Quotes About Neatness

We should see the desire for neatness, the desire for sharp impressions, as a desire in art.

I love things that are really linear and perfect and simple.

Si un escritorio desordenado es signo de una mente desordenada, ¿qué significa un escritorio ordenado? LAURENCE J. PETER

How did the apartment look?" Riggle wondered. "Nothing was out of place.

The loft was as clean and neat as the day they'd arrived. The pillows and blankets were stacked near the fan. The floor had been swept. Not a piece of trash or litter could be found. She was quite proud of the Mexicans. She had treated them with respect, and they had returned the favor.

They were the worst threats to a home, for they offered ease and thought and companionship as opposed to neatness, order, and properness.

WHEN TWO MEN LIVE TOGETHER they usually maintain a kind of shabby neatness out of incipient rage at each other.

washed clean like a porcelain, with housewifely care...

There was a skill to organizing your life into neatly bundled anecdotes, and he lacked it.

Her brain is like a filing cabinet – everything neatly stored in categories. My brain is more like soup – everything all blended and mushed together.

If she were neater, she might not have to resort to panic searches when she misplaced important things.

Until the middle of the twentieth century, men earned most of the income for the family, while women, as "traditional housewives," were responsible for providing services to family members and converting money into status.54 This was seen most clearly in the value placed on neatness, cleanliness, decorations, and entertaining as lavishly as budgets would allow.

When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.

His own clothes were simple but always clean and neat. When some hippies argued that this was not "natural," Omori said nothing but pointed to a nearby cat, busy cleaning and smoothing its fur.

Except cleaner. And bossier.