Tidy Quotes

87 Tidy quotes by 84 unique authors

English writing tends to fall into two categories - the big, baggy epic novel or the fairly controlled, tidy novel. For a long time, I… — Zadie Smith
I'm very organized and tidy in my home life and I generally do something myself rather than farm it out to somebody else. I don't… — Mark Strong
I have OCD, which is not fun. I have to be incredibly tidy and organized or it messes with my mind and switches off on… — Charlize Theron
Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul. — Mark Twain
There is never a sudden revelation, a complete and tidy explanation for why it happened, or why it ends, or why or who you are.… — Marya Hornbacher
A good social system is not to be secured by making people unselfish, but, by making their own vital impulses fit in with other peoples.… — Bertrand Russell
You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without… — Dag Hammarskjold
Bod quite liked crows. He thought they were funny and he liked the way they helped to keep the graveyard tidy. — Neil Gaiman
You have the most revolting Florence Nightingale complex,' said Mrs. Smiling. It is not that at all, and well you know it. On the whole,… — Stella Gibbons
He hated the men floating in sleep in the big stone houses. Because their lives were ordered and their rooms tidy. Because they got up… — Leonard Cohen
My life is not packaged, Not tidy. There are leftover strands and jagged Edges that cut even my friends. — Walter Dean Myers
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
Vonnegut's war was necessary. And yet it was massacre and screaming and confusion and blood and death. It was the mammoth projection outward of the… — George Saunders
A shaft of sunlight at the end of a dark afternoon, a note of music, and the way the back of a baby’s neck smells… — Elwyn Brooks White
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
Never such innocence, Never before or since, As changed itself to past Without a word--the men Leaving the gardens tidy, The thousands of marriages Lasting… — Philip Larkin
But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading. — Elizabeth von Arnim
When a man writes a romance, the woman dies. When a woman writes one, it ends all tidy and sweet. — Julia Quinn
She made a firm resolution, one of the resolutions she was making almost daily these days. No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more… — David Nicholls
Many perfumes promise to lure men to women. None of them smell of motherhood. None of them proclaim the wearer to be tidy, thrifty, and… — Janette Rallison
Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again. — David Nicholls
Though no one had been buried here for almost thirty years, the grass was mown by yours truly. I felt a tidy graveyard made a… — Kim Harrison
Of course I wasn't abused. If I were; things would be so simple. I'd have a reason to for being in a shrinks office. I'd… — Ned Vizzini
Worship without wonder is lifeless and boring. Many have lost their sense of awe and amazement when it comes to God. Having begun with the… — Sam Storms
I like messy. What fun is tidy? — Dasha Zhukova

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