Screw Ups Quotes - Page 3

• Claire, I-Look, my life is one long series of screw-ups and bad decisions, and I know that. I own that. But you...I just want you to be happy. And it cuts me when you're not." "I'm happy with you." She heard the smile in his voice this time. "So what do you really want? A storybook life in Vampireville, with your life on the line every day and a half?" "I'm considering it," she said. And she was.

  Rachel Caine

  Cutting, Voice, Long

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• I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of how, at any given moment, we might improve, or at least disguise or present our defects and screw-ups in either more charming or more intimidating ways.

  Anne Lamott

  Crazy, Sorrow, Ordinary

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.37, Penguin

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• Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody's going to come along and screw up the works.

  Haruki Murakami

  Wall, Genius, World

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Apr 30, 2014

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• Fine. Let’s begin with something even you can’t screw up.” – Death “Way to build up my crappy confidence there. You should volunteer for the suicide hotline.” – Nick “What makes you think I don’t?” – Death

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Suicide, Thinking, Volunteer

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• [Everyone needs] a woman who'll listen, take your side, tell the truth - or not, as you need it. A woman you can count on, no matter what, and who'll love you no matter how much you screw up.

  Nora Roberts

  Love You, Your Side, Needs

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• I have to tell you, Arty, a screw up this early in the proceedings doesn't exactly fill me with confidence. I hope you're as clever as you keep telling everyone you are." "I never tell anybody exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared.

  Eoin Colfer

  Clever, Would Be, Scared

  Eoin Colfer (2005). “Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code - Book #3”, Miramax

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• Nothing screws up a séance like the appearance of a real ghost. ~Jaime Vegas

  Kelley Armstrong

  Real, Vegas, Ghost

  Kelley Armstrong (2016). “Otherworld Secrets: An Anthology”, p.183, Penguin

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• I think the reason why a lot of young people are such screw ups... is oftentimes they didn't have the luxury I had of forming important relationships and opinions and life experiences before having success.

  George Clooney

  Thinking, Luxury, Important Relationships

  "George Clooney on Fame, Failure & Success, Cuaron’s ‘Gravity’ and ‘Monuments Men’" by Sophia Savage, www.indiewire.com. November 23, 2012.

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• Friday morning, Kylie, Miranda, and Della, each carting suitcases, walked the trail to meet up with their parents. They walked slowly, like condemned prisoners moving to their executions. “I’m going to be peeing on a drug test stick every hour,” Della muttered. Miranda sighed. “I’m going to screw up at my competition and my mom is going to give me up for adoption.” “I’m going to a ghost hunt,” Kylie added. Both girls looked at her. “Don’t ask.

  C.C. Hunter

  Girl, Mom, Friday

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• Screw up my life?" He stared at me for a second and then said, deadpan, "I'm a five-foot-three, thirty-seven-year-old, single, Jewish medical examiner who needs to pick up his lederhosen from the dry cleaners so that he can play in a one-man polka band at Oktoberfest tomorrow." He pushed up his glasses with his forefinger, folded his arms, and said, "Do your worst.

  Jim Butcher

  Men, Feet, Glasses

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.63, Penguin

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• I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up.

  Kirstie Alley

  Believe, Eating Disorder, Mental Health

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• We forget the little things, so it's no wonder some of us screw up the big things.

  Neil Cavuto

  Literature, Littles, Forget

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• Steve Martin said that philosophy is good for comedy because it screws up your thinking just enough, and I agree with that. Being forced to see life's metadata is good training for looking for interesting angles on a topic.

  Chris Hardwick

  Philosophy, Thinking, Interesting

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• Oosthuizen's red spot is a classic example of what's known in sports psychology as a process goal-a technique by which the athlete is required to focus on something, however minor, to prevent them from thinking about other things: in Oosthuizen's case, all the ways he could possibly screw up the shot.

  Kevin Dutton

  Sports, Athlete, Thinking

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• Miserable is a good thing, though. If you start the day miserable, nobody else can screw up your day.

  Jake Roberts

  Good Day, Start The Day, Miserable

  "Jake "The Snake" Roberts Interview". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. December 18, 2003.

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• Most people have two emergency modes. Fight and Flight. But Conner always knew he had three. Fight, Flight, and Screw Up Royally.

  Neal Shusterman

  Fighting, Two, People

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• It's possible that we'll screw up the climate so badly that most of us will die and a few breeding pairs will remain somewhere in the arctic. What's more likely is that we'll continue remaking the planet, driving many species to extinction, killing millions of people through the indirect effects of climate change, making life even harder for the poor and powerless than it is now, and making it a little more difficult for the global middle class to live the lives to which they have become accustomed - in other words, business as usual, only worse.

  Dale Jamieson

  Class, People, Littles

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Usually the way to screw up some good fishing is to have a tournament. This just keeps getting better and better.

  David Walker

  Fishing, Get Better, Way

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• The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes. But when you hit a wall in your personal life, and you screw up, people don't give you a chance to navigate your way through it and tap into what's extraordinary about you.

  Viola Davis

  Wall, People, Giving

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• You're human. You'll screw up. Denying that is crazy. Forgiving yourself has all the benefits of self-esteem without making you a narcissist that's out of touch with reality.

  David D. Burns

  Crazy, Self Esteem, Reality

  Source: time.com

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• People screw up, you know. You shouldn't hold it against them. You shouldn't expect everyone to know everything you're thinking about or not getting from them. It doesn't mean they don't love you. They just screwed up.

  Laura Dave

  Love You, Mean, Thinking

  Laura Dave (2016). “Eight Hundred Grapes: A Novel”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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• It's a good time to say "Oh" and take stock and say, "Gee, how was I ethically this year?" That's the problem with faith, Joe. What it does is it kind of screws up your priorities. Your priorities shouldn't be saving your own ass, which is the focus of Christianity. The focus should be, I'm a good person, and I do that just for the sake of being good. Like the Christmas song says, "Be good for goodness' sake."

  Bill Maher

  Song, Years, Focus

  "Scarborough Asks Maher How to End 'Mutually Assured Destruction' of President-Bashing". www.newsbusters.org. January 2, 2010.

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• I'm easy with employees. I make sure they get credit for their work. Naturally, sometimes a guy will screw up, and I'll have to apply some "retraining."

  Connie Kalitta

  Guy, Credit, Sometimes

  Source: blog.caranddriver.com

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• I wasn't a pain in the ass when I was a kid. So I think being a screw-up as an adult is way more acceptable.

  Daniel Tosh

  Pain, Kids, Thinking

  "Mr. Daniel Tosh coming to NAU". The Lumberjack Interview, www.jackcentral.org. September 11, 2008.

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• The thing I like so much about short stories is that there isn't as much of an investment of time so I'm free to experiment more. If it doesn't work out, I've only lost a week or two of work. If I screw up a novel I've lost at least a year's worth of work. But the nice thing is that those experiments with short stories can be carried over to novels when the experiments do work.

  Charles de Lint

  Nice, Years, Two

  "EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Charles de Lint". Interview with Charles Tan, www.sfsignal.com. September 9, 2010.

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