Quotes About Maintenance

I am a gardener, I have a big green thumb, and I can take care of these plants really easily because they are all fake.

We all have insecurities. It takes maintenance and constant practice to first identify what they are so we can have an understanding of how we tick and, second, to put forth the action to deal with them.

You get into such a routine of trying so hard each day and racing between 180 and 220 km., and as soon as you stop, it's weird, but you start to seize up. So it's easier if you keep the body ticking over. You just feel better for it come race day.

I go to the hairdresser once a month and even if I don't use products, I always want to look tidy.

I really have to force myself to tidy up around the house.

For me, it's all about the haircut. I don't have a lot of hair to style, so I keep it nice and fresh and tight. I actually go to the barbershop every five days. As soon as your haircut is on point, you have to make sure your outfit is fully ironed, you smell good, and you have clean sneakers on. Pretty much the head-to-toe look.

The exertion it takes to get back in shape when we are out of shape is arguably more than it takes to stay in shape...

When the smoke thins, I can look across at the other buildings. So many of the windows are broken. Maybe the maintenance men in Arthur's office have already started putting in new panes.

It was only a few years ago that Madame Tussaud's announced that the company had found it necessary to use glue to 'fix' one of its most popular wax figures. 'Every time we passed by,' a curator explained, 'Bill Clinton's zipper was undone.

I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I'm learning how to do basic wiring.

Kitchen (and people) maintenance is not very complicated. It boils down to two basic precepts: Handle fragile things with care, and clean up your messes as soon as possible. Anything else is extra.

Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.

Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.

I really am super lazy and doing long hair, especially mine, is a big pain in the butt. It's filled with cowlicks and kinks and curls and frizz - and it was taking too much time in the morning.

I shave my legs twice a week. It's hard the first time you do it. But I'm very lazy. For a team photo in December I just did the fronts.

The only time I'm miserable is when I can't keep an instrument in tune.

The thing about doing anything artificial to your hair is that you have to look after it. So you're always vulnerable to the weather and time

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Why the hell do I have to keep updating my apps on my iPhone all the time and why you don't fix that?

Make sure your bathroom is clean. If you're having a girl over the house for the first time, make sure your toilet is clean, not disgusting. Guys' bathrooms are always the most disgusting thing.

Grime is not like messiness or some fingerprints on a cabinet; it takes a long time to accumulate.

Creating a healthy relationship is like creating a small, land-locked country. The borders are always under threat and every day you have to shore them up. So when something in the country implodes, the shockwaves move outwards and the borders push back until eventually the crisis subsides …

The eighth and ninth floors housed the library. It had several million volumes in open stacks, all the major newspapers and periodicals either bound or on computer, and a map section. Expert librarians maneuvered a seemingly limitless budget to keep it well maintained and up-to-date. The reference collections were wonders of the world.

If you don't take care of your house, let support beams rot, the roof fall in, and the very foundation crack and crumble, you can't blame some storm that comes along for knocking the whole thing down. You've got to take responsibility for your part in it all.