Neat Quotes - Page 2

Can we really conquer chaos so easily? If that were so, I should be able to prune the pandemonium of my own soul into something neat and tidy rather than this maze of wants and needs and misgivings that has me forever feeling as if I cannot fit into the landscape of things.

A neat and orderly laboratory is unlikely. It is, after all, so much a place of false starts and multiple attempts.

Yes, I do like to be in control. I do like everything to be laid out, to know what I'm doing. I'm very impatient. I like things done yesterday, which is probably a fault of mine. I like things to be neat and tidy and organised. I say what I want and show what I want and I keep things private.

I always was fascinated by neat nicknames.

It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

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

Hoboken is a neat place.

Stir not murky waters if you know not the depth or the creatures that dwell beneath the surface.

Certainly there's a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.

Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat.

Life doesn't have a neat beginning and a tidy end; life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.

I'm a very neat monster.

I'm under no illusion that the future will be a neat and tidy or desirable world. We will gain a lot of things through necessity and a lot of them through all sorts of fragile dysfunction - not because they're bad ideas but because they will inevitably be adopted in a chaotic, reactive way.

I have to admit: I have been known to be obsessively neat and like things arranged just so.

I'm not going to deny it. I'm a neat person, there's no question. But I don't become obsessed with it.

The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface.

If you actually dissect the lyrics in 'Motley Crue', you'll notice that there's a lot going on beneath the surface.

I was always intrigued with European cinema, and hated most American cinema. I didn't like the one, two, three - boom! style, with a neat and tidy ending. That was never my scene.

If Dracula can’t see his reflection, how come his parting’s always neat?

If frogs could fly... well we'd still be in this mess, but wouldn't it be neat?

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.

Whether it is photography, assemblage art or filmmaking, my work is to see beneath the surface.

We got to his place and it looked a lot like his personality. Just a bunch of space filler, nothing to really wow you. It looked like he had bought a lot of stuff from IKEA and then decided to refinish it at home. Everything was neat and tidy, but you wouldn't want any of it for yourself.

We are like icebergs in the ocean: one-eighth part consciousness and the rest submerged beneath the surface of articulate apprehension.

I get drawn in when I feel there is something deep and mysterious going on beneath the surface of something.