Obsessively Clean Quotes & Sayings

Homes, Gamache knew, were a self portrait. A person's choice of color, furnishing, pictures, every touch revealed the individual. God, or the devil, was in the details. And so was the human. Was it dirty, messy, obsessively clean? Were the decorations chosen to impress, or were they a hodgepodge of personal history? Was the space cluttered or clear? He felt a thrill every time he entered a home during an investigation. — Louise Penny

Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head. — Carl Sandburg

That's another thing that doesn't turn me off, sweetheart, knowin' that you come with those kids and you need to know that. You also need to know I want kids of my own, two of them. But I don't care, if this works out between me and you, that the kids we have will have an older brother and sister that don't have my blood, just my heart. — Kristen Ashley

Psy Free was a trio consisting of guitar, organ and drums. I was the drummer. We did what the name suggests: psychedelic, free music. — Klaus Schulze

The chance never arrived, until Bilbo Baggins was grown up, being about fifty years old or so, — J.R.R. Tolkien

If you really want to help make a difference while getting a true travel experience, consider a community-run trip. — Sheherazade Goldsmith

I revise obsessively. It's important to me to have a clean page. — Wentworth Miller

The vertue of a coward is suspition. — George Herbert

Well, remember that we were all members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. — Joseph Jarman

A crafty nightrunner died of late,
And found himself at Bilairy's Gate.
He stood outside and refused to knock
Because he meant to pick the lock. — Lynn Flewelling

Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world. — Henry Drummond

Every GI signs a blank check, payable to the United States, drawn in an amount up to and including his life. — G.E. Nolly

Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue; — Aristotle.

Service ... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because you want to give. — MC Frontalot

California and Italy are about the same size. Roughly speaking, California contains about 150,000 square miles, Italy about 120,000 square miles. They are not dissimilar in physical characteristics. They extend over a long distance from north to south, and each has an extensive coastline. Each is destitute of coal mines. Each produces large quantities of wheat. Each produces citrus and other fruits, olives, wine, and raisins. The climate is about the same, although California's is superior. They are in about the same zone. Rome lies in about the same latitude as San Francisco. Our state is one of the richest and most fertile of all the United States. Yet suppose that California were as populous as Italy - someday it will be. Suppose it had a population of millions. Could California, even with its vast resources, support an army of a quarter of a million men as Italy does? She could do it only as Italy does, by grinding the people into the dust with oppressive taxation. — Jerome Hart