Screws Quotes - Page 14

• I love that as a theme for women: Stop standing by! You've got to make stuff happen! You've got to create your own world because if you let other people do it, they're going to just screw you.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  People, Stuff Happens, World

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• Gods can screw anything and anybody. For reference, see history. Atticus O'Sullivan

  Kevin Hearne

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• Screw-top wine has improved the quality of life by about ten percent, wouldn't you say?

  Martin Amis

  Wine, Quality, Percent

  Martin Amis (2013). “The Pregnant Widow”, p.459, Random House

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• Screw the Silent Brothers." "No thanks. There's strong and silent, and then there's just freaky." "Isabelle!

  Cassandra Clare

  Strong, Brother, Thanks

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.501, Simon and Schuster

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• If we are so contemptibly selfish that we can’t radiate a little happiness and pass on a bit of honest appreciation without trying to screw something out of the other person in return—if our souls are no bigger than sour crab apples, we shall meet with the failure we so richly deserve.

  Dale Carnegie

  Appreciation, Selfish, Apples

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• Will screw them hard, fast, and in an elegant manner.

  Haim Bar-Lev

  Military, Hard, Elegant

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• Stand up, speak out, and be bold. Screw political correctness. Never let them tell you to sit down and shut up.

  Sarah Palin

  Speaks Out, Political, Politics

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• A cork screw to my heart, ever since we've been apart.

  Bob Dylan

  Heart, Sadness, Cork

  Song: You're A Big Girl Now, Album: Blood on the Tracks, 1975

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• ...he hopes that maybe it'll make people a little less scared of two boys kissing than they were before, and a little more welcoming to the idea that all people are, in fact, born equal, no matter who they kiss or screw, no matter what dreams they have or love they give.

  David Levithan

  Dream, Kissing, Boys

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.112, Egmont UK

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• we all have too many wheels, screws and valves to judge each other on first impressions or one or two pointers. I don't understand you, you don't understand me and we don't understand ourselves.

  Anton Chekhov

  Two, Judging, First Impression

  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Ronald Hingley (1998). “Five Plays”, p.44, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Life gives you lots of chances to screw up which means you have just as many chances to get it right.

  Candace Bushnell

  Mean, Giving, Screw Ups

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• There are only two things that can screw this up for us: you and me." "Then we're doomed for sure.

  Ilona Andrews

  Two, Two Things, Doomed

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.245, Penguin

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• You got a problem?" he drawled, obviously expecting me to pee my pants before falling to the ground and groveling like an unworthy subject of the Emperor. And that was all it took. A new, screw-you attitude took precedence, trampling my fear under its boots. A highly dangerous approach, I still found it much easier to bear. "Well it all goes back to my childhood...." I began.

  Jennifer Rardin

  Attitude, Fall, Childhood

  Jennifer Rardin (2011). “Once Bitten, Twice Shy: Book One of the Jaz Parks Series”, p.61, Hachette UK

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• I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of how, at any given moment, we might improve, or at least disguise or present our defects and screw-ups in either more charming or more intimidating ways.

  Anne Lamott

  Crazy, Sorrow, Ordinary

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.37, Penguin

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• George Carlin is kind of my template now because George Carlin before was straight laced regular comic and he had short hair, a tie, suit, nightclub guy. Then he said screw it, let his hair grow, just started telling what he thought was the truth. So that's what I'm trying to do.

  Drew Carey

  Hair, Ties, Guy

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• When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.

  Adam Duritz

  Trying, Screw You, Involved

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• You got to harden yourself. Make, like, a shell around you. But not everyone can do it. If they got nothing to hang on to some of them screw up. They’re not in the game no more.

  Charlie Higson

  Games, Screw Ups, Shells

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• Some day there may be... machinery that needs but to be wound up and sent roaming o'er hill and dale, through fields and meadows, by babbling brooks and shady woods - in short, a machine that will discriminately select its subject and, by means of a skillful arrangement of springs and screws, compose its motif, expose the plate, develop, print, and even mount and frame the result of its excursion, so that there will be nothing for us to do but to send it to the Royal Photographic Society's exhibition and gratefully to receive the 'Royal Medal'.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Spring, Mean

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• If guys don't respect themselves, they don't respect other people. That's times and personalities. And all of them are not that way. But it don't take but one or two to screw up the whole crowd.

  Richard Petty

  Two, People, Personality

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• Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds the concert pitch; but it is not to break it, but to use it tunefully, that he stretches the string upon the musical rack.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Music, Men, Thinking

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.40

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• Talk to them about things they don't know. Try to give them an inferiority complex. If the actress is beautiful, screw her. If she isn't, present her with a valuable painting she will not understand. If they insist on being boring, kick their asses or twist their noses. And that's about all there is to it.

  John Huston

  Beautiful, Giving, Trying

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• Free agency screws everybody's allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It's really hard.

  Bill Goldberg

  Inspirational, Basketball, Baseball

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• Claire, I-Look, my life is one long series of screw-ups and bad decisions, and I know that. I own that. But you...I just want you to be happy. And it cuts me when you're not." "I'm happy with you." She heard the smile in his voice this time. "So what do you really want? A storybook life in Vampireville, with your life on the line every day and a half?" "I'm considering it," she said. And she was.

  Rachel Caine

  Cutting, Voice, Long

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• You’ve claimed me, little firecracker. You kicked a pair of two hundred pound men’s asses. I will never get over that. You kicked my whores out. Pete told me. You staked your claim on me, even before you realized I’d staked mine already.” He fists my hair and pulls me close to his lips. “I’m yours now … Even if I screw this up, I’ll still be your screw-up.

  Katy Evans

  Men, Hair, Two

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• I crossed my arms over my chest. "Are you lost, little girl? The elementary school's over on west campus." A pink flush spread over her cheeks. "Don't you ever touch me again. You screw with me, I'll screw you right back." Oh man, what an opening that was.

  Richelle Mead

  Girl, School, Men

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.27, Penguin

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