Quotes About Cleanliness

I don't want food all over the place, down the sides of the sofa... When I shared a flat before I got married, we would always eat around the telly, but not now!

A good espresso to me is a little bit salty; you just become used to a good taste. Anytime I go into a new place and they don't clean their machine properly or the water temperature isn't right, it tastes awful.

With soap, baptism is a good thing.

His own habits of self-discipline, and his preference for cleanliness and order over squalor and chaos, had been forged largely in reaction to his mother's lifestyle. Strike had spent too many hours of his youth enduring the tedium of the perennially stoned to find either pleasure or excitement in the haze of drink, drugs and rock music that had been Leda's natural habitat.

Of course, many would say it was rich for him to have opinions about how women smelled, given that his signature odor was that of an old ashtray, overlain with a splash of Pour Un Homme on special occasions. Nevertheless, having spent much of his childhood in conditions of squalor, Strike found cleanliness a necessary trait in anyone he could find attractive. He'd liked Robin's previous scent, which he'd missed when she wasn't in the office.

The kitchen looked like it was rarely used, except for a toaster on a counter surrounded by crumbs

Guys getting in shape before joining an exercise class was not unlike the thing women do when they clean up before the maid comes.

My sheets had never been so clean as they had in the past few months. I hardly got them on again before something else happened and I was feverishly ripping them off and stuffing them in the wash with double amounts of soap and all the extra buttons pushed: extra wash, extra rinse, extra water, extra spin, extra protection against things that go bump in the night.

Create a Pure Environment

madre Teresa de Calcuta: «Si cada uno barriera el patio de su casa, tendríamos un mundo más limpio».

As far as I'm concerned, taking a bath is sort of like drowning, with soap.

Around 6 p.m.: the apartment is warm, clean, well-lit, pleasant. I make it that way, energetically, devotedly (enjoying it bitterly): henceforth and forever I am my own mother.

They only throw clean ones

Gonzo narrows his eyes. 'How often do you clean that thing?' 'Every night,' the waitress answers. Her smile is strained. 'That's it? Do you know how long it takes for Listeria to grow under those hot lamps, even with ice?' Here we go. 'It can happen in just five hours. Five hours and you've got the salad bar of death!' The waitress looks confused. 'From Listerine?

New York is a city short on patience, cleanliness, clement weather, and citizens who hold faint opinions. It is not a city short of people trying to make a career of being famous, no matter what the opportunity.

For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

The classes that wash most are those that work least.

The only soap of a dirty society is the clean men; only the clean can wash the grimy!

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

I will continue to express the fact I am for a drug-free sport and always will be.

civilization is sterilization

Revolcarse en el fango no es la mejor manera de limpiarse

Venga, le ho detto Perchè? Guardi fuori, è già l'alba. E allora? E' ora che lei torni a casa a dormire. Che c'entra che ora è, sono mica una bambina. Non è questione di ore, è questione di luce. Che cavolo dice? E' la luce giusta per tornare a casa, è fatta apposta per quello. La luce? Non c'è luce migliore per sentirsi puliti.

I sometimes wish I had lived in my grandfather's time instead of today. The pattern of life was less complicated then. This was a cleaner, greener land, and a man who took to the highroad might breathe, instead of gasoline vapors, a forgotten boon called air.