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Tag Name "Tidy" (93)

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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
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I stopped writing short fiction early on - I was never really good at it, and I never liked the results. So I stopped trying to fit the material I was working with into these tidy little short fiction packages.
Susan Choi
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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
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In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root.
Paul Tsongas
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In this life, nobody has forever in which to leave home, to return, to make a new home, or to open the door to someone. Death doesn't wait while we tidy everything up. And there are several kinds of dying.
Jean Little
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I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that's not in the commercial they think you're a genius.
Amy Poehler
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My life is not packaged, Not tidy. There are leftover strands and jagged Edges that cut even my friends.
Walter Dean Myers
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Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Alice Meynell
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Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
William Morris
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The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized mind.
Alan Brien
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Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty.
Winston Churchill
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I don't tend to redraft, I will try to tidy it up, but basically I feel what I write down first has got the impetus, it may be clumsy, it may be repetitive, but a good editor can take that out. That first writing bit is the best thing you will do.
Gerald Seymour
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
Wislawa Szymborska
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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
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The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.
Dennis Lehane
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History is too often the refuge of the tidy-minded, making neat patterns when the dust has settled.
Melvyn Bragg
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English writing tends to fall into two categories - the big, baggy epic novel or the fairly controlled, tidy novel. For a long time, I was a fan of the big, baggy novel, but there's definitely an advantage to having a little bit more control.
Zadie Smith
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From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.
Ella Maillart
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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
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Here I am, I still go on, you know, like the tides.
Angela Lansbury
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I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and the prospect before us, that I can bring you no good tidings.
Robert Toombs
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After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.
Alexander Dubcek
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As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.
Kin Hubbard
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Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals continued our course in the morning and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there.
Christopher Columbus
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