Top 105 Laundry Quotes

I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.

We think of the Marine Corps as a military outfit, and of course it is, but for me, the U.S. Marine Corps was a four-year crash course in character education. It taught me how to make a bed, how to do laundry, how to wake up early, how to manage my finances. These are things my community didn’t teach me.

You don’t need to air your dirty laundry, you don’t need to trust everyone.

No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.

I’m kind of ashamed to be a celebrity. I don’t understand wanting to read about other people’s dirty laundry. I think celebrity is the biggest red herring society has ever pulled on itself.

I was raising seven kids. I lived in the bedrooms, in the laundry room, in the kitchen, in the car – car pooling all over. I just didn’t have time to sit down and watch a lot of TV. So I really didn’t.

I do the laundry. I do the shopping. I do the dishes.

I love being a mother; I hate being a housewife – the cooking, the laundry – because it takes away time I could be with my kids.

Guys should be doing laundry, doing dishes.

I lived in a little shack in Santa Monica, and I was working on ‘The O.C.’ and when it started airing, I took my laundry down to the laundromat like I always had, and so many people along the two blocks I walked and in the laundromat stopped me and asked me for photographs.

Everyone knows the best time to do laundry is later.

Vacuuming is great. I do the laundry. I love washing machines. I’m the maid in my house.

I watched a lot of television as a kid, and the suburbs to me – that was exotic! Like, a mom and dad who lived in the same house and had jobs and cooked breakfast at the same time every morning and did laundry in a washing machine and dryer? That was like, ‘Woah! Who are they? How do you get to be like that?’

Housework never really bothered me… what bothered me about it later was that it was expected to be your life… when you’re a housewife, you are constantly interrupted. You have no space in your life. It isn’t the fact that you do the laundry.

In 2011, I contributed an essay to Tin House, ‘The Dark Side of Dinner Dishes, Laundry, and Child Care,’ talking about women writers I felt had fallen off the map.

I’d sleep in a little, work out, do laundry, run errands, buy presents for people with birthdays coming up. I like it when I don’t have to be anywhere, and anything I do is my choice.

My worst job was working in the laundry of a nursing home.

I’m Latino, progressive, and I have deep roots in the working class – my father was a bracero, a guest farmworker and cook, and my mom worked as a nursing home laundry attendant.

My father was a restaurant man, laundry man in his lifetime. And I’ve often wondered how and why did I become an actor? Where did I get the so-called talent to express myself? And I look back, and I see that my mother was very animated. I can remember that she used to, what she called ‘bei zhu.’

If there is something that strikes me as interesting or beautiful or something I could learn from, and I don’t write it down, then I could be at lunch with you, and it’s like there’s a pile of laundry in my brain that I haven’t put away, and I struggle to really listen, so that’s always been important to me.

An actress once advised me, ‘Make sure you do your own laundry – it will keep you honest.’

Shopping for groceries for most people is like a chore. It’s like doing the laundry or taking out the garbage. And we strive to make shopping engaging, fun and interactive.

The conscious mind can only pay attention to about four things at once. If you’ve got these nagging voices in your head telling you to remember to pick up the laundry and call so-and-so, they’re competing in your brain for neural resources with the stuff you’re actually trying to do, like getting your work done.

Do I post pictures of my overflowing laundry basket or the dirty dishes by the sink? No, I’ll probably post a pic of the finished meal looking pretty. We’re all skewed in what we show.

If there were a category in the Olympics for laundry, my mother would have been a gold-medal winner.

I do laundry, but my bags from the last race will sit there until the very last minute that I have to do laundry again.

I really don’t go out. I love watching movies, and on a day off, I’ll work out, do groceries, do laundry, see a friend.

Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.

If everyone is good at something different, assigning chores is easy. If your partner is great at grocery shopping and you are great at the laundry, you’re set. But this isn’t always – or even usually – the case.

Growing up in New York, there are a lot of tenement buildings and a lot of projects. You don’t leave your projects too much. The laundry’s there. The grocery store is there. Everything takes place right there. When I got knowledge of myself and thought about moving around the city, hip-hop was something that helped me.

