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Quotes About Ironing

I don't clean now, because I'm paralyzed. But let me tell you, I would clean. I cleaned, and I ironed. It's my inner femininity.
~ Michael Graves
The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.
~ Phyllis Diller
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.
~ Gino D'Acampo
I was given a lot of homework: I had to practise ironing as a synth, practise washing up as a synth, cooking a meal as a synth. It's definitely the most prep I've had to do for a role.
~ Gemma Chan
I do ironing not only for myself but for everyone at home, everyone in the studio if they want it, and if I run out of ironing to do, I put everything back in the washing machine and get it out again clean so I have some ironing to do.
~ Ian Gillan
Ironing is comfort. It's control. I'm a nutty person who likes to make sure everything is in its place.
~ Sandra Bullock
I still can't set up the ironing-board. A complete Luddite.
~ Jenny Eclair
His ironing seemed highly rational, with a constant speed that allowed him to get the best results, with the least effort; all the economy and elegance of his mathematical proofs performed right there on the ironing board. The Professor was definitely the best man for this job, we had to admit, since the tablecloth was made of delicate lace.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
Grace had read that the Spenser children followed a strictly macrobiotic diet—or that ultimate manifestation of New York real estate porn, the large laundry room photographed in Architectural Digest, with three uniformed laundresses ironing the zillion-thread-count sheets.
~ Jean Hanff Korelitz
I like to wear things that don't need ironing. It seems a fundamental design flaw when clothing needs ironing. There are loads of fabrics these days that don't need ironing, so I stick to those.
~ Konnie Huq
You guys look like you shipped back here in a crate," Quirk said. "Clothes are fresh from the dryer," I said. "Just need a little ironing." "So does your life," Belson said.
~ Robert B. Parker
But first I had to get through the ironing. It took a lot of patience. I had none. It took forever, and then I had to press the whole shirt again to get out the creases I'd pressed into it.
~ Jennifer Echols
I always plan what I'm going to wear, although I hope my clothes say that I look really good and I've not thought about it! Ironing is part of the preparation, so I don't mind it.
~ Mathew Horne
You can dream on welfare. You can hope as you take in ironing. It is just less painful if you don't.
~ Rick Bragg
Ironing was an act of annihilation in which wrinkles would die and give way to order: something she required more than anything.
~ Laura Esquivel
My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
~ Erma Bombeck
Ironing's nice and simple,' he said. 'I get all tangled up in words when I'm putting together those interminable papers....
~ Angela Carter
Leave them," said Isabel. "Jamie can iron them himself. It's very therapeutic for men to iron. Therapeutic for women, that is.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
How Superheroes Make Money: - Spider-Man knits sweaters. - Superman screw the lids on pickle jars. - Iron Man, as you would suspect, just irons.
~ Jim Benton
I love preshrunk cottons for traveling. Mamacita can wash and press them overnight — another space-saving trick. Whatever I've worn that day goes into the hotel bathtub for a good soak and some squishing back and forth, and then after a time Mamacita goes in and rinses them, rolls them in big towels, and irons them while they're still damp.
~ Joan Crawford
I had never ironed anything in my life. The proper pressing of a shirt was a mystery of the universe akin to black holes and dark matter.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Never iron a four-leaf clover, because you don't want to press your luck.
~ Anonymous
I find vacuuming very therapeutic, but I hate ironing. I usually have no shirt on while ironing, because I'm ironing it, and I end up burning my chest.
~ Warwick Davis
I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.
~ Vince Cable