Mess Quotes - Page 37

• The TV and the public pay our wages and they like to see professional golfers mess it up. Missing a green with a chip shot - when do you see that? It's great to see exciting golf like we had last week.

  Paul McGinley

  Golf, Missing, Pay

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• London always reminds me of a brain. It is similarly convoluted and circuitous. A lot of cities, especially American ones like New York and Chicago, are laid out in straight lines. Like the circuits on computer chips, there are a lot of right angles in cities like this. But London is a glorious mess. It evolved from a score or so of distinct villages, that merged and meshed as their boundaries enlarged. As a result, London is a labyrinth, full of turnings and twistings just like a brain.

  James Geary

  New York, Cities, Brain

  "On London". jamesgeary.com. July 16, 2006.

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• Despite his reputation as one of America's foremost "serious" filmmakers, Oliver Stone's name under the "director" caption does not guarantee a good movie. I learned that lesson while enduring the seemingly-endless tedium of The Doors, and was reminded of it during some of the long, drawn-out portions of JFK. However, nothing that Stone has directed or misdirected prepared me for the grotesque mess that is Natural Born Killers.

  James Berardinelli

  Doors, Names, America

  "Natural Born Killers". Movie Review, 1994.

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• You are not a mess. You are a feely person in a messy world.

  Glennon Melton

  World, Messy, Persons

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• Don't mess with our fans or we'll come and find you.

  Niall Horan

  Fans

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• The Dictator' lands somewhere between wan Mel Brooks and good Adam Sandler, whose 'You Don't Mess With the Zohan,' about an Israeli Special Forces soldier at a hair salon, manages to strike better contrasts with vaguely similar culture differences - it's a nuttier movie, too.

  Wesley Morris

  Hair, Land, Differences

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• How did I gain from not remembering my earthly self? It allowed me to go deep into realms beyond the worldly without having to worry about what I was leaving behind. Throughout my entire time in those worlds, I was a soul with nothing to lose. No places to miss, no people to mourn. I had come from nowhere and had no history, so I fully accepted my circumstances-even the initial murk and mess of the Realm of the Earthworm's-Eye View-with equanimity.

  Eben Alexander

  Eye, Self, Views

  Eben Alexander (2012). “Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• Kelso's proposals do promise to free us from our morbid dependency on economic health through armament manufacture; they promise a way out of the welfare mess, out of foodstamps and ship subsidies, out of perpetual inflation, and they suggest a means of doing these things without being too disruptive of the wealth of five percent of the population who own the rest of us.

  Nicholas von Hoffman

  Wisdom, Mean, Promise

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• I don't mess with that cat. I'm pretty sure he carries a blade under his jersey.

  Charles Barkley

  Funny, Cat, Nba

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• We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Pride, Littles, Causes

  "New Studies in Philosophy, Politics, Economics and the History of Ideas". Book by Friedrich Hayek. Part I: "Philosophy ". Chapter 2: "The Pretence of Knowledge", p. 23, 1978.

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• Public education is a good foundation on which to build a better life for each of us. And if we want to prove to these children who never made the mess in the first place that education is worth the trouble, our schools have to inspire them so they can do what they ought to do.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, School, Inspire

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• Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth.

  Leslie Charteris

  Jobs, Thinking, Stories

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• I think because I have quite a normal family and I'm bored with how normal my family is. I want to mess stuff up a bit. I chose the messed up characters because I find that that's acting. I want to explore emotions that you otherwise wouldn't be able to explore.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Character, Bored, Acting

  "Chloë Grace Moretz Talks IF I STAY, Portraying Dark Characters, Playing the Cello, and Making Relationships Work". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 18, 2014.

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• If you get stuck and it feels a little stiff, then you do have to mess it up to find it. But other times it's really written and you just stick to your guns and do it as elegantly and as concentrated and as committed as you can.

  Willem Dafoe

  Gun, Littles, Sticks

  "Willem Dafoe Talks OUT OF THE FURNACE, Playing Conflicted Characters, Bringing an Eastern European Flair to His Character, and Future Projects". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. December 6, 2013.

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• I don't want to leave this mess around my children to clean up. I want to swing absolutely as hard as I can to straighten things out before they get to the age where it starts hurting them.

  Tom Morello

  Hurt, Children, Swings

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When you're talking about Iraq and oil, you're talking about a mess, no matter who's in charge.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Talking, Oil, Iraq

  "Rep. Dennis Kucinich on Why He Supports Kofi Annan". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. December 14, 2004.

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• I don't mind cleaning up the mess that some other folks made, that's what I signed up to do

  Barack Obama

  Mind, Cleaning, Made

  "Obama urges GOP to ‘get a mop’ and clean up Bush administration mess". thehill.com. October 21, 2009.

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• [Boxer is] the ultimate tool for the serious pro' that can't afford the time and patience to mess around with lesser products.

  Robert Harris

  Tools, Boxers, Serious

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• At one time, I wanted to be a WWE wrestler. I still do. I want to go in the ring once and mess around and jump off the ropes and do a Stone Cold stunt.

  Rob Gronkowski

  Wwe, Rope, Want

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• People mess up and make mistakes all the time. Everyone deserves a second chance right? - Brandon

  Molly McAdams

  Mistake, Second Chance, People

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• The most reserved of men, that will not exchange two syllables together in an English coffee-house, should they meet at Ispahan, would drink sherbet and eat a mess of rice together.

  William Shenstone

  Sympathy, Coffee, Men

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.43

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• Among all the complaints you hear these days about the crimes of the media, it seems to me the critics miss the big one. It is that especially TV, but also we of the print press, tend to reduce mess and complexity and ambiguity to a simple story line that doesn't reflect reality so much as it distorts it. ... What bothers me about the journalistic tendency to reduce unmanageable reality to self-contained, movielike little dramas is not just that we falsify when we do this. It is also that we really miss the good story.

  Meg Greenfield

  Drama, Simple, Reality

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• If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess.

  Muriel Spark

  Art, Trying, Patterns

  Muriel Spark (2015). “Robinson”, p.59, Canongate Books

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• The one thing I would like to get across about my whole feeling regarding high school is how I was when I was fifteen. Gawky. Always a hem hanging down, or strap loose, or a pimple on my chin. I never knew what to do with my hair. I was a mess. And I still carry that fifteen-year-old girl around now. A piece of me still believes I'm the girl nobody dances with.

  Nora Ephron

  Girl, Believe, School

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• I think the world is in the mess it's in because we are spiritually ignorant.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Thinking, Ignorant, World

  Shirley MacLaine (1987). “It's all in the playing”, Bantam

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