Messy Quotes - Page 5

• This business of having been issued a body is deeply confusing... Bodies are so messy and disappointing.

  Anne Lamott

  Confusing, Body, Disappointing

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• Most professionals specialize in only part of the complex community revitalization process. Incomplete efforts usually create messy, expensive, demoralizing failures. Few specialists understand how to bring a place back to life with a holistic approach. If anyone understands the complete revitalization process, it's Storm Cunningham. He's spent over a decade rigorously studying successes and failures worldwide. He can look at a community, regional, or organizational regeneration or redevelopment process, and quickly spot what's wrong...what's missing.

  Lindsey Davis

  Effort, Community, Missing

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• In the play we have the messy he-loves-her, she-loves-him, she-loves-him-too structure, and, to add even more confusion to the mix, the real love story is between the two ladies.

  Norbert Leo Butz

  Real, Play, Two

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• I stake the future on the few humble and hearty lovers who seek God passionately in the marvelous, messy world of redeemed and related realities that lie in front of our noses.

  William McNamara

  Lying, Humble, Reality

  William McNamara (1977). “Mystical passion: spirituality for a bored society”

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• Emotions are messy and hard to figure out.

  Spike Jonze

  Emotion, Figures, Hard

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• I am the god of being messy - I'm trying to get better. I was terrible in my 20s. My kids are much tidier than I am, I don't know where they get it from, maybe their mother.

  Kevin McKidd

  Mother, Kids, Get Better

  "Kevin McKidd: 'For my role in Rome I had to wear a little skirt - my wife liked that...'". www.mirror.co.uk. February 7, 2010.

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• Any president's second term ends up being quite messy. It never goes quite according to plan.

  Armando Iannucci

  President, Ends, Term

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• my parents ... had decided early on that all of the problems in my family had somehow to do with me. All roads led to Roseyville, a messy, chaotic town where, as parents, they were required to visit, but could never get out of quick enough or find a decent parking place.

  Roseanne Barr

  Parent, Towns, Blame

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• Songs need to have a secret, cryptic, thematic thing about them, otherwise they are just messy and all over the place.

  Courtney Love

  Song, Secret, Needs

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• I was a romantic, messy thinker. I was raised with very conservative beliefs, but that was a long time ago.

  Julia Child

  Long, Belief, Conservative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think I got a complete picture of what the lives of scientists are like. My father is of the opinion that if scientists are allowed to follow their nose, eventually it results in something. Unfortunately that doesn't always happen. What I came out of it with, in a non-cynical way, was that the scientific process is as messy as anything else. There's nothing wrong with that. That's just the way it is.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Father, Thinking, Opinion

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When I get home I'll still have to unload the dishwasher and clean my room. Last night my mom got so fed up of my messy floor in my room she picked it all up off the floor and put it on my bed so I would have to clean it up before I went to bed!

  Stacie Orrico

  Mom, Home, Night

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think I'm a full-time artist, a full-time urban planner, and a full-time preacher with an aspiration of no longer needing any of those titles. Rather, I'm trying to do what for some seems a very messy work or a complicated work.

  Theaster Gates

  Thinking, Artist, Trying

  Source: chicagoist.com

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• All religions, at one point or another in their evolution tried to proclaim their single, inerrant consistency. All religions even the most liberal, were tempted by the reactionary impulse to freeze faith in place. Because as Jesus teaches, it's easy to be threatened by the reality of the complicated, messy, syncretic, God-bearing truth that becomes incarnate among us and makes things new. We'd rather have a dead religion than a living God

  Sarah Miles

  Jesus, Reality, Consistency

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• I'm not crazy about being out of control, and I get emotional when things are unclean. When things are out of order. When things are messy. Because I lived in a mess as a child.

  Bryan Cranston

  Children, Crazy, Emotional

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• I trained as a painter, and I still love painting, but eventually I became aware that the physical aspect of painting didn't really suit me. I didn't enjoy working in the medium. It's very messy. I prefer to have it clean, with a nice computer.

  Loretta Lux

  Nice, Suits, Painting

  "Loretta Lux's best shot". Interview with Leo Benedictus, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2006.

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• I'd say I'm pretty messy. NOT dirty though - there's a difference. Messy people leave clothes on their bedroom floor... dirty people leave pizza boxes.

  Nikki Ferrell

  Dirty, Differences, Clothes

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• Oh yeah, I'm definitely a tomboy! I love sports, hate dresses, don't own a single pair of high-heels, am not a fan of makeup, and I'm not afraid to get messy!

  Jennette McCurdy

  Sports, Hate, Makeup

  "SPOTLIGHT: Jennette McCurdy". Girls' Life Magazine Interview, www.girlslife.com. November 11, 2007.

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• No, thanks.” Rhage laughed. “I’m a good little sewer, as you know firsthand. Now who’s your friend?” “Beth Randall, this is Rhage. An associate of mine. Rhage, this is Beth, and she doesn’t do movie stars, got it?” “Loud and clear.” Rhage leaned to one side, trying to see around Wrath. “Nice to meet you, Beth.” “Are you sure you don’t want to go to a hospital?” she said weakly. “Nah. This one’s just messy. When you can use your large intestine as a belt loop, that’s when you hit the pros.

  J.R. Ward

  Stars, Nice, Wrath

  J. R. Ward (2011). “Dark Lover: Number 1 in series”, p.105, Hachette UK

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• "It was suicide, wasn't it?" "In an involuntary sort of way," said Vorob'yev. "These Cetagandan political suicides can get awfully messy, when the principal won't cooperate." "Thirty-two stab wounds in the back, worst case of suicide they ever saw?" murmured Ivan, clearly fascinated by the gossip. "Exactly, my lord."

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Suicide, Two, Gossip

  "Cetaganda (Vorkosigan Saga, Book 15)". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, January 1996.

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• This is why I loved the support groups so much, if people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you. Everything else about their checkbook balance and radio songs and messy hair went out the window. You had their full attention. People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak. And when they spoke, they weren't just telling you a story. When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Song, Two, Hair

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.107, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The future is a messy, motley business, little girl.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Girl, Littles

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.31, Macmillan

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• I want them [people] to feel open and comfortable to share the messy, dirty, shameful parts of themselves. Those are the parts I wanna see. And that eating disorders aren't just about "being thin."

  Jessie Kahnweiler

  Dirty, People, Eating Disorder

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I hardly ever use pencils. I'm left-handed and it's really messy if you're left-handed because of the graphite smudging. I use them more now than I used to because there's, like, 15,000 pencils all over my house.

  David Rees

  House, Used, Left Handed

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Everyone always says that having kids is messy and sloppy. It's true, but you as a parent have to try to bring some boundaries and control over that experience, or you'd have out-of-control kids.

  Victoria Chang

  Kids, Parent, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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