Cleaning Quotations

I always clean before the cleaning lady comes. If not, when I come home, I can't find anything. Cleaning ladies are always hiding things you leave out.

I was so emotional. Choked up. I could hardly talk all day. I'll be cleaning out my trailer and saying goodbye soon, realizing what a wonderful experience this has been.

The flukey part of it is, back in the early days, I had that guitar decorated with all kinds of crap wallpaper, 'Flower Power' - then that got all shaved off. And during the course of cleaning the bass up again, some of the wood got shaved down, and it probably became a lighter body than the stock factory model.

I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.

There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.

Cleaning isn't all that interesting to me. I'm disorganized.

You could eat sushi off my bookshelf. My cleaning regime is like a battleground. I'm Genghis Khan and my cleaning products are my Mongolian army and I take no prisoners. The rest of my life is an experiment in chaos so I like to keep my flat neat.

When I was 16, I had a job on the cleaning crew at a local hospital. I wore a pink uniform and cleaned bathrooms and buffed the hallway linoleum. Oddly, I don't recall hating the job. I recall getting choked up at the end of the summer when I went to turn in my uniform and say goodbye to the ladies.

Some of us are like a shovel brigade that follow a parade down Main Street cleaning up.

I'm always happy when I'm cleaning, and besides, I had just found out that I was going to have a baby.

I've spent a lot on clothes. I'm not kidding when I say I could have bought several country homes with the money. I've also given a lot away over time. I had a lovely Yves Saint Laurent jacket that I'd only worn once or twice, but I'm one for spring cleaning rather than storing my clothes.

Of course I was delighted the flight was over, but I still had to worry about cleaning up inside the cabin, I had to worry about the hatch, how to get in the sling, and so on.

On my own or with a friend, I'm a shopaholic, and I particularly love the cleaning aisle in the supermarket. But when I'm with my husband, I'm shop shy because he can't bear it. It always ends up with us making a huge scene on the High Street and then going off in a huff in separate directions.

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

All I'm thinking about today is cleaning my bathroom.

My favorite way of getting out of doing chores is by acting like I'm asleep. But it never works.

I love cleaning. I love mopping the floor. If you need your floor mopped, I'm there.

Demetrie came to wait on my grandmother in 1955 and stayed for 32 years. It was common, in Mississippi, to have a black domestic cleaning the kitchen, cooking the meals, looking after the white children.

We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your own house - which we never do.

The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output.

I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.

At least I'm going into the job with clean hands.

There's no getting away from it: you have to clean.

The meals were served in a large hall, in which Moctezuma was accustomed to eat, and the dishes quite filled the room, which was covered with mats and kept very clean.

People ask me why I don't paint oils. It takes too long. Cleaning brushes in linseed oil, and it takes six months to really dry, and all this. I don't have that kind of time. I work with acrylic. It's water based. You can clean it under water. If you spill it on yourself, you just throw it in the washing machine.

Superfund was passed with the good intention of cleaning up America's toxic waste sites

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

My greatest pleasure is going out on a horrible, cold, wet January morning to pick the vegetables for our Sunday lunch, putting them in a muddy pile on the table, and then spending 45 minutes washing and preparing them. I like doing it because it's so different to what I do in the week. The same holds for cleaning the car or shining my shoes.

If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have.

When you make something, cleaning it out of structural debris is one of the most vital things you do.

All my family were brilliant cooks when I was growing up, but I ended up just cleaning up, so I've always lacked confidence in the kitchen.

I was always incredibly obsessed with germs and cleaning and taking shower after shower after shower. Even when I was very young, I wouldn't tie my shoelaces because they had touched the ground. I had continuous repetitive thoughts that I couldn't get past. As a child, my mind was a lot busier than I was.

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

It's very clean. With tape, you get noise.

I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.

My love of cleaning is symbolic of my desire to rule the world... I always wear a seat belt because I enjoy being alive... and I like having two eyes, so yes to the safety goggles, too!

