Top 121 Neat Quotes

Suddenly, I was in a category with Barbara Striesand, Olivia Newton John, Donna Summer, Carley Simon – it was kind of neat for me.

But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.

The Twilight Zone’ wasn’t around with the kids. They think going up in space is neat. Within their lifetime, there will be paying passengers on the shuttle.

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.

I’m kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive.

Everything in tennis is so neat and nice but boxing has sport down to its essence; it is very pure and I like that.

I love books, and I love to read, and I had ideas for books that I thought would be neat to read.

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.

That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together – for me to play bass and for him to play guitar.

I don’t really buy the death-drive thing too literally; it feels overly neat and convenient. But I am suspicious of fighting back being the dominant model for cinematic conflict and personal conflict and political conflict.

Metallica’s ‘black’ album, when I heard that and I heard Lars’ playing, and I just was, like, you know, ‘Wow! Something really neat’s been accomplished here.’

Just to be able to say you’re No. 1, you are the best golfer on the planet, just for one day, would be the best thing ever. Knowing that you were the best in the world would be pretty neat.

I’m all about big, bold flavours! Roasts! Cheese! But I do like a neat work surface.

I’m not that refined academy player who’s going to pick the ball up, pass it and be neat and tidy all the time. I’m a player who’s going to get it and run at the full-back, run in behind.

We say, ‘You may drink at the age of 21 but not at the age of 20.’ Why? Because humans like to create terribly neat categories out of nature because it allows us a nice, tight social organization. The truth is, nature doesn’t care that we like nice, neat social organizations. Nature likes variety.

We’ve been some cool places fishing. My parents and my family all went up to Alaska. We fished for king salmon, and that was really neat.

There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it.

I consider myself a kind of a nerd, because when we go to the coffee shop in the mornings, we sit there in a very neat row with our laptops. It’s just like being at work, but with coffee and panini. And, of course, you don’t get paid.

I’m a freak of neat. The kitchen has to be clean.

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.

No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.

That’s the neat thing about the Olympics – so many of these athletes, they don’t make a ton of money, they train for four years to compete, and they realize, ‘Look, this is a blessing that I have this chance to represent the United States of America.’

I’m a bit of a neat freak.

One of the neat things about Gearbox that I love is, we don’t look at our designs as a totalitarian regime and we’re all really happy to let designers and creators within the studio explore in our space.

Me and Greg Davies once shared a whole jar of pesto, neat, during the Edinburgh festival years ago because we had no food in the flat.

If you’re an L.C.N. guy, you don’t have facial hair and you don’t have long hair. You have to be neat all the time. It’s the rule.

If you insist on playing Jorginho, who is neat and tidy but not a goal threat, you have to have goal threats on either side of him.

The slasher film is such a neat, self-contained genre.

I’m a very neat person.

Genius doesn’t always come in neat packages.

I enjoy being in Toronto – there’s lots of energy, lots of neat different neighbourhoods – but Vancouver is still home and always will be. I miss going for walks on the ocean with beautiful mountains.

Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.

The Inhumans, just as an idea – the idea that you were an ordinary horseman until you were exposed to this catalyst that is a very rare element – is a neat idea in and of itself.

What’s really neat about the Orthodox church is that it’s like walking back in time 2,000 years to the time of the Apostles, when they created these services. You walk into that and it’s really like… living it. They have maintained the truth ever since the beginning.

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.

Bitcoin is coming from a bunch of young computer nerds who saw this thing and thought it was neat. A lot of the early bitcoiners are 19-year-old kids, still living at home with their parents, and they don’t have any business experience.

The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.

To get art nowadays, in cinema or books or anything, that grapples with the possibility of a meaningless universe… it just doesn’t happen any more. In even the most indie of the indie films, everything has to come to some kind of neat conclusion.

‘Unjustly Maligned’ is a neat idea for a podcast. Antony Johnston invites a believer to make the case for a cultural artefact that consensus tends to deride.

I was addicted to ‘The Monkees’ TV programme – not so much because of the music but because of the commercials in between. The programme was sponsored by Yardley, and in the commercial breaks, there would be these English girls on roller skates, wearing hot pants, and I just thought, ‘God! How neat!’

Each young reader has to fashion an entirely new ‘reading circuit’ afresh every time. There is no one neat circuit just waiting to unfold. This means that the circuit can become more or less developed depending on the particulars of the learner: e.g., instruction, culture, motivation, educational opportunity.

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.

One thing that sticks in my mind is when I was a kid, and I had just learned to read, I came across one of my older sister’s textbooks that explained compound pulley. I thought that was really neat, and I still do.

I’m the fourth generation to be in show business. It’s pretty neat; it’s nice to have that family history.

