Higgledy Quotes

#1. Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell.

Jan Morris

#2. I'm a higgledy-piggledy person in every way. On days that I work, I work for eight hours in a row, with my internet access entirely turned off, locked in my office.

Elizabeth McCracken

#3. What a grand, higgledy-piggledy, sensible old place Norwich is!

J.B. Priestley

#4. The situation was absurd. He wore riding boots with spurs. Her hair tumbled about her like a shaggy pony's. They were in the schoolroom with the furniture pushed about higgledy-piggledy. But in that instant, she would have danced a fandango with a rose in her teeth if Lochinvar had asked her to.

Marissa Doyle

#5. Sanctified cyanide
Super-quick arsenic
Higgledy-piggledy
Into the Soup.
Put out the mourning lamps
Call for coffin clamps
Teach them to trifle with
Flavia de Luce!

Alan Bradley

#6. When I was younger I thought I'd meet the man of my dreams, get married and have a child, but it all went higgledy-piggledy. Never say never, though ...

Anna Friel

#7. Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought

William Shakespeare

#8. The perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, glancing around to see whether anybody notices
and to make sure that somebody notices.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. A cook is creative, marrying ingredients in the way a poet marries words.

Roger Verge

#10. Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Wilt Chamberlain

#11. I don't want last season to be as good as I get.

Hanley Ramirez

#12. I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

Anne Sullivan

#13. Everybody's got their tribe. Whose tribe are you in anyway?

Zadie Smith

#14. I was in a Led Zeppelin cover band in high school, and my highlight was playing "Misty Mountain Hop" at a coffee house in Wayne, Pennsylvania. I wasn't allowed to play any instruments; I could only be the singer because I was a girl.

Victoria Legrand

#15. but Kyler...yeah, he put the 'oo' in swoon.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#16. The air tasted of old magic, neither good nor ill, but of the land, having no love for man.

Mark Lawrence

#17. It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon

Oscar Wilde