Tidying Up Quotes

• there should be a place for everything, and everything in its place.

  Isabella Beeton

  Order, Organization, Organized Life

  1861 The Book of Household Management, ch.2.

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• Get rid of things or you'll spend your whole life tidying up.

  Marguerite Duras

  Whole Life, Whole

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• Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Trying, Typical, Necks

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• How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Death, Dirty, Self

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• Conscious thought is the tidying up at the end.

  Mason Cooley

  Conscious, Ends

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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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• There was nothing medieval people liked better, or did better, than sorting out and tidying up. Of all our modern inventions I suspect that they would most have admired the card index.

  C. S. Lewis

  People, Sorting Out, Cards

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature”, p.10, Cambridge University Press

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• I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Weed, Garden, Digging A Hole

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• Ecologically speaking, a spilt tanker load is like sticking a safety pin into an elephant's foot. The planet barely notices. After the Exxon Valdez accident in Alaska the oil company spent billions tidying up the coastline, but it was a waste of money because the waves were cleaning up faster than Exxon could. Environmentalists can never accept the planet's ability to self-heal.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Nature, Science, Elephants

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• 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

  Husband, Ex Boyfriend, Acceptance

  Lisa Lutz (2010). “The Spellmans Strike Again: Document #4”, p.343, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not great around the house, I'm pretty useless. I do little bits, but I never quite finish tidying up - I'll start, but I'll leave things unwashed in the sink. It has been known to irritate people somewhat.

  Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

  People, House, Useless

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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