Clean Room Reverse

Famous quotes containing the words clean, room and/or reverse:

“When we traded the buffalo for a mare,
we had no milk to drink,
and we still had droppings to clean up.”
—Punjabi proverb, trans. by Gurinder Singh Mann.

“Last night you lay a-sleeping? No!
The room was thirty-five below;
The sheets and blankets turned to snow.
MHe’d got in: Dirty Dinky.”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)

“We came home from the ridotto so late, or rather so early, that it was not possible for me to write. Indeed we did not go ... till past eleven o’clock: but nobody does. A terrible reverse of the order of nature! We sleep with the sun, and wake with the moon.”
—Frances Burney (1752–1840)