Tidied Up In A Way Quotes

#1. Mandy tidied the weeds and pulled out some of the summer flowers. It saddened her to do so. She was parting with beloved friends.

Julie Andrews Edwards

#2. We can only begin to change the world around us when we are willing to become a conscious part of all that is changing.

Guy Finley

#3. Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful, and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous, and loathed because they impose slavery.

Bertrand Russell

#4. Things never got tidied up the minute a couple got divorced. It seemed, from what I'd seen, that the divorce itself was the easiest part and all the real shit is what came afterward, shit that went on for years.

Karina Halle

#5. In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying.

Jim Broadbent

#6. Housework was comforting. In cleaning and restoring a room, one could assert control. One could even pretend, briefly, that life could be tidied the same way.

Robin Hobb

#7. It was so silly to try to define things by words. What did one person mean by infatuation or obsession and another mean by love. The whole thing couldn't be tidied away with neat little labels. - Lena Gray

Maeve Binchy

#8. I fear that there will be no neat ending to this, in the manner of the old Greek plays. Where the Gods descend, and all is explained, and tidied away.

Paul McAuley

#9. I've been through a lot, both personally and professionally, and the album that I started to record two and a half years ago is a different album from the one that exists today. I even changed the album title. First it was 'All I Want is Everything,' and now it's 'Jumping Trains.'

Jojo

#10. A sip of wine, a cigarette, And then it's time to go. I tidied up the kitchenette; I tuned the old banjo. I'm wanted at the traffic-jam. They're saving me a seat.

Leonard Cohen

#11. Men would sooner fuck trash than read it.

Xaviera Hollander

#12. We knew we were doomed. The kiss was a warm acceptance of years of bickering, years of me consuming foods that I found barely edible and Henry tidying up after someone who already thought she had tidied up. When I kissed Henry I wasn't imagining Ex-boyfriend #13; I was picturing Husband #1.

Lisa Lutz

#13. You know, even when the material wasn't so good, I've gotten to work with the greats, and I've always given it my best shot. I'm satisfied with my work. I could stop tomorrow, and if Bright Young Things was my last role, I could say I tidied it up with dignity.

Dan Aykroyd

#14. Widmerpool had tidied himself up a little since leaving school, though there was still a kind of exotic drabness about his appearance that seemed to mark him out from the rest of mankind.

Anthony Powell

#15. Life's not perfect. Some loose ends may never get trimmed up and tidied.

Hoda Kotb

#16. The closer you can get to your setting and to primary sources, the more authentic your history is going to be ...

David B. Coe

#17. If I describe a sunny morning in May (the buds, the wet-winged flies, the warm sun and cool breeze), I am also implying the perishing quality of a morning in May, and a good description of May sets up the possibility of a May disaster.

Clark Blaise

#18. Well, I thought, as I tidied up the kitchen, there's no question that a man who works all week needs to relax on the weekend. There's no question about that. There's only a question about this: What about a woman who works all week?

Lucille Kallen

#19. Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off.

Henry David Thoreau

#20. Loving the Om (AUM) is loving yourself, your own Self. Om chanting is a creative art, not just mechanical repetition of a word.

Amit Ray

#21. One beautiful day, a radiant day, Mr Abramovich introduced himself to me and said I should put a shopping list together

Claudio Ranieri

#22. It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.

Mike Huckabee

#23. She was the spare room that never got tidied, the e-mail that never got answered, the loan that never got repaid, the symptom that never got described to a doctor.

Nick Hornby

#24. A person who has 'tidied up' has both the words and a tidy area to show for it. It is much harder to find a word that describes the giving-up-things mode of attention a mother is giving to her baby.

Naomi Stadlen

#25. We need to participate directly in the evolution of consciousness, which, at its core, is the evolution of love.

Marc Gafni

#26. I want to make music as good as Radiohead, as good as Coldplay. I can make hip-hop as good as anybody.

Lupe Fiasco

#27. Tidied all my papers. Tore up and ruthlessly destroyed much. This is always a great satisfaction.

Katherine Mansfield