Quotes About Fussy

#1. I am quite fussy about clothes.

Jay Kay

#2. Aunt Rosa, a fussy, angular, wild-eyed old lady, who had lived in a tremulous world of bad news, bankruptcies, train accidents, cancerous growths - until the Germans put her to death, together with all the people she had worried about.

Vladimir Nabokov

#3. I am still not a fussy eater, although I do enjoy good food.

Yves Chauvin

#4. To independence!" added Pocked Louise. "No fussy old widows telling us when not to speak, and how to set the spoons when an earl's niece comes to supper. And telling us to leave scientific experiments to the men.

Julie Berry

#5. "Fussy eater" is a euphemism for "big pain in the ass."

George Carlin

#6. Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place, but a man has to have something in him before he can settle down to do nothing.

J.B. Priestley

#7. But you have told me," Elizabeth protested, "time and again, that the hallmark of civilization is routine."
Lady D shrugged and made a fussy little chirping sound. "A lady cannot take it upon herself to occasionally change her routine? All routines need periodic readjustment.

Julia Quinn

#8. Twice I flushed grouse, always a terrifying experience: an instantaneous explosion from the undergrowth at your feet, like balled socks fired from a gun, followed by drifting feathers and a lingering residue of fussy, bitching noise. I

Bill Bryson

#9. Why is it that all cars are women? Because they're fussy and demanding.

Patricia Briggs

#10. It is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you.

Mark Twain

#11. I am fussy, about my diet and straining my voice. I know, sounds a bit over the top. But I'm not as bad as I used to be. These days I don't drink alcohol for five days before a show - very dehydrating for the vocal cords, and all that acid reflux. I used to ban it for a fortnight. Nightmare.

Katherine Jenkins

#12. I'm fussy. I'm stubborn. I want all the little details and I don't want to look like anyone else - that to me is very important.

Goldie

#13. A holiday vacation can mean sampling all kinds of new cuisine - whether it's Uncle Joe's award-winning chili or the exotic flavors of Nepal. If your little ones are fussy, be sure to ease mealtime hassles by bringing along a supply of the familiar foods they're accustomed to rejecting at home.

Adam Mansbach

#14. If it was just the potatoes that were affected, at the end of the day you will pay the price if you're a fussy eater.

Steve Coogan

#15. There was a faint, sharp sweetness about her, like the taste of raspberries. She wore fussy and frilly clothes and jingling bracelets with an air of surprised distaste, as if she had been put to sleep by a witch and had awoken to find herself in these trappings.

Rebecca West

#16. There isn't anything I don't eat, although I'm not too keen on creepy crawly things. Other than that, I'm quite adventurous. I like all types of red meat, and I'm not a fussy eater at all.

Cherie Lunghi

#17. Now a theist, he thought he should behave like one, even if it meant him during "the fussy, time-wasting, botheration of it all! the bells, the crowds, the umbrellas, the notices, the bustle, the perpetual arranging and organizing," and, worst of all, the hymns and organ music.

Philip Zaleski

#18. I've worried more and more as the years have gone on. The more you're seen to be doing well, the more stress there is. You feel you ought to consider things more, and be more fussy - there's further to fall. All these little worries.

Matthew Macfadyen

#19. Loneliness is more likely to lead to fussy housekeeping than to grand views of the Universe.

Mason Cooley

#20. Glamour is fun! Spending time to get ready isn't about being fussy; it's about taking care of myself.

Becki Newton

#21. (As a novelist, he was a little fussy about chronological order, a tad old-fashioned.)

John Irving

#22. Now don't you give me any of that talk about becoming overly protective and fussy in my old age. I have every right to show a little concern now and then.

Jaye L. Knight

#23. If Harry had not known who lived there, he would have guessed at a rich, fussy old lady.

J.K. Rowling

#24. There are people who claim to be instinctive cooks, who never follow recipes or weigh anything at all. All I can say is they're not very fussy about what they eat. For me, cooking is an exact art and not some casual game.

Delia Smith

#25. Oh don't be such a fuss pot," said the fairy, "or I'll call you Fussy Pants, instead of Silly Pants!

Julie B. Campbell

#26. Time Bomb encapsulates everything I have learned over the years and wished I could find in a capsule collection. It's the absolute best skincare and body products I could envisage - and I am fussy. I am now able to indulge my love of beauty products and call it research.

Lulu

#27. I try to be fussy about the parts I play. I think that's quite prudent, it means you're stretching different muscles, and you're scaring yourself by doing something which is out of your comfort zone.

Matthew Macfadyen

#28. I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.

Ziyi Zhang

#29. See, that's what I like about you, Carrots You're not fussy.

Cynthia Hand

#30. [I]n any profession the highest order of work is achieved, not by fussy empirical demands for 'something to be done,' but by patient study of the eternal laws.

Henry Whitehead

#31. I am not a book collector, and I am not fussy about particular editions. As long as the words are there I don't mind.

Adam Foulds

#32. I Google "five star hotels, new york city" and scroll through the list. The Surrey - nah, too fussy. The Peninsula - just looked at that one last week. Anything Trump - no, thanks, too overdone.

Kristan Higgins

#33. Real speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation.

Dorothy Richardson

#34. Shoes are a good starting point. I've become quite fussy about them! A patent pair of Sonia Rykiel oxfords have become invaluable.

Jessica Raine

#35. Italian food is all about ingredients and it's not fussy and it's not fancy.

Wolfgang Puck

#36. The voice that answered did not belong to the beautiful woman who'd hired me last time. The voice was male. Nasal, high-pitched, fussy. If a Chihuahua could talk, it would be like that.

