Sketchy Quotes

• Sure things are going to get sketchy, but when your having the time of your life whats sketchy?

  Rob Dyrdek

  Time Of Your Life, Sure Thing

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• To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.

  Jasper Johns

  Mean, Drawing, Painting

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• Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.

  Florence Nightingale

  Doe, World, Moral

  Ray Strachey, Florence Nightingale, National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) (1928). “"The cause": a short history of the women's movement in Great Britain”

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• Frederic Leighton to James McNeill Whistler: 'My dear Whistler, you leave your pictures in such a sketchy, unfinished state. Why don't you ever finish them?' James McNeill Whistler to Frederic Leighton: 'My dear Leighton, why do you ever begin yours?

  James Whistler

  States, Unfinished, Dear

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• It would be much better if I could only stop thinking. Thoughts are the dullest things. Duller than flesh. They stretch out and there's no end to them and they leave a funny taste in the mouth. Then there are words, inside the thoughts, unfinished words, a sketchy sentence which constantly returns...It goes, it goes ... and there's no end to it. It's worse than the rest because I feel responsible and have complicity in it. For example, this sort of painful rumination: I exist, I am the one who keeps it up. I.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Thinking, Example, Rumination

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• My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.

  Julie Andrews

  Mother, Family History, Deals

  Julie Andrews (2008). “Home: a memoir of my early years”

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• Of course, we knew that the official reports were sketchy, if not falsified. But, in terms of information theory, this is precisely where the problem lay: How were we to reconstruct reality from incomplete or false reports? It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false. On the contrary, most news is completely correct, albeit tendentiously slanded; it is just that certain information is suppressed. One can adjust for the political slanting of the news, but there is virtually no way to fill in the omissions.

  Konrad Zuse

  Reality, Omission, Justice

  "The Computer - My Life".

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• Most of my songs are pretty sketchy. There's not a lot of bass sections. I don't write big bridges. Sometimes I'll try. But it's hard for me to focus that way, because I always think it's more interesting to just see what will happen next.

  Ryan Adams

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2004.

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• I don't trust a girl that doesn't eat. I find that a little sketchy.

  Miles Teller

  Girl, Littles, Don't Trust

  Source: collider.com

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• We've played with Black Flag, Bad Brains, Minor Threat, The Ramones. You name any punk band and we've probably played or toured with them all the way up to and including Soundgarden, who we've toured with three times now. We also toured with Metallica for a year. But yeah, Megadeth was the only one we were a little sketchy about because um, it was a little sketchy.

  Reed Mullin

  Names, Years, Brain

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy.

  Ian McShane

  Two, Firsts, Details

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• That's what the leadership was teaching me, day by day: that the self-interest I was supposed to be looking for extended well beyond the immediacy of issues, that beneath the small talk and sketchy biographies and received opinions, people carried with them some central explanation of themselves. Stories full of terror and wonder, studded with events that still haunted or inspired them. Sacred stories.

  Barack Obama

  Teaching, Self, Issues

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.190, Canongate Books

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• Sketchy: I'm no stranger to stoner logic.

  Joss Whedon

  Logic, Stranger, Stoners

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• Fashion is just really standing up in the forefront and it's being even mentioned at the same level as the music. I sort of feel like that's where it gets a little sketchy.

  Pusha T

  Fashion, Levels, Littles

  Source: theneptunes.org

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• Near my house in Los Angeles is a waterfall. I love to take the wife and kids, but it's also near a sketchy neighborhood. So there's a lot of gang members that hang out at the waterfall. It's like somebody took an Ansel Adams photo and then put a Cypress Hill video inside it.

  Al Madrigal

  Kids, Gang Members, Wife

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• He [Mencken] was an autodidact, with all the misplaced confidence and all the astonishing gaps that characterize that breed. Not many of us would venture to write a book about democracy without ever having read de Tocqueville, nor embark on a translation of Nietzsche with only a sketchy knowledge of German.

  John Derbyshire

  Book, Writing, Democracy

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• I thought it was a huge conflict of interest to be the director and the subject - it's very sketchy territory to be in. I've seen what's happened to other directors who have done that.

  Aaron Rose

  Directors, Done, Territory

  Source: www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk

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• Almost all aspects of life are engineered at the molecular level, and without understanding molecules we can only have a very sketchy understanding of life itself.

  Francis Crick

  Life, Science, Understanding

  1988 What Mad Pursuit, ch.5.

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• Then the question began to live under my blankets: How did lesbianism begin? What were the symptoms? The public library gave information on the finished lesbian--and that woefully sketchy--but on the growth of a lesbian, there was nothing. I did discover that the difference between hermaphrodites and lesbians was that hermaphrodites were "born that way." It was impossible to determine whether lesbians budded gradually, or burst into being with a suddenness that dismayed them as much as it repelled society.

  Maya Angelou

  Differences, Growth, Library

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• Hillary Clinton's younger brother Tony is facing criticism for using the Clintons' political connections to help his career. So on the down side, she has a sketchy brother named Tony. On the up side, she just locked up every vote in New Jersey.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Brother, Careers, Political

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• Everyone wants to make good decisions. But how do you know when you are being guided by the Eck (Holy Spirit) or the mind. If guided by the Eck (Holy Spirit), you are more likely to change your mind when new information comes along. You're quicker to admit that an earlier decision based on sketchy information needs to change.

  Harold Klemp

  Decision, Mind, Needs

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• I just figured out hustles to get by, like maybe selling my clothes. I wanted to travel around and be broke and live in sketchy apartments.

  Leo Fitzpatrick

  Clothes, Hustle, Selling

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