And in real life endings aren’t always neat, whether they’re happy endings, or whether they’re sad endings.

I’m a neat freak… It seems to me that an orderly desk is reflective of an orderly and organized mind, you know?

Playing Willie Loomis was really fun for me because it was something nice and different to embody. It was neat playing this drunken servant who was hypnotized by Johnny Depp.

The one thing that I do have that I really like is I framed some of my jerseys. In college, I played for Team U.S.A. I framed some of those jerseys. I framed my jersey when I got drafted by the Padres. I do have my first stolen base ever from when I stole a base in 2015. I have the actual base, which is pretty neat.

I read The Bell Jar, and then I read her memoir and her diaries, and a third book, an outside opinion. Just the way she made the pillows so neat on the oven door. It just seems to be the opposite of, if you’re going to take your life, in a horrible rage it happens.

When you say ‘control freak’ and ‘OCD’ and ‘organized,’ that suggests someone who’s cold in nature, and I’m just not. Like, I’m really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don’t like to make big messes that would hurt people.

The Gift’ doesn’t deal with the neat, tie-me-up-with-a-bow kind of stories – they are grittier, messier, and not all of them have a happy resolution. You are following people and events that are more difficult, more elusive, and therefore harder to pin down.

What’s neat about Sacramento is that you can drive – which I’ve done with the team a bunch of times – is drive, like, an hour or an hour and a half, and you’re in Lake Tahoe, and you can go out to the lake or go up in the mountains or go off-road driving or hiking.

I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs.

In the real world, answers may not be clear cut. There will be messy choices, and you’re not going to be able to construct a policy response in a neat and tidy way. Being able to listen to other people, even as you stay true to your principles, that’s how you actually succeed.

I feel like everything’s got to be neat and everything’s got to be right before I put on my performance, so I brush my hair.

I believe in having a neat workspace because everything else in my life is so unpredictable, and my mind is so crowded – I wake up with commercials from the ’90s blaring in my head. I try to give myself a fighting chance by having an organized workspace.

It’d be really neat if I wasn’t a Darwin Award winner.

Moving on is not closure. It’s not neat, and it’s not about turning the page. It is about moving on, but it doesn’t mean that you’ve left something behind.

Las vegas shouldn’t exist. The incongruity hits you from the moment you first glimpse it from the airplane. First mountains, then desert, then neat squares of identical houses that look as if they were plucked straight from Monopoly.

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.

I had to tell about my colonic, which expresses the fact why I’m so neat today as opposed to a few years ago. I never knew that the weight made that much difference.

There is always an easy solution to every problem – neat, plausible, and wrong.

If you find it difficult to draw a neat line with an eyeliner pencil, start with a big, thick, wonky line and then reduce it with eye makeup remover. This is serious advice. I do this every single time I put makeup on.

No one working as an astronomer is shackled in chains. This is a tremendous profession. There are lots of neat people, and you get to do cool things. If I had to say something negative, it’s that there’s often a whole lot of travel that takes me away from my children. That can be a bummer a lot of times.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control – to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children’s cartoons or utopian novels. But it’s just a fantasy.

My life’s goal is not to write books; my life’s goal is to know God better today. The neat thing about a goal like that is you can achieve it. Faith is constant; it’s a relationship.

I am like that guy on the ‘Odd Couple,’ and it is not the neat guy. I go into my room and find pieces of pizza under the laundry.

A deliberate choice on my part was for the player to continue to find new possibilities in the early Attic rooms far into the game. I think this builds atmosphere, though it means there’s no neat division of the prologue from the middle game.

We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.

Thanks to social media like Facebook, Twitter and Goodreads, I can easily reach out to so many people. Being a writer gives me the added bonus of a targeted audience: readers, who enjoy targeted ‘prizes’ for participation in fundraisers – books and other neat promo items.

Women do feel like they’re in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men-they want to wrap women up in a neat little package.

I thought using the Ayatollah’s money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea.

Having an animal that you fix, knowing that you saved its life or you saved a pet – Like on a dog, these little kids will come, and their dog is just ready to die, and you do something, and they leave happy. The kids are happy, and the little puppy is licking your hand. Those are kind of neat feelings.

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.

Until I got older, I never dreamed of what a demanding responsibility it is to keep food in the pantry, to keep clothing neat and presentable, to buy all that is needed to keep a home running.

I love physics because it’s neat and it’s orderly in its own peculiar way.

Typically, booksellers like to put things into neat little categories.

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.

‘Paranoia’ was pretty awesome because it was the cast of ‘Air Force One,’ Gary Oldman and Harrison Ford back together, pitted against each other again, so that was pretty neat.

There’s something pure about our bloodline: There are no accidental kids of gay parents. Every single gay parent desperately, passionately wanted to be a parent. That’s neat, and I hope we can keep it that way.

