Messy Quotes - Page 9

• History is tangled, messy, contradictory. But is where we are.

  Eamon Duffy

  History, Tangled, Contradictory

  Eamon Duffy (2006). “Faith of Our Fathers”, p.77, A&C Black

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• Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you’ve got to do is find a way to live there.

  Patrick Ness

  Real, Mean, Looks

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• Everything okay?" Cam asked, placing his hand on my lower back. Concern pinched his brows. "Yes." I dropped my cell back into my bag. Everything was okay. Maybe not perfect, but life wasn't meant to be perfect. It was messy and sometimes it was a disaster, but there was beauty in the messiness and there could be peace in the disaster.

  J. Lynn

  Cells, Hands, Perfect

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• At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them

  Shonda Rhimes

  Badass, Drawing, People

  "Grey's Anatomy / The First Cut Is the Deepest". 2005.

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• You are beautiful and brilliant and bold and so very passionate about life and love and those things that you believe in. And you taught me that everything I believed, everything I thought I wanted, everything I had spent my life espousing--all of it...it is wrong. I want your version of life...vivid and emotional and messy and wonderful and filled with happiness. But I cannot have it without you.

  Sarah MacLean

  Beautiful, Life And Love, Believe

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• Messy love is better than none, I guess. I am no authority on sane living.

  Margaret Atwood

  Love Is, Authority, Sane

  Margaret Atwood (2015). “Morning in the Burned House”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business—and I wanted to try to reflect that.

  John Green

  Love Is, Trying, Heroism

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• Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. Texting, email, posting, all of these things let us present the self as we want to be. We get to edit, and that means we get to delete, and that means we get to retouch, the face, the voice, the flesh, the body -- not too little, not too much, just right.

  Sherry Turkle

  Mean, Technology, Self

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• Life is messy, Ren. It's not easy and it's definitely not for the timid. Everyone has a past.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Past, Life Is, Easy

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2012). “Time Untime”, p.119, Macmillan

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• Honor your humanness and all of your feelings - the messy ones, the growing pains, the ache - because we can't have the dark without the light.

  Sabrina Ward Harrison

  Pain, Dark, Light

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• I would be a liar if I said I don't care [about my appearance]; yes, I care. I found it very difficult, when I first became well known, to read criticism about how I look, how messy my hair was, and how generally unkempt I look. The nastiest thing ever written was written by a man, and I do remember that. I wasn't looking for it either, it was just simply in the newspaper I was reading.

  J. K. Rowling

  Wise, Witty, Liars

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• A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded by commonplace, but the end, instead of being decisive and well knit with that element of revelatory surprise as a well-written story should be, it usually dissipated in a succession of messy and humiliating anticlimaxes.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Stories, Elements, Might

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• Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Real, Smart, Moving

  Anthony Elliott, Zygmunt Bauman (2007). “The contemporary Bauman”

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• We all fall into our habits, our routines, our ruts. They're used quite often, consciously or unconsciously, to avoid living, to avoid doing the messy part of having relationships with other people, of dealing with a person next to us. That's why we can all be in a room on our cell phones and not have to deal with one another.

  Andrew Stanton

  Fall, Phones, Cells

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• To me, what you want to do is find a way to let this play out between the virtual world and the physical world...Ultimately, I think society will get there. It will be messy, but we'll get there.

  Eric Schmidt

  Thinking, Play, Accountability

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• There's no right or wrong - I think people can be messy in a very soulful way. The point in the end is to make people feel something, and there's so many different ways to do that.

  Anna Ternheim

  Thinking, People, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To me, what's sexy is when you look like you're having a good time. That, and when you look effortless and have messy hair.

  Kate Upton

  Sexy, Hair, Looks

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• Love, marriage, divorce, infidelity... life was the same here as anywhere else, wasn't? She realized now wrong she'd been; the pali wasn't a headstone and Kalaupapa wasn't a grave. It was a community like any other, bound by ties deeper than most, and people here went to their deaths as people did anywhere: with great reluctance, dragging the messy jumble of their lives behind them.

  Alan Brennert

  Divorce, Ties, People

  Alan Brennert (2010). “Moloka'i: A Novel”, p.382, St. Martin's Press

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• Fear is the most elegant weapon, your hands are never messy

  Jenny Holzer

  Hands, Weapons, Elegant

  David Joselit, Joan Simon, Renata Salecl, Jenny Holzer (1998). “Jenny Holzer”, Phaidon Inc Ltd

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• That's creativity in a nutshell. A messy tug-of-war with imagination to erase that feeling that nothing really matters anyway.

  Zoe Whittall

  War, Creativity, Imagination

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• You can't understand light unless you understand darkness, because that's where life is most often lived - somewhere between the two. It's messy and it's beautiful all at the same time.

  Bebo Norman

  Beautiful, Light, Two

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• I've always thought that a lot of really good writers go wrong by getting so into the craft and the technique and perfection. Perfection can be the enemy sometimes. Some songs don't need to be told perfectly. Life is messy and has loose ends, and sometimes I think the songs should reflect that.

  Patterson Hood

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• Like, in general I think people have very complicated reasons for wanting things, and we often have no idea whether we’re actually motivated by altruism or a desire to hook up or a search for answers or what. I always get annoyed when in books or movies characters want clear things for clear reasons, because my experience of humanness is that I always want messy things for messy reasons.

  John Green

  Book, Character, Thinking

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• There are parts of his life and personality that are extremely messy, and that's the truth

  Walter Isaacson

  Personality

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Walter Isaacson Great Innovators e-book boxed set: Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• Books were a lot less messy than orgasms.

  Richelle Mead

  Book, Succubus Blues

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Succubus Blues”, p.134, Zebra Books

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