Quotes About Fastidious

I am choosy about my films, period - whether it's my father directing it or anybody else.

I learned later that the former operator of Abdullah had been a dwarf who cannot have been fastidious about his person, and there was a strong whiff of hot dwarf as I grew hotter myself.

I'm terribly fastidious. I like symmetry and neatness, but my house is as chaotic as any other family's.

My sister Beth is a very fastidious girl, when she likes to be, said Amy, well pleased at Beth's success. She meant `fascinating', but as Grace didn't know the exact meaning of either word, fastidious sounded well and made a good impression.

I'm not an easy customer. My attention to detail could probably drive you mad. My eye still always goes toward the single flaw.

The mind is satisfied with phrased, but not the body, the body is more fastidious, it wants muscles. A body always tells the truth, that's why it's usually depressing and disgusting to look at.

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My mother was a fastidious and orderly homemaker. I was the messy but creative type. I picture her following behind me through life with a damp rag and an air of exasperation.

I am a fussy eater. I may eat one dish but it has to be the best.

I am a bit fussy when it comes to films.

I must somehow settle my debt to the world, which I have loved, disregarding what I have learned of its Master's fastidious wastefulness.

I'm pretty OCD. I like to fine-tune every single detail. I think that's a habit built maybe from me being OCD.

There's a lovely character in 'Under Milk Wood' called Mrs. Ogmore Pritchard and she's incredibly tidy and clean. She really is unbearably tidy and clean! And I terrorize my husband when he comes in sometimes from shooting and there's awful dead birds all over the hall that he calls me Mrs. Ogmore Pritchard.

I am inclined to think that Miss Garrow was right in saying that the world is changed as touching mistletoe boughs. Kissing, I fear, is less innocent now than it used to be when our grandmothers were alive, and we have become more fastidious in our amusements.

The only acceptable way to stand out, as far as valets and dog shows are concerned, is to combine sartorial purity ('true to pedigree') with fastidious uniformity ('best in breed').

That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it.

I'm incredibly anal about everything that I do.

There was that touch of melancholy in his fastidious appearance that suggested the atmosphere of frustrated dreams.

It was not a question of knowledge...but of alertness, a fastidious transcription of what could be thought about something, once it swam into the stream of attention.

The really unfailing sign of a belle is that she exhausts people. In the old days, a girl could faint, which meant that some man had to pick her up and carry her while two or three others ran hither and yon fetching smelling salrs, water, or a litter on which to cart her away. This simply doesn't happen any more. Passing out from too much straight bourbon is just not as bellelike as fainting from unknown causes, nor is it as fastidious.

I don't know a single actor who is not picky.

The peril for you is that you live too much in the world of your own dreams. You're not enough in contact with reality — with the toiling, striving, suffering, I may even say sinning, world that surrounds you. You're too fastidious; you've too many graceful illusions.

Importantly, Haemophilus are what are called fastidious bacteria, meaning they need an iron source to grow, and unlike most other bacteria, they usually get it from the hemoglobin in our blood to which iron is bonded (giving blood its red color). Protecting the blood cells through the use of something like sida is crucial in treating this kind of infection.

I've always been very attentive to detail. It's a characteristic that drives some people crazy. But on the other hand, when people around me are sloppy, that drives me crazy.