A Quote by William Faulkner

The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat, clean, quite solvent business.

William Faulkner

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Business Clean Much Neat People Quite Solvent Swiss

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William Faulkner
American - Writer
September 25, 1897 - July 6, 1962

I want players to look neat and responsible. Maybe it's old school, but it's kind of neat when people are always clean.

Joe Girardi

The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age.

Dorothy Parker

A part of me feels very Swiss: I follow Swiss sports - curling, for example - and I support Swiss teams. I love Roger Federer.

Ivan Rakitic

[T]he Swiss people are the best practitioners of the ideals of non-aggression. The Swiss national government posts are parttime positions. Most decisions are made at the canton (state) level. Swiss per capita income is the highest in the world, showing that non-aggression pays. How did the Swiss come to adopt a relatively non-aggressive constitution in an aggressive world? In the mid-1800s, they imitated our constitution and stuck with it!

Mary Ruwart

Republicans are for clean water, clean air, and clean energy. We are not for taxing people out of their house, home and business to pay for it. And that is the fundamental difference between the Democrats and Republicans on this issue.

Marsha Blackburn

I'm a freak of neat. The kitchen has to be clean.

Geoffrey Zakarian

When I came into the mobile phone business, I was really the upstart who pretty much took the business, not quite by storm, but really made an impact on it quite early on. But it was from a position, really, of feeling that I was a last mover.

John Caudwell

I was neat, clean, shaved and sober and I didn't care who knew it.

Raymond Chandler

It does not require money to be neat, clean and dignified.

Mahatma Gandhi

I am very clean, not exactly a neat freak, and creative.

Jessica Origliasso

I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere.

Marissa Mayer

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.

John Burns

We keep the house really clean. Organized and neat is better for me.

Will Grier

My house is really clean. It's a really big house so I have three ladies who come in and clean it twice a week, but let's just say that, in between times, maybe it's not quite so clean.