Tracy Chapman

Maybe it's naive to say, but it almost seems like, in the past, people tried to sell you something you would actually need, like a hammer or a broom or a toothbrush. But now there's this notion that they can sell you anything. And all they have to do is convince you that you need it.

American Musician

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

Indian Leader

Julie Foudy

I don't know if there's any sport that's stupid, but I really don't understand curling. I guess I'm just not into brooms on ice.

American Athlete

Manini Mishra

I had heard stories about witches flying on a broom as a kid and I would always think, wow, they had their own private jet.

Indian Actress

Keith Richards

Give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string; I wouldn't get bored anywhere.

English Musician

Trent Reznor

It's not like I ride a broom into interviews. I don't hang upside down with a cape on.

Patti LaBelle

I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone.

Salim Akil

My wife asked me to marry her. But we did not jump the broom.

Zora Neale Hurston

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

American Dramatist

The term 'broom' often implies manual cleaning of floors or streets.

Cleaning Tool

In fairy tales and stories, witches are depicted flying on brooms.

Witch's Vehicle

A broom is a common household item; every home usually has one.

Household Necessity

Broom plants are known for their bright yellow flowers in spring.

Yellow Flowered

Wild broom is common in natural landscapes and rough terrain.

Landscape Plant

Broom is a hardy plant that grows back quickly even after cutting.

Fast Grower

Used as a verb, 'broom' means to sweep the floor or ground.

Action Word

While correct, 'broom' is less commonly used as a verb compared to 'sweep'.

Less Common Verb

People may use 'broom' as a verb in informal spoken English.

Spoken Informality

 Look at what she has done. The whole wall is her canvas. She's sitting there with a broom. Is she an artisan or an artist? Obviously she's an artist; she's a creative person. If we can create markets for these artists, we will not have to employ them for digging earth and breaking stones. They will be paid for what they are good at, not what they're bad at.

Anil Gupta: India's...

 and frickin' bat caves, like, for real. And all it takes is a broom closet or a back room or a fire escape, and Danny's hand-me-down jeans are gone. And my navy blue polo shirt, the one that looks kinda good on me but has that hole on it near the butt from when it got snagged on the chain-link fence behind Arturo's

My journey from Marine...

 and interviewed people in offices and facilities all over the city, and I learned a lot, but I was still an outsider. I needed to go deeper. So I took the job as a sanitation worker. I didn't just ride in the trucks now. I drove the trucks. And I operated the mechanical brooms and I plowed the snow.

What I discovered in New...

 in equal distance from each corner. We can find the center of mass for other objects by similar calculations, or by finding the object's balancing point, which lies right underneath its center of mass. Try balancing a broom by holding it and slowly bringing your hands together until they meet.

An athlete uses physics...

 That's the first thing he ever did that wasn't Shakespeare. Clive Barnes in The Times said that it was as if Mr. Papp took a broom and swept up all the refuse from the East Village streets onto the stage at the Public. He didn't mean it complimentarily,

Why theater is essential...

 learned over the years is that when you use a broom collar to a very intense dog it doesn't really help it actually frustrates them or pinches him you know it just creates an irritation my suggestion is to use it when there's not so much intensity

A Rescue from Euthanasia...

 other things I thought would come in handy then I took a look at the cleaning supplies I noticed the brooms had steeled tie wire wrapped around them where the straw bristles were attached to the wooden

"MacGyver"-like Prison...

 insects are so abundant in the montado that a pair of portuguese swallows regularly rears three brooms each season rather than the two more typical in britain

A Collection Of Summer...

 This is performance art, and people would come over, and I would start sweeping. Because the broom was free and sweeping was free. It worked out.

Theaster Gates: How to...

 When I was 16, found my bloom and found my man, we jumped the broom. We pledged each other the rest of our lives