Shaving Quotes - Page 3

• Think of something you really care about. Then add hour to hour and calculate the fraction of your life that you've actually spent in doing it. And then calculate the time you've spent on things like shaving, riding to and fro on buses, waiting in railway junctions, swapping dirty stories, and reading the newspapers.

  George Orwell

  Dirty, Reading, Thinking

  George Orwell (1986). “Coming Up for Air”, Harvill Secker

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• I see evil when I look in my shaving mirror. It is, philosophically, present everywhere in the universe in order, apparently, to highlight the existence of good. I think there is more to this theory, but I tend to burst out laughing at this point.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, Mirrors, Order

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• First it's pretty tires. Next it's pretty guns. Then the next thing you know, you're shaving your beard and wearing capri pants.

  Si Robertson

  Gun, Pants, Next

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• Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person.

  Charles Dickens

  Law, Knowing, Shy

  Charles Dickens (1848). “The Old Curiosity Shop ... With a Frontispiece. From a Painting by Geo. Cattermole, Etc”, p.168

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• When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Lovers, Grows, Back In Time

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• According to what we've been seeing recently in the area where the terrorists control, where they ban people from going to schools, ban young men from shaving their beards, and women have to be covered from head to toe, and let's say in brief they live the Taliban style in Afghanistan, completely the same style.

  Bashar al-Assad

  School, Men, People

  Fuente: legrandsoir.info

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• I think that the point of being an architect is to help raise the experience of everyday living, even a little. Putting a window where people would really like one. Making sure a shaving mirror in a hotel bathroom is at the right angle. Making bureaucratic buildings that are somehow cheerful.

  David Chipperfield

  Thinking, Mirrors, People

  "'In Britain, money and marketing are what matter most'". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2005.

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• Anything over-handed, I do left-handed. Like throwing a ball or serving in tennis. Otherwise, right-handed, like writing and shaving.

  Mike Weir

  Writing, Tennis, Balls

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• The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Running, Thinking, Political

  "Bartlett's Unfamiliar Quotations". Book by Leonard Louis Levinson, p. 237, 1971.

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• Why don't men ... leave off those detestable stiff collars, stocks, and things, that make them all look like choked chickens, and which hide so many handsomely-turned throats, that a body never sees, unless a body is married, or unless a body happens to see a body's brothers while they are shaving.

  Fanny Fern

  Brother, Men, Clothes

  FANNY FERN (1857). “FRESH LEAVES”, p.249

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• Cuando terminó la guerra y los chicos volvieron a afeitarse todos los días, el editor pensó que las tiras de Beetle Bailey estaban perjudicando sus esfuerzos disciplinarios para que los chicos volvieran a la rutina.

  Mort Walker

  Hurt, War, Editors

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• El secreto de un matrimonio duradero es afeitarse las piernas todos los días... porque demuestra que aún te importa.

  Gloria Estefan

  Long, Secret, Legs

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• sasha growled low in his throat. "Send the wolf to watch them," he mocked in falsetto. His nostrils flared. "I swear Z, if I live, I'm going to rip that damned goatee off your face and stick your shaving cream in the fridge.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Rip, Shaving Cream, Watches

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Retribution”, p.311, Macmillan

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• Eric Holder sees everything through the prism of race. He keeps that mustache because shaving cream is white.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Race, White, Shaving Cream

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• The thing about breaking up when you get older, you just don't have the steam anymore. "Oh, that's it. I can't start shaving my legs above the knee again."

  Elayne Boosler

  Heartache, Legs, Knees

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• Men sucked. They were the root of every problem any woman could ever have. They were the reason for bras, the need for makeup, hair stylists, shaving legs, and high heels that made the arch feel like it had a steel rod slammed up it. They were picky, arrogant, argumentative, and so damned certain of themselves <...>.

  Lora Leigh

  Makeup, Men, High Heels

  Lora Leigh (2013). “Navy SEALs Complete Series: 3 Books + 3 Novellas”, p.855, Macmillan

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• 3 whole Catfish, Wrapped separately Veet (It’s for Shaving your legs Only you don’t Need A razor. It’s with all the Girly cosmetic stuff) Vaseline six pack, Mountain Dew One dozen Tulips one Bottle Of water Tissues One Can of blue Spray paint

  John Green

  Girly, Blue, Water

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.31, A&C Black

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• Supongo que no soy tan metrosexual. Mi armario del baño apenas rebosa de productos. Sólo tengo mis cosas para afeitarme. No puedo decir sinceramente que me hidrate, aunque probablemente debería hacerlo.

  Clive Owen

  Stuff, Cabinets, Bathroom

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• During the course of the year a number of ideas just come up automatically. I could be walking down the street. Or shaving. An idea will hit me and I'll write it down. Then, when I'm ready to write, I check my little matchbooks and napkins and find that it is good or it's pretty terrible. There are other times when I don't have any ideas and I'll go into a room and close the door and I sit and sweat it out for a day or a month and eventually I come up with [something].

  Woody Allen

  Writing, Doors, Years

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• If you feel comfortable by shaving your body, then shave your body. I feel comfortable keeping my body ready by shaving. I don't think it's unmanly to shave; I think that if you can get past that, you're fine.

  Ryan Sheckler

  Past, Thinking, Body

  "Ryan Scheckler Talks Manscaping". Interview with Lucas Wisenthal, www.askmen.com.

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• Why do we shave? It doesn't seem like a natural activity. There are no examples of shaving in nature. The only creature that comes close is the male South Pacific Groping Beetle, which sometimes, just before mating, will slap on a little Aqua Velva. But we think this resulted from atomic testing.

  Dave Barry

  Thinking, Aqua, Males

  Dave Barry (2012). “The Greatest Invention in the History of Mankind Is Beer: And Other Manly Insights from Dave Barry”, p.39, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• You kids have fun, and be home by Thanksgiving!" our parents would call to us on Halloween night, as we staggered out the front door, weighed down by hundreds of pounds of concealed vandalism supplies, including enough raw eggs to feed Somalia for decades. By morning, thanks to our efforts, the entire neighborhood would be covered with a layer of congealed shaving cream and toilet paper that, around certain unpopular neighbors' homes, was hundreds of feet thick. This is how the Appalachian Mountains were formed.

  Dave Barry

  Morning, Fun, Halloween

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• After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Typewriters, Talking

  Henry Miller Frank L. Kersnowski (1994). "Conversaciones con Henry Miller", Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• No me molesta ir a la peluquería. Y afeitarme cada mañana es una pesadilla. Me pasé la adolescencia cubierto de trocitos de papel higiénico.

  Alan Moore

  Mañana, Adolescente, Años

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• Lo que más me molestaba era el afeitado. No me gusta mucho afeitarme y tenía que afeitarme muy bien, las manos, la cabeza, el nacimiento del pelo, toda la pelusa de la cara, todo menos las cejas, para que se me pegara el brillo, la especie de esmalte que me ponían.

  Jude Law

  Manos, cejas, abanicos

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