#clean

Never trust a man who dresses too well or stays too clean. It ain't natural and whatever he's up to probably ain't legal. ↗

— Sue Merrell

#legal #natural #trust #well-dressed #nature

When someone hands you a broom, get a few buckets of paint. That is how a janitor becomes an impressionist. If the 19th century French style could improve upon nature, it can make your floor look clean. ↗

— Bauvard

#brooms #cleaning #custodians #funny #humor

Piper bit her lip. The last thing she wanted to do was check Katopris for more terrifying images. 'I've tried,'she said.'The dagger doesn't always show what I want to see. In fact,it hardly ever does' 'Please,'Percy said.'Try again.' He pleaded with those sea-green eyes, like a cute baby seal that needed help.Piper wondered how Annabeth ever won an argument with this guy. 'Fine,'she sighed,and drew her dagger ↗

— Rick Riordan

#percy-jackson #piper-mclean #cute

I don't deserve you." "You're not allowed to say that." "Why not?" "It's a breakup line. Unless you're breaking up-" Jason leaned over and kissed her. The colors of the Roman afternoon suddenly seemed sharper, as it the world had switched to high definition. "No breakups," he promised. "I may have busted my head a few times, but I'm not that stupid. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#jasper #mark-of-athena #piper-mclean #rick-riordan #grace

I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by the postman, along with the news that I had a state scholarship to Oxford. I had waited for this letter for so many weeks that I had abandoned hope, deciding that I had failed ignominiously. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#along #cleaning #deciding #exam #failed

I was raised really, really healthy, pretty much vegetarian and a very clean lifestyle, I don't smoke, I don't drink. I'm more addicted to the things that make me feel good - endorphins after working out. ↗

— Elizabeth Berkley

#after #clean #drink #feel #feel good

Beauty is finding the right fit, the natural fit. To be perfect, you have to feel perfect about yourself ― avoid trying to be someone you're not ↗

— Rick Riordan

#piper-mclean #the-lost-hero #beauty

I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty. ↗

— George Burns

#clean #dirty #i #i can #remember

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children. ↗

— Albert Camus

#breathe #children #clean #clean air #disenfranchised

He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#cleansed #completely #dies #fit #glory