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Quotes About Washing

The red washingdown the bathtubcan't change the color of the seaat all.
~ Derrick Brown
A fire department isn't a waste of tax money, even if those assigned to it spend most of the time washing their cars.
~ David Drake
I splashed some water on my face again because I thought that's what you do in a crisis. You wash your face. Did it really help, or was it a myth circulated by the soap industry?
~ David Liss
I used to get bummed out when it rained; then I realized that it's God's way of washing off hippies.
~ Demetri Martin
I find myself dreaming of doing normal things - like staying home and washing dishes.
~ Shalom Harlow
You know it's time to do the laundry when you dry off with a sneaker.
~ Zach Galifianakis
It's not as if I don't like men, I just have more respect for my washing machine.
~ Lois Greiman, Unscrewed
I have made myself two or three caps to wear of evenings since I came home, and they save me a world of torment as to hair-dressing, which at present gives me no trouble beyond washing and brushing, for my long hair is always plaited up out of sight, and my short hair curls well enough to want no papering.
~ Jane Austen
They do not usually deal with amenities—features that are not essential but make living a little easier, such as drapes, washing machines, swimming pools, saunas, parking places, intercoms, and dishwashers.
~ Janet Portman
As He said to Peter in express words, "If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me;" so He says to them all in effect, though not in words,"If ye wash not each other, if ye refuse to serve one another in love, ye have again no part with me." This is a hard saying; for if it be difficult to believe in the humiliation of Christ, it is still more difficult to humble ourselves.
~ Alexander Balmain Bruce
During the Depression, much of my career was dictated by a fanatical aversion to washing dishes. The only job I could find to finance college involved washing dishes,so I joined the Navy instead.
~ Keith Robertson
out back where I do the wash
~ Kelly Link
A chill December morning dawned, with rags and tatters of mist hanging on the trees like poor people's washing.
~ Ken Follett
My mom always said normal is just a cycle on the washing machine.
~ Wynonna Judd
The maggots will nibble off the dirt, you muck snipes!" Mrs Curdle would snigger. To dry off afterwards, she would peg the children to the washing line by their ears. TWANG! Once, when Elsie was found with a pet rat in her pocket that she had befriended, Mrs Curdle used it as a ball in a game of cricket. THUD! "EEEEEK!" WHIZZ!
~ David Walliams
So what I want to know is this. How often do all these hairy-faced men wash their faces? It is only once a week, like us, on Sunday nights? And do they shampoo it? Do they use a hair-dryer? Do they rub hair-tonic in to stop their faces from going bald? Do they go to a barber to have their hairy faces cut and trimmed or do they do it themselves in front of the bathroom mirror with nail-scissors?
~ Roald Dahl
and a barge that sailed into the banqueting-hall with his week's washing, just as he was giving a dinner-party; and he was
~ Kenneth Grahame
I had long since cut ties with that world, like a yakuza stepping out of the game and washing his hands of it once and for all. I had no more use for dreams. Dreaming was for the moviegoers, fingering their pulpy paper tickets. Not for me.
~ Yukio Mishima
Modern ballet costumes are very delicate, and some cannot even be washed at all. These costumes are hung up to air out and sprayed with freshener.
~ Jenna Jones
Rico laughed a little, feeling helpless. "Is your life always this...I don't know-" "Tide of chaos washing ashore on the beach of what the fuck? Yesh.
~ Amy Lane
Welsh rugby has done its dirty washing in public. It's nothing new. We're a tribal bunch. If warring parties want to sway public opinion, they do it in the public arena.
~ Alun Wyn Jones
His blood on the rocks of Shayol Ghul, washing away the Shadow, sacrifice for man's salvation.
~ Robert Jordan
Wash the spears—Life is a dream. Wash the spears—All dreams must end.
~ Robert Jordan
Unlike cats dogs never scratch you when you wash them. They just become very sad and try to figure out what they did wrong.
~ Dave Barry