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Ronin Quotes

Radio, sewing machine, bookends, ironing board and that great big piano lamp - peace, that's what I like. Butterbean vines planted all along the front where the strings are.

Radio, sewing machine, bookends, ironing board and that great big piano lamp - peace, that's what I like. Butterbean vines planted all along the front where the strings are.

Eudora Welty
Women, Home, Ironing Board
Eudora Welty (1982). “The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I saw a lot of 47 Ronin on the TV, in the films, and I've done Chushingura Gaiden Yotsuya Kaidan [Crest of Betrayal, 1994] directed by Kinji Fukasaku.

Hiroyuki Sanada
Betrayal, Done, Ronin
Source: collider.com

Sophia Loren is the embodiment of what a woman should be -- the epitome of femaleness. Most of the young people today are just ironing boards.

Rona Barrett
Ironing Board, People, Boards

I still can't set up the ironing-board. A complete Luddite.

Jenny Eclair
Ironing Board, Boards, Stills

A kitchen without an ironing board? Are you kidding? It's un-American. It's like Simon without Garfunkel.

Erma Bombeck
Ironing Board, Kitchen, Boards
Erma Bombeck, Bil Keane (2011). “Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!”, p.53, Fawcett

Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things.

Daniel Radcliffe
Ironing Board, Example, Boards
"Dan the man". Interview with Craig McLean, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2009.

Time passes and the pain begins to roll in and out as though it’s a woman standing at an ironing board, passing the iron back and forth, back and forth across a white tablecloth.

Audrey Niffenegger
Pain, Ironing Board, White
Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “The Time Traveler’s Wife”, p.290, Zola Books

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