Screws Quotes - Page 2

• Funny how mishearing things-or not hearing them at all-can really screw things up

  Heather Brewer

  Hearing

  Heather Brewer (2011). “Twelfth Grade Kills #5: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod”, p.47, Penguin

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• I believe that the subconscious always knows what is best. It is our conditional, vastly overrated rational mind which screws everything up.

  Robyn Davidson

  Believe, Thinking, Mind

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• I didn't have a teenage or early-20s experience that was free and without worry. I missed the screw-everything, have-a-good-time phase.

  Sandra Bullock

  Teenage, Worry, Phases

  "Sandra Bullock: Congenial, but oh so ambitious" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2010.

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• Without Mona, Hanna felt like a great outfit without matching accessories, a screw-driver that was all orange juice and no vodka, and an iPod without headphones. She just felt wrong.

  Sara Shepard

  Orange Juice, Ipods, Accessories

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• It can kind of screw up things if you're trying to overwork something.

  Jeff Bridges

  Trying, Screw Ups, Kind

  "Jeff Bridges Abides". Interview with Tim McDonnell, www.motherjones.com. November, 2011.

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• My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.

  Erica Jong

  Sex, Home, Long

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• I don't want to analyze myself or anything, but I think, in fact I know this to be true, that I enter the world through what I write. I grew up believing, and continue to believe, that I am a screw-up, that growing up with my family and friends, I had nothing to offer in any conversation. But when I started writing, suddenly there was something that I brought to the party that was at a high-enough level.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Growing Up, Party, Believe

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• Why can't I go to Idris with you, then? Because it's not safe for you there O and it's safe for me here? I've been nearly killed almost a dozen times in the past month. That's because Valentine has been concentrating on the two Mortal Instruments that were here. He's going to shift his focus to Idris now. We all know it-- We're hardly as certain of anything as all that. And the Clave wants to meet Clarissa. You know that, Jace. The Clave can screw itself.

  Cassandra Clare

  Valentine, Past, Two

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• Expecting anybody else?" Shane asked Eve. "Your distant cousin Jack the Ripper dropping by too?" "Screw you, Collins.

  Rachel Caine

  Cousin, Screw You, Expecting

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• Rule number one of anime," Simon said. He sat propped up against a pile of pillows at the foot of his bed, a bag of potato chips in one hand and the TV remote in the other. He was wearing a black T-shirt that said I BLOGGED YOUR MOM and a pair of jeans that were ripped in one knee. "Never screw with a blind monk.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mom, Anime, Hands

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “Sample of the CITYs”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us, but we're presumably acting in such a way that people feel morally compelled to continue our mission, not to screw it up.

  Julian Assange

  People, Acting, Way

  "Why the world needs WikiLeaks". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.ted.com. July 2010.

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• I'd like to have a kid, but I'd probably get a Frank Sinatra Jr. instead of a Gilbert Gottfried Jr. I'd totally screw up like that.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Kids, Screw Ups, Frank

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• Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but I've consistently strived to create whatever good fortune I can get in my life - and consistently strive just as hard not to screw it up once I have it!

  Patrick Duffy

  Fall, Good Luck, Hard Work

  "Patrick Duffy Is the Girl Next Door's Dad". Interview with Matt Webb Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. February 3, 2006.

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• As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.

  Molly Ivins

  Texas, Office, Political

  Molly Ivins (1992). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, Vintage

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• Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. If you're looking for violent rape imagery, the Bible's right there in your hotel room. If you just want to look up ways to screw people up, there it is, and you're justified because God told you to.

  Penn Jillette

  Lying, Nuts, People

  "Voodoo and Violence". Interview with Steve Kurtz, reason.com. April 1994.

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• My whole family is missing that sports gene. I hope I didn't screw that up by marrying a great golfer.

  Penn Jillette

  Sports, Missing, Genes

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

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• I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial sense, and basically traded them for being able to screw around online.

  Jaron Lanier

  People, Able, Economic

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• Of course I've got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons, I've got em 'cause everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up.

  Danny DeVito

  Nuclear, Ems, Use

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• Really, I don't care if people think I'm too skinny. This is my body. If they don't like it, screw it.

  Ellen Pompeo

  Thinking, People, Body

  "Ellen Pompeo In ‘Self’: Went Up To Size 26 Jeans While Pregnant". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2010.

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• For an author, the nice characters aren't much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They're doing it for themselves.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fun, Nice, Character

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• The United Nations four or five years ago put out a study that said the meat industry, meat-eating, growing meat for food is the No. 1 killer of our planet - not No. 2 or No. 3: No 1. You know what’s No. 2? Transportation. Everyone thinks that No. 1 is transportation, and goes out and buys a hybrid car. Screw the hybrid cars. Don’t eat hamburgers.

  Maggie Q

  Thinking, Years, Meat Industry

  "‘Nikita’ Star Maggie Q On What’s Ahead In Season 3 And Her New PETA Campaign". Interview with Laura Prudom, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 8, 2013.

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• Stage is much more intimidating than going before the cameras, because you can really screw up, and can't do a retake.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Screw Ups, Cameras, Intimidating

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

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• Miserable is a good thing, though. If you start the day miserable, nobody else can screw up your day.

  Jake Roberts

  Good Day, Screw Ups, Start The Day

  "Jake "The Snake" Roberts Interview". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. December 18, 2003.

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• Dad told Uncle Seth not to screw things up,” she informed me as we washed our hands. “He said even if Uncle Seth is famous, him getting a woman like you defies belief.” I laughed and smoothed down the skirt of my dress. “I don’t know about that. I don’t think your dad gives your uncle enough credit." Brandy gave me a sage look, worthy of someone much older. “Uncle Seth spent last Valentine’s Day at a library.

  Richelle Mead

  Uncles, Dad, Valentine

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Succubus On Top”, p.89, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• I have cellulite. I admit it. But sometimes I just say, 'Screw it, I am going to wear a bikini.'

  Cindy Crawford

  Bikinis, Sometimes, Cellulite

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