Anne Lamott Quotes

I don't like to see mess.

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.

I hate clutter.

I hate clutter. I can't stand it.

Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

I don't function well in chaos, whether it be my sheets or the dishwasher.

I can't stand things being out of place.

Clutter, either mental or physical, is the sign of a healthy curiosity.

A place for everything, everything in its place.

I always clean before the cleaning lady comes. If not, when I come home, I can't find anything. Cleaning ladies are always hiding things you leave out.

My filing system is messy but orderly.

I don't like a lot of clutter.

I hate a mess.

Put all the menus and TV guides and magazines and local info papers in the drawers. I hate clutter!

I just cannot stand an unmade bed.

I'm a tidy sort of bloke. I don't like chaos. I kept records in the record rack, tea in the tea caddy, and pot in the pot box.

Cluttered closets mean a cluttered mind.

I love everything to be organized and clean... all the time.

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.

I don't like when I look too cluttered.

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.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

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.

If I see something dirty or untidy, I have to clean it up.

It's very clean in our house.