Cluttered Quotes

#1. If you move to the West Coast, I will make a gun out of this," she said, drunkenly brandishing a tiny straw before searching the rest of the cluttered table, "and these peanuts and this glass and shoot you in the dick, Will."
I winced at the visual. "Wow-" I began.
"In the dick, Will.

Christina Lauren

#2. Part of that, I think, is being able to tune out folly, as distinguished from recognizing wisdom. You've got whole categories of things you just bat away so your brain isn't cluttered with them. That way, you're better able to pick up a few sensible things to do.

Charlie Munger

#3. She's disoriented, her visions cluttered, random memories running adrift in her mind.

Mary Kubica

#4. Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered.

John Lennon

#5. When life tends to get too complex, too fast, too cluttered, too deadline oriented, or too type A for you, stop and remember your own spirit. You're headed for inspiration, a simple, peaceful place where you're in harmony with the perfect timing of all creation.

Wayne Dyer

#6. I saw an oxygen tank in the cluttered room - what had been Atkins's "study," as his son had explained, now converted for a deathwatch.

John Irving

#7. Most people's lives are cluttered up with things: material things, things to do, things to think about. Their lives are like the history of humanity, which Winston Churchill defined as "one damn thing after another." Their minds are filled up with the clutter of thoughts, one thought after another.

Eckhart Tolle

#8. Think of your windshield as an energy source for your brain. Use pictures (the walls of many talent hotbeds are cluttered with photos and posters of their stars) or, better, video. One idea: Bookmark a few YouTube videos, and watch them before you practice, or at night before you go to bed.

Daniel Coyle

#9. no matter how far you travelled, you couldn't leave behind the fears and regrets and grievances that cluttered up the cargo hold of your mind.

Terry Pratchett

#10. Word is actually very busy and strikes me as poorly designed. It's cluttered. There are four different rows, each filled with icons and butters I never use. This reminds me why I dislike Word. I almost always type in WordPress as it's much less cluttered. I'm on an airplane without WiFi.

Mike Cernovich

#11. If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?

Albert Einstein

#12. I refuse to make a decision that somebody else can make. The first rule of leadership is to save yourself for the big decision. Don't allow your mind to become cluttered.

Richard M. Nixon

#13. When life gets too cluttered, we neglect the important things.

Emilie Barnes

#14. This was more like it, a narrowed cluttered little shop stacked with books from floor to ceiling and four or five browsers taking their time- putting thumb marks on the new jackets. Nobody paid any attention to them.

Raymond Chandler

#15. The problem is, the rewards and the costs of adding more things to the Home page aren't shared equally. The section that's being promoted gets a huge gain in traffic, while the overall loss in effectiveness of the Home page as it gets more cluttered is shared by all sections.

Steve Krug

#16. I write in an old-school paneled study in the middle of a large farmhouse in rural Iowa. I have pine floors, a big cherry desk, and a small window. The room is cluttered with papers and books and gifts from friends.

Dean Bakopoulos

#17. We're living in a teetering tower of babble. A shaky reality of words. A DNA soup for disaster. The natural world destroyed, we're left with this cluttered world of language.

Chuck Palahniuk

#18. A cluttered refrigerator door is to a growing family what a wet nose is to a healthy dog.

Lori Borgman

#19. I see no hope for a revival among God's people today. They are so enamored and so cluttered up with Hollywood and newspapers and magazines and parties and bowling alleys and camping trips and everything else. How in the world are they going to get still long enough to see anything from God?

Lester Roloff

#20. The world is cluttered up with unfinished business in the form of projects that might have been successful, if only at the tide point someone's patience had turned to active impatience.

Robert Updegraff

#21. In the same way a cluttered room becomes difficult to walk, a cluttered mind becomes difficult to think. Meditation is simply a daily housekeeping practice; therefore, put the thoughts away where they belong, take out the unwanted clutter, and relax in the space you created.

