#rubbing

I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is instead of going to the gym. ↗

— Joanna Lumley

#carrying #each #floors #going #gym

On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise most of the time to abstraction from objects. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#actions #give #hand #individual #most

The ad in the paper said 'Big Sale. Last Week.' Why advertise? I already missed it. They're just rubbing it in. ↗

— Yakov Smirnoff

#advertise #already #big #i #just

Well, I'm used to rubbing shoulders with crooks and criminals. ↗

— Jason Statham

#crooks #i #rubbing #shoulders #used

If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk with it and beat her afterwards. It was his dollar. ↗

— Lucy Stone

#beat #dollar #drunk #earned #get

An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing? ↗

— Peter Brook

#directing #earth #finding #icon #jesus

Your spikes, which were really quite long then, would catch the material of the track and your shoe would get heavier. I was simply filing them down and rubbing some graphite on the spikes. I thought I would run more effectively. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#down #effectively #filing #get #heavier

She was scrubbing furiously at a line of grease spots which led from the stove towards the door to the dining-room. That was where Henry had held the platter tilted as he carried the steak in yesterday. And yet if she had warned him once about that, she had a thousand times! ↗

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#carried #door #furiously #grease #had

I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#between #border #chipping #come #cultures

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#floors #much #presidency #scrubbing