I try to do a variety of physical activities. I spin, take classes at Barry’s Boot Camp, go to the gym, use home DVD’s of ChaLEAN Extreme workouts, which I think are brilliant, and I run around after my three girls. Also, let’s be honest. The amount of laundry I do is an exercise in and of itself!

I procrastinate all morning. That’s when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what’s on the Internet and do laundry.

Don’t judge. I used to buy underwear because I didn’t do my laundry.

I wash my own dishes; I do my own laundry. I’m not a glamorous person at all, not at all.

An income tax form is like a laundry list – either way you lose your shirt.

I love doing laundry! It’s so satisfying. I love the way it smells. I love doing the sheets.

I am like that guy on the ‘Odd Couple,’ and it is not the neat guy. I go into my room and find pieces of pizza under the laundry.

I’m not so interested in what movie a celebrity is promoting or what television show might be premiering. I’m more interested in, ‘Does Channing Tatum know how to do laundry?’ I guess the more simple, personal sides of people.

We didn’t have money all the time to do laundry. A lot of the time, we didn’t have soap or hot water. We were smart kids academically, but we’d go to school smelling.

If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways – jumping in leaves, dancing to pop music, throwing socks in a laundry basket – they could be sowing the seeds of great habits that could last a lifetime. It is all about turning it into a game.

My God, it’s laundry and family when I come back home. I’ve got to see my brother and kids, and my sister-in-law, my aunts, my uncles, cousins; everybody is here.

Somewhere along the line a convention developed that the opening of a film was just a laundry list of credits. There was no incentive to complicate an area that was settled.

My laundry list of wants in a partner is basically kindness. I want someone who is kind, and that’s kind of where it begins and ends. I’m open to being surprised.

I have the distinct feeling that when I’m old, and I look back on my life, my thirties will be one huge blur. There’s a lot that gets neglected: exercise, dishes, laundry, my poor garden. I try to prioritize the important but non-urgent things over the unimportant but urgent things.

I put a lot of money in a coin-operated dry-cleaning place and it keeps losing money and I can’t get anybody to buy it. So I keep pouring more money Into it, and into the laundry next door which’my father owns.

I know how to separate my own laundry.

I’m not one to air my dirty laundry for the whole world.

We try to be conscious of the amount of trash we have. Having a water filter allows us to be aware of not using too many water bottles. Since I am not able to hand wash due to my schedule, I use Seventh Generation laundry detergent, and I feel less guilty.

I do the laundry, cook all the meals, take care of my kids and I love it.

I love being a housewife… I love doing laundry. Except I have a little bit of separation anxiety, and you have to separate your laundry, so I have a little bit of a problem there.

I did not find living alone difficult. In fact, it was such a liberating feeling because simple things like ironing my clothes, doing laundry, making my bed made me feel independent and gave me the sense of accomplishment that I can do it myself.

I started doing experiments – mostly in organic chemistry, because it was so much more interesting – in my mother’s laundry at home.

I’m pretty obsessive-compulsive, and I’m very fast. I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can’t not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops. I won’t eat right. I forget to do my laundry.

If you’re going away, be sure to cancel the paper, the milk, and the laundry pickup. Remove the fresh stuff from the ice box, lock the windows and doors, and phone the cops and tell them how long you’ll be gone so they’ll keep an eye out for burglars.

I know what it’s like to finish the laundry and to look in the basket five minutes later and it’s full again. I know what it’s like to pull all the groceries in, and see the teenagers run through, and all of a sudden, all of the groceries you just bought a few hours ago are gone.

I had the humble beginnings. I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.

Dubrovnik is still a thriving, bustling city with modern day shops, restaurants and bars yet still has the old city charm of street vendors, performers and women hanging laundry outside the windows.

The box office is a black money laundry shop. No business is straight.

I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.

I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.

I farm – there is something visceral about being attached to the land. I am a recording engineer. I do my own laundry most days, and I get on with the business of living.

It’s sweet that I don’t have to do my laundry.

Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you’ve got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn’t your biggest problem. Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash.

I always make the joke that I go home, to one of my homes, to go and do laundry so I can go on the road again.

I really like doing the laundry, because I succeed at it. But I loathe putting it away. It is already clean.

I quite like doing laundry. I find it quite like relaxing.

Airing the family’s laundry can make people upset.

Whether it’s destiny or fate or whatever, I don’t think I could do a French Laundry anywhere else.

