Clutter Quotes - Page 8

• There is more story in a minor character like Boba Fett than there is in all the clutter of various vampires in the Twilight franchise.

  George Takei

  Twilight, Character, Vampire

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• I appreciate my my sleep In sleep my conversation is witty My home is dusted My office work is up to date The dog is even well behaved And food is on the table on time But then when I'm asleep I don't have you to clutter and confuse My hungry heart

  Nikki Giovanni

  Dog, Witty, Home

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• I don't think you see your minds. I think you see your thoughts; you see your desires; you see your relatives, friends, lovers, enemies. I don't think you see your mind. You think of the mind as the clutter.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Thinking, Mind

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• You can't stand clutter, and you have an obsession with orderliness. The furniture in here is centered exactly on the walls; the files on your desk are arranged in precise corners. If I had to guess, I would say you are probably a control freak, and that is usually symptomatic of a man who feels powerless to control his own life, so he tries to control every facet of his surroundings.

  Judith McNaught

  Wall, Men, Trying

  Judith McNaught (2016). “Someone to Watch Over Me: A Novel”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• Nancy Clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that's one definition of a lady.

  Truman Capote

  Definitions, Nancy

  "In Cold Blood".

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• Clutter is my natural habitat.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Habitat, Natural, Natural Habitats

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.132, Scholastic UK

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• Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.

  Criss Jami

  Information, Acquiring Knowledge, Trimming

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.61, Criss Jami

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• Amidst one's daily clutter, one doesn't usually reflect on the splendour of being free because - naturally - one has to get on with the business of living.

  Upamanyu Chatterjee

  Being Free, Splendour

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• [Reviewing the New York City Telephone Directory] But it is the opinion of the present reviewer that the weakness of plot is due to the great number of characters which clutter up the pages. The Russian school is responsible for this.

  Robert Benchley

  Funny, New York, Humorous

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• But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.

  Barbara Mertz

  Dust, Instinct, Scholarly

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• How we long to remove the clutter from our lives not realizing that the clutter is our lives.

  Robert Breault

  Life, Long, Realizing

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• I'm pleased to see that the cab is cluttered with cough drop wrappers and empty milk bottles and bits of mud-smeared newspapers made brittle by age. Neatness makes me feel like I have to be on my best behavior. Clutter is my natural habitat.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Age, Bottles, Habitat

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• If you have clutter, you're richer than you think!

  Donna Smallin

  Thinking, Ifs

  Donna Smallin (2014). “Clear the Clutter, Find Happiness: One-Minute Tips for Decluttering and Refreshing Your Home and Your Life”, p.65, Storey Publishing

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• Fighting clutter is like fighting weeds-the writer is always slightly behind.

  William Zinsser

  Weed, Fighting, Behinds

  William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• It's interesting to see that people had so much clutter even thousands of years ago. The only way to get rid of it all was to bury it, and then some archaeologist went and dug it all up.

  Karl Pilkington

  Years, People, Interesting

  Karl Pilkington (2010). “An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington”, p.15, Canongate Books

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• I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Jobs, Ideas, Unexpected

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• In the scope of a happy life, a messy desk or an overstuffed coat closet is a trivial thing, yet I find — and I hear from other people that they agree — that getting rid of clutter gives a disproportionate boost to happiness.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Happy Life, People, Giving

  "Test Yourself: Do You Have Clutter Mentality?" by Gretchen Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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• Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence — the lapses of conscience, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities, the dust under the couch, the inescapable prison of your genes — all of it is temporarily forgotten, crowded from your thoughts by an overpowering clarity of purpose and by the seriousness of the task at hand.

  Jon Krakauer

  Opportunity, Dust, Hands

  Jon Krakauer (2009). “Into the Wild”, p.150, Anchor

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• I am never five minutes into stripping the clutter from my life before I start running into the clutter that is my life.

  Robert Breault

  Running, Cleaning, Minutes

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• Great God! What have I turned into? What right have you people to clutter up my life, steal my time, probe my soul, suckle my thoughts, have me for your companion, confidant, and information bureau? What do you take me for? Am I an entertainer on salary, required every evening to play an intellectual farce under your stupid noses? Am I a slave, bought and paid for, to crawl on my belly in front of you idlers and lay at your feet all that I do and all that I know?

  Henry Miller

  Stupid, Play, Feet

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• There is an explosion of information happening, yet people demand quick access to relevant content that cuts through the clutter.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Cutting, People, Demand

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• Really living without clutter takes an iron will ... This involves eternal watchfulness and that oldest and most relentless of the housewife's occupations, picking up. I have a feeling that picking up will go on long after ways have been found to circumvent death and taxes.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Iron, Long, Feelings

  Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.439, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I thought that Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat.

  Truman Capote

  Nice, Cutting, Gentleman

  "In Cold Blood". Book by Truman Capote, 1965.

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• The chief difference between big-game fishing and weightlifting is that weightlifters never clutter up their library walls with stuffed barbells

  Ed Zern

  Wall, Lakes, Sea

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• I soon learned to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals and to turn aside from everything else, from the multitude of things which clutter up the mind and divert it from the essential.

  Albert Einstein

  Priorities, Mind, Essentials

  "Albert Einstein: Philosopher-scientist".

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