Screwed Up Quotes - Page 5

• It's great that I get accused of not being politically correct. People need to take themselves less seriously. This world is so screwed up as it is, we've all got to relax a bit more.

  Michael Bay

  People, Relax, Needs

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• You can't undo yesterday, you can work on today, tomorrow, you will wonder how you screwed up 2 days in a row

  Eddie Long

  Clever, Yesterday, Today

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• I screwed up. It's all on me. I know that...All these hiccups I have, they must be for a reason. All this is just a test. I just don't know what the test is yet.

  Greg Norman

  Golf, Hiccups, Tests

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• Thank God for Jerry Springer's show. I thought only black folks were that screwed up until I watched Jerry Springer.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Black, Thank God

  Charles Barkley (2002). “I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It”, p.107, Random House

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• We're putting all of our energy into making it right. And we have already had several software updates. We've got a huge plan to make it even better. It will get better and better over time. We screwed up. That's the fact.

  Tim Cook

  Technology, Get Better, Energy

  "Google Maps App for iPhone Released With Turn-by-Turn Navigation, Transit Directions and Street View" by Joanna Stern, abcnews.go.com. December 13, 2012.

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• We don’t have to do this. I can fight Coyote. We have the ability to defeat him.” – Sundown “Are you out of your effing mind? Hello? Where have you been for the last two days? I want whatever screwed-up glasses you’re looking through. ’Cause from where I’ve been standing, we’ve been getting our asses seriously kicked around the block. Up a few stairs and down again.” – Sasha

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Block, Fighting, Glasses

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• I’m a screwed-up person who no longer knows how to communicate with the people I love. But I meant everything I told you in my letter. If I were your Nikki, I would have come back to you on Christmas Day, but I’m not Nikki. I know. And I’m sorry.

  Matthew Quick

  Sorry, People, Letters

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook: A Novel”, p.285, Macmillan

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• I doubt trees are ever told to 'be the screwed-up ninth-grader.'

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Tree, Doubt

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.153, Macmillan

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• In the screwed-up life I’d been dealt, she was my only source of comfort.

  Abbi Glines

  Comfort, Source

  Abbi Glines (2016). “Sea Breeze Volume 2: Just for Now; Sometimes It Lasts; Misbehaving”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• I got you a present." "Did you?" "It's a book of poetry--romancy stuff. I thought, 'How schmaltzy is that,' so it seemed like the thing. Then I screwed up and left it in my desk at work

  Nora Roberts

  Book, Stuff, Desks

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• Yes, the academic world is screwed up, and there is nothing you can do about it. But don't worry about that. Just do what you want. If you know what you want to do and advocate for it, no one will put any energy into stopping you.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Worry, Energy, Stopping

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• My first big acting performance was in the Marilyn Monroe biography piece, and it required frontal nudity. I talked to Mira Sorvino, my co-star, about how nervous I was because I didn't know how my mom would react. She said, 'Can I be completely honest with you? I've seen your mom in interviews, and she seems pretty screwed up. I don't think there's much you could do to shock a broad like that.' And from that moment on it was big nipples to the wind!

  Ashley Judd

  Mom, Stars, Thinking

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• Women always put men first. That's how everything got so screwed up.

  Janet Fitch

  Men, Firsts, Oleanders

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.134, Hachette UK

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• We're just as screwed up as you.

  Gerard Way

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• Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw] the consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all... whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.

  Janis Joplin

  Loving Someone, Silence, How You Feel

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• It's like a dance, to choreograph a fight is like a dance. It's very specific. You have to carefully plan it out. Because if someone gets hurt, then we didn't do our job, someone screwed up. The fight choreographers and the actors involved, we messed up somewhere.

  Bryan Cranston

  Hurt, Jobs, Fighting

  "Bryan Cranston Talks Cohaagen, the End of BREAKING BAD, Turning Down X-MEN: FIRST CLASS & More on the Set of TOTAL RECALL". collider.com. June 12, 2012.

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• Families are the deepest, most screwed up relationships that we have.

  Antony Starr

  "Antony Starr Talks BANSHEE, Comparing Season 1 to Season 2, Tough Shoots, Finding the Right Time to Provide Backstory, and Character Relationships". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 21, 2014.

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• You may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you have no control over my future.

  David Klass

  Past, May, My Future

  David Klass (2007). “You Don't Know Me”, p.7, Macmillan

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• Okay, look. I get it. You're one of those people who thinks they have to help screwed-up people. Or maybe you're attracted to dangerous, unbalanced people. But listen up: I'm not Edward and you're not Bella" - Lana

  Michael Grant

  Thinking, People, Looks

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• In this whole screwed-up town, you're the only thing that's always been right to me," he whispered. "I love you, Claire." She saw something that might have been just a flash of panic go across his expression, but then he steadied again. "I can't believe I'm saying this, but I do. I love you.

  Rachel Caine

  Fear, Believe, Love You

  Rachel Caine (2009). “Lord of Misrule: The Morganville Vampires”, p.84, Penguin

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• For thousands of years, human beings had screwed up and trashed and crapped on this planet, and now history expected me to clean up after everyone. I have to wash out and flatten my soup cans. And account for every drop of used motor oil. And I have to foot the bill for nuclear waste and buried gasoline tanks and landfilled toxic sludge dumped a generation before I was born.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Motor Oil, Years, Feet

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.124, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Sometimes he thinks that if he could only trace the path of his life carefully enough, everything would become clear. The ways that he screwed up would make sense. He closes his eyes tightly. His life wasn't always a mistake, he thinks, and he breathes uncertainly for awhile, trying to find a pathway into unconsciousness, into sleep.

  Dan Chaon

  Mistake, Sleep, Eye

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• gettimg attached to things is pointless. Thats how things get screwed up.People care to much about everything. Let it go. You'll be happier.

  Nick Burd

  People, Let It Go, Care

  Nick Burd (2009). “The Vast Fields of Ordinary”, p.94, Penguin

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• But I'm not ready to stop listening to the screwed-up inner voice that's been ordering me around for a lifetime. My head thinks it can kill me... and go on living without me.

  Mary Karr

  Thinking, Voice, Listening

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• I'd been in hairier situations than this one. Actually, it's sort of depressing, thinking how many times I'd been in them. But if experience had taught me anything, it was this: No matter how screwed up things are, they can get a whole lot worse.

  Jim Butcher

  Depressing, Thinking, Matter

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.104, Penguin

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