When I ride, I always like to look neat.

As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but rich and costly: maintaining us to the heighth of her estate, but not beyond it.

For the Emmys, my friend Rooney Mara designed a dress for me with her brand, Hiraeth. It’s so neat to see a sketch turn into a full-on look.

We’ve had some really good guest stars. But I have to go with Alec Baldwin as my favorite. He is so neat and such a movie star. He’s handsome and quirky. I was in heaven the week he was on the set.

The new ‘Creed 2’ movie is coming out, so I was actually going to audition for that. Got a little audition tape, so hopefully that goes through. That would be pretty neat. Being Ivan Drago’s son in the movie? That would be pretty fun.

Meeting someone you admire, and then that person’s like, ‘I’m a fan of your work’ – it’s a really neat feeling.

Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it’s filled with wisdom. Sometimes it’s filled with feet.

I’m kind of a neat freak. My place is really organized. My socks are even organized: colors and sizes.

I’ve benefited from great coaches my whole life, starting in sixth grade. To be able to pass that on is a neat experience for me.

At school I was very shy and coincidentally inherited the title ‘little miss worry guts,’ and that was just among the staff. I learned early on that I could make people laugh, and as my small neat body betrayed me by growing to dizzying heights, I used it as a tool that translated into complete slap-stick comedy.

That’s what I think is the neat thing about TV: how alive it is and how the writers respond to the stimulus that they’re getting from the actual actors. Whereas a movie is more hermetically sealed.

We don’t always know what we’re doing. We often just get excited, put something down, and say, ‘Oh, neat’.

You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!

I would always see my dad who was a big scotch drinker just enjoying his scotch with one ice cube or neat.

I like movies, because it’s kind of a combination of every art, it’s like it’s picture, it’s story, it’s music, it’s kind of like a clash and a collide of every art. It’s really neat.

Television is so neat; I grew up doing theater, and I’ve done a bit of film. I know I’m stating the obvious, but it’s a unique storytelling form in that it’s able to constantly evolve.

If you believe in astrology, I’m a Virgo, so I’m very controlling; I’m very neat, and I’m very organized.

When you have a big, ugly problem, there’s never going to be a neat, elegant solution that is totally painless or without a cost.

Each goal, each win, going to different buildings, the rivalries, the excitement – it is something. I try to catch myself, you know, in the warm-ups, when you’re on the line and the anthem and you get to some milestones and stuff. It’s such a neat experience.

Being 21, 22 years old… traveling the world and getting to play golf is pretty neat.

Old Filey lies around the Ravine, a glacial gash running down to Coble Landing. This is the fishing Filey of centuries past, with neat little terraced cottages and a cluster of attractive 18th century houses.

It’s pretty neat to be able to help the team in different ways.

Many self-help books give you these neat, tidy formulas that are really illusions. They dupe people into thinking, ‘Well if I can just do that, then everything’s going to be okay.’ My work differs in that I don’t offer quick solutions and simple explanations.

I have a neat and tidy bed when I reach home but a cluttered one by the time I leave.

Toyota is doing a neat job coming in to the sport – no one ever thought that there would be a day when Toyota would participate in an American-made, American-born sport like Nascar but they’re doing a fantastic job.

I don’t doubt that the explanation for consciousness will arise from the mercilessly scientific account of psychology and neuroscience, but, still, isn’t it neat that the universe is such that it gave rise to conscious beings like you and me?

I’ve got an allergy to looking too neat.

The history of blacks is complicated, fragmented, disturbing to contemplate – not a neat trail of challenges met or of felled trees blocking the path to the mountain top.

It was really really neat to make the movie because there were mentally challenged actors in the movie. So that was really really cool to work with them and they were always really happy, and they made everybody really happy on the set too.

Hoboken is a neat place.

We keep the house really clean. Organized and neat is better for me.

My locker is a business place. I keep my locker really neat, which I think is different than most people.

If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I’d like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.

Growing up in Kansas City, I was always neat, the teacher’s pet, know-it-all type.

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.

I’m a bit of a pick-pocket on-set. If something is small enough to go in my pocket, and it will be neat memorabilia, it’s gone.

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

I wrote ‘The River’ practically trying to rip off every lick that James Taylor had, so it was neat to hear him sing those lyrics because that’s who inspired you to write them.

Men couldn’t care less if your strands are perfectly styled and neat. In fact, he might like you more with some wildness or bedhead, since it shows you’re carefree and relaxed.

I really wanted the MTV Award the most, It was a golden popcorn container and it looks really neat.

There are two things that I hate: getting up at 6 in the morning and making my bed. I’m as neat as a pin, but I will not make beds. Period. I don’t care if I get into them and they’re messy. I just don’t care.