Cleaning Up Quotes

“While meditating, we are cleaning up clutter in the backyard of our mind, triggering a shift in our thinking, and reshaping a drained logic in our mental network, giving voice to fresh concepts and new emotions. ("An egg every day?")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“She hated cleaning up after making something.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

“When all else fails, tidy up.”
― Nita Prose, The Maid

“To tidy up takes time, and she wants all her time for wolfing books...”
― Stella Gibbons, Nightingale Wood

“You can apply some leverage when your child is feeling energetic, "We can go to the park as soon as these blocks are put away." But when a toddler is tired or hungry, avoid a losing battle. Do it yourself for now. There will be plenty of other opportunities for your child to participate. Don't worry, this is not the last mess!!”
― Julie King, How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7

“A man's earthly possessions are in one of two places - the place he left them in or the place his significant other moved them to without telling him.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Money and sex are two of the most challenging aspects of life to declutter, but extremely worth the trouble.”
― Michelle Passoff, Lighten Up!: Free Yourself from Clutter

“First person singular obtaining colloquial orgasm within a Caledonian sandwich' it said, then looked annoyed, and spoke incoherently into a grille set in its belly which replied. It looked up and said, 'Sorry, as I was saying: I come in peace”
― Iain M. Banks

“you want the house to stay clean for all eternity

you hate it when people pass by

they ruin your work

when the cleaning is done

it instantly goes back to dirtiness

if someone even dares to eat a baguette

brush their hair

leave wrappers on the floor

chew jaad

leave orange peels

that does it

it’s doom for them

or for you”
― Malab, The Komorébi, The Breast Mountains Of All Time

“With Landsberg, Vivekananda had resumed vegetarianism and was happy to eat simply after the dinner parties and receptions. But Landsberg could not appreciate how cooking could be in some sense sacred, not least because Vivekananda was also a messy cook and Landsberg hated having to clean up after him: 'I regarded it as unworthy of men of spiritual aspirations to waste the greatest part of their time with thinking and speaking of eating, preparing and cooking the food, and washing dishes, while the frugal meals required by a Yogi could be had quicker and cheaper in any restaurant .... I only wonder that this 'doing our own cooking' suggested by some evil demon, did not land me in the lunatic asylum.”
― Ruth Harris, Guru to the World: The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda

“I want to read poems at the white house and then like any house reading we will all clean up together.
We will clean up the mess we have made together.
All that rubble and all those ashes. These are my conditions.”
― Joshua Clover