Messy Quotes - Page 12

• The state of ambiguity - that messy, greasy, mixed-up, confused, and awful situation you're living through right now - is enlightenment itself.

  Brad Warner

  Confused, Enlightenment, Awful

  Brad Warner (2010). “Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death, and Dogen's Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye”, p.28, New World Library

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• Yossarian was cold, too, and shivering uncontrollably. He felt goose pimples clacking all over him as he gazed down despondently at the grim secret Snowden had spilled all over the messy floor. It was easy to read the message in his entrails. Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all. I'm cold,' Snowden said. 'I'm cold.

  Joseph Heller

  Fall, Men, Fire

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.404, Simon and Schuster

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• I figured I could read more than five pages tonight since I'd been deprived for the last couple of days. When I finished the fifteenth, I discovered I was three pages from the next chapter. Might as well end with a clean break. After I was done, I sighed and leaned back, feeling decadent and spent. Pure bliss. Books were a lot less messy than orgasms.

  Richelle Mead

  Couple, Book, Feelings

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Succubus Blues”, p.134, Zebra Books

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• It'll be messy, but after a day you'll be zipping around as though you were a thousand years old again.

  Eoin Colfer

  Years, Thousand, Thousand Years

  Eoin Colfer (2001). “Artemis Fowl”

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• Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that.

  Alan Moore

  Real, Taken, Long

  Alan Moore (1987). “Watchmen”, Dc Comics

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• ...wanting things for the wrong reasons can turn anyone's life into a marshmallow on a stick over a hot fire: impossibly messy and eventually consumed, one way or another.

  Deb Caletti

  Fire, Way, Sticks

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Queen of Everything”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• When she saw my messy desk, she said she was the same way, and there was no dust on the TV, and I was easy to love. People just need a little help because they are so used to not loving. It's like scoring the clay to make another piece of clay stick to it.

  Miranda July

  Dust, People, Clay

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• Real data is messy. ...It's all very noisy out there. Very hard to spot the tune. Like a piano in the next room, it's playing your song, but unfortunately it's out of whack, some of the strings are missing, and the pianist is tone deaf and drunk- I mean, the noise! Impossible!

  Tom Stoppard

  Song, Real, Mean

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Tom Stoppard Plays 5: The Real Thing; Night & Day; Hapgood; Indian Ink; Arcadia”, p.62, Faber & Faber

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• Cancer is messy and scary. You throw everything at it, but don't forget to throw love at it. It turns out that might be the best weapon of all.

  Regina Brett

  Cancer, Scary, Might

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• I'm a private person too, and we don't ever film anything in our home because it's off limits. It's like letting people see your messy house.

  Carrie Underwood

  Home, People, House

  "Carrie Underwood: 'It's a fun time for country'". Interview with Gerrick D. Kennedy, articles.chicagotribune.com. December 6, 2012.

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• I have the same bedroom I've always had. It's clean and tidy when I get home, and after two or three days it gets messy and my mother nags me.

  Rafael Nadal

  Mother, Home, Two

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• If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Running, Discovery, Things In Life

  Charles Krauthammer (1985). “Cutting edges: making sense of the eighties”, Random House (NY)

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• The only thing Martha and I have in common is that we both used to model. Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live.

  Kathy Ireland

  Philosophy, Perfect, Design

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• There's a picture of my dorm room in the college yearbook as the most messy, most disgusting room on the Harvard campus, where I was an undergraduate.

  Brian Greene

  Yearbook, College, Rooms

  "Brian Greene on The Hidden Reality". "Talk of the Nation", www.npr.org. March 4, 2011.

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• Somebody must be up and somebody must be down. Trouble is, campaigns are messy, subtle creatures that don't follow convenient narratives.

  Ron Fournier

  Campaigns, Narrative, Trouble

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• The issues of wireless versus wireline gets very messy. And that's really an FCC issue, not a Google issue.

  Eric Schmidt

  Fcc, Issues, Google

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• The performances that I love are ones like Gena Rowlands in 'A Woman Under the Influence,' where women are allowed to be messy and imperfect. It's that kind of woman that has always inspired me to seek roles that are a little out of the box. I just haven't always had the opportunity to do them.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Opportunity, Roles, Littles

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• Love is messy. It's not something that's real clean.

  Matt Dillon

  Real, Love Is, Clean

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. August 22, 2006.

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• Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.

  Lady Gaga

  Thinking, Lines, Sometimes

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• Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller.

  James Surowiecki

  Real, Thrillers, Ambiguous

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• I have a problem with cabinets being messy and people just shoving things in and closing the door. I will lie in bed and not be able to sleep because I'll say to myself: 'I think I saw something in that cabinet that just shouldn't be there.'

  Charlize Theron

  Lying, Sleep, Thinking

  "Charlize Theron and 8 More Stars with OCD". abcnews.go.com. March 22, 2012.

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• Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft.

  Harlan Coben

  Real, Writing, Hands

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• At its heart, this book touches on a mystery of economics: what exactly is happening in our world, and why does it often work so well? As the authors show, apparently messy systems - such as untidy desks - actually exhibit a high degree of order: the piles of paper are close to hand, and the most important documents tend to make their way to the top while un-needed ones sink to the bottom. If the mess works, why mess with it?

  Nicholas Blincoe

  Book, Heart, Our World

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• A problem is only a problem when viewed as a problem. All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.

  Robin Sharma

  Achievement, Firsts, Problem

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• If the task of scientific methodology is to piece together an account of what scientists actually do, then the testimony of biologists should be heard with specially close attention. Biologists work very close to the frontier between bewilderment and understanding.
  Biology is complex, messy and richly various, like real life; it travels faster nowadays than physics or chemistry (which is just as well, since it has so much farther to go), and it travels nearer to the ground. It should therefore give us a specially direct and immediate insight into science in the making.

  Peter Medawar

  Real, Science, Giving

  Peter Brian Medawar (1969). “Induction and intuition in scientific thought”

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