70 Fussy Quotes

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The problem happens when we have multiple desires. When we have fuzzy desires. When we want to do ten different things and we’re not clear about which is the one we care about. — Naval Ravikant

I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool. — Bertrand Russell

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. - Charlotte Bronte

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. — Charlotte Bronte

He that is hard to please, may get nothing in the end. — Aesop

Twitchy little ferret, aren't you, Malfoy? - J. K. Rowling

Twitchy little ferret, aren't you, Malfoy? — J. K. Rowling

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. - Winston Churchill

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. — Winston Churchill

But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture. — Raymond Carver

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him. — Lao Tzu

I'm very structured. I like planning things out. I get frustrated when they don't go according to plan. — Tia Mowry

I'm quite a compulsive person-I only worked this out recently - I'm compulsive, but I'm also very indecisive. I don't know what I want, but I know that I want it now. — Dylan Moran

I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm. — Alfred Hitchcock

Funkers are people who dig the funk; Little funkers, Big funkers, Old funkers, Young funkers, Foxy funkers, Mother funkers, Papa funkers. — Rick James

I'm not really wise. But I can be cranky. — Andy Griffith

Maybe I'm just like a child. I'm full of curiosity about things, and it's fine as long as it's fun at that time, yet at the same time, I hate things that are tough. — Akira Toriyama

Khufu carefully picked out everything that ended with-o—Doritos, Oreos, and some chunks of meat. Buffalo? Armadillo? I was scared to even ask. — Rick Riordan

Short Fussy Quotes

  • Never put more than two waves in a picture; it's fussy. — Winslow Homer
  • Why is it that all cars are women? Because they're fussy and demanding. — Patricia Briggs
  • I am quite fussy about clothes. — Jay Kay
  • Being a singer now I have to get all fussy... I must have my ginger and lemon and all that. — Graham Coxon
  • "Fussy eater" is a euphemism for "big pain in the ass." — George Carlin
  • Glamour is fun! Spending time to get ready isnt about being fussy; its about taking care of myself. — Becki Newton
  • I've actually always been fussy about the work I do. — Jeremy Irons
  • Loneliness is more likely to lead to fussy housekeeping than to grand views of the Universe. — Mason Cooley
  • I've never been a girly-girl, never drawn to things that are fussy. — Erin Wasson
  • Italian food is all about ingredients and it's not fussy and it's not fancy. — Wolfgang Puck

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More Fussy Quotes

The prayer of the feeblest saint who lives in the Spirit and keeps right with God is a terror to Satan. The very powers of darkness are paralyzed by prayer; no spiritualistic seance can succeed in the presence of a humble praying saint. No wonder Satan tries to keep our minds fussy in active work till we cannot think in prayer. — Oswald Chambers

Part of life and part of the enjoyment of life is a croissant and a chocolate cake and eggs and milkshakes and oatmeal. There's so many things, you have to learn to appreciate it all. When I don't eat as much as I should, I'm not fun to be around; I'm fussy. — Sayings

I don't believe that God is a fussy faultfinder in dealing with theological ideas. He who provides forgiveness for a sinful life will also surely be a generous judge of theological reflection. Even an orthodox theologian can be spiritually dead, while perhaps a heretic crawls on forbidden bypaths to the sources of life. — Helmut Thielicke

On the whole, I think women wear too much and are to fussy. You can't see the person for all the clutter. — Julie Andrews

Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place, but a man has to have something in him before he can settle down to do nothing. — J. B. Priestley

I still get a lot of material but I find that as one gets older you get more fussy. You know you're going spend a year or a year and a half on this and you know there are only so many films in you so you get a little bit more selective. — Norman Jewison

It is the Americans who have managed to crown minced beef as hamburger, and to send it round the world so that even the fussy French have taken to le boeuf hache, le hambourgaire. — Julia Child

Epicureanism did inspire libertine culture in isolated sects, but Epicurus himself rejected an ethics of sensory indulgence, and he would have disowned latter-day 'Epicureanism' as a fussy, expensive, unphilosophical approach to eating and drinking. — Catherine Wilson

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take. He becomes fussy about filing, keen on seeing that pencils are sharpened, eager to ensure that the windows are open (or shut) and apt to use two or three different-colored inks. — C. Northcote Parkinson

You know how fussy and particular I am in painting. I am ever removing the paint and repainting the spot until I am completely exhausted. — Arshile Gorky

Do not think me fussy when I specify tidiness. It is essential... In printing, remember that cleanliness and order wait upon success. — Walter J. Phillips

