Screws Quotes - Page 5

• Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Taken, Science

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• I remember vividly my student days, spending hours at the light microscope, turning endlessly the micrometric screw, and gazing at the blurred boundary which concealed the mysterious ground substance where the secret mechanisms of cell life might be found.

  Albert Claude

  Science, Light, Cells

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• Screw the dialogue, let's wreck some cars.

  Hal Needham

  Bad Ass, Car, Wrecks

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• Sometimes I screw up in the game, I miss a shot or I miss a rebound, and I fight myself. I am like, 'Why I miss that shot? Come on, what are you doing?' I am fighting myself.

  Mehmet Okur

  Basketball, Fighting, Games

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• Those who do remember it will find new ways to screw it up.

  Charles Wolfe

  Past, Way, Remember

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• Assumption is the mother of the screw-up.

  Angelo Donghia

  Mother, Boxing, Screw Ups

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• Google's a strange place. When I met Eric Schmidt, he said, "If you are kind to everybody, then you will make good decisions because people will give you good information, and if you are truthful to everybody, they will be truthful to you." That's what's different about Google. They screw up and make mistakes, but they genuinely mean the good stuff about "don't be evil."

  Larry Brilliant

  Integrity, Mistake, Mean

  "Feeling Lucky". Interview with Evan Ratliff, www.wired.com. July 1, 2006.

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• When you can dump a load of bricks on a corner lot, and let me watch them arrange themselves into a house - when you can empty a handful of springs and wheels and screws on my desk, and let me see them gather themselves together into a watch - it will be easier for me to believe that all these thousands of worlds could have been created, balanced, and set to moving in their separate orbits, all without any directing intelligence at all.

  Bruce Barton

  Spring, Believe, Moving

  Masonic News, Volume 8, p. 181, 1927.

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• What one wants to do with stories is screw them up.

  William H. Gass

  Stories, Crafts, Want

  William H. Gass (1997). “Finding a Form: Essays”, p.46, Cornell University Press

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• ... don't be afraid to screw up !... one of the key issues to learning is making mistakes ... if you're not making mistakes, you're probably not having a very good time

  Robben Ford

  Funny, Inspiring, Music

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• There are guys who want to screw around all the time, which interests me not at all. God knows we've done that, been there, and we don't want to do that any more.

  Lauren Bacall

  Guy, Done, Want

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• If we're going to improve the environment, the first thing we should do is duck the government. The second thing we should do is quit being moral. Screw the rights of nature. Nature will have rights as soon as it get duties. The minute we see birds, trees, bugs, and squirrels picking up litter, giving money to charity, and keeping an eye on our kids at the park, we'll let them vote.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Kids, Eye, Squirrels

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.201, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove. Vance Law Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.

  Bob Lemon

  Baseball, Kids, Law

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• But in reality the point of free speech is for the stuff that’s over the line, and strikingly unbalanced. If free speech is only for polite persons of mild temperament within government-policed parameters, it isn’t free at all. So screw that.

  Mark Steyn

  Reality, Government, Lines

  Mark Steyn (2014). “The Undocumented Mark Steyn”, p.370, Regnery Publishing

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• A friend of mine once told me that I can't screw up when I play my own music. I also take voice lessons, play other peoples' songs out of music books, and occasionally figure out how to play other people's music from records. This keeps my ears, fingers, and mind working

  Lisa Loeb

  Song, Book, Voice

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• Every great business leader I've ever met, in addition to being very smart, very driven, they have this, 'Why not me? Screw it, I deserve it, let's go.' And if you don't have that, you can't achieve greatness.

  Donny Deutsch

  Smart, Greatness, Leader

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• See, this was why I liked coffee. You couldn’t screw up making coffee. Even the bad stuff was good.

  Kim Harrison

  Coffee, Screw Ups, Stuff

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• With six weeks' worth of recuperation time, you'll also be able to see any glaring holes in the plot or character development. And listen--if you spot a few of these big holes, you are forbidden to feel depressed about them or to beat up on yourself. Screw-ups happen to the best of us.

  Stephen King

  Character, Screw Ups, Plot

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

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• I can let you in, Eva. I’m trying. But your first response when I screw up is to run away. You do it every time and I can’t stand feeling like any moment I’m going to do or say something wrong and you’re going to bolt.

  Sylvia Day

  Running, Feelings, Trying

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.182, Penguin

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• I might screw up, I might embarrass you, I might yell at you, but I will never, ever stop loving you. You're my first born. The first time I held you... I fell in love so hard it cracked my bones.

  Kristin Hannah

  Loving You, Screw Ups, Might

  Kristin Hannah (2012). “Home Front: A Novel”, p.431, Macmillan

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• The rottweiler stood his ground and waited for me to take the next step in the dance of ritualized intimidation. Instead, I leaped at him. Screw ritual. Now was not the time to stand on ceremony.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Next Steps, Rottweilers, Intimidation

  Kelley Armstrong (2012). “Werewolves: Book One: Bitten, Stolen and Beginnings”, p.1069, Vintage Canada

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• Screw poetry, it’s you I want, your taste, rain on you, mouth on your skin.

  Margaret Atwood

  Rain, Skins, Mouths

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• Now, see, that's why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy...the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn't agree with you, all that's left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Idaho, People, Guy

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• Maybe you feel pressure to be positive because so many people rely on your good, fake-positive energy? If that's the case, screw everybody else. You're not a bottle of Valium.

  Augusten Burroughs

  People, Fake, Positive Energy

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.17, Macmillan

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• It's okay to screw up. It's what we do afterward that defines us.

  Susan Mallery

  Screw Ups, Okay

  FaceBook post by Susan Mallery from Feb 20, 2015

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