Quotes About Maintenance

There's such a buildup of crud in my oven, there's only room to bake a single cupcake.

Pick the weeds and keep the flowers.

One way of preventing disease is worth fifty ways of curing it.

The Rose Bowl is the only bowl I've ever seen that I didn't have to clean.

Actually, I comb my hair quite often. Of course, I use an electric toothbrush.

Note to self: When noticing flyaway hairs, do not use lip gloss as an 'on-the-go' hair gel.

Obviously, the best way to remount a chain is to buy an entirely new, fully assembled bike in your favorite color. This is a foolproof method, but time-consuming and expensive.

She didn't like gardening or cleaning, so she wasn't about to have 'shit that needed watering or dusting' around her place.

If it can't be fixed by duct tape or WD-40, it's a female problem.

Oh, well,' Mrs. Zender continued, 'Mother always said that Mr. Zender had other talents. He was good looking, and I think Mother put looking good right up there with the harpsichord, an instrument that has limited performance time and requires a great deal of maintenance.

avoiding the crumbling driveway, whose variously

Any piece of furniture, I don't care how beautiful it is, has got to be lived with, and kicked about, and rubbed down, and mistreated..., and repolished, and knocked around and dusted and sat on or slept in or eaten off of before it develops its real character, Selina said.

Such a collie was Lad. At a time when Bruce and Wolf and Bobby and Lady and young Gray Dawn were half naked, Lad was still carrying the enormous outer and under coat which by rights should have been his in January. Not for another month or more would he begin to shed in real earnest—and to strew the floors and rugs and furniture, and the trousers legs and skirts of the household, with tufts and strands of dead hair.

To keep every cog and every wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

Everything on this farm spells money in the bank. The farmstead abounds in fresh paint, steel, and concrete. A date on the barn commemorates the founding fathers. The roof bristles with lightning rods, the weathercock is proud with new gilt. Even the pigs look solvent.

Built in 1975, the Division Four unit is, like Henry Horner, made of cinder block, which jail authorities quickly learned did not provide the best of security. Because prisoners scraped through the mortar with metal spoons, the jail switched to plastic utensils in 1979. And after several inmates used the top of their dressers to beat through the walls, some in as little time as a minute and a half, the dressers were finally removed in 1981.

The old Jack's yardstick: if it moves, salute it! If it doesn't, paint it!

The maintenance of a facade predisposes a person to somatic illness because it imposes a constant stress upon the body. One tries to be what one isn't which deforms the personality and the body. When the deformation (stress) persists long enough, the internal structure of the body breaks down.

Clothes are particularly hard to value. While cars and high-tech gadgets - Maseratis, Audemars Piguet watches, and first-generation iPhones - offer not only performance but the cachet of a visibly rich item, clothing does less to convey what you spent on it. Clothes get stained and snagged, and they go out of style quickly.

Your skin is like a plant. You have to water it. Make sure it's hydrated, not just squeaky clean.

For me, one of the important things about keeping vocally healthy is warming up and making sure I'm aware where my voice is at, drinking lots of water and getting plenty of sleep, and just taking care of myself with exercise and eating healthy.

People blame me because these water mains break, but I ask you, if the water mains didn't break, would it be my responsibility to fix them then?

I like a pretty, undone look. So I wash my hair every other day so it doesn't get dried out, and I let it air-dry. If I want soft waves, I'll braid it first.