Quotes About Tidy

You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!

The contagious sound of women's laughter filled the warm, tidy burrow.

The Paddock was one of those medium-sized houses with a goodish bit of very tidy garden and a carefully rolled gravel drive curving past a shrubbery that looked as if it had just come back from the dry cleaner - the sort of house you take one look at and say to yourself, Somebody's aunt lives there.

We have worked all day to tidy the mess you have made.

Strange indeed how love in other ways so particular will pick a corner in that charnel-house tidy it and coil up there, perhaps even fall asleep--her face turned to the wall!

Yes, I'm anal. I am just really organised.

I'm a cleaner, a put-er away-er, an organizer of things.

No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.

Later these thoughts would come back to haunt me, though I could not have anticipated that your compulsion to manhandle your unruly, misshapen experience into a tidy box, like someone trying to cram a wild tangle of driftwood into a hard-shell Samsonite suitcase, as well as this sincere confusion of the is with the ought to be—your heartrending tendency to mistake what you actually had for what you desperately wanted—would produce such devastating consequences.

I am a very neat monster.

The best way to clean up a son's room is to close the door and pretend it's not part of the house.

People talk about body cleanses like there's no tomorrow - what about apartment cleanses?

and several bulging bookshelves which I really will organize one day.

several bulging bookshelves which I really will organize one day.

Make yourself at home! Clean my kitchen.

and everything generally made shipshape, which seemed a desirable state of affairs, given that we were in fact aboard a ship.

Personally, I love lists. They're very soothing. You usually write them slowly, so they're tidy-looking even if you don't have good handwriting. They also give you a sense of reassurance that you really do know what you're doing, and they incite the pleasant delusion that Things Are Under Control. Unfortunately, once I've written a list, I find that I don't want to do anything on it.17

Clean up! Clean up! Everybody everywhere. Clean up! Clean up! Everybody, do your share.

Put simply, you can't ask your unconscious a question, and expect a direct answer—a neat, tidy little verbal message.

Sophie looked up at him. As she had feared, the hard black-and-white daylight coming through the broken wall showed her that Howl had not bothered to shave or tidy his hair.

I tend not to trust people who live in very tidy houses. I know that on the surface there is nothing wrong with a person being well-ordered and disciplined. Nothing, except that it leaves the impression of that person having lived in the confines of a stark institution which, although he or she has long since left, remains within.

There are just some 4-letter-words that I will not tolerate: dust, wash, cook, iron...

Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.

Those proud of keeping an orderly desk never know the thrill of finding something that they thought irretrievably lost.