85 Item Quotes for You to Enjoy

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you? Erma Bombeck

You Fire Smell Cares Else No-One Catch Housework Block Item Refrigerator Door Should Theory Multiply Why

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that. George H. W. Bush

The hardest thing about being a full time chef is leaving my work behind when I go home at night. I'll toss and turn about a menu item or forget to order produce and wake up at 4 A.M. in a cold sweat over some artichokes. Alex Guarnaschelli

Work Time Home Wake Up Cold Toss Some About Menu Over Chef Leaving Go Go Home Wake Item Up Forget Behind The Hardest Thing Being Order Turn Sweat Produce Full Full-Time Hardest Hardest Thing Thing Night

The concept of Shwopping is so clever, I think. The idea is that every time someone goes shopping, they can take an unwanted item of clothing and pop it in the recycling bin in their M&S store for Oxfam. Joanna Lumley

Time Shopping Recycling Clever Unwanted Every Think Every Time Someone Take Idea Concept Item Goes Oxfam Clothing Store Pop Bin

Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time. Paul Muldoon

I want to prove to my fans that I am beyond candy floss roles and item numbers. Amruta Khanvilkar

Fans Beyond Am Prove Item Roles Candy Want Numbers

The most luxurious item is a beautiful bed and beautiful, simple sheets. Andre Leon Talley

Beautiful Simple Luxurious Most Sheets Bed Item

If someone is making a very expensive purchase decision, they typically have a lot of questions about the fit and about what to wear the item with. In some cases, they'll ask for additional images or want to contact the designer. Aslaug Magnusdottir

Every other piece of industrial design is a pot or a dish or something insignificant. But when you have a chair, it's like a sculpture of a person: it's alive. It's big. You can't miss it. It's a 'look at me!' item. Charles Pollock

Clothes are particularly hard to value. While cars and high-tech gadgets - Maseratis, Audemars Piguet watches, and first-generation iPhones - offer not only performance but the cachet of a visibly rich item, clothing does less to convey what you spent on it. Clothes get stained and snagged, and they go out of style quickly. Christina Binkley

You Gadgets Car Value Style Clothes Rich Spent Visibly Out Only High-Tech Performance Particularly Does Go Item Quickly Offer Get Clothing While Stained Convey Hard Less Watches

I think it's important to wear clothing that means something to you, and so I always try to make sure I'm wearing at least one item that has a personal meaning to me. Coco Rocha

Me You Try Important Think At Least One Wear Wearing Something Make Sure Always Least Item Personal Clothing Meaning Means

About 25 years ago, I took a bicycle across the United States. I soon found out that the greatest item of clothing was the trusty bandanna. There were dozens of uses for a bandanna - as a pot holder, a chain cleaner, a sun shield, a headband, a snot rag, a declaration of Kerouacian intent. Colum McCann

Bicycle Took States Sun Out About Pot Cleaner Soon Greatest Shield Were Years Years Ago Item Trusty Intent Clothing Holder Declaration Across Uses Chain Rag Found United United States Dozens

A decent beard has long been the number one must-have fashion item for any fugitive from justice. Craig Brown

Fashion Justice Beard Long Been Item Any Decent Fugitive Number

Our to-do lists are so full that we can't hope to complete every item on them. So what do we do? We multitask, juggling several things at once, trying to keep up by keeping busy. Daniel Levitin

Hope Busy Every Complete Our Once Several Juggling Item Up Trying Lists Them Full Keep Multitask Keeping Things

For Google, the problem with being a free, abundant, and rather infinite set of services is that it's hard to create much of a stir about anything. There are so many major software service options under the 'more' menu on the Gmail page that they've had to go and add a final item called 'even more.' Douglas Rushkoff

Service Problem Free Google Add Software Final About Rather More Menu Had Abundant Major Go Stir Item Options Infinite Being The Problem With Anything Create Much Page Hard Many Even Services Set

To be honest, the piece of clothing from a man's wardrobe I wear most often, to bed and around the house, is my boyfriend's underwear. I think it's infinitely unfair that women are compelled to wear underwear with a comfort factor of zero whilst men stroll around in essentially the most comfortable item of clothing ever made. Emma Ishta

Man Women Made Men Unfair To Be Honest Think Stroll Wear Factor Most Piece House Comfort Comfortable Around Bed Boyfriend Underwear Women Are Item Infinitely Often Essentially Clothing Whilst Wardrobe Ever Zero Compelled Honest

It's essentially taught in high school and college survey courses as an item on a timeline: 'The Lusitania was sunk; the U.S. gets into World War I'. Erik Larson

War World School College High Sunk High School High School And College Courses Item Timeline Survey Gets Essentially Taught World War World War I

I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting, then I realised it was me. George Osborne

Today Leadership News Morning Me Experience Thinking Lying Ruled One Morning Out Shadow Lay Had Himself Bed Item Closest Closest Thing Realised Interesting Turned Then Ever Thing Four Chancellor Programme

We put suffocation warnings on all the - on every piece of plastic film manufactured in the United States or for sale with an item in the United States. We put warnings on coffee cups to tell us that the contents may be hot. And we seem to think that any item sharper than a golf ball is too sharp for children under the age of 10. Gever Tulley

Age Coffee Every Think Too States Tell Seem Put Hot Sharp Sharper Piece Contents Ball Sale Item Cups Than Any May Children Golf Golf Ball Us Warnings Plastic Film United United States

Every experience, good or bad, is a priceless collector's item. Isaac Marion

Good Experience Every Bad Collector Priceless Item

Early education is the type of issue politicians nod their heads at, and then when it comes time to make a tough decision, a financial trade-off, inevitably it's about the first item tossed from the table. J. B. Pritzker

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