A bureaucrat's idea of cleaning up his files is to make a copy of every paper before he destroys it. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
I get the same buzz cleaning up the yard as Leo Tolstoy did from scything hay. — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output. — Buffy Sainte-Marie Copy Share Image
Some of us are like a shovel brigade that follow a parade down Main Street cleaning up. — Donald T. Regan Copy Share Image
I don't mind cleaning up the mess that some other folks made, that's what I signed up to do — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Cleaning up with children around is like shoveling during a blizzard — Margaret Culkin Banning Copy Share Image
Of course I was delighted the flight was over, but I still had to worry about cleaning up inside the cabin, I… — Alan Shepard Copy Share Image
I started making some proper decisions, getting things in order. It's kind of like cleaning up your house. I was looking for… — Scott Stapp Copy Share Image
Technology is a servant who makes so much noise cleaning up in the next room that his master cannot make music. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Cleaning up after themselves was a low priority for Margo and my mother. They had both recovered from cancer scares, failed marriages,… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
If we took over Britain, then we'd have the job of cleaning up the bourgeoisie and keeping people in a revolutionary state… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
There we times when everybody in the house has the flu. You're cleaning up vomit and it's 2 in the morning, and… — Meg Tilly Copy Share Image
Nancy Pelosi said that when it comes to cleaning up government, the Democrats have drained the swamp. The only problem with that… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Cleaning up the country cannot be the sole responsibility of sweepers. Do citizens have no role in this? We have to change… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
I'm serious. I've got to get people to realize that the government is full of it. Republicans and Democrats want to argue… — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
Another guy barked orders to a small army of brooms, mops, and buckets that were scuttling around, cleaning up the city. "Like… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Stockholders are used to a certain kind of global capitalism. This version is very hard on the environment and very hard on… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
We are committed to cleaning up the air and cleaning up the water. But we also are committed to a strong economy,… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
In my home state of Delaware, we've done our homework and worked hard and, as a result, we've made great strides in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We [Afghanistan government] were in the process of cleaning up the government when these attacks happened in the north - not only… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
[David Milch] had say, "You have to understand that our history of western movies, what we've been doing in westerns since the… — Keith Carradine Copy Share Image
Sometimes I had the feeling that all of us in his family were like pets to him. The dog you take for… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
As I would soon learn myself, cleaning up what a parent leaves behind stirs up dust, both literal and metaphorical. It dredges… — Roz Chast Copy Share Image
It's hard not to hate. People, things, institutions. When they break your spirit and take pleasure in watching you bleed, hate is… — J-Ax Copy Share Image
When you are converted, you want to do what you didn't want to do before, and you don't want to do what… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Even when couples share more equitably in the work at home, women do two-thirds of the daily jobs at home, like cooking… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
Neville recommends at the end of every day, before you go to sleep, to think through the events of the day. If… — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
There's a story about when President Lyndon Johnson visited NASA and as he was walking the halls he came across a janitor… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
It seemed that the good people were always cleaning up the messes. — William Kent Krueger Copy Share Image
After years of hotels, I'm horribly inept at cleaning up after myself. — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
The shadow banking sector has played an important role in cleaning up toxic assets. — Anshu Jain Copy Share Image
War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults. — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
Superfund was passed with the good intention of cleaning up America's toxic waste sites — Fred Thompson Copy Share Image
So you can look me in the eye and say that you are a president committed to cleaning up the environment? — Matt Lauer Copy Share Image
When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done! — Dennis Weaver Copy Share Image
The Dutch and the Norwegians, they are known for dikes and for cleaning up water and for dealing with spills. — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
I think the record shows that as Speaker, I have taken the lead in cleaning up politics. — John Bercow Copy Share Image