Quotes About Clutter

Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon.

The important thing in life is not what you get, but what you throw out.

She tried to clear her mind. It didn't work. Her mind was a hoarder.

Messier service, messier life.

Co za syf - powiedzia? Bandurko.

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly.

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly.

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly." ~ (1919-), American writer, producer, humorist.

The room wasn't a mess, but there was clutter. Last week's Observer on the arm of a chair, a couple of books on the table.

I think Westerns are always so great for clearing out the clutter and the ambiguities, and getting right to the broad strokes of that kind of situation.

I have containers and containers of clothes that I've hoarded in my attic, and I probably should give them away to give good use, but I am selfishly wanting to hold on it because I'm like, 'What if I need that?'

My mother used to laugh that if they asked me to clean up my room, I would spend so much time reading every tiny bit of paper, a receipt or whatever, instead of throwing it in the trash.

I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'

Wherever I go, stuff accumulates.

I'm way too disorganized.

Cleaning isn't all that interesting to me. I'm disorganized.

My husband calls me 'throwy-outy' - he's horrified at how easily I dispense with things. People I won't let go of, but things, mementos from shows, I'm not particularly attached to.

Too much clutter is a disturbance to the energy of a space for me. It's big no-no for me.

There's a television show, 'Hoarders,' where people have those homes filled with stuff. Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.

I don't have a problem with the concept of a box set per se - we have many of them merrily lined up on the shelf above the telly. No, what gives me the pip is the fact that I'm never going to watch any of them.

a multitudinous mess of life's unnecessities.

We are now exposed to more images in a day than anyone in the 14th century would have known in a lifetime. [...] Most of it is garbage. Most of it needs excising. Even if we're fearful that we might be missing something. We are probably not. We have to discard. We have to throw things away, cleanse the doors of our perception and work out what is worth looking at, what is worth remembering, what are the images that matter, what will we retain.

With a country boy's love of open spaces, he hated anything confined or cluttered

Where's your luggage?" "I don't use any." "You have no stuff?" "I saw a little book in a store at the airport. Apparently we're supposed to get rid of whatever doesn't bring us joy.