Let's clean up our environment. Let's clean up our bodies, but most importantly, let's not permit our babies of the future to be polluted before they are even born.

I look forward to spring cleaning and putting things in their place. It's therapeutic for me.

Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

I'm really good at laundry, and I have no problem cleaning the kitchen.

When we talk to somebody and we want to be nice or polite or show our more beautiful side, we try to use the best words that we know. This is what poets are doing. They are cleaning the words, they are inventing the sentiments, they are giving us a way to communicate.

We stopped cleaning our houses with lemon water and vinegar like our mothers did, and we clean with chemicals. We're breathing chemicals, and then everyone wonders why cancer is the biggest killer.

Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets.

It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.

I never was one to go into an office and write. For one thing, I had a job. I was cleaning the ashtrays and setting up the studios at Columbia for a couple of years and working every other week down in the Gulf of Mexico flying helicopters. I didn't really get to just write songs for about five years.

From the age of 11, I was cleaning floors, washing dishes, making sandwiches and being a cashier. Survival was the name of the game. Life was so hard that I had to struggle to keep up my standards. Under these conditions, I didn't think about science too much.

In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.

My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.

We all remember the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the worst oil spill in U.S. history. What is less well known is that BP is claiming a 9.9 billion tax deduction on the money they had to spend cleaning up their own mess and paying for damages they caused. That is absurd.

I was going to start a housekeeping business at one point because I'm really good at cleaning houses.

I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.

Did you know babies are nauseated by the smell of a clean shirt?

I've always enjoyed doing dishes. Maybe it was the fashionable yellow gloves that I loved so much. It's weird, I know, but I find cleaning cathartic.

When you ask people about what they enjoy doing, time spent with the boss is even worse than time spent cleaning the house. So this suggests that there are a lot of leaders out there who are not doing an adequate job.

I'm going through an evolution. I'm completely cleaning out my closet. I'm purging, because I saw that show 'Hoarders.' I had a sweatshirt from sixth grade, and I'm going, 'Why do I hold on to this?'

It was very hard for me to put my life on paper. It was a very intimate process, very psychological, but at the same time liberating. It was like cleaning the closet, like cleaning the house... It was very refreshing.

My parents taught me many of the things that people need in life to feel confident: practical things, such as managing finances, mucking out the goat barn, cleaning a house, doing repairs, mending a broken roof or a toilet.

The truth doesn't lie. It's up in your face. It's in your conscience. It challenges your very being with the intention of cleaning you of sin and its influence.

I'm horrible to live with. I don't clean. My clothes end up wherever I take them off. I forget to flush the toilet.

When I was a child, I played in trees a lot, ... I'm very attached to trees and trees being kind of strong and providing a source of comfort and cleaning the air and being homes for animals.

What this is about is saving the state substantial sums of money. It's about having others chip in to solve the $15 billion price tag for cleaning up the problem.

We're going to just focus each day to work on cleaning up our routines. We tell the girls when we get down there, don't think about what everybody else is doing. Just focus on your routine and what you need to do. They just need to perform to the best of their ability and hopefully that will be good enough to end up on top.

We?re moving through areas as soon as they?re finished and cleaning them,

We're finally at a point where some of the alternate energy sources that are more environmentally friendly are worth taking a look at. We're interested in cleaning up the environment at the same time as we make money for investors.

We're famous for going to the hotel rooms and actually cleaning them up.

When I was a kid, we went to St. Augustine, Fla., and I was lying on the couch one night with a Q-tip, cleaning my ear out after I'd taken a shower. I hit my arm on something, jabbed the Q-tip through my ear drum, busted my ear drum and couldn't get back in the water the rest of the time we were there.

Dogs do not grasp the concept of house cleaning.

We have to get started cleaning up some of these lakes. Every year we let go by, it's a bigger hole we're digging.

We have mounting scientific proof that cleaning up the source of air pollution results in cleaner air and less illness and death. A study recently released showed that when particle air pollution declines in a city, the death rates also drop in that city.

