#leaning

I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut. ↗

— Josh Lucas

#burst #cleaning #dishes #domestic #friends

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#ambition #be strong #bury #destroys #else

You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try. ↗

— Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards

#cleaning #contented #cooking #make #need

It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I'll look like before I start cleaning the slates. ↗

— Julia Roberts

#chance #cleaning #even #give #i

The thought processes that go through my head when I'm playing a game compared to the thought processes in real life are very, very different. And they're more interesting to me than what you think about when you're doing the dishes, cleaning the yard, watching TV, driving or watching a movie. ↗

— John Romero

#cleaning #compared #different #dishes #doing

I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#demeaning #find #i #toilets

Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets. ↗

— Klaus Kinski

#cleaning #continue #i #making #movies

I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days. ↗

— Dick Schaap

#clear #cliches #common #days #how

I think that most artists are leaning towards fragile idiots. ↗

— Josh Silver

#fragile #i #i think #idiots #leaning

The combination of ammonia and chloride can be lethal but I've discovered it can work miracles as long as you keep telling yourself, "I want to love, I want to live... ↗

— David Sedaris

#funny #humor #joke #funny