Roz Chast Quotes

I'm the biggest slob in the world. My apartment is a mess.

There is no one to sweep a common hall.

Rather filthy 2 -- Filthy 10 -- Very filthy 45 -- Exceedingly filthy 7 -- Disgustingly filthy 26

I went goodness knows how long without a bath.

There's basically filth everywhere, and there's no way to escape it.

I don't care about style, but I am a total clean freak, so a messy home is a deal breaker. I had one girlfriend who never wanted to go back to her place. When we finally did, it turned out that she was sleeping on her couch because her bedroom was so messy. That is a prime example of someone I don't want to be around.

I've accrued a kind of patience, I believe, loosely like change.

The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting. And the dust that falls on it every day remains there. Everything that's come down to us from the past has been conserved by dust.

The sublime is contained in a grain of dust.

Never is an awfully long time.

Hope is a slow business.

I know that age to age succeeds, Blowing a noise of tongues and deeds, A dust of systems and of creeds.

It is a long time,' repeated his wife; 'and when is it not a long time? Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.' 'It does not take a long time to strike a man with Lightning,' said Defarge. 'How long,' demanded madame, composedly, 'does it take to make and store the lightning? Tell me?

There are no drive-thru breakthroughs. Breakthroughs take time.

So we must love, while these moments are still called today, take part in the pain of this passion play, stretching our youth as we must, until we are ashes to dust, until time makes history of us.

Merely having seen the season change in a country gave one the sense of having been there for a long time.

If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes. If you continue complaining, it won't be long before they haul you out to a financial desert and there let you choke on the dust of your own regret.

Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.

And when midst fallen London, they survey The stone where Alexander's ashes lay, Shall own with humbled pride the lesson must By Time's slow finger written in the dust.

Now, I'm not very vain. If I'd ever been, making my living covered in various grease and dirt mixtures would have cured me quickly. Still, I wasn't up to facing two sexy men when I had one eye swollen mostly shut and half of my face black and blue.

Houses are full of things that gather dust

I look at my four boys, who are the colors of silt, loam, dust, and clay, an infinite palette for children of their own, and I understand that time erases whiteness altogether.

We are dust and to dust return. In the end we're neither air, nor fire, nor water, just dirt, neither more nor less, just dirt, and maybe some yellow flowers.

The blowing thing is something that you either have a predilection for or not. And I don't have that thing. It was just unsanitary. I couldn't do it. I am a complete germaphobe.

The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.