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Silver gray hair Neatly combed in place There were four generations Of love on her face She was so wise No surprise passed her eyes She's seen it all -- Dianne Reeves
Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow. -- Zoe Lister-Jones
Families in real life don't tend to resolve things neatly. -- Drew Barrymore
You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten. -- Earl Wilson
We no longer live in a world that is neatly divided between rich and well-educated countries, and poor and badly-educated ones. -- Andreas Schleicher
Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties. -- Loretta Young
When we're young we have a very clear vision of how life is supposed to be, and it all seems very neatly packaged. -- Andrew Shue
There is a Canadian culture that is in some ways unique to Canada, but I don't think Canadian culture coincides neatly with borders. -- Stephen Harper
Candidates and their consultants keep making the same mistake. They assume that all independents are bundled neatly together ideologically between Republicans and Democrats. -- John Sununu
I believe that not everything we humans encounter in our lives can be neatly and convincingly tucked away inside the orderly cabinetry of science. -- Mary Roach
A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman. -- Marlene Dietrich
I wrote in the 'War of Art' that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better. -- Steven Pressfield
Rachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly between the eyes with its insights. -- Julie Burchill
My only phobia is untidiness. My hair has to be neatly kept; my shoes are always clean. Everything has to be in a straight line, in its place. -- Norman Wisdom
Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song. -- Steve Earle
It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose. -- Walter Kaufmann
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The past is full of examples of renegade writers who were overlooked in their time not only because their work didn't fit neatly into potted categories but also because they avoided the self-promotional efforts of their peers. -- Joanna Scott
The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you're studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve. -- Simon Sinek
There are interactions with characters within the game which I think are pretty neatly done considering the limitations that you have to work with. I mean, a computer can't really generate a character that talks back and forth with you successfully. -- Fred Saberhagen
On TV, stories and events are finalized in 30 or 60 minutes, or neatly tied up after a season or two. The best stories are the ones that force us to come to our own conclusions and to explain why we believe in our conclusions. -- Lurlene McDaniel
Medical judgment can be taught - laboriously, in long periods of training - but it cannot be neatly handed over as the occasion demands it. It is the irreplaceable and untransferable contribution that the healer makes to the suffering individual who would be healed. -- Sherwin B. Nuland
Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do. -- Rowan Williams
Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Sometimes we see the Civil War in movies and imagine these neatly aligned rows of men with muskets, walking in line to shoot each other. In reality the things that fascinated me were how absolutely ruthless and violent so many engagements were, how much suffering and how men were not prepared. -- Seth Grahame-Smith
Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is something to do with being reduced to, and comforted by, playing by the rules. -- A. S. Byatt
It's what all actors try to do, really, to just preserve the child inside them because their imagination is quite available. I think partly it's because they're still making sense of the world. They haven't boxed everything up so neatly as most adults have. And the thing is adults haven't solved the world - they've just found a coping mechanism. -- Bertie Carvel
Of cocaine wrapped neatly in foil and seemingly untouched. Under" -- John Grisham
My yesterdays are all boxed up and neatly put away. -- Sheryl Crow
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. -- David Letterman
What she did not tell him balanced neatly with what she did. -- Lauren Groff
Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
We should be suspicious when God's call conforms so neatly to our own inclinations. -- Christian Wiman
I'm not really interested in doing a traditional romantic comedy where everything ties up neatly. -- Leslie Mann
I seek and don't find myself. I belong to chrysanthemum hours, neatly lined up in flowerpots. -- Fernando Pessoa
I'm of the opinion that life doesn't always tie up neatly at the end of the episode. -- Joshua Jackson
If a garden is well maintained and neatly landscaped, there must be a dedicated and efficient gardener. -- Mr. Lee
Let's have a look at your paperwork," I said as I glanced at the neatly stacked formsMr. Crocker." -- Denise Grover Swank
If Dracula can't see his reflection in a mirror, how come his hair is always so neatly combed? -- Steven Wright
The stories we love may not always fit neatly into a single time line, but they will always matter. -- John Jackson Miller