Obviously, I’m not a Neanderthal. I do do laundry. I am a human being.

I’m comfortable airing my laundry. I don’t think one thing’s dirty or clean. It’s just what I wear.

Unlike the time sink of binge-watching a TV series, podcasts actually made me more efficient. Practically every dull activity – folding laundry, applying makeup – became tolerable when I did it while listening to a country singer describing his hardscrabble childhood, or a novelist defending her open marriage.

In a way it was like washing your laundry in public and, yep, there you go, you’ve seen my underwear. And now I feel like there’s nothing left, you’ve seen it all and I can get on.

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

In my experience in Washington, when people refuse to come clean, it is usually because they are hiding dirty laundry.

A good laundry room with storage can make life easier.

It is not weird for a dad to be doing the dishes, the laundry, and taking the kids to school, and read them stories for bed.

Everything’s always got to be character-based. We know we can’t, if we’re sitting in the editing room, watch the sequence for more than 20 seconds without a character having a point of view or moving the action forward; my brain just shuts down, or I start thinking about my laundry.

I mean, it’s a bit of a double-edged sword being a celebrity and being an actor as I’m sure you know. Your public laundry is constantly aired out and I thought that maybe I could do some good.

Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.

There’s a laundry list of reasons why not to borrow from your 401(k). While the money is on loan, it’s not working for you – and if you leave your job, you’ll have to pay it back in 60 days or treat it as a taxable withdrawal.

I made a dollar a day sweeping a laundry out. Then we made a record that was number two in Los Angeles. We got so excited hearing it on the radio that Carl threw up.

I like to cook chicken adobo and do my own laundry.

I find folding laundry very relaxing.

If you don’t go the gym, you don’t look good. If you don’t tan, you’re pale. If you don’t do laundry, you don’t got no clothes.

I will waste an extraordinary amount of time, you know. And if it’s not watching television, I’ll be sitting staring out of the window. And yes, I know there’s the idea of the artist, sitting there doing nothing while things are going on, but actually, no. It’s vacant space. I’m thinking about the laundry.

Long live your laundry!

I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories.

When I lived in Boston, I had an office that I rented because I found it wonderful to go away from my house to work: It was so quiet, and I couldn’t go to the refrigerator or do the laundry.

My husband and I have, in some ways, a non-traditional relationship – especially when it comes to domestic duties. He does most of the cooking, dishes, and laundry, while I do most of the yard work. I love to mow the lawn! And I take great satisfaction in planting and pruning.

I’m an OCD neat freak. I can’t stand messes. I make my bed every morning. Laundry. I do it all.

We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.

I don’t get rattled about the big things. I get rattled when I have to pick up my laundry, get gas in the car, pick up a script.

Women basically want the same thing – a good passionate story, a great fantasy – and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.

I love folding laundry.

I cook and do my own laundry.

When I was a kid, I worked as a clerk at my parent’s motel. From when I was eight or nine, I rented rooms, helped with laundry, folding tons of towels. And then I also worked at my dad’s gas station more as a young adult and as an adult.

Room service is nice. Ooh-la-la, a hotel. At home, it’s laundry and school lunches.

We lived in one of those half-basement apartments, and on our first night of being in America, someone reached through the grate that protects the window and stole our laundry detergent – which wasn’t a big deal, but it felt symbolic when I heard about it later as an adult.

I’m really good at laundry, and I have no problem cleaning the kitchen.

People ask me what I do in my spare time, and I look at them blankly, truly believing that I don’t even have spare time, and if I did, I’d probably use it for something mundane, like chipping away at the mound of laundry rising to dangerous proportions in the back room.

I love the smell of clean laundry. Working in the garden and getting my hands dirty. Doing the dishes. These are the things that make me feel normal.

I have a problem getting all my laundry done, cleaning up and doing all of the normal daily things that a grownup should do.

I do my laundry on a weekly basis.

I try to work in the mornings. Usually, I write in my pajamas and slowly assemble myself. I don’t get organized and sit down and get dressed. I do the laundry. I drift in and out of writing.

You don’t realize how hard it is to live on your own. But there’s no mom to do your laundry, and make you dinner and to do things for you, and you don’t think about little things like buying paper towels and salt.