Jonathan Maberry

#37. I'm single, and I think that by the time I met someone - if I were ever to meet the right person, which I don't think I will, because I am too fussy - my biological clock means that it will be too late.

Julia Sawalha

#38. Never put more than two waves in a picture; it's fussy.

Winslow Homer

#39. You don't have half such a hard time as I do," said Jo. "How would you like to be shut up for hours with a nervous, fussy old lady, who keeps you trotting, is never satisfied, and worries you till you're ready to fly out the window or cry?

Louisa May Alcott

#40. I prefer clothes that are simple, well-cut, but with one major extravagance. Something with the sleeves, with the skirt, but nothing too fussy, too flashy.

Carolina Herrera

#41. You can manage to break your neck, yes. Stop being a fussy pants and let me help you to the couch." Kane laughed and skipped ahead. "Fussy pants. She called you a fussy pants.

Lucian Bane

#42. That whole fussy room still carried an atmosphere of having been crocheted into existence rather than carpentered.

Ivan Doig

#43. I still get a lot of material but I find that as one gets older you get more fussy. You know you're going spend a year or a year and a half on this and you know there are only so many films in you so you get a little bit more selective.

Norman Jewison

#44. I am very fussy; I am very detailed; I nag a lot. So in a sense, I am like Mr. Ping. I am temperamental, I am emotional, I'm fussy, and I'm very exact. And I want people to not fail; I want them to execute - all those things Mr. Ping wants in other people. Or animals.

James Hong

#45. I eat to live and not the other way around. As a vegetarian, I'm not at all fussy about food and can make do with anything.

Vidya Balan

#46. I like to be real. I don't like things to be staged or fussy.

Alice Temperley

#47. I was born fussy, liked cleanness and orderliness about me and had already been thrown too much into the midst of shiftlessness. The socialists and communists I had seen and heard talk nearly all struck me as men who had no sense of life at all.

Sherwood Anderson

#48. I like ungroomed men. The relaxed look. I don't like fussy guys. Just shower and use deodorant.

Caroline Winberg

#49. Then we shan't regard anyone as a lover of knowledge or wisdom who is fussy about what he studies ...

Plato

#50. I'm not a fussy eater, but when I'm travelling, I try to stick to the same regime and just have my chicken and my mash and broccoli. Otherwise, you start eating all these funny delicacies, and it makes your tummy turn upside down.

Ella Henderson

#51. On the whole, I think women wear too much and are to fussy. You can't see the person for all the clutter.

Julie Andrews

#52. You know how fussy and particular I am in painting. I am ever removing the paint and repainting the spot until I am completely exhausted.

Arshile Gorky

#53. Daughter-in-law is just a word. Call her anything you like. The hand of good fortune is not fussy about words.

Rohinton Mistry

#54. I'd never seen a place so well appointed.
"This is too much," I said. "Much too much. I'd be more comfortable with something less fussy. Like a broom closet."
"All the broom closets are full," he said. "Of brooms.

Devon Monk

#55. I've never been a girly-girl, never drawn to things that are fussy.

Erin Wasson

#56. Being a singer now I have to get all fussy ... I must have my ginger and lemon and all that.

Graham Coxon

#57. It's no coincidence that the man who contributed the most to the study of human anatomy, the Belgian Andreas Vesalius, was an avid proponent of do-it-yourself, get-your-fussy-Renaissance-shirt-dirty anatomical dissection.

Mary Roach

#58. In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far too snappish and fussy, and seemed to have no manners at all.

Hilari Bell

#59. It is the Americans who have managed to crown minced beef as hamburger, and to send it round the world so that even the fussy French have taken to le boeuf hache, le hambourgaire.

Julia Child

#60. Part of life and part of the enjoyment of life is a croissant and a chocolate cake and eggs and milkshakes and oatmeal. There's so many things, you have to learn to appreciate it all. When I don't eat as much as I should, I'm not fun to be around; I'm fussy.

Nina Dobrev

#61. Before I start directing a show, I try to spend a few weeks hanging around the set, getting to know the crew and talking to the actors about how they like to work. Who is fussy? Who is left-handed? Who wants to go home early, and who is the perfectionist?

Eric Stoltz

#62. I felt okay for the first 45 seconds, and then my vision grew fussy. My lungs felt like deflated balloons. I would have sucked oxygen through my ears, if that were possible. I was experiencing oxygen debt, or perhaps better stated, oxygen death.

Brad Alan Lewis

#63. Do not think me fussy when I specify tidiness. It is essential ... In printing, remember that cleanliness and order wait upon success.

Walter J. Phillips

#64. I'm a terrible sort of non-fussy eater, really. I don't like posh food very much, and the more ingredients something's got in it, the less I tend to like it.

Jo Brand

#65. Why is it that all cars are women?" he asked.
"Because they're fussy and demanding," answered Zee.
"Because if they were men, they'd sit around and complain instead of getting the job done," I told him.

Patricia Briggs

#66. I am not a foodie, thank goodness. I will eat pretty much anything. A lot of my friends are getting incredibly fussy about food and I see it as a bit of an affliction.

Alain De Botton

#67. I'm very fussy about how my records sound, but I'm very aware that because of the way they sound, I will never be a big-selling, mainstream artist because the public has gotten conditioned to hearing pop music in a certain way. And I don't do it that way.

Nick Lowe

#68. I used to get in trouble with my old agent, because I've never been driven by fear or need or greed. I want my work to represent me as a person, so I can be quite fussy.

Darren Boyd

#69. I've learned there's nothing wrong with being a little fussy. I used to pride myself on being low-maintenance - I wore it like a badge of honor.

Becki Newton

#70. As fussy as they were about cleanliness and order, the Swiss seemed to Anna to be rather lax about graffiti.

Jill Alexander Essbaum