Every time my brain parks the car neatly in the driveway, my mouth drives through the back of the garage. -- Dave Eggers
On the single strand of wire strung to bring our house electricity, grackles and starlings neatly punctuated an invisible sentence. -- John Updike
I try to write about internal experience versus the external self. I like to present ideas, but not package them neatly. -- Rebecca Stead
The world is like an eye, a beard, a spot of beauty and eyebrow, Where each thing is neatly in place. -- Hafez
Tell a story! Don't try to impress your reader with style or vocabulary or neatly turned phrases. Tell the story first! -- Anne McCaffrey
The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. -- Terry Pratchett
Not only are facts and theories in constant disharmony, they are never as neatly separated as everyone makes them out to be. -- Paul Feyerabend
Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person. -- Alain de Botton
She's the sort of woman now,' said Mould, . . . 'one would almost feel disposed to bury for nothing: and do it neatly, too! -- Charles Dickens
For those orderly folks who have life all neatly arranged in their heads, who do more accepting than questioning, unschooling is a disturbing thing. -- Sandra Dodd
A good cartoon, what it does, is sum up a situation, very neatly, as opposed to reading a lot of articles and so on. -- Terry Mosher
The nurse knocked softly on the door of the examining room and wheeled in a shiny silver tray displaying neatly arranged instruments of torture. -- Jennifer Echols
I wrote in the War of Art that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better. -- Steven Pressfield
I like murder mysteries, the Agatha Christie kinds of things where you know that it's all going to be neatly wound up at the end. -- Stephen Sondheim
I was struck by the way Europeans see history as something neatly linear. For me, it's not that; it's not some kind of straight railway. -- Richard Flanagan
Ladies, first and foremost: you're on your own. No more rules neatly laid out for you to follow. You have to make up YOUR OWN rules. -- Gene Simmons
It is the quick path. We turn everything inside out and upside down - which is when it gets straightened out very neatly and in an orderly fashion. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book you will find them neatly arranged. -- Robertson Davies
When it comes to radical youth culture nothing sells better than neatly packaged and politically correct rage against the world where everything is politically correct and neatly packaged for sale. -- Victor Pelevin
Print neatly. That's the kind of advice that the IRS considers a "dynamite" tax tip. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless. -- Dave Barry
Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone. -- Shirley Jackson
I think that painting relates very neatly to inner travel and the exploration of inner worlds. With painting, I always get the impression that you're sort of entering into a shared space. -- Joe Bradley
Good journalism, I think, represents life and if you try to organize something too neatly it usually blows up in your face and doesn't really happen the way you want it to. -- John Pomfret
The notion that a story has a message assumes that it can be reduced to a few abstract words, neatly summarized in a school or college examination paper or a brisk critical review. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hotlines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. -- Dave Barry
Most of all she loved that when she hugged him her head would rest neatly just below his chin, where she could feel his breath lightly blowing her hair and tickling her head. -- Cecelia Ahern
New dramatic writing has banished conversational dialogue from the stage as a relic of dramaturgy based on conflict and exchange: any story, intrigue or plot that is too neatly tied up is suspect. -- Patrice Pavis
People aren't tidy creations to be stacked neatly in the Tupperware or poured in premeasured quantities from a box into the Cuisinart with no spills; everybody alive is a lost and disastrous mess." -- Joel Derfner
Kid, not everything in life can be summed up neatly in a paragraph. No book has all of the answers. Not even the really good ones. You have to find the answers yourself sometimes. -- Heather Brewer
Say what you want without saying it yourself: quote. Very useful, this, sometimes lovely, and versatile, too: big thoughts in small pieces, neatly wrapped and bundled in bulk, in different flavors for different tastes. -- Willis Regier
Female authors were still using male names when I was young, or they were neatly shoehorned into womens books except for those few that men could always point at when the disparity was pointed out. -- Sherwood Smith
All I'd wanted for so long was for someone to explain everything that had happened to me in this same way. To label it neatly on a page: this leads to this leads to this. -- Sarah Dessen
What?" "You're so neat," she said, looking almost embarrassed. He glanced pointedly over his shoulder. "There are four hundred on the other side of this door." "But you're ruining me." "I can't do it neatly? -- Julia Quinn
Slim and neatly groomed, he looked like a really sexy mathematician unaware that he was a prime number. I wanted to unbutton his shirt, muss his hair, and exclaim, Good heavens, Professor Dracula, you're stunning! -- Marta Acosta

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