Jenna Alatari

#22. All of their faces are cluttered with the shrapnel of rebellion, as if a grenade of alienation has exploded in their midst, piercing every possible soft point of flesh-from earlobes and nostrils to eyebrows, lips, and tongues-with metal studs and rings.

Jonathan Tropper

#23. If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

Laurence J. Peter

#24. The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.

Henry Ford

#25. There was a subtlety about Peggy Lee. It was powerful. There was a valuable use of space. Everything was not cluttered. Her voice was out front and was the key instrument.

Rita Coolidge

#26. I like cluttered, old, dark-wood antiques. I like character.

Martha Plimpton

#27. But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold of the divine.

Dominique De Menil

#28. Morning light through his windshield was pale and tired; the city had the desultory, cluttered look of a living room after a drunken party; Martin

Richard North Patterson

#29. Think about appearances. I wanted my apartment to be less cluttered, and also to look less cluttered.

Gretchen Rubin

#30. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered mind.

C.E. Murphy

#31. It's a global fashion thing; because of the Internet it has gotten really small. It's cluttered, but it's gotten small.

Paul Weller

#32. Remember: you are not what you own. Storing all those books doesn't make you any smarter; it just makes your life more cluttered.

Francine Jay

#33. Minds are cluttered from the age of six with the values of others-values which bear little relation to their own private capacities, needs and desires.

Marya Mannes

#34. The poem seemed to be about how naturally dignified animals are and how their lives make more sense than those of humans, which are cluttered with greed and self-pity and talk of a distant God.

Paula McLain

#35. Cluttered closets mean a cluttered mind.

Louise Hay

#36. In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#37. A cluttered mind can make the difference between a nightmare and a dream. Meditate and clear your thoughts before you sleep.

Jenna Alatari

#38. I don't like when I look too cluttered.

Felicity Jones

#39. My life is cluttered with the most wonderful memorabilia. And wonderful creative experiences.

George Stevens

#40. The more time I spend with you, the more my mind is cluttered. I'm not used to doing nice things for anyone but all I want to do is make you happy.

Annie Brewer

#41. We are kept from the experience of Spirit because our inner world is cluttered with past traumas ... As we begin to clear away this clutter, the energy of divine light and love begins to flow through our being.

Thomas Keating

#42. It's just a spare room in my apartment. It's very cluttered and not particularly aesthetically inspiring, and it's very un-noise-proof.

Julia Kent

#43. We live alone in our cluttered psyches, possessed by our entrenched beliefs, our fatuous desires, our endless contradictions - and like it or not we have to put up with this in one another.

A.S.A Harrison

#44. I cannot speculate on what our cluttered mind will save- sleepy Sundays, or a nosebleed after love. I know only the dying heart needs the nourishment of memory to live beyond too many winters.

Rod McKuen

#45. The more things we accumulate, the more cluttered our lives become, and the more stressed we feel as we are compelled to think about them. Life is about people not about things.

Natalie Vellacott

#46. What does it mean to delight in the Lord? Delighting in the Lord is simply having a heart motivated by the Lord. When our heart is cluttered with desires that compete with God, then our hearts is not one with God. When we delight in Him everything we do is for Him, and is encouraged by Him

Heather Bixler

#47. Every day I see lot of things cluttered in my surroundings. But that neither stresses me nor does it puts me down. Instead, it tells me that things will give you trouble if you see it as trouble.

Ashish Patel

#48. Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, they contain pure truths, before we cluttered our languages with so many useless words.

Cassandra Clare

#49. As technology has improved, our digital lives have only grown more tangled and cluttered.

Ryan Holmes

#50. A mind cluttered with past thoughts, old conversations and unhealed wounds can only serve to drag us down and compromise our ability to live free.

Shannon Tanner

#51. If we empty our hearts every night, they won't get too heavy or cluttered. Our hearts will stay light and open with lots of room for good new things to come.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#52. They went into his kitchen, which was in the state his house always was - basically clean but cluttered with books, unopened mail, and grocery bags,

Noelle Adams

#53. Not only is writing more important than ever, but visual literacy is vital. We don't teach enough design, art, visual things. We have to recognize what we're seeing. It matters if you send someone a cluttered design. It matters more than ever.

