Quotes About Neatness

I have a problem with cabinets being messy and people just shoving things in and closing the door. I will lie in bed and not be able to sleep because I'll say to myself: 'I think I saw something in that cabinet that just shouldn't be there.'

I don't like baggy clothes and looking like anything sloppy. The arms have to fit. The collar has to look perfect.

I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.

I have everything in my house organized to an unnecessary T, and I love it! The only downside: I have no excuses for losing my to-do lists.

The cleaner and neater your work environment, the more positive, productive and confident you feel.

If you walk into a woman's apartment and nothing's out of place, you know she's not going to want to stay in bed all day and order in Chinese food and eat it in bed. She's going to make you get up and eat toast at the kitchen table.

I really like keeping my kitchen counters as clear as possible. I tend to function better when there's less clutter.

With his pinned-back ears and face suffused with strong, hard-to-read feelings, Bowie looked sleek and dangerous briefly, belying the neatness, the pampered hands.

Such, gentlemen, is the inflexibility of sea-usages and the instinctive love of neatness in seamen; some of whom would not willingly drown without first washing their faces.

In a small space, you want to keep the bedding as simple as possible so it looks clean, calm and collected.

Sometimes I just want to sit and write at a clean table and not get paint all over my hands.

When you say 'control freak' and 'OCD' and 'organized,' that suggests someone who's cold in nature, and I'm just not. Like, I'm really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don't like to make big messes that would hurt people.

He sculpted his sentences neatly, measuring them out with a cadence that seemed to promise an ultimate moral that never emerged.

How terrifying empty beds were. The neatness of the sheets and blankets was like the neatness of a mowed and trimmed graveyard.

But I like labels," she admitted. "They make everything so much clearer." Her sister Bree always told her she liked things to be wrapped up too neatly, and that part of the point of life was its messiness, its refusal to be wrapped up. Brett always took the advice with a grain of salt—it was probably Bree's excuse for a messy room, or for breaking up with boys she'd dated without actually telling them.

I'm not a clean freak. My house is a mess.

I don't like to see mess.

I hate a mess.

I hate mess. I have the worst OCD so I'm not a hoarder of clothes.

I hate a messy closet. I totally freak out when my closet is messy and I can't find anything.

I do a little bit of minimal brow wrangling myself. I get the strays out of the way.

I'm not comfortable leaving the apartment if the bed isn't made or a chair isn't tucked into the table.

In South Korea, some 20 million people share just five surnames. Every one of Denmark's top 20 surnames ends in '-sen,' meaning 'son of,' a pattern that is replicated across Scandinavia. British surnames have never favoured such neatness, and we can be grateful for that.

To be completely helpless in the face of life?powerless to do a single thing?that's what I'd always feared more than anything. It was like I'd been keeping all the edges of my life neat and clean, pretending the neatness was all that mattered, pretending life could somehow be controlled.