Quotes About Wiping

You were lucky about that gun. All the people we know have been playing with it, wiping prints off and putting them on. I even put a set on myself just to be fashionable.

The truth was that nobody ever arrived without invitation, and all that tidying and wiping was performed out of what struck me as deep social atavism

He finishes and wipes his mouth. As he folds his napkin he says, "As the poet once said, 'Love has more faces than the moon.'" "What the hell does that mean?" "I have no idea. But it's very pretty, don't you think?

Doctors!" said Mr. Leslie, wiping the whole of the Royal College of Physicians off the face of the world with this withering remark.

chicken coop. The ground was still wet from the sprinkler. She didn't wipe her feet before she came in. "I have a problem," said the little bird.

In his mind he's that guy in the cowboy hat from The Walking Dead, wiping out the zombies.

We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touch.

Ik was er heilig van overtuigd dat ze niet zou bellen. Tenslotte was ik een hinderlijke getuige van een verleden dat ze koste wat kost wilde uitwissen; anders zou ze nooit zo hebben gehandeld als ze de hele avond gedaan had, door me op die manier te ontwijken.

Nursemaid, you mean? Someone who can sing me to sleep at bedtime, spoon porridge into my mouth, and wipe my"—he hesitated just long enough to make both servants cringe with dread—"chinif I dribble?" "I haven't the voice for lullabies and I'm sure you're perfectly capable of wiping your own…chin,

Our struggles with e-mail are a bit pathetic, but the larger topic is worth considering: Is it possible to design an environment in which undesired behaviors—whether yours or your colleagues'—are made not only harder but impossible? As it turns out, lots of people actually make their living contemplating how to wipe out the wrong kinds of behaviors.

Oh, subjective obstinacy had advantages, Morris, when we were busy evolving into nature's champion egotists. It led to human mastery over the planet Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and several times to our species nearly wiping itself out.

So I think we should stay focused on the real problem in the Middle East. It's not Israel. It's these dictatorships that are developing nuclear weapons with the specific goal of wiping Israel away.

You'll have to excuse me," Susan went on, wiping her hands self-consciously on her jeans. "The place is a mess, but I guess that's what happens when you have children.