Soap famous quotes
04-09-2025
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
-- Alan Perlis -
In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.
-- Alec Baldwin -
Now that we all agree contraception is a bad idea, let's take a harder look at electricity and soap.
-- Andy Borowitz -
Soap, like people, shouldn't smell like anything.
-- Andy Rooney -
I'd like to be rich enough so I could throw soap away after the letters are worn off
-- Andy Rooney -
I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soap-boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.
-- Anita Loos -
I was on the soap opera 'Days of our Lives.
-- Ashley Benson -
An unemployed electrician,whom I had been taunting with my reminder of how much richer I was, leaned forward and said:'What are your qualifications? I know exactly what your qualifications are.You bent over in the shower to pick up some soap at Eton and Harrow, like all the rest of them.
-- Auberon Waugh -
The older woman waiting for admittance looked at me, then over her shoulder at Patch, who was vanishing down the hall. “Honey,†she told me, “he looks slippery as soap.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
A girl could lather up in soap like that.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.
-- Cam Gigandet -
There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.
-- Corbin Bernsen -
Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
-- Dan Stevens -
It's much easier for me to be silly than it is to be serious on soap opera.
-- Doug Davidson -
Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap, but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make.
-- Elizabeth Bishop -
In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.
-- Fareed Zakaria -
I live like a monk: with one toothbrush, one cake of soap, and a pot of cream.
-- Greta Garbo -
Wash four distinct and separate times, using lots of lather each time from individual bars of soap.
-- Howard Hughes -
Are you implying that our relationship is like a Spanish soap opera?†“I’m not implying. I’m saying it.
-- Ilona Andrews -
Her perfume or soap or whatever it was reminded him of sandalwood and something else. Oh, right...orgasms.
-- J.R. Ward -
I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theater because every day it's a new script, which really doesn't have a beginning, middle or end like a play or a movie script. So you have to be on your toes and bring it every day. And you have to be spontaneous, which is really how I like to work.
-- Jack Wagner -
I worry that our lives are like soap operas. We can go for months and not tune in to them, then six months later we look in and the same stuff is still going on.
-- Jane Wagner -
I am like a child who blows up a bubble of soap. At first the bubble is very small, but it is already spherical. Then the child blows the bubble up very softly, until he is afraid that it will burst.
-- Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot -
He's clean," Ritchie announced. Chance wrinkled his nose with mild distaste. "Can't say the same about you. Really, man, soap is nothing to fear.
-- Jeaniene Frost -
I never pictured myself as a telenovela galan - never imagined Id be in a soap opera.
-- Jencarlos Canela -
You've got to realize that any lady on a soap is devoting her life to it, 24/7.
-- Joan Van Ark -
So I had all the names, three names, and that's good to have on a soap.
-- Joan Van Ark -
I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.
-- Joyce Maynard -
The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.
-- Kabir -
I intend to stay on her like hair on soap.
-- Kathryn Stockett -
Soap operas got nothing on my family history.
-- Kiersten White -
We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
-- Larry McDonald -
A pioneer is not someone who makes her own soap. She is one who takes up her burdens and walks toward the future.
-- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich -
I loved him, but love isn't enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they're all lies. Love does not conquer all.
-- Laurell K. Hamilton -
There is no water and still less soap. We have no city, but lots of hope.
-- Mary Pope Osborne -
I just don't see ABC letting go of soaps completely.
-- Michael Easton -
You would be amazed at the pompadour that I was rocking in the first job I had on the soap opera called 'Loving,' my first contract job.
-- Michael Weatherly -
I have to stay in soaps to pay my bills to Kodak.
-- Michael Zaslow -
They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera.
-- Michael Zaslow -
I think some period drama can be quite alienating, but 'Downton' isn't. This is going to sound quite, um, pretentious, but someone said that it's like a soap written by a poet.
-- Michelle Dockery -
Soaps are a great springboard for any actor but if you want to be taken seriously, you have to be careful.
-- Michelle Ryan -
My grandma told me never, ever, ever to use soap on my face. But I do use lotion.
-- Natalia Kills -
When you work on a soap opera, that's three years of you working every day. There was no time to do anything other than the soap opera - you're locked in.
-- Nathan Fillion -
I watch soap operas. I bake brownies. Normalcy is coursing through my veins.
-- Parker Posey -
He made enemies as naturally as soap makes suds.
-- Percival Wilde -
Soap, gloves, isolating patients, not reusing needles and quarantining the contacts of the ill - in theory it should be very easy to contain Ebola
-- Peter Piot -
I wash with my own soap-wear my own perfume...got to bed on my own sheets... have my own food products. I live on me.
-- Pierre Cardin -
I inherited good skin from my mother, and I stay away from soap, which dries it out.
-- Raquel Welch -
How many evangelism programs have you encountered in which sharing the gospel assumes no relationship with the customer and Jesus is sold like soap?
-- Reggie McNeal -
'Revenge' is a shameless soap in the style of Eighties shoulder-pad slap-offs like 'Dallas,' 'Dynasty' and 'Falcon Crest.' Yet there's no wink-wink camp.
-- Rob Sheffield -
Women are like bars of soap. After a while they lose their freshness, become worn and a bit hairy.
-- Robert Black -
When I got off the soap I got offered all these, you know, 'women in jeopardy' -- I call them 'disease of the week' movies.
-- Sarah Michelle Gellar -
I look back at that time fondly. It's something I never thought I'd get the chance to do, be in a soap. Working with Barbara Windsor and Steve McFadden - they're legends in their own lifetimes aren't they?
-- Sophie Thompson -
I started with commercials - for shampoo, pancakes, insurance, Volvo. I did a Lux soap commercial with Sarah Jessica Parker. And I got a role in an indie film called Satellite that did well in festivals.
-- Stephanie Szostak -
The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap and much more difficult to find.
-- Terry Pratchett -
The SOAP stack is generally regarded as an embarrassing failure these days.
-- Tim Bray -
A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on.
-- William Devane -
Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
-- William Osler -
Zen is like soap. First you wash with it, and then you wash off the soap.
-- Yamaoka Tesshu -
People who work on soaps all the time understand the formula of how to do it.
-- Amy Hill -
I've always said, I prefer the opera to the soap - those extreme characters and circumstances.
-- Anthony Geary -
In soaps, people come back from the dead all the time, to the point where death is just a bus stop.
-- Anthony Geary -
If someone tells me, "I just wash my face with soap," we have that discussion. And a lot of men, too. Thank god Paul Scheer knows to moisturize.
-- June Diane Raphael -
I learned English by watching soaps as a kid, and since I don't have any formal education and can't teach at the universities like other literary writers do.
-- Kola Boof -
Soap, a cleaning product, can be made from decay.
-- Leonardo Drew -
At the end of the day, every media entity is in the business of selling soap. They're not afraid of being popular.
-- Lino Rulli -
I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.
-- Bob Edwards -
Even the Beatles lived their lives as a soap opera.
-- Chris Lowe -
For more than 13,000 days on the run, my life was a soap opera.
-- Ronald Biggs -
The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera.
-- Stefan Kanfer
