Soap Quotes

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants. (William Osler)
There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it. View quote
Erma Bombeck
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. View quote
Mark Twain
There is no water and still less soap. We have no city, but lots of hope. View quote
Mary Pope Osborne
Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values. View quote
Willa Cather
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble? View quote
Alan Perlis
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. View quote
C. S. Lewis
Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit. View quote
Lillie Langtry
They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera. View quote
Michael Zaslow
You ought to be thankful for the little things But little things are all you seem to give You're always putting off what we can do today Soap opera says you've got one life to live Who's right, who's wrong? View quote
Janet Jackson
To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver. (Philip Roth)
Advertisement is an absolute necessity of modern life, and if it can be made beautiful as well as obvious, so much the better for the makers of soap and the public who are likely to wash. View quote
Aubrey Beardsley
Indiana was really, I suppose, a Democratic State. It has always been put down in the book as a state that might be carried by a close and careful and perfect organization and a great deal of- [from audience: "soap,” in reference to purchased votes, the word being followed by laughter]. I see reporters here, and therefore I will simply say that everybody showed a great deal of interest in the occasion, and distributed tracts and political documents all through the country. View quote
Chester A. Arthur
Granted, not really a joke, but how often do you get a mic in your hand? You know? So. I am sorry but don't anybody trip on my soap box on the way out. Don't anybody trip over that. And the chip on my shoulder's a little heavy. I have back problems now. View quote
Janeane Garofalo
New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
I knew it, I just knew it! The person who had the job of writing my life's dialogue used to work on a very low budget soap opera. View quote
Marian Keyes
With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future... all of it felt as tenuous as a soap bubble, shivering and empty. View quote
Scott Westerfeld
For awhile I taped soap operas and watched them at night when I thought I might be forgetting what it was like to be human. After a while I stopped, because from the examples I saw on those shows, forgetting humanity was a good thing. View quote
Charlaine Harris
Think 'Game of Thrones.' In the old days, this sort of show might be considered bad writing. It doesn't really seem to be moving toward a crisis or climax, it has no true protagonist, and it's structured less like a TV show or a movie than a soap opera. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
Apparently unaffected, she rose. "Yeah, you're probably right. I should be going." She feigned a yawn. "You've gotta head back to work and I've gotta head to jail. Big night for me. I'm planning to shiv someone for a bar of soap. View quote
Kresley Cole
I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother. (Bob Edwards)
I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair. View quote
Sadie Frost
A pioneer is not someone who makes her own soap. She is one who takes up her burdens and walks toward the future. View quote
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God. View quote
Aaron Eckhart
I have nothing but admiration for the actors on soap operas. It is unbelievably challenging to put out an hour show in one day. View quote
Catherine Mary Stewart