Best Neat Wisdom
287 Neat quotes by 249 unique authors
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We got to his place and it looked a lot like his personality. Just a bunch of space filler, nothing to really wow you. It…
— Chelsea Handler
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One day we'll sit and you'll lay it out on the table, neat like a solitaire deck, but now - why, you can't find all…
— John Steinbeck
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I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly…
— Desiderius Erasmus
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A postcard. Neat handwriting fills the rectangle. Half my days I cannot bear to touch you. The rest of my time I feel like it…
— Michael Ondaatje
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I have a flamthrower. (Zarek) You have a what? (Astrid) It pays to be prepared. (Zarek) Well. Those are nice for toasting marshmallows, but they’ll…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Christian spirituality was not a children's story. It wasn't cute or neat. It was mystical and odd and clean, and it was reaching into dirty.…
— Donald Miller
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Truth usually makes no sense. If your desire is for everything to make perfect sense, then you should take refuge in fiction. In fiction, all…
— Peter David
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There was so much of beauty here: the neat, small tracks of a foraging creature, stoat or marten; the inticate tracery of a skeleton leaf,…
— Juliet Marillier
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The little boy nodded at the peony and the peony seemed to nod back. The little boy was neat, clean and pretty. The peony was…
— Robertson Davies
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I've lived my life like a serial killer; finish with one part, strangle it and move on to the next. Life in neat little boxes…
— Jeanette Winterson
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In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the assured…
— Evelyn Underhill
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A beautiful woman, Simone Weil said, seeing herself in the mirror, knows "This is I." An ugly woman knows with equal certainty, "This is not…
— A. S. Byatt
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I want some one to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarreling…
— Virginia Woolf
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I've never seen such a collection of idiots in my whole life.' Doolittle shook his head. 'If you participate in this lunacy, y'all will get…
— Ilona Andrews
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Just once I want it to be easy and neat. But no, there is never a good decision. I pick what I can live with.
— Ilona Andrews
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Womens, they ain't like men. A woman ain't gone beat you with a stick. Miss Hilly wouldn't pull no pistol on me. Miss Leefolt wouldn't…
— Kathryn Stockett
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Love didn't run on logic. It didn't follow neat lines or a list of priorities.
— Nora Roberts
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I want to make a world more magical than my own. I don't care if it makes sense, I don't care if it's ridiculed or…
— Lauren DeStefano
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One day she told me that they'd decided that my gender was divvied into two neat piles-Men and Guys. Basically, all the saints of the…
— Gayle Forman
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I tell aspiring writers that you have to find what you MUST write. When you find it, you will know, because the subject matter won’t…
— Rick Riordan
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Your mind is the knife that cuts the continuum of space and time into neat slices of linear experience.
— Deepak Chopra
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What?" "You're so neat," she said, looking almost embarrassed. He glanced pointedly over his shoulder. "There are four hundred on the other side of this…
— Julia Quinn
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I was too tired to think. I merely felt the town as a unique unreality. What was it? I knew -- the moon's picture of…
— E E Cummings
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Oho, now I know what you are. You are an advocate of Useful Knowledge.... Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate…
— Robertson Davies
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I found Esau’s field guide at the bottom of my pack. Taking a candle into the bedroom, I read his book until my eyes grew…
— Maria V. Snyder
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