Washbasin Quotes & Sayings

She suffers according to the digits
of my hate. I hear the filaments
of alabaster. I would lie down
with them and lift my madness
off like a wig. I would lie
outside in a room of wool
and let the snow cover me.
Paris white or flake white
or argentine, all in the washbasin
of my mouth, calling "Oh."
I am empty. I am witless.
Death is here. There is no
other settlement. — Anne Sexton

Elmer has the mentality of approximately one peanut. — Frank Zappa

And so, October 13, 1977; 8:29 p.m. EST became the dawning moment of Year Zero to the rest of the universe. — Rob Reid

One of my most vivid memories of the mid-1950s is of crying into a washbasin full of soapy grey baby clothes - there were no washing machines - while my handsome and adored husband was off playing football in the park on Sunday morning with all the delightful young men who had been friends to both of us at Cambridge three years earlier. — Claire Tomalin

Love isn't all sparks and firecrackers. Sometimes it's more subtle than that. — Becky Wicks

the brain cannot do its most important job of organizing sensory messages. — Carol Stock Kranowitz

What [he] is apparently objecting to is that not everyone takes his beliefs seriously. Indeed, some don't seem to respect his beliefs at all, and actually poke fun at them. Well, I have news for [him]: that's the nature of a free society. Opinions don't necessarily merit respect; they must earn respect in the marketplace of ideas. — Jeffrey Shallit

All her life she had wanted to squeeze the toothpaste really squeeze it,not just one little squirt ... The paste coiled and swirled and mounded in the washbasin. Ramona decorated the mound with toothpaste roses as if it was a toothpaste birthday cake — Beverly Cleary

It was one of those country parties where it felt as if no matter where you went you were always being watched by either a live horse or a dead stag, until you found yourself lingering by the washbasin after a piss just to escape this weirdly oppressive ungulate panopticon. — Ned Beauman

Remember the point of Christianity isn't to learn a lot of truths so you don't need God anymore. — Paul E. Miller

Wine?" said Zoe. "At two in the afternoon?"

"I've decided to become an alcoholic. Just for the duration of my middle years." She filled a glass and rested it on the edge of the washbasin. "That's yours. — Mo Hayder

This country is not pro-American. It is United States property. — Juan Bosch

I got Twin Peaks, and the part was basically written for me, which was a really big shock. I think everything really changed with the right teacher coming together, but before that I worked with Sondra Seacat; she's amazing and very spiritual, but I hadn't worked with her on specific roles. I just was in classes with her. — Sherilyn Fenn

We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets. — Karl Popper

I don't want to get pigeonholed. — Miranda Lambert

One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

I was once on a mission, on a cruise I was wishin, that my mom was in the kitchen, eatin chicken, finger lickin. — Brandon DiCamillo

The flies buzzed in answer above the dirty water standing in the washbasin, in which floated a solitary black hair. It, too, was like life
and as meaningless. — Stella Gibbons