Quotes About Tidiness

#1. My tidiness, and my untidiness, are full of regret and remorse and complex feelings.

Natalia Ginzburg

#2. He longed for cleanliness and tidiness: it was hard to find peace in the middle of disorder.

Robin Hobb

#3. The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease.

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

#4. 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

#5. You know what I like to do on a Sunday morning? Clean my house. I really enjoy it; it's my ritual. I require tidiness, actually. I have to have everything spotless before I can relax.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

#6. Being in your mid-thirties brought benefits, I reminded myself. You began to appreciate tidiness, smallness, things in their place. This is the shape your life has taken, I said. Be existential. Go to sleep.

Wally Lamb

#7. Tidiness ... makes life easier and more agreeable, does harm to no one and actually saves time and trouble to the person who practices it: there must be an ominous flaw to explain why millions of generations continue to reject it.

Freya Stark

#8. Order and tidiness is the first law of Heaven.

Brunello Cucinelli

#9. Her tiny and organized handwriting reminded me of the tidiness of her desk, as if she'd wanted to find in words the peace and safety that life hadn't wanted to grant her.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#10. The greatest of mythologies divided its gods into creators, preservers and destroyers. Tidiness obviously belongs to the second category, which mitigates the terrific impact of the other two.

Freya Stark

#11. Domestic work is the most elementary form of labor. It is suitable for those with the intelligence of rabbits. All it requires is cleanlines, tidiness and quickness - not moral or intellectual qualities at all, but merely the outward and visible signs of health.

Rebecca West

#12. I am a bit obsessive about tidiness. I need to make my bed in the morning and leave it perfectly made up.

Kiefer Sutherland

#13. Geneva has the sleepy tidiness of a man who combs his hair while yet in his pyjamas.

Lewis Mumford

#14. The sick man is taken away by the institution that takes charge not of the individual, but of his illness, an isolated object transformed or eliminated by technicians devoted to the defense of health the way others are attached to the defense of law and order or tidiness.

Michel De Certeau

#15. The normality of the house terrified her: the gleaming surfaces, the tidiness, the homey touches, the sense that a person lived here who might walk in daylight on any street and pass for human in spite of the atrocities that he had committed.

Dean Koontz

#16. Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and identity cards, but memory does not play this game in quite the same way, always manages to confound the desire for tidiness.

Ariel Dorfman

#17. Fear, at its center, is a perceived loss of control. When life spins wildly, we grab for a component of life we can manage: our diet, the tidiness of a house, the armrest of a plane, or, in many cases, people. The more insecure we feel, the meaner we become.

Max Lucado

#18. As for Humphrey, he was never renowned for tidiness. "My nature abhors the vacuum," he said.

Tom Rachman

#19. Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty ...

Winston Churchill

#20. A creative mess is better than idle tidiness.

Michael J. Fox

#21. Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation.

Anne Lamott

#22. The front room of his house was what I called 'untidy chic'. Prefects weren't subject to the same Rules on room tidiness, but since no one really enjoyed clutter, a certain style of ordered untidiness was generally considered de couleur for a prefect's room.

Jasper Fforde

#23. Men and women have different ideas of what constitutes tidiness. I tend to think it's about things being clean, but my mum and girlfriend are more about how things look.

Joe Thomas

#24. R-E-S-P-E-C-T, take out the TCP.

Otis Redding

#25. I read poems for the pleasure of the mouth. My heart is in my mouth, and the sound of poetry is the way in." ~from an interview in Narrative magazine

Donald Hall

#26. Sometimes when you do voices next to each other, especially when you're first starting out, they tend to bleed into each other. Working on a show like 'Futurama,' we do multiple characters there, but we've been doing it for a while, so the voices are really well-defined in our heads.

Phil LaMarr

#27. There are no physical problems-only
mental ones.

Byron Katie

#28. She could strive for perfection only in certain, few things; beyond that, it was important only to be tidy.

Amanda Coplin

#29. Conservatism
hard work
saving one's money
looking neat and gentlemanly. It was such an Eveless paradise, that.

Theodore Dreiser

#30. When you said Please to those who...had no option but to obey, what were you really saying?

Joyce Carol Oates

#31. Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.

Walter Darby Bannard

#32. I go on Twitter and I ask my viewers, 'What would you like to see next season in my line?' or 'What are things you love to wear?' They're the ones wearing it, so I want to make sure it applies to them.

Bethany Mota