Tidy Quotes

• Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

  Mark Twain

  Neat And Tidy, Soul, Dresses

  "The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories".

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• After every war someone has to tidy up.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  War

  Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Poems New and Collected”, p.228, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

  William Morris

  Life, Happiness, Beauty

  Hopes and Fears for Art "The Beauty of Life" (1882)

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• Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.

  Jean Anouilh

  Order, Leaving, Way

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• Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty.

  Winston Churchill

  Philosophy, Virtue, Symmetry

  Winston Churchill (1949). “The Sinews of Peace: Post-war Speeches”

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• I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'

  Zaha Hadid

  Office, Focus, Used

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• I'm a tidy sort of bloke. I don't like chaos. I kept records in the record rack, tea in the tea caddy, and pot in the pot box.

  George Harrison

  Tea, Records, Chaos

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• Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.

  Peter Benchley

  Fall, Tides, Reputation

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• It was Tottenham at home. I thought: 'Please don't go on about Tottenham, we all know what Tottenham are about. They are nice and tidy but we'll f****** do them.' Alex came in and said: 'Lads, it's only Tottenham.' And that was it! Brilliant!

  Roy Keane

  Football, Nice, Home

  "Roy Keane says he and Alex Ferguson were on same wavelength at United" by James Riach, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2014.

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• If you spend a whole afternoon just eating popcorn and watching football, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But if that's all you do, you get swept along with the tide, without any idea of where you're going.

  Roland Joffe

  Football, Ideas, Popcorn

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• Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utterly dwarfs — in time, in space, and in potential — the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors.

  Carl Sagan

  Space, Overcoming, Tiny

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.73, Ballantine Books

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• If ever there were a true "just as I am" church, if ever there were a community where everybody could bring all their baggage and brokenness with them without neat and tidy happy endings quite yet, if ever there was a group where everyone was loved and no one pretended - we could not make enough room inside the building.

  John Ortberg

  Love, Neat And Tidy, Community

  John Ortberg (2009). “The Me I Want to Be”, p.202, Zondervan

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• You are a terror, aren't you? Leave this yard alone. I know just where everything is in it, and I won't be able to find the things I need for my transport spells if you tidy them up.'So there was probably a bundle of souls or a box of chewed hearts somewhere out here, Sophie thought. She felt really thwarted. 'Tidying up is what I'm here for!' she shouted at Howl. 'Then you must think of a new meaning for your life,' Howl said.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Heart, Thinking, Soul

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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• I was always intrigued with European cinema, and hated most American cinema. I didn't like the one, two, three - boom! style, with a neat and tidy ending. That was never my scene.

  Lee Daniels

  Neat And Tidy, Two, Style

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One way to organize your thoughts is to tidy up, even if it's in places where it makes no sense at all.

  Ursus Wehrli

  Way, Organize, Ifs

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• I'm often asked the same question: What in your work comes from your own culture? As if I have a recipe and I can actually isolate the Arab ingredient, the woman ingredient, the Palestinian ingredient. People often expect tidy definitions of otherness, as if identity is something fixed and easily definable.

  Mona Hatoum

  People, Identity, Culture

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• For no one loves the bearer of bad tidings.

  Sophocles

  Men, Tidings

  "The Antigone of Sophocles".

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• Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.

  George Henry Lewes

  Literature, World, Tidings

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• Here I am, I still go on, you know, like the tides.

  Angela Lansbury

  Here I Am, Goes On, Tides

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• Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet.

  Lynn Abbey

  Editors, Feet, Literature

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• Yes, I do like to be in control. I do like everything to be laid out, to know what I'm doing. I'm very impatient. I like things done yesterday, which is probably a fault of mine. I like things to be neat and tidy and organised. I say what I want and show what I want and I keep things private.

  Alan Shearer

  Yesterday, Neat And Tidy, Want

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• Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.

  Prem Rawat

  Tides, Life Is, Difficult

  Speech at Fernbank, London, February, 1972.

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• Experience shows that great enterprises seldom end with a tidy and satisfactory flourish. Together, we are doing our best to re-establish peace and civil order in the Gulf region, and to help those members of civil and ethnic minorities who continue to suffer through no fault of their own. If we succeed, our military success will have achieved its true objective.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Military, Order, Suffering

  1991 Commenting on the aftermath of the Gulf War in the first address by a British monarch to Congress, 16 May.

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• ...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line.

  Tom Robbins

  Life, Religious, Horse

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.356, Bantam

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• You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well.

  Samuel Alexander

  Self, Personality, Desire

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