Emo Philips

I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, 'I'm going to mop the floor with your face.' I said, 'You'll be sorry.' He said, 'Oh, yeah? Why?' I said, 'Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well.

American Comedian

Bronte Campbell

I'm actually really good at vacuuming, and I don't even mind it so much. I hate dusting with a passion, and I am not a fan of tidying up, but vacuuming I can do. And mopping floors: I'm not bad at that, either.

Australian Athlete

Khalil Mack

When you do something, do it right the first time... When you're talking about hard-working, when you go out of your way to mop floors and strip them and do all those things, it's kind of like, 'Dang.

American Athlete

Theaster Gates

My first experience with the creative was mopping tar. If you let the tar sit, it can get cold pretty quickly. And because the mops are so heavy, you've got to dip it and then ride it really fast.

American Artist

Jose Feliciano

I thought I'd be spending my life making brooms, mops, chairs and things. That's fine for some blind people, but I wanted something more out of life. Music seemed the best way.

Puerto Rican Musician

Jill Lepore

When I was a kid, my father would go to our school in the summer to sweep, mop, and wax the floors, room by room, hall by hall, week after week.

American Historian

Joy Mangano

I was just was tired of bending down, putting my hands in dirty water, ringing out a mop. So, I said, 'There's gotta be a better way.

American Inventor

Julian Castro

And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone.

American Politician

Saoirse Ronan

I love cleaning. I love mopping the floor. If you need your floor mopped, I'm there.

Irish Actress

Jerry Hall

You can burn a lot of calories mopping the house.

American Model

Think of a mop as a special broom for wet cleaning, not sweeping.

Cleaning Tool

Mops are mostly used for floors, unlike sponges for counters.

Floor Specific

Mops require water or cleaning fluid to be effective.

Wet Usage

Use 'mop' when referring to absorbing or wiping up liquids.

Absorb Liquids

Mopping is not just spot cleaning; it's used for entire surfaces.

Complete Cleaning

Mopping is often done regularly to maintain cleanliness.

Regular Chore

When someone is 'moping', they are visibly gloomy or down.

Show Sadness

'Moping' is about expressing sadness, not cleaning.

Not Literal

Moping often refers to a temporary state of sadness or sulking.

Temporary Mood

 Your body has a remarkable capacity to begin healing itself, and much more quickly than people had once realized, if you simply stop doing what's causing the problem. And so, really, so much of what we do in medicine and life in general is focused on mopping up the floor without also turning off the faucet. I love doing this work,

Dean Ornish: Healing...

 From an economic point of view, this is good math, isn't it, that we should do this? It actually costs an enormous amount to mop up the damage from the dropout crisis. But the dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school

How to escape...

 mentored by wise teachers when you ask the janitors who behave like the ones I described how hard it is to learn to do their jobs they tell you that it takes lots of experience and they don't mean it takes lots of experience to learn how to mop floors and empty trash cans it

Our loss of wisdom -...

 they are also surprisingly comfortable with the insects in their fur sloths actually have a special relationship with a moth called the sloth mop and you can see him crawling all over her right now and these moths spend their entire life on the back of the

Zoologist spots Three...

 While you're reading the sign, we pull a rope behind the counter and eight mop heads drop on your head. That was just my one thing -- I said we had to have something that drops on people's heads. It became mop heads. And this is the fish theater,

Dave Eggers: 2008 TED...

 To stop further global warming, permanent storage has to mean tens of thousands of years at least, which is why trying to mop up our fossil carbon emissions by planting trees can help, but it can only be a temporary stopgap.

Fossil fuel companies...

 So, if my three older sisters were mopping, I was mopping. If my three older sisters went to public school, my parents would sue the school system and guarantee that I went too, and if we didn't all get A's,

I got 99 problems......

 that helps. Whereas living room water, it's better to do tar on the roof." And it sounds silly, but that's basically what we do. And I'm not saying you shouldn't mop up your water if you have cancer,

Danny Hillis:...

 the wolves are mopping up birds especially any that are slow to take off the young falcon is exposed and vulnerable

Young Falcons Learn to...

 so you said that this is one of your most important photographs why oh why does this move you this picture is mops