Quotes About Untidiness

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

Natalia Ginzburg

#2. The sad truth is, I am a martyr to my own sense of order. All untidiness, all want of system and regularity, cause me the acutest irritation. My attention is distracted, my composure is upset;

Wilkie Collins

#3. And when he got home he started on Mumma. He hated her then, because in her fatness and untidiness and drabness she reminded him of what he himself was when he was sober.

Ruth Park

#4. Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.

Charles Handy

#5. 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.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#6. My only phobia is untidiness. My hair has to be neatly kept; my shoes are always clean. Everything has to be in a straight line, in its place.

Norman Wisdom

#7. His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the atmosphere of violence and danger which hung around him made him the very worst tenant in London.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#8. A studio allows you to indulge your untidiness and your penchant for toys and curiosities that really wouldn't work in a grown-up house.

Jamie Cullum

#9. If we celebrate life with all its contradictions, embrace, experience, and ultimately live with it, a chance exists for a spiritual life filled not only with pain and untidiness, but also with joy, community, and creativity.

Derrick Jensen

#10. 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

#11. He thought her delightful, - freckles, picnic-untidiness and all.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#12. You haven't seen untidiness until you've seen a room where gravity has failed twice in different directions.

Michael Marshall Smith

#13. I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and looseness.

Conrad Veidt

#14. If you did not keep your yard in reasonable order, then your whole life would be similarly untidy. A messy yard told Mma Ramotswe everything she needed to know about its owner.

Alexander McCall Smith

#15. Think independently and put the country first.

Mick Cornett

#16. Oh, fantastic," Vic muttered. "Just bloody fantastic. The goddess has given me to a bleeding pacifist-

Jennifer Estep

#17. Some of you guys are going to boo, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't like dogs.

Jill Soloway

#18. She was a pretty girl, with a pointed face and blue-black hair. But she was an untidy, a dusty sort of girl, and you felt that in a few years something might go wrong; she might get swollen ankles or grow a mustache.

Mavis Gallant

#19. Every day you use dozens of products that have strong chemicals in them, but remember, the only difference between poison and medicine is dosage.

Aubrey McClendon

#20. There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#21. Yes, fear was the kind of prison where you made yourself the inmate and the jailer.

A.J. Sand