Quotes About Cleaning

I'm super organized, but a horrible house cleaner.

If only they could have taken her mind along to the dry cleaner's and emptied the pockets and steamed and cleansed it and reblocked it and brought it back in the morning. If only . .

What - the smell of kerosene? My wife always complains,' he laughed. 'You never was it off completely.

Look at this mess! And where's the mop?

You weren't hurting anyone, you were hurting only things! And since things couldn't really be hurt, since things felt nothing, and things don't scream or whimper, as this woman might begin to scream and cry out, there was nothing to tease your conscience later. You were simply cleaning up. Janitorial work, essentially. Everything to its proper place. Quick with the kerosene! Who's got a match!

certainly there was nothing possessive about her gesture. 'This is Kate, one of the cleaning team at Sophisticasun,' Vernon said. 'Kate, my wife, Julie.' Julie smiled, exposing tired lines already meshing under

had said. And then, afraid she had sounded grudging, 'Thank you, Simone. You've been so very kind.' In the days before she left for Mayfield Farm, Rebecca had given Simone's house a thorough clean and tidy, as a

And I am flawed but I am cleaning up so well.

home, I've been cleaning, and you need to fire your cleaning lady! The gunk I got out of your carpet and kitchen counters? Grrr-oss!" Sam grinned.

cleaning lady! The gunk I got out of your carpet and kitchen counters? Grrr-oss!" Sam grinned. "We'll talk about it when I get there. Bye!" He called

Again last night I dreamed the dream called Laundry.

I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unseasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.

Don't go taking that gospel stuff seriously. It's nice to clean you out now and then, but it ain't for real. It's like bad whiskey. Run through you fast and leave you with pain.

There is a particular disdain with which Siamese cats regard you. Anyone who has walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will be familiar with the feeling.

It meant that the silently waged conflict between himself and his cleaning lady had escalated to a new and more frightening level. It was now, Dirk reckoned, fully three months since this fridge door had been opened, and each of them was grimly determined not to be the one to open it first.

Even the duster in my house has to be beautiful; no old piece of cloth will ever be used in its place.

I found olive oil and grated cheese all over my bed. I picked up my comforter, and it was on my sheets, my pillow.

I've teamed up with Pine Sol to celebrate the makers of home.

Some kind of clutter is difficult - letting go of things with sentimental value, sifting through papers - but some clutter I find very refreshing to clear. I drive my daughters nuts because I'm always wandering into their rooms to clear clutter.

As a child and a teenager, my attitudes and actions assumed the superiority of my race in almost every way without knowing or wanting to know anybody who was black, except Lucy. Lucy came to our house on Saturdays to help my mother clean. I liked Lucy, but the whole structure of the relationship was demeaning.

We rely on our voter registration studies to warn states that they are failing to comply with the requirements of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, which requires states to make reasonable efforts to clean their voter rolls. We can and have sued to enforce compliance with federal law.

I can wash utensils, chop vegetables and can fold beds. I don't think I can do anything beyond it. In fact, cleaning toilet pots is my biggest nightmare.

I usually have a driver, or take a taxi. But I'm down to earth. I like to clean the kitchen, I iron and wash my wife's car! I just don't usually take trains.

The Emmy will have no effect on me, from the standpoint that you've still got to wash your bowl after breakfast.