Screws Quotes - Page 5

• There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Writing, Ideas, Brilliant

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• What one wants to do with stories is screw them up.

  William H. Gass

  Stories, Crafts, Want

  William H. Gass (1997). “Finding a Form: Essays”, p.46, Cornell University Press

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• If your gonna screw up, do it while you're young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back.

  Winston Groom

  Growing Up, Screw Ups, Young

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• When you can dump a load of bricks on a corner lot, and let me watch them arrange themselves into a house - when you can empty a handful of springs and wheels and screws on my desk, and let me see them gather themselves together into a watch - it will be easier for me to believe that all these thousands of worlds could have been created, balanced, and set to moving in their separate orbits, all without any directing intelligence at all.

  Bruce Barton

  Spring, Believe, Moving

  Masonic News, Volume 8, p. 181, 1927.

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• Google's a strange place. When I met Eric Schmidt, he said, "If you are kind to everybody, then you will make good decisions because people will give you good information, and if you are truthful to everybody, they will be truthful to you." That's what's different about Google. They screw up and make mistakes, but they genuinely mean the good stuff about "don't be evil."

  Larry Brilliant

  Integrity, Mistake, Mean

  "Feeling Lucky". Interview with Evan Ratliff, www.wired.com. July 1, 2006.

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• Assumption is the mother of the screw-up.

  Angelo Donghia

  Mother, Boxing, Screw Ups

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• Back then I said to myself 'screw football.' Actually I just took part in this camp as there was nothing better for me to do. They also didn't draft me because they thought I was too wild and undisciplined.

  Ed O'Neill

  Football, Undisciplined, Said

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• Snow always inspires such awe in me. Just consider one tiny snowflake alone, so delicate, so fragile, so ethereal. And yet, let a billion of them come together through the majestic force of nature, they can screw up a whole city.

  Betty White

  Cities, Snow, Inspire

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• If [Bush's] successors don't screw it up, within 10 years NASA will have us back to where we belong -- on other worlds.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Years, Other Worlds, Nasa

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• I think it has sullied his presidency. As brilliant a politician as Bill Clinton is, as magnetic a personality as he can be, there is one little screw loose somewhere.

  Morley Safer

  Thinking, Personality, Littles

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• I have to tell you, I'm not like Demi Moore, where the tears trickle prettily down my cheeks. My whole face screws up and it's like, Oh please, get a room.

  Jennifer Tilly

  Tears, Screw Ups, Rooms

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• I hear loads of cynics saying that I'll never be able to change anything. They say that junk food marketing and the ready availability of fast food is just too powerful. But I'd say in response, screw you. I know that most people, if they're really honest, are fed up with the same old rubbish

  Jamie Oliver

  Powerful, Availability, People

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• I learned that you should breath it in, breath your life in and enjoy it. Always be optimistic and be nice to people, open to people. Follow your dreams but make sure that you know what your dreams are. If you find something really great, don’t screw it up, don’t mess it up but hang on to it. You never know how and when it ends

  Stana Katic

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

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• I think people would be suprised at how much we curse when we screw up. I'm like somebody with Tourette's Syndrome.

  George Eads

  Thinking, People, Screw Ups

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

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• Actors tend to get in their own way, a lot. A lot of times you will do things that will screw up your audition process. I was very bad at auditioning, and I always went in to it saying ‘God I hope I don’t screw this up.’ But at the same time, the directors are saying, ‘God, I hope this person is the savior.’ You have to remember is that the worst thing that could happen is you don’t get the job you don’t already have.

  George Clooney

  Jobs, Actors, Way

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• There are guys who want to screw around all the time, which interests me not at all. God knows we've done that, been there, and we don't want to do that any more.

  Lauren Bacall

  Guy, Done, Want

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• I don't have a computer - I don't like to get into it that much 'cause it can screw with your head a little.

  James Marsters

  Littles, Causes, Computer

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

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• I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a great deal of respect for all of them, otherwise I wouldn't do them. And I don't want to screw them by not portraying them honestly.

  Kyra Sedgwick

  Respect, Real, Character

  "Kyra Sedgwick Talks The Woodsman". movieweb.com. December 23, 2004.

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• Those who do remember it will find new ways to screw it up.

  Charles Wolfe

  Past, Way, Remember

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• I might screw up, I might embarrass you, I might yell at you, but I will never, ever stop loving you. You're my first born. The first time I held you... I fell in love so hard it cracked my bones.

  Kristin Hannah

  Loving You, Screw Ups, Might

  Kristin Hannah (2012). “Home Front: A Novel”, p.431, Macmillan

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• Of course I've got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons, I've got em 'cause everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up.

  Danny DeVito

  Nuclear, Ems, Use

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• It can kind of screw up things if you're trying to overwork something.

  Jeff Bridges

  Trying, Screw Ups, Kind

  "Jeff Bridges Abides". Interview with Tim McDonnell, www.motherjones.com. November, 2011.

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• I didn't have a teenage or early-20s experience that was free and without worry. I missed the screw-everything, have-a-good-time phase.

  Sandra Bullock

  Teenage, Worry, Phases

  "Sandra Bullock: Congenial, but oh so ambitious" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2010.

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

  Neil Cavuto

  Screw Ups, Literature, Littles

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• I don't want to analyze myself or anything, but I think, in fact I know this to be true, that I enter the world through what I write. I grew up believing, and continue to believe, that I am a screw-up, that growing up with my family and friends, I had nothing to offer in any conversation. But when I started writing, suddenly there was something that I brought to the party that was at a high-enough level.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Growing Up, Party, Believe

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