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Quotes About Tidy

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~ Peter Walsh
I guess they needed a maze in Japan, where everything's neat and tidy. In America everybody's already wandering around lost.
~ Jonathan Lethem
Describe what you see "I see a brand new jacket on the floor." or Describe what you feel "That bothers me." or Describe what needs to be done "This jacket belongs in the closet.
~ Adele Faber
System 1 will detect that a person described as "a meek and tidy soul, with a need for order and structure, and a passion for detail" resembles a caricature librarian, but combining this intuition with knowledge about the small number of librarians is a task that only System 2 can perform—if System 2 knows how to do so, which is true of few people.
~ Daniel Kahneman
An individual has been described by a neighbor as follows: "Steve is very shy and withdrawn, invariably helpful but with little interest in people or in the world of reality. A meek and tidy soul, he has a need for order and structure, and a passion for detail." Is Steve more likely to be a librarian or a farmer?
~ Daniel Kahneman
As you consider the next question, please assume that Steve was selected at random from a representative sample: An individual has been described by a neighbor as follows: "Steve is very shy and withdrawn, invariably helpful but with little interest in people or in the world of reality. A meek and tidy soul, he has a need for order and structure, and a passion for detail." Is Steve more likely to be a librarian or a farmer?
~ Daniel Kahneman
I dislike untidy wars, as I dislike untidy peacemaking.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
INTERIOR Her mind lives in a quiet room, A narrow room, and tall, With pretty lamps to quench the gloom And mottoes on the wall. There all the things are waxen neat And set in decorous lines; And there are posies, round and sweet, And little, straightened vines. Her mind lives tidily, apart From cold and noise and pain, And bolts the door against her heart, Out wailing in the rain.
~ Dorothy Parker
My life at the moment is a bit like my wardrobe. Organized chaos.
~ David Wenham
One thing about cats: They are extremely clean animals.
~ Beth Ostrosky Stern
I lie back on the bed and listen to the sounds of Easter—the optimist's holiday, the holiday with the suburbs in mind, the day for all those with sunny dispositions and a staunch belief in the middle view, a tiny, tidy holiday to remember sweetly and indistinctly as the very same day through all your life.
~ Richard Ford
How can I think of such ludicrous things—beauty and peace, the dark soul of the world —for I am the wife of the house, concerned for the rug, tidy and punctual, surrounded by blocks.
~ William H. Gass
I am the god of being messy - I'm trying to get better. I was terrible in my 20s. My kids are much tidier than I am, I don't know where they get it from, maybe their mother.
~ Kevin McKidd
History is too often the refuge of the tidy-minded, making neat patterns when the dust has settled.
~ Melvyn Bragg
Wake me up when everything is organized.
~ Jane Seabrook
Many perfumes promise to lure men to women. None of them smell of motherhood. None of them proclaim the wearer to be tidy, thrifty, and sensible.
~ Janette Rallison
Fairy's side note: Many perfumes promise to lure men to women. None of them smell of motherhood. None of them proclaim the wearer to be tidy, thrifty, and sensible. At least not in high school. Those traits become attractive much later on, when guys finally realize they're not living somebody else's life. So
~ Janette Rallison
Next to any kind of elegance, Claudia loved good clean smells.
~ E.L. Konigsburg
All day long you sit and sew, Stitch life down for fear it grow, Stitch life down for fear we guess At the hidden ugliness. Dusty voice that throbs with heat, Hoping with your steel-thin beat To put stitches in my mind, Make it tidy, make it kind, You shall not: I'll keep it free Though you turn earth, sky and sea To a patchwork quilt to keep Your mind snug and warm in sleep!
~ Edith Sitwell
I'm really a clean-cut kid.
~ Davy Jones
I'm actually a pretty clean-cut person.
~ Andie MacDowell
I'm kind of a clean-cut guy - I've got a little bit of a baby face.
~ Caris LeVert
Quite soon my office was a jumble of broken bits of rocks, and needles, and old monographs, all coated in fine, limy dust. I still work in an identical office today. Tidy people's eyes go all peculiar when they come into it. I have a special small padded seat for them to collapse into.
~ Richard Fortey
rats?" "I just said that." "But the attic is clean." "Well, okay, we've got tidy rats!" "No rats." "Karl, I heard them last night." "Maybe plumbing," Karl probed; "maybe boards." "Maybe rats! Will you buy the damn traps and quit arguing?" Bustling away, Karl, said, "Yes! I go now!" "No not now, Karl! The
~ William Peter Blatty