Thelma Harper famous quotes

Housework is like cleaning fish. No matter how often you do it, it still stinks.
-- Thelma Harper

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I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.

I've always liked older ladies, ever since my mother would have B'nai B'rith at our house.

The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.

There are bullfighters who do it just for the money-they are worthless [said Hemingway]. The only one who matters is the bullfighter who feels it, so that if he did it for nothing, he would do it just as well. Same holds true for damn near everyone.

In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.

There's no getting away from it: you have to clean.

we learn the process of emptying out, cleaning house, both within and without.

I was so emotional. Choked up. I could hardly talk all day. I'll be cleaning out my trailer and saying goodbye soon, realizing what a wonderful experience this has been.

My favorite way of getting out of doing chores is by acting like I'm asleep. But it never works.

Some of us are like a shovel brigade that follow a parade down Main Street cleaning up.