Quotes About Maintenance

Um, I think bangs are a very big commitment and not to be decided on a whim. Depending on how fast your hair grows, you could be growing them out for a year or more. But if you're serious, I think you should wait till fall, because it'll be summer before you know it, and bangs in the summer can be sort of sticky and sweaty and annoying.

People think they want to know. Actually, if you ask—-how much would you pay to know, the answer is not much. . . . Do you care how your refrigerator works? No, as long as there's a repairman around when it breaks down. Nobody really cares.

It is an enduring satisfaction for our species to make little systems and tend to them.

So—a French garden, as far as I can tell, is a garden that gets tended. You know, my aunt, she walks around it slowly and bends down now and then to pull up some shit, or to stick some other stuff in somewhere. That's a French garden. An English garden is something that used to be a French garden but that no one does anything to anymore. So, it looks run-down. Things don't grow in proper lines. This is what they tell me. My

You don't pay much attention to the construction of ships?" "No, as long as they float; if they sink, I get out.

The whole thing seemed to run better while I was away.

looked at the tires carefully, looking for cuts or stone bruises. Everything seemed in good condition. It evidently made no difference whether I was there to look after things or not.

It has the look of a home where the wife takes care of everything inside, while the husband neglects everything outside.

If it ain't broke, don't let some stupid fucker fuck it up sort of thing.

One broken window, left unrepaired for any substantial length of time, instills in the inhabitants of the building a sense of abandonment—a sense that the powers that be don't care about the building. So another window gets broken. People start littering. Graffiti appears. Serious structural damage begins. In a relatively short span of time, the building becomes damaged beyond the owner's desire to fix it, and the sense of abandonment becomes reality.

I touch up my roots at home every 2 weeks so my blonde roots don't show.

pooper scooper (also poop scoop)

Using Wiradjuri language on the cover of my novel makes a strong statement … regarding the reclamation and maintenance of the traditional language of my family.

My hair looks awful while wet, I will say that.

I sometimes don't wash my hair for two weeks. That's pretty disgusting. It's short, so sometimes it's easier to just wet it.

To protect my hair from breaking, I never comb my hair when it's wet.

The body maintains balance in only a handful of ways. At the end of the day, disease occurs when these basic systems are out of whack.

In all honesty plastic surgery these days goes hand-in-hand with beauty maintenance. It's nothing new. Who I am, my body, I was not created from surgery, at all, whatsoever.

I've been cutting my hair ever since college. I try to do that whenever it gets rough. I'm not too cheap to go the barber shop, but I mostly try to do that by myself. I try to keep my skills sharp.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

I used to keep my Air Jordans icy white. I had one toothbrush for my teeth - and a couple of toothbrushes for my shoes.

If your ceiling is falling down, don't you call someone in? I apply the same principle to myself.

I want a pit crew... I hate the procedure I currently have to go through when I have car problems.

There's no way my body can be fixed, but what we can hope to do is keep all the deteriorative processes as minimal as possible.