Have you ever walked along a shoreline, only to have your footprints washed away? That’s what Alzheimer’s is like. The waves erase the marks we leave behind, all the sand castles. Some days are better than others.
Our trademark asymmetrical hairstyle came about by accident. My sister was trying to get her beautician’s licence, and I was her guinea pig. She permed my hair and didn’t wash out one of the sides properly, so the whole right side of my hair was eaten out. After she washed it, I was half bald.
You better have an anchor in life. It doesn’t matter if you’re a Division I head football coach or Joe Schmo from Okemoh. Bad things happen. If you’re not anchored, you’re going to be washed away.
Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
The Washed Out thing happened really quickly, and I wasn’t really actively promoting the songs. I didn’t think of them as any more than demos, really, and it sort of became a thing on its own.
My mother cleaned houses. I washed dishes.
I was raised by a lady that was crippled all her life but she did everything for me and she raised me. She washed our clothes, cooked our food, she did everything for us. I don’t think I ever heard her complain a day in her life. She taught me responsibility towards my brother and sisters and the community.
To me, nature is so inspiring – that sense of constant change, the way things are cleansed or washed away, and it’s beyond your control.
Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.
I’m actually loving the soundtrack to ‘The Secret Circle’ that our music supervisor Liza Richardson puts together, like Washed Out and Cults, but my favorite band is Bootstraps.
You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn’t lose a man. They all made the switch. That’s where the great talent is.
The rush that you get from having a good night’s sleep is so exotic: to feel powerful and clean, capable and potent, as opposed to washed up, impotent and mute.
Life is a glass of wine and having your feet washed – it’s a biblical event, might I add. This is part of mankind’s story. You are always looking for a moment to take a break.
We don’t put gender roles on our marriage and our relationship. If I’m working a lot and Cory’s home, he will put Cree to bed, and if dishes need to be washed, he will wash them. So it’s not like, ‘Oh, I’m going to wait until my wife gets home, and she’s going to be doing all that.’
‘Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.
I liked Nicole Kidman because she is so fashionable she can do less is more. It was very, very simple, but it was so chic. Some people thought she looked washed out, I didn’t at all.
My parents and my family really tried to maintain as much of a normal environment as possible. When I went home, it wasn’t Keshia Knight Pulliam the actress, the glitz, the glamour. It was Keshia the daughter. Oldest of four children, who washed the dishes and did everything she was supposed to do.
Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept – and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.
We have no one to stand up for the fighters’ rights. If something bad were to happen, no one backs him, and it’s just him alone, and everything gets washed out. We need people to stand up and fight for it.
I went right from wunderkind to washed up. Old. Been around too long. That’s just the way I feel. That’s my internal dialogue.
A lot of the early Washed Out material was done on a couple of synthesizers that did most of the work, but that’s the great thing about synths – you can recreate sounds or make an entire record with just one piece of gear.
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