Carla Hall Quotes

Men and women have different ideas of what constitutes tidiness. I tend to think it's about things being clean, but my mum and girlfriend are more about how things look.

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.

The main thing I look for in a recipe is taste, which is different from caterers and restaurants, who first ask 'How does it look?'

Neatness - which is grooming, after all - is definitely the most important requirement.

Those who store, package, and sell the food we serve our families have a responsibility to maintain basic standards of cleanliness in their facilities.

I'll compliment on the spot. I want a clean, neat drugstore. I'll check the restrooms and closets.

It's very clean in our house.

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

I'm not comfortable leaving the apartment if the bed isn't made or a chair isn't tucked into the table.

Don't get me wrong, I think it's important to keep things clean. It's just the neatness I struggle with.

It is a fundamental fact that no cook, however creative and capable, can produce a dish of a quality any higher than that of its raw ingredients.

I cook and wash, cook and wash. When I am done, the kitchen is like a mirror.

You know, we don't have any decorative sprigs of rosemary; we're not placing little matchstick radishes onto an hors d'oeuvre... The food's gotta taste good. The concept's gotta taste good.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

The American women are very pretty and have great simplicity of character, and the extreme neatness of their appearance is truly delightful: cleanliness is everywhere even more studiously attended to here than in England.

I love a nicely groomed guy who smells good. That's important.

I was always a neat kid. I never wanted my hands dirty. I wasn't a dirty kid. A lot of kids like to run around. If I was rolling around the dirt, I went home and took a shower. That's just the way I was. I'm not sure. I might have been born with it.

I get strangely obsessed about the cleanliness of my house.

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.

Cleanliness is very important. If you let kids make a total mess in the kitchen and then leave, you're not really teaching them anything.

The objective of cleaning is not just to clean, but to feel happiness living within that environment.

I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.

I'm super OCD, so everything is clean.

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

I don't like to see mess.