Best Neat Sayings
287 Neat quotes by 249 unique authors
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Heaven preserve me from littleness and pleasantness and smoothness. Give me great glaring vices, and great glaring virtues, but preserve me from the neat little…
— Violet Trefusis
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I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library Cart. I knocked…
— Charles Dickens
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I was a model Marine.. My rifle was always clean, uniform always starched, and the shoes always shined. I guess that's how I became so…
— Unknown Author
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If I was being executed by injection, I'd clean up my cell real neat. Then, when they came to get me, I'd say, "Injection? I…
— Jack Handey
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Sex was never as neat as the movies made it. Real sex was messy. Good sex was messier.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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Maybe the world wasn’t made of universals that could be summed up in neat little packages. Maybe there were just people. People who were tired…
— Clare Vanderpool
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We grew up quickly, surrounded by guys eighteen and older, in their prime. They lived to surf, drink, raise hell and score heavily with women.…
— Greg Noll
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I think you will agree that life's plans are not always tied up in neat little packages. Occasionally we find ourselves at unexpected crossroads with…
— Unknown Author
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One of the most wonderful things about knowing God is that there’s always so much more to know, so much more to discover. Just when…
— Joni Eareckson Tada
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It's your life story if you're a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it in his crib.
— Bill Gosper
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Everything in tennis is so neat and nice but boxing has sport down to its essence; it is very pure and I like that.
— Andy Murray
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Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.
— C.S. Lewis
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Beer does not taste like itself unless it is chasing a dram of neat whisky down the gullet - preferably two drams
— Compton Mackenzie
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It's you people dying from nothing that are screwed. I got all sorts of neat gadgets waiting for me...oxygen tent, iron lung.
— Bill Hicks
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It's a really neat and special coincidence, but it's nothing but a coincidence. This wasn't set up to give Matt that honor. It's just the…
— Tony La Russa
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Every fear, every night terror, every hour I cried for Liev, every fight with Sebastian is registered as a neat white scar.
— Emma Forrest
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Spreadsheet: a kind of program that lets you sit at your desk and ask all kinds of neat "what if?" questions and generate thousands of…
— Dave Barry
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Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.
— Patti Smith
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The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities…
— Eric Temple Bell
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I tried on the farmer's hat, Didn't fit. . . A little too small - just a bit Too floppy. . . . . I…
— Shel Silverstein
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I need a little language such as lovers use, words of one syllable such as children speak when they come into the room and find…
— Virginia Woolf
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Photographs may be more memorable than moving images, because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Each still photograph is a privileged…
— Susan Sontag
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The world isn't tidy; it's a mess. I don't try to make it neat.
— Garry Winogrand
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It was neat to see a plaque on the 18th fairway, and go up there and kind of look at the green and just remembering…
— Paula Creamer
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If you look at the offense like a fancy car, the offensive line is the engine. Even though we might have nice spinners and nice…
— Mike Tice
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