Screws Quotes - Page 2

• Funny how mishearing things-or not hearing them at all-can really screw things up

  Heather Brewer

  Hearing

  Heather Brewer (2011). “Twelfth Grade Kills #5: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod”, p.47, Penguin

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• I believe that the subconscious always knows what is best. It is our conditional, vastly overrated rational mind which screws everything up.

  Robyn Davidson

  Believe, Thinking, Mind

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• Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Taken, Science

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• I know a lot of people did a lot of heavy lifting to make me successful and I do everything in my power not to screw it up.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Successful, People

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• Being a working mom is not easy. You have to be willing to screw up at every level.

  Jami Gertz

  Mom, Mother, Screw Ups

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• Why don't we get drunk and screw?

  Jimmy Buffett

  Beer, Drunk

  Song: Why Don't We Get Drunk, 1973

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• The rottweiler stood his ground and waited for me to take the next step in the dance of ritualized intimidation. Instead, I leaped at him. Screw ritual. Now was not the time to stand on ceremony.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Next Steps, Rottweilers, Intimidation

  Kelley Armstrong (2012). “Werewolves: Book One: Bitten, Stolen and Beginnings”, p.1069, Vintage Canada

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• If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass.

  Randall "Tex" Cobb

  Sports, Boxing, Tennis

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• When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw up your taxes.

  Don Drysdale

  Sports, Screw Ups, World

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• Screw the Rangers, and screw the Devils; I work for the Islanders now, and I could care less about them!

  Mike Milbury

  Hockey, Devil, Care

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• I think once I fail enough as a dad, I'll be looking for help wherever I can get it. I just need enough time to screw things up and then I'll start looking to TV dads for advice.

  Ty Burrell

  Fathers Day, Dad, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I know what you want. And I know what you need. But I'm gonna screw it up, yeah, cause I'm an idiot. And I'm your boyfriend.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Funny, Cute, Boyfriend

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• You might say what if I screw up? Then screw up big! Go for it! Do a big screw-up!

  Tony Robbins

  What If, Might, Screw Ups

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• As the component parts of all new machines may be said to be old[,] it is a nice discriminating judgment, which discovers that a particular arrangement will produce a new and desired effect. ... Therefore, the mechanic should sit down among levers, screws, wedges, wheels, etc. like a poet among the letters of the alphabet, considering them as the exhibition of his thoughts; in which a new arrangement transmits a new idea to the world.

  Robert Fulton

  Nice, Science, Discovery

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• You've got to have the guts to not be afraid to screw up. The guys who win are the ones who are not afraid to mess up. And that comes right from the heart.

  Fuzzy Zoeller

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• Sometimes I screw up in the game, I miss a shot or I miss a rebound, and I fight myself. I am like, 'Why I miss that shot? Come on, what are you doing?' I am fighting myself.

  Mehmet Okur

  Basketball, Fighting, Games

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• Screw the dialogue, let's wreck some cars.

  Hal Needham

  Bad Ass, Car, Wrecks

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• I remember vividly my student days, spending hours at the light microscope, turning endlessly the micrometric screw, and gazing at the blurred boundary which concealed the mysterious ground substance where the secret mechanisms of cell life might be found.

  Albert Claude

  Science, Light, Cells

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• It takes zero politically correct people to screw in a lightbulb because they are perpetually in the dark.

  Dennis Miller

  Zero, Dark, People

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• The dimmed outlines of phenomenal things all merge into one another unless we put on the focusing-glass of theory, and screw it up sometimes to one pitch of definition and sometimes to another, so as to see down into different depths through the great millstone of the world.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Science, Glasses, Depth

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• In today's economy there are no experts, no 'best and brightest' with all the answers. It's up to each one of us. The only way to screw up is to not try anything.

  Tom Peters

  Trying, Experts, Screw Ups

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• Screw poetry, it’s you I want, your taste, rain on you, mouth on your skin.

  Margaret Atwood

  Rain, Skins, Mouths

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• Now, see, that's why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy...the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn't agree with you, all that's left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Idaho, People, Guy

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• I'm not a yeller. My theory is that no one goes out there trying to screw up.

  Amy Ruley

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• There are so many opportunities to make a bad decision in building a robot company on top of all the normal ways that entrepreneurs screw up that it is incredibly difficult to truly create value because it is so cost-sensitive.

  Colin Angle

  Opportunity, Entrepreneur, Decision

  "iRobot CEO: Enough with the gimmick 'bots (Q & A)". Interview with Martin Lamonica, www.cnet.com. November 4, 2011.

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