Mess Quotes - Page 16

• I have OCD, which is not fun. I have to be incredibly tidy and organized or it messes with my mind and switches off on me.

  Charlize Theron

  Fun, Mind, Ocd

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• I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Looks, Existentialism

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• I've always said that with kids' TV that people get stuck in it from drama school but that's not fair because I know myself that when you go in creatively, kids are so much more open to ideas. You're so much freer to mess about and try things.

  Johnny Vegas

  Drama, School, Kids

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• When it comes to sitting down and composing, there is no hesitation, no concern, no critics breathing fire down my neck. For me, writing a song is the purest part of all. No one can mess with that.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Song, Writing, Fire

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• I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past.

  Len Wein

  Past, Thinking, Trying

  "Speaking with...LEN WEIN". Interview with Marv Wolfman, www.marvwolfman.com.

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• There's no question that how Johannesburg operates is what made me interested in the idea of wealth discrepancy. 'Elysium' could be a metaphor for just Jo'burg, but it's also a metaphor for the Third World and the First World. And in science fiction, separation of wealth is a really interesting idea to mess with.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Ideas, Interesting, Elysium

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

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• Even before I had an assistant, my calendar was color-coded and I had all these different e-mail rules for how to prioritize e-mails, so I made it a point years ago to figure all that stuff out because my life was a mess.

  Chris Hardwick

  Color, Years, Different

  Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. August 8, 2013.

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• My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler.

  John Oliver

  Queens, Voice, Sound

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• On, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead of one by one by one. We could select the best pieces of each, stringing them together like a strand of pearls. But that's not how it works. A human life is a beautiful mess.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Beautiful, Wish, Together

  Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.148, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Unlike Rosa, I can see no divine purpose behind the tangle of this existence, no ordering hand. It is all a mystery, or more accurately, a mess. There are no heroes or villains, no saviors or demons or angels. Only those who have died and those of us who, for whatever reason, have survived. None of this will keep me from believing in God. I believe in Him, I just don't know that I will ever have faith in Him.

  Brady Udall

  Hero, Believe, Angel

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• The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself "Oh now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home. And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.

  Thornton Wilder

  Home, Adventure, Wish

  Thornton Wilder (2016). “Our Town and Other Plays”, p.293, Penguin UK

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• The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Virgin Suicides, Lost, Made

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• My Heart I'm not going to cry all the time nor shall I laugh all the time, I don't prefer one "strain" to another. I'd have the immediacy of a bad movie, not just a sleeper, but also the big, overproduced first-run kind. I want to be at least as alive as the vulgar. And if some aficionado of my mess says "That's not like Frank!," all to the good! I don't wear brown and grey suits all the time, do I? No. I wear workshirts to the opera, often. I want my feet to be bare, I want my face to be shaven, and my heart--you can't plan on the heart, but the better part of it, my poetry, is open.

  Frank O'Hara

  Running, Heart, Feet

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.231, Univ of California Press

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• You got to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, and latch on to the affirmative. Don't mess with Mr. In Between.

  Ann M. Martin

  Inspirational, Education, Negative

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• I am amazed by how many individuals mess up every new day with yesterday.

  Gary Chapman

  Yesterday, New Day, Wonderful Day

  Gary Chapman (2010). “The 5 Love Languages/Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married Set”, p.31, Moody Publishers

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• Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place.

  Richard Bach

  Determination, Acceptance, Persistence

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.44, Delta

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• It's too bad you're not gay. Then again, if you were gay, I would never date you. You're a mess." You know, Patrick? If I were gay, I'd want to date you." Of course.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Gay, Want, Courses

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• Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess. And it is still true, no matter how old you are - when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

  Robert Fulghum

  Thinking, Government, Naps

  "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten". Book by Robert Fulghum, 1986.

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• I am a mess. Like that MargieMocha, I am spilled across a floor, but there's nobody to mop me up. I have only one thing to show for the day: Perry Delloplane. The sound of a name. It is a grape in my mouth. I roll it over and over on my tongue--perrydelloplaneperrydelloplaneperrydelloplaneperrydelloplane--but when I try to crush it with my teeth, it slips away.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Crush, Names, Trying

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.191, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Pritkin gave me a little shake and I eyed him without favor. The only other occasions when I had been dragged back in time, the trip had been triggered by proximity to a person whose past was being threatened. I have to tell you,” I said frankly, “if someone is trying to mess with your conception or something, I’m not feeling a pressing need to intervene.

  Karen Chance

  Past, Feelings, Trying

  Karen Chance (2011). “Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5”, p.395, Penguin

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• I have one final hope, If I get double sixes, maybe he will change his mind, come back to me. As if to cast a magic spell, I blow on the dice just as Dex did...Just as it happened with our first roll, one die lands before its mate. On a six! I hold my breath. For a brief second, I see a mess of dots, and think I have boxcars again. I kneel, staring at the second die. It is onle a five. I have rolled an eleven, It is as if someone is mocking me, saying, Close, but no dice.

  Emily Giffin

  Blow, Thinking, Land

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• Look, I know you meant well creating the world and all, but how could you let it get away from you like this? How come you couldn't stick with your original idea of paradise? People's lives were a mess.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Ideas, Creating, People

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.171, Penguin

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• Money can't buy happiness but it'll sure keep a mess of grief off your front porch.

  James Lee Burke

  Grief, Money Can't Buy Happiness, Porch

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• Well", Fang said, mimicking a thick Southern drawl. "I must say its mighty nice of them Daimons to clean up after themselves when you kill them" He held his hands up to them. "Look Ma, no mess." "Does Fang have an off switch?" Talon asked Vane.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Nice, Southern Drawl, Hands

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• Hughes: (Talking for Mustang) 'I won't allow you to die under my jurisdiction because it'd be a pain to clean up the mess.' That's what he said. Edward: Fine. Tell him, 'Understood. I'll never die before you, colonel, you @#'$ idiot.' Hughes: Ha ha ha! They say the ruder you are, the luckier you are! In that case, you and Roy are gonna live forever!

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Pain, Talking, Forever

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