#cleaned

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#big #cleaned #distractions #dramas #fixed

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#always #been #blood #cleaned #genius

When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity. ↗

— James Taylor

#activity #ago #any #cleaned #felt

My cousin cleaned out a shotgun for me and let me carry it around the house, because he said, 'Anybody who knows anything about guns is going to know in a second if someone has held a gun before.' I didn't want to be that person. I wanted to be practiced. ↗

— Jennifer Lawrence

#anybody #anything #around #because #before

I started noticing how stained the pavements are in London. The pavements in Beverly Hills aren't used; in London, they're used for everything. It doesn't matter how much they're cleaned, they still reflect light. ↗

— Julie Christie

#beverly hills #cleaned #everything #hills #how

Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#back #back up #big #cleaned #draft

This house better get cleaned up in six months. The swamp is going to have to be drained pretty quickly. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#cleaned #drained #get #going #house

The kitchen may not get cleaned, and I have to accept that. I do the important things. ↗

— Jasmine Guy

#cleaned #get #i #i do #important

I grew up in a military family, and there's something about that military-style uniform, all cleaned up, a brutal control effort the military necessarily breeds. ↗

— Max Cannon

#breeds #brutal #cleaned #control #effort

I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket. ↗

— Lou Reed

#because #bucket #cleaned #i #kicked