Tidy Quotes

Tidy Quote of the day

There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized mind.

The world isn't tidy; it's a mess. I don't try to make it neat.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.

No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.

There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.

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 me.

All thinking is done with the glands. Logic is added later to tidy things up.

What we seek we do not find - that would be too trim and tidy for so reckless and opulent a thing as life. It is something else we find.

For no one loves the bearer of bad tidings.

Tidy fees are the most effective remedy, both for the doctor and the patient.

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.'

History is too often the refuge of the tidy-minded, making neat patterns when the dust has settled.

I really try to keep my personal workspace as tidy as possible. I really believe there's a place for everything and everything in its place, as the cliché goes.

Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.

He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a plot for weeds.

Life doesn't have a neat beginning and a tidy end; life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.

Military operations cannot be tidy or free of friction - particularly in a coalition whose contributing nations see the campaign through national prisms.

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 have an assistant or anything because I think I can do it myself.

I have a temper on me that could hold back tides.

I eat and drink at my desk, but I'm a tidy eater.

The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to 'tidy up' the mess, as opposed to understanding it's a 'day one' issue and part of everything.

I'm a tidy sort of bloke. I don't like chaos. I kept records in the record rack, tea in the tea caddy, and pot in the pot box.

Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.

The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.

I have the same bedroom I've always had. It's clean and tidy when I get home, and after two or three days it gets messy and my mother nags me.

I was always intrigued with European cinema, and hated most American cinema. I didn't like the one, two, three - boom! style, with a neat and tidy ending. That was never my scene.

I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards 'apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy data' but in reality the situation is no quite so simple.

I don't think I'm cut out for a job where you have to look professionally tidy. I prefer working in my pajamas and taking showers after lunch.

I guess they needed a maze in Japan, where everything's neat and tidy. In America everybody's already wandering around lost.

Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.

When I look at commercial studios, I think, "Oh, they're all so nice and tidy," but it's because they don't actually write music in them.

It's important to look neat and tidy and not be too flashily dressed. If you look untidy, you're considered to have an untidy mind - it's as simple as that!

I can't cook. I don't have the right brain for it, somehow. I can't walk into a room and tidy it up. I get distracted. I pick up one thing and I start looking at it. And my cooking is truly heinous.

One way to organize your thoughts is to tidy up, even if it's in places where it makes no sense at all.

I'm a minimalist. I like things to look very clean, I like clean lines. I like everything to be tidy and have space.

I am definitely a Type-A, tidy, everything-has-a-place kind of person, so initially encouraging a mess was against my nature. But once you realize all the benefits, it's pretty simple to let that go.

Too often a sister puts all her patients back to bed as a housewife puts all her plates back in the plate-rack-to make a generally tidy appearance.

My life is not packaged, Not tidy. There are leftover strands and jagged Edges that cut even my friends.

A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.

Bod quite liked crows. He thought they were funny and he liked the way they helped to keep the graveyard tidy.

I really have to force myself to tidy up around the house.

I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table and by my bed have a plaintive, pleading quality to me - 'Read me, please!'

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 happy graveyard.

All my tales are true, drawn from life, and a life story is not a tidy thing.

When a man writes a romance, the woman dies. When a woman writes one, it ends all tidy and sweet.

In the futile attempts we all make to tidy up our lives and our surroundings, nothing is more difficult than throwing out a book.

Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.

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.