Quotes About Clutter

With small spaces in particular you have to really follow the rule that if it's not absolutely beautiful or absolutely functional, then get rid of it.

Only if the human mind had a Garbage Collector.But then, do we know what references we still hold on?

Her mind is a mess, and she has no intention of cleaning today.

A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.

The long gray two-story box was the newest structure on the property, having been built in the 1970s. The buildings up the hill had accumulated one by one since the 1920s, most of them incorporating bits salvaged from various torn-down hotels and movie sets. Their aunt Amity, affluent from the sales of her series of popular novels, had added to the architectural clutter after

She looked around for a place to be. A small place. The closet? No. Too dark. The bathroom. It was both small and bright, and she wanted to be in a very small, very bright place. Small enough to contain her grief. Bright enough to throw into relief the dark things that cluttered her.

rummaging furiously in a mind which appeared to have entirely lost its card index....

The extra clutter adds no important insight; instead, it offers more clutter in which erros can lurk.

It is often much harder to get rid of books than to acquire them. They stick to us in that pact of need and oblivion we make with them, witnesses to a moment in our lives we will never see again. While they are still there, it is part of us.

Tidy your room!

My mental flowchart was a mess.

Do you ever notice how many words we waste?

The minds of people are so cluttered up with every-day living these days that they don't, or won't, take time out for a little prayer-for mental cleansing, just as they take a bath for physical, outer cleansing. Both are necessary.

Let's just say, he has too many pigeons on his antenna.

Such verbal litter is to language as Muzak is to music. As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.

Houses are full of things that gather dust

If you own a rug you own too much.

More and more of us feel like emergency-room physicians, permanently on call, required to heal ourselves but unable to find the prescription for all the clutter on our desk.

If you own a rug you own too much.

dumped an enormous IKEA package in the house: presumably it would change the landscape if and when I got up the energy to assemble it, but until then it was just there, in the middle of everything, where I barked my shin or banged my elbow on it every time I tried to get past.

For a while, gently bumping into my nightstand meant a pile of 50 books clattering onto my head and the floor. After the 10th time this happened, I moved most of the books to a shelf in the spare room. Now, my nightstand is sort of like a bookish country club. And not all books get in.

If I print something out, I just spend all my time trying to find where I've put it down.

I believe that the only important structural obstacles to world prosperity are the obsolete doctrines that clutter the minds of men.

A few dud universes can really clutter up your basement.