I love cleaning the house. I'd never have a cleaner - I wouldn't trust them to do it.

Eric moved the broom experimentally and made an attempt to sweep the glass into the pan while it lay in the middle of the floor. Of course, the pan slid away. Eric scowled. I'd finally found something Eric did poorly.

We'll be cleaning and straightening up in the back. We also plan a ramp that will be handicapped accessible and an elevator ? maybe even a deck one day. People could overlook the river and the Becky Thatcher from the deck.

We achieved some of our goals that we were looking forward to doing. Overall we made an improvement from last week, and now we can start working on cleaning things up and being really sharp.

It turns out dentists don't like it very much when you show up for a cleaning in full vampire gear.

Your mind is like a sponge, in the sense that it would come in handy when cleaning off a countertop or something like that.

As Cinderella would probably tell you, even a prince who only recognizes your footwear is preferable to a lifetime of cleaning grates.

We want to buy fresh, but we don't want to deal with it, I can make pretty exotic meals, but I don't have to deal with buying ingredients, chopping vegetables and cleaning up.

We're analyzing them now. It's not simply a matter of price ... the businesses have provided the cleaning hours we need, and the training, and all kinds of things we asked for.

We didn't want him to be out there alone a lot, but he was very self-sufficient. She was a great cook, but he was a person who wouldn't let us do anything. He did his own cooking, washing and cleaning house. It was a big change for him, but he knew he had to continue.

The people of New York have waited long enough to reclaim the historic Hudson. The time has long past for General Electric to put its significant resources into cleaning up their toxic mess.

Are you polluting the world or cleaning up the mess? You are responsible for your inner space; nobody else is, just as you are responsible for the planet. As within, so without: If humans clear inner pollution, then they will also cease to create outer pollution.

We're having a full-fledged roommate cleaning of the casa.

When the hot water hits the leaves they expand, so the larger the infuser the better. Ease of cleaning is also important.

We've never cleaned it like we're going to do this morning. This has been needing a cleaning for a long time.

Looks like I might have some cleaning up to do when I get home.

Many of these remaining process locations likely will require demolition in order to meet the expected cleaning criteria.

She had taken him under her wing ... and he helped her with shopping, cleaning and various other things she was no longer able to do.

One week you're playing, and the next one team is cleaning out lockers and going home.

Now, they're cleaning up their act and it's selling like crazy.

Now, the supposed justifications for restart have completely evaporated and the funds that are being wasted will go where they have long belonged: into cleaning up the environment that adjoins our lifeblood, the Columbia River, ... After years of indecision, the people of the Pacific Northwest deserve to have the money used to clean up the contamination at Hanford rather than on some wild good chase.

New Haven is becoming less and less affordable to live in, and although the city is cleaning up neighborhoods, we are losing a portion of the community in the process,

People who are cleaning up flood areas, if they have cuts and scratches they should really stay out of the water.

One of the biggest problems we have in cleaning our homes is getting to the high spots like ceiling fans, plant shelves, air-conditioning units and vents.

I was really surprised with some of the swims considering we took two weeks off due to the pool cleaning and the holidays. What amazed me was that the kids maintained correct technique. The endurance part will come a lot sooner this time due to muscle memory. It won't take as long to get where we were two weeks ago.

I was surprised. Poppy was already cleaning him.

I was supposed to be cleaning out the barn, but I was usually reading romance novels. That's how you grow up to be a thriller writer.

I would assume as a consumer, if a product is marketed as cleaning the air then it's going to clean the air,

If they got running water to all these buildings that are obviously inhabitable, they could get the city cleaned up a lot faster because people would be cleaning up their own blocks and their own neighborhoods.

I don't have to throw stuff into the garbage that is perfectly good. I'm cleaning through my basement and closets and have been able to offer a lot.

I credit the officials. They did a really good job of calling fouls in the post and cleaning it up right away down there. Obviously, whenever you go to a zone, it limits inside play and dares them to shoot outside.