Scrubbing Quotes

28 Scrubbing quotes by 26 unique authors

I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is instead of going to the… — Joanna Lumley
Rewriting is like scrubbing the basement floor with a toothbrush. — Peter Murphy
Maketa Groves has a strong, bright lyric gift. Her poems come out of music and are full of music. They bring us the sounds of… — Diane di Prima
She found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job like scrubbing a deck could be satisfying,… — Philip Pullman
As you deal with thumb-crossings, or fingerings for the F-sharp-minor scale, or chromatic scales in double thirds, it is hard to accept that these will… — Jeremy Denk
Give yourself permission to get the most out of your life. If you're spending all your time scrubbing corners with a toothbrush, you're kind of… — Sandra Lee
Gammy used to say, 'Too much scrubbing takes the life right out of things.' — Betty MacDonald
We all make mistakes, as the hedgehog said as he climbed off the scrubbing brush — Anne Sullivan Macy
When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. Women face childbed and the scrubbing brush, revolutionaries keep their mouths shut in the torture… — George Orwell
If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk with it and… — Lucy Stone
I've always quite liked the idea of being an archeologist, sort of scrubbing around in the dirt. — Ruth Wilson
I knocked part of my tooth out with a scrubbing brush on stage whilst singing 'Hard Knock Life' in Annie. — Sarah Jessica Parker
The most admirable method is that by which each wash of colour, large or small, is never disturbed. It admits of practically no overpainting, sponging… — Walter J. Phillips
Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency. — Richard M. Nixon
Old Flossie settle down on the other side of What-the-Dickens and dragged some handiwork out of a sack. She armed herself with two thorns shaped… — Gregory Maguire
She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit and grown hard… — George Orwell
There is nothing like scrubbing toilets for a living to make you question the choices you have made in life. — Raegan Butcher
Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can't be with her, the least… — Veronica Roth
I want a tutor,” Layla said. “It would make doing homework so much easier.” “Me too,” said Kaitlyn. “If Layla gets one, I get one.”… — Claire LaZebnik
Something about first love defies duplication. Before it, your heart is blank. Unwritten. After, the walls are left inscribed and graffitied. When it ends, no… — Tammara Webber
How have you been? You’re still as beautiful as ever.” “As are you, my dear. I love your shoes.” “Aren’t they delightful? I saw them… — Derek Landy
It's being a grown up, which I never figured out how to do, scrubbing the tub, and remembering to eat and shampoo my hair. It's… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Intelligence is the effort to do the best you can at your particular job; the quality that gives dignity to that job, whether it happens… — James Cash Penney
She was scrubbing furiously at a line of grease spots which led from the stove towards the door to the dining-room. That was where Henry… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The Butterfly Project: The Rules are: 1. When you feel like you want to cut, take a marker, pen, or sharpies and draw a butterfly… — Kaile Stewart

Who Wrote These Scrubbing Quotes

26 authors contributed a total of 28 Scrubbing Quotes, led by these top contributors: