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  • There's one thing about baldness, it's neat. -- Don Herold
  • And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings. -- Stephen King
  • That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the first moment you looked into those lovely blue eyes: impeachment insurance. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
  • You could eat sushi off my bookshelf. My cleaning regime is like a battleground. I'm Genghis Khan and my cleaning products are my Mongolian army and I take no prisoners. The rest of my life is an experiment in chaos so I like to keep my flat neat. -- Ryan Adams
  • Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one's mediocrity at the same time. -- Mason Cooley
  • On page 607, alluding to the end of my first marriage (and carefully remembering to state that that's none of his business), he very sweetly says that I 'might leave a wife, but not a friend.' Nice try. Neat smear. But he shouldn't be so sure. -- Christopher Hitchens
  • A postcard. Neat handwriting fills the rectangle. Half my days I cannot bear to touch you. The rest of my time I feel like it doesn't matter if I will ever see you again. It isn't the morality, it's how much you can bear. No date. No name attached. -- Michael Ondaatje
  • I've got an allergy to looking too neat. -- Alexa Chung
  • Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. -- John F. Lehman, Jr.
  • I'm a tidy, neat person. But I'm not a maniac. -- Jamie Lee Curtis
  • I always thought, it would be neat to make the Olympic team. -- Michael Phelps
  • There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong. -- H. L. Mencken
  • I'm tired of this back-slappin' "isn't humanity neat" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes. -- Bill Hicks
  • I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea. -- Oliver North
  • To see a doll of yourself is very weird and very neat at the same time. -- Thuy Trang
  • When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument. -- C. S. Forester
  • Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat. -- William S. Burroughs
  • Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat. -- Patti Smith
  • The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God. -- Rob Bell
  • Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet. -- Robert Orben
  • Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect. -- C. S. Lewis
  • Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image. -- Aldous Huxley
  • It was neat to see a plaque on the 18th fairway, and go up there and kind of look at the green and just remembering the moment, -- Paula Creamer
  • 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. -- Bill Gates
  • I'm not a neat freak. I don't mind things being messy but I mind them being dirty. I just can't relax in a dirty environment. I like things organized. -- Leah Remini
  • It is in your DNA to love a good story. You know, neat tales with heroes and villains and conflicts to resolve. A good story pushes our buttons, is exciting and memorable. -- Barry Ritholtz
  • Christian spirituality was not a children's story. It wasn't cute or neat. It was mystical and odd and clean, and it was reaching into dirty. There was wonder in it and enchantment. -- Donald Miller
  • The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking. -- F. Murray Abraham
  • Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat, and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids. -- Clive Owen
  • I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts. -- Ronald Reagan
  • Breaking up is the hardest thing we do. It's the most important thing we do, in a way. You've got to embrace rejection, or you'll maintain a very limited life. It'll be very nice and neat - and very, very small. -- Laurie Helgoe
  • If I was being executed by injection, I'd clean up my cell real neat. Then, when they came to get me, I'd say, "Injection? I thought you said 'inspection'." They'd probably feel real bad, and maybe I could get out of it. -- Jack Handey
  • Everything is complicated about using concrete - the discipline and dedication necessary to make consistent batches, understanding exactly how the formwork will be laid, what the timing is for the pours, how you keep it clean and neat to achieve a fine quality. -- Annabelle Selldorf
  • There are two ways to go about it. You can take a compass and draw a perfect circle and make two perfect eyes as neat as can be. Or you can do it freehand and have some fun with it. Like I did. Give it character. -- Harvey Ball
  • I really liked the food in Japan. There is something so organized, neat, and methodical about it. They put a lot of care and quality into their cooking. I also love Mediterranean, New American, and Italian food, because the cuisines borrow influences from all over the world. -- Sasha Cohen
  • Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages. -- Julia Child
  • I've put my life back together, but it's all a growing process and that's neat, too, because if you stop growing, what good is it musically? So that is what I am looking forward to - growing. In some ways, I felt stagnant in my life and it showed. -- Stevie Ray Vaughan
  • I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics. -- Newt Gingrich
  • I've lived my life like a serial killer; finish with one part, strangle it and move on to the next. Life in neat little boxes is life in neat little coffins, the dead bodies of the past laid out side by side. I am discovering, now, in the late afternoon of the day, that the dead still speak. -- Jeanette Winterson
  • It's been really fun to see with each album when I change to see the fans of the show emulate my style and with the first record a lot of the kids in the crowd were wearing neck ties like I was and now you'll see a lot of girls with pink hair. It's cool, it's actually really neat. -- Avril Lavigne
  • Messy stuff irritates me. I don't like messiness. If you leave something around my house, I'll tell you to move it back, clean it up, throw it in the trash - don't matter, just get rid of it. I need stuff neat, organized. And once I start cleaning stuff, I don't stop until it's done. Otherwise I'm irritated all day. -- Russell Westbrook
  • Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea. -- Douglas Adams
  • There are certain things about me that I will never tell to anyone because I am a very private person. But basically, what you see is who I am. I'm independent, I do like to be liked, I do look for the good side of life and people. I'm positive, I'm disciplined, I like my life in order, and I'm neat as a pin. -- Mary Tyler Moore
  • Niggards are oftentimes neat. -- Herman Melville
  • Hoboken is a neat place. -- Daniel Pinkwater
  • I'm a very neat monster." ~Dexter Morgan -- Jeff Lindsay
  • I always was fascinated by neat nicknames. -- Steve Sabol
  • Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. -- John F. Lehman, Jr.
  • I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive. -- Liev Schreiber
  • Each individual has a very neat beginning, at conception. -- Jerome Lejeune
  • Drop your shrink and stop your drinkin', crunchy granola's neat. -- Neil Diamond
  • Herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses. -- John Milton
  • If you want a neat wife, choose her on a Saturday. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • I'm a freak of neat. The kitchen has to be clean. -- Geoffrey Zakarian
  • Poetry keeps my heart neat, even when incomplete, I find peace. -- Delano Johnson
  • It does not require money, to live neat, clean and dignified.. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste? -- John Milton
  • Sundance Supply has a neat material calculator and free greenhouse designs-Great Prices! -- Shane Smith
  • Even if you enter the dirty water, stay neat like a white swan! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • One time I got fan mail that was from Africa. It's really neat. -- Scarlett Pomers
  • If you sprinkle when you tinkle please be neat and wipe the seat. -- Simone Elkeles
  • For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. -- H. L. Mencken
  • Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Marcia was incredibly organized, obsessively neat ... I mean she folded her underwear like origami. -- Linda Barnes
  • We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution. -- Barry Ritholtz
  • Something deep within us drives accurate messiness into the neat channels of canonical stories. -- Stephen Jay Gould
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  • I was neat, clean, shaved and sober and I didn't care who knew it. -- Raymond Chandler
  • Silence is only commendable In a neat's tongue dried, and a maid not vendible. -- William Shakespeare
  • The world isn't tidy; it's a mess. I don't try to make it neat. -- Garry Winogrand
  • But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people. -- Uma Thurman
  • Have I got a mother-in-law. She's so neat she puts paper under the cuckoo clock. -- Henny Youngman
  • The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat, clean, quite solvent business. -- William Faulkner
  • The thinking brain influences the bodyĆ¢??s responses and it makes a neat little loop. -- Brad Warner
  • Continue to surprise those who would put you in a neat demographic. Be insistently curious. -- Gordon Gee
  • Love didn't run on logic. It didn't follow neat lines or a list of priorities. -- Nora Roberts
  • Guns are neat little things, aren't they? They can kill extraordinary people with very little effort. -- John Hinckley Jr.
  • We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science. -- Frank Herbert
  • History is too often the refuge of the tidy-minded, making neat patterns when the dust has settled. -- Melvyn Bragg
  • Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment. -- Charles Handy
  • I'll compliment on the spot. I want a clean, neat drugstore. I'll check the restrooms and closets. -- Gregory Wasson
  • If frogs could fly - well, we'd still be in this mess, but wouldn't it be neat? -- Drew Carey
  • There is nothing in which a horse's power is better revealed than in a neat, clean stop. -- Michel de Montaigne
  • As a general thing, an individual who is neat in his person is neat in his morals. -- Josh Billings
  • There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it. -- Jim Allchin
  • The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age. -- Dorothy Parker
  • Sex was never as neat as the movies made it. Real sex was messy. Good sex was messier. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
  • I have to admit: I have been known to be obsessively neat and like things arranged just so. -- David Alan Basche
  • I'm the fourth generation to be in show business. It's pretty neat; it's nice to have that family history. -- Rachel Bilson
  • We don't always know what we're doing. We often just get excited, put something down, and say, 'Oh, neat'. -- Tina Weymouth
  • Women who don't think they can get a neat guy hang onto losers because something is better than nothing. -- Laura Schlessinger
  • I'm kind of a neat freak. My place is really organized. My socks are even organized: colors and sizes. -- Ryan Guzman
  • I can't believe that people actually know my first and last name. I think it's really, really, gosh-darn neat. -- Brittany Murphy
  • Your mind is the knife that cuts the continuum of space and time into neat slices of linear experience. -- Deepak Chopra
  • I really wanted the MTV Award the most, It was a golden popcorn container and it looks really neat. -- Kirsten Dunst
  • It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am. -- Janis Ian
  • At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat. -- Winston Churchill
  • Things of greatest profit are set forth with least price. Where the wine is neat there needeth no live blush. -- John Lyly
  • I guess they needed a maze in Japan, where everything's neat and tidy. In America everybody's already wandering around lost. -- Jonathan Lethem
  • I saw 'Cats' on a school trip. I thought it was neat and a little weird. The set was cool. -- Rob McClure
  • I'm not going to deny it. I'm a neat person, there's no question. But I don't become obsessed with it. -- Courteney Cox
  • It is so difficult to make a neat job of killing people with whom one is not on friendly terms. -- Robert Hamer
  • I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages. -- Julia Child
  • But there's no emergency kit for marriage. No neat plan you can turn to when the ground shifts beneath your feet. -- Michelle Richmond
  • For once, you're going to hear something that doesn't fit into your neat, compartmentalized world of order and logic and reason. -- Richelle Mead
  • A neat and orderly laboratory is unlikely. It is, after all, so much a place of false starts and multiple attempts. -- Isaac Asimov
  • The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion. -- Molly Ivins
  • I really like acting because you can create a character. You can make someone who has never existed before. That's neat. -- River Phoenix
  • 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
  • I love books, and I love to read, and I had ideas for books that I thought would be neat to read. -- Tony DiTerlizzi
  • Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes less than themselves. -- A. S. J. Tessimond
  • Every fear, every night terror, every hour I cried for Liev, every fight with Sebastian is registered as a neat white scar. -- Emma Forrest
  • I went blonde which killed my hair. It was a disaster. I think it was neat to do it for a bit. -- Lewis Hamilton
  • The cool kids have co-opted all the neat stuff ? computers, gadgets, video games. Theres no such thing as a computer geek anymore. -- Tiffany Shlain
  • Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men-they want to wrap women up in a neat little package. -- Sherilyn Fenn
  • Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men-they want to wrap women up in a neat little package -- Sherilyn Fenn
  • You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  • Beer does not taste like itself unless it is chasing a dram of neat whisky down the gullet - preferably two drams -- Compton Mackenzie
  • I'm a neat freak... It seems to me that an orderly desk is reflective of an orderly and organized mind, you know? -- Jann Wenner
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