Quotes About Maintenance

The only thing "free" about so-called free time is that it doesn't cost the boss anything. Free time is mostly devoted to getting ready for work, going to work, returning from work, and recovering from work. Free time is an euphemism for the peculiar way labor as a factor of production not only transports itself at its own expense to and from the workplace but assumes primary responsibility for its own maintenance and repair.

Le temps libre est principalement consacré à se préparer pour le travail, à revenir du travail, à surmonter la fatigue du travail. Le temps libre est un euphémisme qui désigne la manière dont la main-d'oeuvre se transporte à ses propres frais pour se rendre au labeur et assume l'essentiel de sa propre maintenance et de ses réparations.

The pump don't work'Cause the vandals took the handles.

Backyard ducks that supposedly "take care of themselves" require more maintenance than the space shuttle.

While you're fixing what's broke, don't break what's fixed.

A dear friend once told her that being a parent is like being a car mechanic—you can repair the car and take care of the car and keep the car on the road, but you can't fundamentally change the car.

Matt and Olivia lived in a declining two-family held together by aluminum siding.

Messages we get about menopause more often tell us we must keep ourselves from much of what we want and need in this time. It's easy to get the idea that life in and after menopause is going to be little, dreary rituals of desperate maintenance and exacting control over food, exercise, the shape and size of our bodies, our skin, our intimate relationships, our sexuality, our leisure, our moods, robbing us of what pleasure we might have found in these things before.

Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me.

I feel like I'm kind of lazy, but I keep the yard looking good.

I learned that you don't take dishes from the table to the dishwasher; you have to rinse them first. I think that's stupid because I don't go out in the back yard and hose off before taking a shower.

I just work around the yard. There's always something to do around the house. You fix one end of it and the other end breaks. It's very normal. I love it.

My own back yard, and my mom and dad's back yard, is where I learned about tomatoes and weeds and daily maintenance.

When I'm not working, I'm down in North Carolina and we have a rather large yard, so I'm usually struggling with vines and pulling things down. I get plenty of exercise in the garden.

Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that'll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months.

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

That could stay, not forever, because we believe that nothing exists that is forever, not even the dinosaurs, but if well maintained, it could remain for four to five thousand years. And that is definitely not forever.

I was in Nashville, Tennessee, and I saw - we talk about crumbling bridges - I saw one, concrete literally falling onto the underpass below, threatening auto traffic.

I look after myself. I train and go to the gym.

I often go for ages without getting my hair cut, so every now and then I'll look like a tramp and have to go to a hairdresser.

The tragic thing is that we're letting our transportation system crumble at the exact moment we need to build it up.

The gas tax has been the backbone of the transportation system since the inception of the Interstate highway system in the 1950s.

I've made it very clear that building, maintaining, and fixing Maryland's roads and bridges is our top transportation priority, and it is a top priority of our administration.

A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.