Mess Quotes - Page 36

• An intrinsic part of the whole delicious, exuberant fun, and joy of painting consists in simply not having to bother about making a mess, either of one's person, or of the surroundings in which one is at work.

  Mervyn Levy

  Fun, Joy, Painting

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• It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The army is a mess. It must be made combat ready. That will take time. Russia has a lot of economic, social and political problems much more important than Chechnya.

  Aslan Maskhadov

  Army, Fighting, Russia

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• When I was 9, I saw a wrestler on television named Gorgeous George. He said, "I'm beautiful. I'm so pretty that if a sucker touches my face, I'll kill him. If he messes with my hair, I'll pummel him." I said to myself, "That's a good idea. I am the greatest, I'm pretty." And then I took it a little further than he did.

  Muhammad Ali

  Beautiful, Hair, Ideas

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. June 2001.

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• Don't you know that what happens to you once always happens again? You always react in the same way to the same thing. It's no accident when you make a mess. Then you do it again. It's called destiny.

  Cesare Pavese

  Destiny, Way, Happens

  Cesare Pavese (1968). “Selected Works: Translated from the Italian and with an Introd. by R. W. Flint”

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• They [say] everybody's creative. Well, everybody is. But any real creativity has to rest on a basis of an acquired technique and an acquired knowledge; you can't be creative in a void, or you just get a mess.

  Robertson Davies

  Real, Creativity, Creative

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• I was struck by the way in which meanings are historically attached to words: it is so accidental, so remote, so twisted. A word is like a schoolgirl's room--a complete mess--so the great thing is to make out a way of seeing it all as ordered, as right, as inferred and following.

  William H. Gass

  Way, Rooms, Twisted

  William H. Gass, Theodore G. Ammon (2003). “Conversations with William H. Gass”, p.23, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• There is no military solution to the war in Iraq. Our troops can help suppress the violence, but they cannot solve its root causes. And all the troops in the world won't be able to force Shia, Sunni, and Kurd to sit down at a table, resolve their differences, and forge a lasting peace. In fact, adding more troops will only push this political settlement further and further into the future, as it tells the Iraqis that no matter how much of a mess they make, the American military will always be there to clean it up.

  Barack Obama

  Military, War, Roots

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• When, you know, I'm busy and Nancy Pelosi is busy with our mop cleaning up somebody else's mess –- we don't want somebody sitting back saying, you're not holding the mop the right way. Why don't you grab a mop, why don't you help clean up. You're not mopping fast enough. That's a socialist mop. Grab a mop –- let's get to work.

  Barack Obama

  Laughter, Sitting, Want

  "Barack Obama, remarks at University of Michigan". www.politico.com. May 1, 2010.

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• What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here.

  Anne Lamott

  Children, Order, People

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.32, Anchor

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• You got to ac-cent-tchu-ate the positiveE-lim-i-nate the negativeAnd latch on to the affirmative.Don't mess with mister inbetween.

  Johnny Mercer

  Latches, Cents, Affirmative

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• One shouldn't work on semiconductors, that is a filthy mess; who knows whether any semiconductors exist.

  Wolfgang Pauli

  Filthy, Semiconductors, Knows

  "Letter to Peierls". "Scientific Correspondence with Bohr, Einstein, Heisenberg a.o. Volume II: 1930–1939" by Wolfgang Pauli, September 29, 1931.

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• In television or a movie I bring my own ego and consequently can mess up. In the theatre I learnt very quickly to shut up and listen. Now I am able to get out of my own way.

  Matthew Perry

  Ego, Theatre, Way

  "Back from the brink: Fame almost destroyed Friends star Matthew Perry. Now, as he makes his West End stage debut, he tells Neil Norman how he beat his addictions". Neil Norman, Evening Standart, May 1, 2003.

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• We all have direct experience with things that do or don't make us happy, we all have friends, therapists, cabdrivers, and talk-show hosts who tell us about things that will or won't make us happy, and yet, despite all this practice and all this coaching, our search for happiness often culminates in a stinky mess. We expect the next car, the next house, or the next promotion to make us happy even though the last ones didn't and even though others keep telling us that the next ones won't.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Happiness, Practice, Car

  Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, p.196, Vintage

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• He made me mess the song up when I looked at him... We can show the kids the tape and say, "Look, that's when we first laid eyes on each other."

  Edie Brickell

  Song, Kids, Eye

  "Whatever happened to Edie Brickell?". CNN, January 7, 2004.

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• Trudeau valued performance above image. He Knew he could give me a shovel if there was a mess to clean up, and he kept moving me from one mess to another.

  Jean Chretien

  Moving, Giving, Clean

  Jean Chretien (2010). “My Years as Prime Minister”, p.16, Vintage Canada

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• The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess.

  Susannah Cahalan

  Beautiful, Brain, Neurons

  Susannah Cahalan (2012). “Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• I think in terms of being a New Yorker, as my friends would say, I don't take a lot of mess. I have no tolerance for people who are not thinking deeply about things. I have no tolerance for the kind of small talk that people need to fill silence. And I have no tolerance for people not - just not being a part of the world and being in it and trying to change it.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Thinking, People, Silence

  "Jacqueline Woodson On Growing Up, Coming Out And Saying Hi To Strangers". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 19, 2015.

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• We already have the material means to eradicate deep poverty and thereby eradicate hunger. We have the material means to begin the tremendous clean up of the environmental messes we’ve created. We have, I believe, the psychological, emotional and spiritual means to create a world without war. We have the material means to create a world in which unnecessary human suffering has been drastically diminished. My vision for the future is that we do those things. And I think we will.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, War, Believe

  "Marianne Williamson on Consciousness, Women and Politics". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2012.

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• In the [Michael] Jackson orbit, normal is relative. What a mess.

  Roxanne Roberts

  Orbit, Normal, Relative

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player.

  Gunther Schuller

  Player, Bass, Jazz

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The world is a mess and I want to laugh because all I can think is how horrible and beautiful it is, that our eyes blur the truth when we can't bear to see it.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Beautiful, Eye, Thinking

  Tahereh Mafi (2014). “Ignite Me”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• I went into my own black-out period which lasted two or three years where the canvases would simply build up until they'd get like stone and it was always just a gray mess. The image wouldn't emerge, but I worked pretty regularly. I was fighting to find I knew not what, but I could no longer stay with what I had.

  Lee Krasner

  Fighting, Years, Two

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• For the Second Amendment to do its job, the other side must become much better informed. I watched an action-adventure program last night that asserted that the famous AK-47 - the original peoples' rifle (and Authority's greatest mistake) - is rare in this country, and that the only ones here were originally smuggled in from the Middle East, or possibly from South America. The idiots who wrote this mess seemed unaware that after legal imports - mostly from China - were illegally cut off by executive order, they began to be manufactured here.

  L. Neil Smith

  Country, Jobs, Mistake

  "Tastes Like Chicken". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. March 28, 2010.

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• Even if drugs are fully as destructive as they are usually claimed to be, it is morally wrong and demonstrably more destructive for government to deprive people of their unalienable, individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to make an utter mess of their own lives. Since human beings are inclined to learn more from the mistakes they make, rather than from their triumphs, the right to fail, for individuals and groups alike, may be even more important than the right to succeed, and it must be fiercely protected at almost any cost.

  L. Neil Smith

  Mistake, Government, People

  "Some Random Thoughts About the War On Drugs". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. June 13, 2010.

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• What I actually admire in Perl is its ability to provide a very successful abstraction of the horrible mess that is collectively called Unix.

  Erik Naggum

  Successful, Unix, Admire

  "Using Lisp to Call another program in linux?". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. November 11, 2002.

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