I am not a book collector, and I am not fussy about particular editions. As long as the words are there I don't mind. — Adam Foulds

I'm fussy. I'm stubborn. I want all the little details and I don't want to look like anyone else - that to me is very important. — Goldie

I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy. — Ziyi Zhang

There are people who claim to be instinctive cooks, who never follow recipes or weigh anything at all. All I can say is they're not very fussy about what they eat. For me, cooking is an exact art and not some casual game. — Delia Smith

Real speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation. — Dorothy Richardson

Why is it that all cars are women?" he asked. "Because they're fussy and demanding," answered Zee. "Because if they were men, they'd sit around and complain instead of getting the job done," I told him. — Patricia Briggs

If it was just the potatoes that were affected, at the end of the day you will pay the price if you're a fussy eater. — Steve Coogan

My process of working is not really that unique. I like to paint during the day, and block out large chunks of time with which to work. I prefer to work on a painting in a few swift passes, and not fuss over it. I think that the work needs to have an energy to it that can't be accomplished if one is adding a few strokes everyday. Once a piece is done, I don't work on it anymore. I hate fussy. — Rosson Crow

I'm not fussy about the medium I work in. I'll do television radio, you know. I have to, because that's the only way I can do continually good roles. — Rufus Sewell

A lot of things appearing under my byline were written in one draft. But when I started to write poetry, I started getting fussy about every syllable. I wouldn't allow the work to be seen unless it felt perfect. Not clunky at all, no clunky syllables. So, really, for the printed page, it had to have a feeling of rhythmic and syntactic verisimilitude or something. — Richard Meltzer

It is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you. — Mark Twain

I distrust Great Men... I believe in aristocracy, though... Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all through the ages, and there is a secret understanding between them when they meet... They are sensitive for others as well as for themselves, they are considerate without being fussy, their pluck is not swankiness but the power to endure, and they can take a joke. — E. M. Forster

I'm very fussy about how my records sound, but I'm very aware that because of the way they sound, I will never be a big-selling, mainstream artist because the public has gotten conditioned to hearing pop music in a certain way. And I don't do it that way. — Nick Lowe

Thank God I'm over the hill. The only heat I have left comes from hot flashes, my promiscuity is confined to the words "one size fits all," and I buy my white cotton unmentionables at Boadicea's Retreat, not Victoria's Secret. None of the things men do to women could possibly happen to me now unless the U.S. is invaded by one of those new Russian republics whose soldiers aren't fussy. — Florence King

There isn't anything I don't eat, although I'm not too keen on creepy crawly things. Other than that, I'm quite adventurous. I like all types of red meat, and I'm not a fussy eater at all. — Cherie Lunghi

The fact is, there's a great deal of hair-splitting fussiness when it comes to fly-fishing, most of it as silly as a top hat. — Justin Cronin

I hate orthodox criticism. I don't mean great criticism, like that of Matthew Arnold and others, but the usual small niggling, fussy-mussy criticism, which thinks it can improve people by telling them where they are wrong, and results only in putting them in straitjackets of hesitancy and self-consciousness, and weazening all vision and bravery. — Brenda Ueland

I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy. — Zhang Ziyi

Before I start directing a show, I try to spend a few weeks hanging around the set, getting to know the crew and talking to the actors about how they like to work. Who is fussy? Who is left-handed? Who wants to go home early, and who is the perfectionist? — Eric Stoltz

I've learned there's nothing wrong with being a little fussy. I used to pride myself on being low-maintenance - I wore it like a badge of honor. — Becki Newton

I felt okay for the first 45 seconds, and then my vision grew fussy. My lungs felt like deflated balloons. I would have sucked oxygen through my ears, if that were possible. I was experiencing oxygen debt, or perhaps better stated, oxygen death. — Brad Alan Lewis

No matter what your sexual preference or gender, no one likes a man who is fussy about his looks. You can spend as much time as you want looking good. But don`t do it in public. — John Waters

I've worried more and more as the years have gone on. The more you're seen to be doing well, the more stress there is. You feel you ought to consider things more, and be more fussy - there's further to fall. All these little worries. — Matthew Macfadyen

I am not very interested in extraordinary angles. They can be effective on certain occasions, but I do not feel the necessity for them in my own work. Indeed, I feel the simplest approach can often be most effective. A subject placed squarely in the center of the frame, if attention is not distracted from it by fussy surroundings, has a simple dignity which makes it all the more impressive. — Bill Brandt

In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far too snappish and fussy, and seemed to have no manners at all. — Hilari Bell

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