Tidy Quotes - Page 5

• My daughter has a problem picking things up in her room. So if you leave your clothes on the floor, so if you leave your clothes on the floor, they're gone when you come home.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Daughter, Mother, Clothes

  "Madonna: 'I'm a Disciplinarian'", www.foxnews.com. October 14, 2005.

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• I stopped writing short fiction early on - I was never really good at it, and I never liked the results. So I stopped trying to fit the material I was working with into these tidy little short fiction packages.

  Susan Choi

  Writing, Trying, Fiction

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• The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have the courage and patience, the energy and skill, to take us voyaging to other planets, then let us use some of these to tidy up and civilize this earth. One world at a time, please.

  J. B. Priestley

  Science, Civilization, Skills

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• I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards 'apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy data' but in reality the situation is no quite so simple.

  Keith Briffa

  Nice, Simple, Reality

  "Controversy behind climate science's 'hockey stick' graph" by Fred Pearce, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2010.

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• Probably the only people left who think that economics deserves a Nobel Prize are economists. It confirms their conceit that they're doing 'science' rather than the less tidy task of observing the world and trying to make sense of it. This, after all, is done by mere historians, political scientists, anthropologists, sociologists, and (heaven forbid) even journalists. Economists are loath to admit that they belong in such raffish company.

  Robert J. Samuelson

  Thinking, People, Heaven

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• Too often a sister puts all her patients back to bed as a housewife puts all her plates back in the plate-rack-to make a generally tidy appearance.

  Richard Asher

  Science, Nurse, Bed

  British Medical Journal 2: 697 (1947)

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• Tidy fees are the most effective remedy, both for the doctor and the patient.

  Dario Fo

  Doctors, Patient, Fees

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• All my tales are true, drawn from life, and a life story is not a tidy thing.

  Karen Lord

  Stories, Tales, Life Story

  Karen Lord (2010). “Redemption in Indigo: a novel”, p.1, Small Beer Press

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• You can choose, you can go one of two ways. You can be the person I probably admire more and say 'well I don't care and I'll continue not to bother to brush my hair.' Or you can be a weak-willed person like me and think 'oh I'd better get my act together. And maybe my mother was right and I do need to put my hair back and tidy myself up a bit.' So I did tidy myself up a bit. But I do often resent the amount of time that it takes to pull yourself together to go on TV, I really do. If I sound bitter, then that accurately reflects how I feel about the subject.

  J. K. Rowling

  Wise, Mother, Witty

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• It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance.

  Erich von Stroheim

  Travel, Drama, Responsibility

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• It's important to look neat and tidy and not be too flashily dressed. If you look untidy, you're considered to have an untidy mind - it's as simple as that!

  Lynda Chalker, Baroness Chalker of Wallasey

  Fashion, Simple, Neat And Tidy

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• When a man writes a romance, the woman dies. When a woman writes one, it ends all tidy and sweet.

  Julia Quinn

  Sweet, Writing, Men

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• In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we established a national model for preventing and fighting crime.

  Thomas Menino

  Fighting, Boston, Cities

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• She made a firm resolution, one of the resolutions she was making almost daily these days. No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more wasting time. Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.

  David Nicholls

  Writing, Sleepovers, Wasting Time

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• Anyone buying this book is going to be out a tidy sum if he is sucked in by the title. I wish I could write a real sexy book that would be barred from the mails. Apparently nothing whets a reader's appetite for literature more than the news that the author has been thrown into a federal pokey for disturbing the libido of millions of Americans.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Sexy, Real

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• One of the most wonderful things about knowing God is that there’s always so much more to know, so much more to discover. Just when we least expect it, He intrudes into our neat and tidy notions about who He is and how He works.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  God, Neat And Tidy, Knowing

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• Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.

  Edward Fairfax

  Joy, Mind, Ears

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• The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea.

  John Dyer

  Space, Sea, Departure

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• I'm a minimalist. I like things to look very clean, I like clean lines. I like everything to be tidy and have space.

  Sebastian Clovis

  Space, Looks, Lines

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• Now you can leave home at any time you like.Your mother comes down and finds a picture of the Eiffel Tower on her plate. And she says, 'Oh! Rosemary's gone to Paris. No wonder the bathroom was so tidy.' And nobody minds. But in my day, to go abroad with all those wicked Frenchmen, what would become of them? So no-one ever went anywhere.

  Quentin Crisp

  Mother, Home, Paris

  Source: davidbenson.webs.com

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• If we become uncomfortable in any given moment, we can look at a flower, a pebble in the street or the tire on our car and be grateful. We can gaze at a person in the distance or at a cloud in the sky and be appreciative. We can smile at a stranger, hug someone we know or tidy a disorganized shelf and be thankful for the opportunity. If we choose gratitude, we will be happy!

  Barry Neil Kaufman

  Happiness, Success, Gratitude

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• [T]his free and easy old-bachelor sort of life is quite full of fun and jollity. Pease and myself room together; and everything like order and neatness is banished from our presence as a nuisance--old letters and old boots and shoes, duds clean and duds dirty, books and newspapers, tooth-brushes, shoe-brushes, and clothes-brushes, all heaped together on chairs, settees, etc., in dusty and "most admired confusion." Now, what is there imaginable in clean, tidy private life equal to this?

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Fun, Book, Dirty

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• All thinking is done with the glands. Logic is added later to tidy things up.

  John D. MacDonald

  Thinking, Done, Logic

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• We've lost that very simple transaction that's so pure, where a reader can say, "I support what you're doing, here's my dollar. I know that you guys are gonna be watchdogs or keep the government accountable, so here's my 50-cent contribution each day." It's just so tidy, and I think so inspiring.

  Dave Eggers

  Simple, Thinking, Government

  Interview with Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. January 1, 2010.

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• As a director, you always want things to look good. You're always trying to make things look tidy. That's what we're all trained to do.

  Declan Lowney

  Always Trying, Directors, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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