Mess Quotes - Page 23

• Drekitude is the lowest point in the lowest ebb. It could be your look. It could be your shoes. It could be that you're standing wrong. Drek is a total, total, total hot mess.

  Andre Leon Talley

  Shoes, Hot, Looks

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• And you don't want to just totally mess up the rhythm when you're playing with Bob Dylan.

  Jenna Elfman

  Bob, Want, Dylan

  Interview with Lila Holland, www.tv.com. June 14, 2006.

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• There are 3 kinds of magic in our world. The peddling little magician magic like Uncle Andrew in 'The Magicians Newphew' where people mess around with things they don't understand. It's movie magic. Then there is the magic of the evil side of things. The demonic forces. And that's not really magic... it's corruption of what really exists. And then finally there is the magic of the Holy Spirit of God which is the creation and maintenence of the universe. We don't understand it... and we haven't the faintest idea how He does it. But it's real. That's the deep magic.

  Douglas Gresham

  Uncles, Real, Our World

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• I have never judged life. If I had, I would have been a complete mess.

  Anupam Kher

  Has Beens, Ifs, Judged

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• I think all of us have a sense if we imagine the kind of world we would face if the people who bombed the mess hall in Mosul, or the people who did the bombing in Spain, or the people who attacked the United States in New York, shot down the plane over Pennsylvania and attacked the Pentagon, the people who cut off peoples' heads on television to intimidate, to frighten indeed the word 'terrorized' is just that. Its purpose is to terrorize, to alter behavior, to make people be something other than that which they want to be.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  New York, Cutting, Thinking

  "Surprise Trip for Donald Rumsfeld; Interview With Brigadier General James Marks; Christian in Iraq". "News from CNN", www.cnn.com. December 24, 2004.

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• I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

  William S. Burroughs

  God, Thinking, Religion

  Paris Review Fall 1965

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• Some of us are returning to sanity, because we're tired of the pain. We're in a hurry. No time to mess around.

  Byron Katie

  Inspirational, Pain, Tired

  Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell (2008). “Loving What Is: How Four Questions Can Change Your Life”, p.47, Random House

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• I apologize because of the terrible mess the planet is in. But it has always been a mess. There have never been any 'Good Old Days,' there have just been days. And as I say to my grandchildren, 'Don't look at me. I just got here myself.'

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Grandchildren, Looks, Apologizing

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.79, RosettaBooks

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• I was, you know, a mess. I totally wanted to kill myself every day.

  Lana Del Rey

  Wanted, Knows

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• I am a woman who is a granddaughter of a lady who used to be beaten on the head by her husband, of a mother who went through hell because she was divorced and had to bring up these kids. And I can take 10 men out to lunch and pay the bill, and nobody even thinks twice about it. So don’t mess with me.

  Arundhati Roy

  Mother, Husband, Kids

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• Don't mess with the dead, boy, they have eerie powers.

  Homer

  Boys, Eerie

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• I don't mess around with my subconscious

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Subconscious

  Branden Wayne Joseph, Robert Rauschenberg (2003). “Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-avant-garde”, p.273, MIT Press

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• In Washington, of course, evading responsibility is an art form,
  so it is not always easy to tell who's responsible for which mess.

  David Horowitz

  Art, Responsibility, Government

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• When I was a kid, some of the guys would try to get me to hate white people for what they've been doing to Negroes, and for a while I tried real hard. But every time I got to hating them, some white guy would come along and mess the whole thing up.

  Thelonious Monk

  Hate, Real, Kids

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• As a person who performs on stage, it's good to be emotionally open. If you mess with someone when they are in that state, it's like you're messing with an animal when it's eating.

  Fiona Apple

  Animal, Eating, Like You

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. October 7, 2013.

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• I'm not a clean freak. My house is a mess.

  Kate Walsh

  House, Freak, Clean

  "A Conversation With Kate Walsh". Women's Health Magazine Interview with Caroline Ryder, November 2006.

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• Would anyone choose Hell over Heaven? YES! Why? Pride. They don't want to go in the only way you can go in, on your knees. They don't want to admit they are a failure, that their life is a mess.

  Alistair Begg

  Christian, Pride, Heaven

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• I'm not a perfectionist at all. I find perfectionists boring because the real creative heart is in the mess somewhere.

  David Morrissey

  Real, Heart, Creative

  "David Morrissey: 'Acting gave me a life'". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2012.

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• If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of his history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction. Murder within the species on an individual or collective scale is a phenomenon unknown in the whole animal kingdom, except for man, and a few varieties of ants and rats.

  Arthur Koestler

  Eye, Men, Animal

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• I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn.

  Germaine Greer

  Falling In Love, Sex, Men

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• I'm happy not knowing. Most of the time (except when I'm a neurotic mess about uncertainty) I feel glad that the horizon is a mystery.

  Leslie Jamison

  Knowing, Anxiety, Horizon

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• The same government that brought you urban renewal is likely to make an even worse mess of suburban renewal.

  Steven F. Hayward

  Urban Renewal, Government, Liberty

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• There's a subtle reason that programmers always want to throw away the code and start over. The reason is that they think the old code is a mess. [...] The reason that they think the old code is a mess is because of a cardinal, fundamental law of programming: It's harder to read code than to write it.

  Joel Spolsky

  Writing, Thinking, Law

  Joel Spolsky (2004). “Joel on Software”, p.184, Apress

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• The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to 'tidy up' the mess, as opposed to understanding it's a 'day one' issue and part of everything.

  Tom Peters

  Mistake, Issues, Design

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• Lessons cut short to prep for tests that only test how well you prep.
  ...Man, no wonder why the score's a mess.

  J-Live

  Rap, Cutting, Men

  Song: Brooklyn Public Part 1, Album: The Hear After

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