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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

The lives of those who tidy thoroughly and completely, in a single shot, are without exception dramatically altered. — Marie Kondo

I like to see a tidy shop, and I want to see my investments well managed. — Nathan Kirsh

Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism. — Bertrand Russell

I'd like to be tidy, said Hen, I try, but I guess you can't be what you aren't. — Alexander McCall Smith

After every war someone has to tidy up. — Wislawa Szymborska

Focusing on one mildly disturbing, semi-controllable issue allows the mind to stuff much greater terrors in relatively tidy packages. — Martha Beck

Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul. — Mark Twain

I really have to force myself to tidy up around the house. — Marcia Cross

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

My life is not packaged,
Not tidy. There are leftover strands and jagged
Edges that cut even my friends. — Walter Dean Myers

My mind is not like a neat and tidy garden; it is a vast and untidy wilderness, full of irrelevancies, but with lots of places to wander and get lost. — Roopa Farooki

Bloom County was set in a tidy, rural environment probably because of Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird.' — Berkeley Breathed

You can always trust a man who tucks his shirt inside his underpants. — Bill Tidy

History is too often the refuge of the tidy-minded, making neat patterns when the dust has settled. — Melvyn Bragg

That's the trouble with gathering truth. It's never neat and tidy ... — Emma Jane Holloway

I eat and drink at my desk, but I'm a tidy eater. — Jamie Zawinski

Nothing in life or love slipped easily into the tidy little box of his expectations. — Dan Sofer

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

When I look at commercial studios, I think, "Oh, they're all so nice and tidy," but it's because they don't actually write music in them. — Aphex Twin

Many perfumes promise to lure men to women. None of them smell of motherhood. None of them proclaim the wearer to be tidy, thrifty, and sensible. — Janette Rallison

The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized mind. — Alan Brien

You'll love the song of the stars in your hair more than you loved the contents of your life, more than you loved tidy sealed boxes and certainty. — Sarah Bessey

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

In every wreck and crash, there is some unseen man rubbing his hands with thoughts of tidy profits. — Hugh Howey

My head was full of tidying tips, and I had complete, albeit misguided, confidence that I could tidy any place. — Marie Kondo

The world isn't tidy; it's a mess. I don't try to make it neat. — Garry Winogrand

I'm a tidy, neat person. But I'm not a maniac. — Jamie Lee Curtis

To dream in doctrines, how tidy! — John Le Carre

I'm afraid I am tidy, and I have to be because the office is open plan and my glass office door is literally always open. — James Dyson

To quietly work away at disposing of your own excess is actually the best way of dealing with a family that doesn't tidy. — Marie Kondo

People don't have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies. — Diablo Cody

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

History is never tidy. — Antony Beevor

Though no one had been buried here for almost thirty years, the grass was mown by yours truly. I felt a tidy graveyard made a happy graveyard. — Kim Harrison

I'd like to tidy up the entire planet. I would go anywhere if there were something that needs tidying. — Marie Kondo

Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy business — Arthur Conan Doyle

What a mess. Truths are messy and lies are messy, and I don't care what Da said, it's impossible to cut a person into pielike pieces, neat and tidy. — Victoria Schwab

When I was young, I believed God was a woman because I couldn't come up with any other explanation as to why the universe was so tidy. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I don't think I'm cut out for a job where you have to look professionally tidy. I prefer working in my pajamas and taking showers after lunch. — Kelly Link

To tidy up takes time, and she wants all her time for wolfing books... — Stella Gibbons

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul. — Mark Twain

She could strive for perfection only in certain, few things; beyond that, it was important only to be tidy. — Amanda Coplin

tidy bed was a restful bed — Nora Roberts

Bod quite liked crows. He thought they were funny and he liked the way they helped to keep the graveyard tidy. — Neil Gaiman

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

As I am both lazy and forgetful, I can't take proper care of too many things. That's why I want to cherish properly the things I love. — Marie Kondo

There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating. — Alfred Hitchcock

We have worked all day to tidy the mess you have made. — Wilbur Smith

Bonhoeffer did not expect his life to be a tidy edifice of perfection. — Samuel Wells

To summarise, the secret of success is to tidy in one shot, as quickly and completely as possible, and to start by discarding. — Marie Kondo

Thin gentleman, tidy little beard? He brushed his chin with his fingers. The — Patrick Rothfuss

I have the same bedroom I've always had. It's clean and tidy when I get home, and after two or three days it gets messy and my mother nags me. — Rafael Nadal

You only get married the first time once. There was the philosophy of a generation wrapped up in a tidy little sentence — Carrie Vaughn

When I see a man with a tidy place I know there's something wrong with him. And if it's too tidy, he's a fag. — Charles Bukowski

Scrubbed, combed, as tidy as two dudes setting off on a double date, they went out to the car. — Truman Capote

Haos is the neighbour of God: but everything's usually neat and tidy in hell ... — Hakan Nesser

A tidy metaphor does not make a wrong thing right. — David Mitchell

Tidy fees are the most effective remedy, both for the doctor and the patient. — Dario Fo

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

Our life may look glamorous, but we scream at the kids, and I have to tell Jamie to tidy up if we have guests coming over. — Louise Nurding

I think I have minor obsessive compulsive disorder. Everything has to be tidy and just right. — Bobby Davro

He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a plot for weeds. — Dag Hammarskjold

I have OCD, which is not fun. I have to be incredibly tidy and organized or it messes with my mind and switches off on me. — Charlize Theron

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

All thinking is done with the glands. Logic is added later to tidy things up. — John D. MacDonald

He longed for cleanliness and tidiness: it was hard to find peace in the middle of disorder. — Robin Hobb

Don't let us make it tidy," said Mary anxiously. "It wouldn't seem like a secret garden if it was tidy. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

I've got a tidy chin and a decent punch. And, for people who think they can fight and are champions, I'll make it extremely hard. — Tyson Fury

I guess they needed a maze in Japan, where everything's neat and tidy. In America everybody's already wandering around lost. — Jonathan Lethem

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

I promise to tidy up before company arrives, wouldn't want my socks and daydreams all over the carpet — Sarah Kay

In the futile attempts we all make to tidy up our lives and our surroundings, nothing is more difficult than throwing out a book. — Andy Rooney

I like messy. What fun is tidy? — Dasha Zhukova

No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined. — Paul Gallico