Screws Quotes - Page 7

• Screw the Rangers, and screw the Devils; I work for the Islanders now, and I could care less about them!

  Mike Milbury

  Hockey, Devil, Care

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• When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw up your taxes.

  Don Drysdale

  Sports, Screw Ups, World

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• If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass.

  Randall "Tex" Cobb

  Sports, Boxing, Tennis

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• Why don't we get drunk and screw?

  Jimmy Buffett

  Beer, Drunk

  Song: Why Don't We Get Drunk, 1973

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• Being a working mom is not easy. You have to be willing to screw up at every level.

  Jami Gertz

  Mom, Mother, Screw Ups

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• I know a lot of people did a lot of heavy lifting to make me successful and I do everything in my power not to screw it up.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Successful, People

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• I know what you want. And I know what you need. But I'm gonna screw it up, yeah, cause I'm an idiot. And I'm your boyfriend.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Funny, Cute, Boyfriend

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• You might say what if I screw up? Then screw up big! Go for it! Do a big screw-up!

  Tony Robbins

  What If, Might, Screw Ups

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• Anyone who's not interested in model airplanes must have a screw loose somewhere.

  Paul MacCready

  Airplane, Aviation, Flight

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• In today's economy there are no experts, no 'best and brightest' with all the answers. It's up to each one of us. The only way to screw up is to not try anything.

  Tom Peters

  Trying, Experts, Screw Ups

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• The dimmed outlines of phenomenal things all merge into one another unless we put on the focusing-glass of theory, and screw it up sometimes to one pitch of definition and sometimes to another, so as to see down into different depths through the great millstone of the world.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Science, Glasses, Depth

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• 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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• You've got to have the guts to not be afraid to screw up. The guys who win are the ones who are not afraid to mess up. And that comes right from the heart.

  Fuzzy Zoeller

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• As the component parts of all new machines may be said to be old[,] it is a nice discriminating judgment, which discovers that a particular arrangement will produce a new and desired effect. ... Therefore, the mechanic should sit down among levers, screws, wedges, wheels, etc. like a poet among the letters of the alphabet, considering them as the exhibition of his thoughts; in which a new arrangement transmits a new idea to the world.

  Robert Fulton

  Nice, Science, Discovery

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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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• Back then I said to myself 'screw football.' Actually I just took part in this camp as there was nothing better for me to do. They also didn't draft me because they thought I was too wild and undisciplined.

  Ed O'Neill

  Football, Undisciplined, Said

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• If your gonna screw up, do it while you're young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back.

  Winston Groom

  Growing Up, Screw Ups, Young

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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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• There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Writing, Ideas, Brilliant

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