshed and pure and lovely!

  Bo Sanchez

  Hurt, Morning, Dirty

  Bo Sanchez “You Have The Power To Create Love”, Shepherds Voice Publications, Inc.

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• OCD, we discovered is a lot of different things-it's not just washing your hands, it's whatever you're obsessed with. It can be just the way you hold a pen, and you always have to have it a certain way or you have to eat your food, it depends. It's something that, as a character I thought was really interesting because sometimes it's used in a film where it is OCD and sometimes it's strategic.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Character, Hands, Interesting

  "Antoine Fuqua Talks ‘Hardcore’ Action and Sequel Potential For ‘The Equalizer’". Interview with Rob Keyes, screenrant.com. June 20, 2014.

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• If I am incapable of washing dishes joyfully, if I want to finish them quickly so I can go and have dessert, I will be equally incapable of enjoying my dessert. With the fork in my hand, I will be thinking about what to do next, and the texture and flavor of the dessert, together with the pleasure of eating it, will be lost. I will always be dragged into the future, never able to live in the present moment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Thinking, Hands, Together

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• It's a purging of sorts. Like, when you're all done doing your laundry and it's fresh and bright, but washing the clothes, you wouldn't want to get in while it's spinning around.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Spinning Around, Clothes, Done

  "Lollapalooza Still Packs A Wallop". Boston Globe, July 04, 1997.

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• Give the money directly to people who work hard. Instead of taking the money from the business and then filtering it through the horror of government programs, which is essentially giving it to social workers who live in Bethesda so they can drive their minivans and vote Democratic. Give them the money, so that they go and talk to the worker who is washing dishes, and they say, "Well, we want to help you, you see." And it would be better to help them by taking the money from that minivan-driving social worker and giving it directly to the guy who is really working hard by washing dishes.

  Mark Helprin

  Hard Work, Government, Giving

  Source: americasfuture.org

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• My mom always said normal is just a cycle on the washing machine.

  Wynonna Judd

  Inspirational, Mom, Machines

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• Washing your car and polishing it all up is a never failing sign of rain.

  Kin Hubbard

  Rain, Weather, Car

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• The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ocean, Garden, Sea

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.826, Delphi Classics

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• The red washing
  down the bathtub
  can’t change the color of the sea
  at all.

  Derrick C. Brown

  Color, Sea, Red

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• My daily beauty regimen consists of washing my face before bed and putting on moisturizer.

  Rachel Bilson

  Bed, Faces

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• Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged.

  Frances O'Grady

  College, Years, Oxford

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