“Normal is just a cycle on the washing machine.”

— Whoopi Goldberg

Source: "Whoopi Goldberg in full flight" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/apr/18/whoopi-goldberg-saturday-interview. Interview with Cole Morton, www.theguardian.com. 2009-04-17

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American actress 1955

Susan Beth Pfeffer book Life As We Knew It

Source: Life As We Knew It

“Oh and the waves are going out
Oh and the waves are coming in
Out of the corner of my eye
I think I see you standing outside
But it's just your shirt
Hanging on the washing line
Waving it's arm as the wind blows by
And it looks so alive
Nice and white
Just like it's climbed right out
of my washing machine…”

Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer

Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sea of Honey (Disc 1)

“It goes without saying that the normal durability of fixed capital is calculated on the supposition that all the conditions under which it can perform its functions normally during that time are fulfilled, just as we assume, in placing a mans life at 30 years on the average, that he will wash himself.”

Karl Marx book Das Kapital

Source: Das Kapital (Buch II) (1893)

“The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself. The machine that appears to be "out there" and the person that appears to be "in here" are not two separate things. They grow toward Quality or fall away from Quality together.”

Robert M. Pirsig book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 26
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

“Have you ever noticed that there are no Maytag user groups? Nobody needs a mutual support group to run a washing machine.”

Jef Raskin (1943–2005) American computer scientist

Programmers At Work (1986)

“Unshed tears leave a deposit on your heart. Eventually they form a crust around it and paralyze it, the way mineral deposits paralyze a washing machine.”

Susanna Tamaro (1957) Italian writer

Source: Follow Your Heart

“Isn't it better to talk about the relative merits of washing machines than the relative strength of rockets? Isn't this the kind of competition you want?”

Richard Nixon (1913–1994) 37th President of the United States of America

Remarks to Soviet premier Nikita Krushchev during the Kitchen Debate (24 July 1959)
1950s

“The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully on the barren surface of the moon.”

Lewis Mumford (1895–1990) American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and literary critic

Source: The Culture of Cities (1938), Ch. 7, sct. 16

“wash the brush, just beats the devil out of it”

Bob Ross (1942–1995) American painter, art instructor, and television host

Source: The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross, Vol. 29

“To compare the patronizing pedantry of A Course in Miracles with any line or two from the New Testament gospels is like comparing a washing machine repair manual with Shakespeare.”

Robert M. Price (1954) American theologian

Top Secret (2008)

“Normal is just a cycle on the washing machine.”

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