Top 157 Tidy Quotes & Sayings

When you're juggling children, a marriage and a couple of jobs, something has to give - and, for me, it's living in a perfectly tidy home.

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

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

I go to the hairdresser once a month and even if I don't use products, I always want to look tidy.

There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.

There's a lovely character in 'Under Milk Wood' called Mrs. Ogmore Pritchard and she's incredibly tidy and clean. She really is unbearably tidy and clean! And I terrorize my husband when he comes in sometimes from shooting and there's awful dead birds all over the hall that he calls me Mrs. Ogmore Pritchard.

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

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

The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to 'tidy up' the mess, as opposed to understanding it's a 'day one' issue and part of everything.

Military operations cannot be tidy or free of friction - particularly in a coalition whose contributing nations see the campaign through national prisms.

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

After every war someone has to tidy up.

Coming home to a tidy, pulled-together space will help everything in your life feel the same way.

If you insist on playing Jorginho, who is neat and tidy but not a goal threat, you have to have goal threats on either side of him.

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

All thinking is done with the glands. Logic is added later to tidy things up.

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.

There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.

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.'

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

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.

I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards 'apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy data' but in reality the situation is no quite so simple.

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

You can choose, you can go one of two ways. You can be the person I probably admire more and say 'well I don't care and I'll continue not to bother to brush my hair.' Or you can be a weak-willed person like me and think 'oh I'd better get my act together. And maybe my mother was right and I do need to put my hair back and tidy myself up a bit.' So I did tidy myself up a bit. But I do often resent the amount of time that it takes to pull yourself together to go on TV, I really do. If I sound bitter, then that accurately reflects how I feel about the subject.

I'm known as tidy, I like to keep my stuff in order.

Let the grass die. I let almost all of my indoor plants die from neglect while I was writing the book. There are all kinds of ways to live. You can take your choice. You can keep a tidy house, and when St. Peter asks you what you did with your life, you can say, I kept a tidy house, I made my own cheese balls.

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.

I have a neat and tidy bed when I reach home but a cluttered one by the time I leave.

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

I am definitely a Type-A, tidy, everything-has-a-place kind of person, so initially encouraging a mess was against my nature. But once you realize all the benefits, it's pretty simple to let that go.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I'm a neat freak. I find I work best when I feel organised and together, and as I work from home, that means my house is always so tidy!

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

The way I meditate is by being organised. I can get real Zen if I go home and tidy the front room.

Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.

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

What we seek we do not find - that would be too trim and tidy for so reckless and opulent a thing as life. It is something else we find.

I'm very much a home bird. I sometimes think I should have been a domestic. I like sweeping up, getting everything tidy. I'm obsessive compulsive. I don't mind admitting it.

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

I'm a tidy, neat person. But I'm not a maniac.

I like messy. What fun is tidy?

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I have very tidy cupboards. I do like a cupboard to look nice when you open it, with the labels facing forward.

The play of conflicting interests in a framework of shared purposes is the drama of a free society. It is a robust exercise, and often a noisy one. It is not for the faint-hearted, or the tidy-minded.

Threads of Rosenquist and Warhol are all through my work. But I'm messier - and wetter. It's the female perspective. I'm not as tidy, and they were both very tidy.

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

There are people who read Tolstoy or Dostoevski who do not insist that their endings be happy or pleasant or, at least, not be depressing. But if you're writing mysteries - oh, no, you can't have an ending like that. It must be tidy.

One way to organize your thoughts is to tidy up, even if it's in places where it makes no sense at all.

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