Untidiness Famous Quotes & Sayings
18 Untidiness Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
She was a pretty girl, with a pointed face and blue-black hair. But she was an untidy, a dusty sort of girl, and you felt that in a few years something might go wrong; she might get swollen ankles or grow a mustache.— Mavis Gallant
That is where young people so often and so grievously go wrong: that they (whose nature it is to have no patience) throw themselves at each other when love comes over them, scatter themselves abroad, just as they are in all their untidiness, disorder and confusion ... : But what is to be done then? How is life to act upon this heap of half crushed matter which they call their communion and which they would dearly like to style their happiness, if that were possible, and their future? So each one loses himself for the other's sake, and— Rainer Maria Rilke
You haven't seen untidiness until you've seen a room where gravity has failed twice in different directions.— Michael Marshall Smith
My only phobia is untidiness. My hair has to be neatly kept; my shoes are always clean. Everything has to be in a straight line, in its place.— Norman Wisdom
The room had kept his secrets. It gave nothing away. Not in the disarray of rumpled sheets, nor the untidiness of a kicked off shoe, or a wet towel hung over the back of a chair. Or a half-read book. It was like a room in a hospital after the nurse had just been. The floor was clean, the walls white. The cupboard closed. Shoes arranged. The dustbin empty.— Arundhati Roy
Here was my first lesson on the resolutely maintained untidiness and ill-health of the English upper orders. In baggy evening dress and old before their time, they displayed gapped and tangled teeth in loosely open mouths. Gently shedding dandruff, they lurched across the lawn. When they stood at the bar they looked like Lee Trevino Putting.— Clive James
A studio allows you to indulge your untidiness and your penchant for toys and curiosities that really wouldn't work in a grown-up house.— Jamie Cullum
And when he got home he started on Mumma. He hated her then, because in her fatness and untidiness and drabness she reminded him of what he himself was when he was sober.— Ruth Park
The sad truth is, I am a martyr to my own sense of order. All untidiness, all want of system and regularity, cause me the acutest irritation. My attention is distracted, my composure is upset;— Wilkie Collins
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
The front room of his house was what I called 'untidy chic'. Prefects weren't subject to the same Rules on room tidiness, but since no one really enjoyed clutter, a certain style of ordered untidiness was generally considered de couleur for a prefect's room.— Jasper Fforde
Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.— Charles Handy
If we celebrate life with all its contradictions, embrace, experience, and ultimately live with it, a chance exists for a spiritual life filled not only with pain and untidiness, but also with joy, community, and creativity.— Derrick Jensen
He thought her delightful, - freckles, picnic-untidiness and all.— Elizabeth Von Arnim
His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the atmosphere of violence and danger which hung around him made him the very worst tenant in London.— Arthur Conan Doyle
I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and looseness.— Conrad Veidt
If you did not keep your yard in reasonable order, then your whole life would be similarly untidy. A messy yard told Mma Ramotswe everything she needed to know about its owner.— Alexander McCall Smith
My tidiness, and my untidiness, are full of regret and remorse and complex feelings.— Natalia Ginzburg
