I have to admit: I have been known to be obsessively neat and like things arranged just so.
I'm very organized and tidy in my home life and I generally do something myself rather than farm it out to somebody else. I don't have an assistant or anything because I think I can do it myself.
The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat, clean, quite solvent business.
It is so difficult to make a neat job of killing people with whom one is not on friendly terms.
Eventually I realized that for contemporary philosophers conceptual analysis per se was an end in itself. For some, it was somehow supposed to lead to the truth about these phenomena, not just to tidy things up a bit.
I recommend tidying by category, not by place. For example, instead of deciding that today you'll tidy a particular room, set goals such as 'clothes today, books tomorrow.'
The thinking brain influences the body’s responses and it makes a neat little loop.
But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.
There is nothing in which a horse's power is better revealed than in a neat, clean stop.
Sundance Supply has a neat material calculator and free greenhouse designs-Great Prices!
I'm the fourth generation to be in show business. It's pretty neat; it's nice to have that family history.
Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one's mediocrity at the same time.
I saw 'Cats' on a school trip. I thought it was neat and a little weird. The set was cool.
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.
A Madagascar Hissing Roach chasing Jerry Lewis. That would be a really neat treat.
I can't cook. I don't have the right brain for it, somehow. I can't walk into a room and tidy it up. I get distracted. I pick up one thing and I start looking at it. And my cooking is truly heinous.
Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.
Just once I want it to be easy and neat. But no, there is never a good decision. I pick what I can live with.
That's one of the neat things about 'Call of Duty.' There are areas in the game where we were able to score the gameplay.
We keep the house really clean. Organized and neat is better for me.
Even if you enter the dirty water, stay neat like a white swan!
Your mind is the knife that cuts the continuum of space and time into neat slices of linear experience.
I went blonde which killed my hair. It was a disaster. I think it was neat to do it for a bit.
Typically, booksellers like to put things into neat little categories.
I love physics because it's neat and it's orderly in its own peculiar way.
I'm an impulse buyer. I'd step inside a shop and buy a nice dress, just like that. Only then do I realize it cost a tidy sum. And when I enter a jewelry store, wow!
What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste?
From the moment you enter the league, everyone wants to slap a label on you - some tidy description of what they think you bring to the game. And more often than not, that tag sticks with you, regardless of whether it's accurate.
Love didn't run on logic. It didn't follow neat lines or a list of priorities.
Something deep within us drives accurate messiness into the neat channels of canonical stories.
So before I start work on a book, I'm like a pregnant mole - I obsessively tidy and order my closets and everything in my study. Because there's such a cascade of images and ideas that I'm grapping with mentally, I couldn't also be in a chaotic setting.
I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table and by my bed have a plaintive, pleading quality to me - 'Read me, please!'
The story is always in service to the characters, and is only as long or short, or neat or ragged as it needs to be.
I have to admit: I have been known to be obsessively neat and like things arranged 'just so.'
The stock market and the gridiron and the battlefield aren't as tidy as the chessboard, but in all of them, a single, simple rule holds true: make good decisions and you'll succeed; make bad ones and you'll fail.
Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat.
Continue to surprise those who would put you in a neat demographic. Be insistently curious.
Herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.
There is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.
I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea.
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.
The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.
When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.
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.
We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
Silence is only commendable
In a neat's tongue dried, and a maid not vendible.
Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.
The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age.
It's neat seeing people that aren't necessarily part of my demographic who really get the jokes. I love it.
There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.
Growing up in Kansas City, I was always neat, the teacher's pet, know-it-all type.
I was on the set when I was five years old with Spencer Tracy. A lot of what I learned growing up in terms of artistry is very clean, very tidy, very organized.
At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat.
I was a little bit of a slob who was sort of surrounded by dirty laundry. I can trace the exact moment that I became a tidy human being, and that moment was the day my son Sam was born.
I'm all about big, bold flavours! Roasts! Cheese! But I do like a neat work surface.
Sammy Davis, Andy Williams, Tony Bennett... their records sell in the millions; when I do it, it just trickles. But for the composer and lyricist, there's a tidy bit to be made that way, too, so I don't really mind.
I'm tired of this back-slappin' "isn't humanity neat" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes.
I'm an OCD neat freak. I can't stand messes. I make my bed every morning. Laundry. I do it all.
Of course I wasn't abused. If I were; things would be so simple. I'd have a reason to for being in a shrinks office. I'd have a justification and something to work on. The world wasn't going to give me something that tidy.
Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.
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