Clean Quotes
1938 quotes by 1529 authors
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She was clean": no piercings, tattoos, or scarifications. All the kids were now. And who could blame them, Alex thought, after watching three generations of…
— Jennifer Egan
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I breathe in. The water will wash my wounds clean. I breathe out. My mother submerged me in water when I was a baby, to…
— Veronica Roth
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The sun has just risen, weak and watery-looking, like it had just spilled itself over the horizon and is too lazy to clean itself up.
— Lauren Oliver
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Too clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection;
— Jennifer Egan
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My greatest enemies are Women and the Sea. These things I hate. Women because they are weak and stupid and live in the shadow of…
— Iain Banks
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But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.
— William Shakespeare
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There had not been this many words sounded in our house for a long time, and it was going to take a while to clean…
— Shirley Jackson
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Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give is the…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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The short conversation that follows eventually led to a tree religion. Its tenet of faith was this: a tree that was a good tree and…
— Terry Pratchett
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The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds
— Thomas Merton
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Opening my door to Dillon Ruddick, my bulding super. I handed him a cup of coffee. "Sorry about the blood." "What was it this time?"…
— Janet Evanovich
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Writing can be described in two verbs: Throw up and clean up.
— Ray Bradbury
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The people are immensely likable— cheerful, extrovert, quick-witted, and unfailingly obliging. Their cities are safe and clean and nearly always built on water. They have…
— Bill Bryson
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As we drove uptown, I spotted a Kmart on a corner,with its familiar red sign.I cleared my throat."Wait. Can we stop for a minute?" "What…
— L.A. Weatherly
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Children, as persons, are entitled to the greatest respect. Children are given to us as free-flying souls, but then we clip their wings like we…
— Gerry Spence
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The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean…
— Oscar Wilde
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On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
— Aldous Huxley
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Sometimes you've got to make a mess before you clean it up.
— Deb Caletti
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Clean hands, Sansa. Whatever you do, make certain your hands are clean." ~ Lord Petyr Baelish, Littlefinger
— George R. R. Martin
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I suppose I’ll have to clean up Freddy’s brains; I hate to leave a mess for the home owners. Hand me that plastic bag; I…
— Rachel Caine
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