Marissa Moss

#54. Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera's eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes.

Susan Sontag

#55. There are a whole lot of people who are so freakin' busy - they've so cluttered up their lives - they're at their wits' end. And if they'd only just stop for a minute, they could hear the God of the universe whisper to them, I love you.

Mike Yaconelli

#56. The lines of Pearl Art Glass are clean, certainly not cluttered.

James Lafferty

#57. My father ran a CB radio business. I grew up in a cluttered space that was filled with radios and antennas. It felt alien.

Rashid Johnson

#58. For a long time now I have trusted my dreaming self as wiser than that waking self whose head is cluttered with reason and practicalities, so busy trying to control things that he sometimes forgets that the heart has reasons that reason does not know. When I dream, I never forget to trust myself.

Sheldon B. Kopp

#59. Real life is inefficient, disorganized, and sometimes haffling. It's also messy and cluttered with distractions that obscure the trajectory of story.

Ellen Hopkins

#60. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.

Mark Twain

#61. She works on her never-ending project for hours at a time. In art school they talked about day jobs in tones of horror. She never would have imagined that her day job would be the calmest and least cluttered part of her life.

Emily St. John Mandel

#62. Digital gadgets often plug us into an environment that's more cluttered than the real world.

Mal Fletcher

#63. There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design.

Edward Tufte

#64. Such was the past, after all: it left the present cluttered with objects the survivors were immune to.

Chris Cleave

#65. He is full of adrenaline, his nerves are shot, and his mind is cluttered up with free-floating anxiety-floating around on an ocean of generalized terror.

Neal Stephenson

#66. Good memory skill is the offspring of good focus. If you find yourself becoming a little forgetful, it is probably not because there is something wrong with your brain. Rather, it is simply because your mind is too cluttered to allow things to stick.

Ilchi Lee

#67. Someone's opinion can be right on target, or it also could be cluttered with their doubts. Therefore, be careful, do not make someone else's opinion your law.

Katina Marshell Cotton-Sliwa

#68. I used to live in Buddhist monasteries and I finally had to leave them because they were just too cluttered for me. They were cluttered up with many thoughts about Buddhism.

Frederick Lenz

#69. If indeed the universe posessed a mind, it was a cluttered one. And if corners such as these thrived in that mind, then the custodian was asleep, or, perhaps, drunk.

Steven Erikson

#70. Entranced by the flight of a raven, I watch its shadow move effortlessly against golden, shimmering granite. I long to be that free, flying above the cluttered world of normalcy, where so many are half alive.

Dean Potter

#71. If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.

Harold S. Geneen

#72. No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered.

Stephen Greenblatt

#73. Civilization has so cluttered this elemental man-earth relationship with gadgets and middlemen that awareness of it is growing dim. We fancy that industry supports us, forgetting what supports industry.

Aldo Leopold

#74. Hosts of merchants encumber the cities, and the streets are cluttered with solicitors who swarm without limit or purpose.

Charles Fourier

#75. I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.

Mary Oliver

#76. The dark, cluttered, polished mahogany splendor of the Sanborns' Victorian drawing room. Mr. Sanborn wavered. Roark asked, his arm sweeping out at the room around them: Is this

Ayn Rand

#77. Let's detox our cluttered academic brain. That's what the poet does. People call it daydreaming, detoxing our minds and taking care of that clutter. It's being able to let in call letters from the poetry universe.

Juan Felipe Herrera

#78. Our minds are so cluttered with endless to-do lists that there's no room for us to experience the joy in being alive today.

Craig Groeschel

#79. Focusing on what matters means saying no to things that don't matter. Otherwise, your life becomes cluttered with distractions.

Peter Atkins

#80. My life felt so cluttered and obstructed that I could hardly breathe. I inhabited a closed, concentrated world, airless and without exits.

Nell Casey

#81. Under all the senseless thoughts and mad ideas with which you have cluttered up your mind are the thoughts that you thought with God in the beginning.

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