Screws Quotes - Page 8

• I can let you in, Eva. I’m trying. But your first response when I screw up is to run away. You do it every time and I can’t stand feeling like any moment I’m going to do or say something wrong and you’re going to bolt.

  Sylvia Day

  Running, Feelings, Trying

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.182, Penguin

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• With six weeks' worth of recuperation time, you'll also be able to see any glaring holes in the plot or character development. And listen--if you spot a few of these big holes, you are forbidden to feel depressed about them or to beat up on yourself. Screw-ups happen to the best of us.

  Stephen King

  Character, Screw Ups, Plot

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

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• Some people even think I wear a wig. Do they think I went into a salon one day and said, Can you please screw this up really bad?

  Carrot Top

  Thinking, People, One Day

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• That woman was sexy. . . . Out of your league? Son, let women figure out why they won't screw you. Don't do it for them.

  Justin Halpern

  Sexy, Son, League

  Justin Halpern (2010). “Sh*t My Dad Says”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• I got a job at an amusement park. I like to make the rides more terrifying by throwing a couple of screws onto the seats.

  Emo Philips

  Jobs, Couple, Amusement

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• One of the first things that you learn as a stand-up is, you're the boss. It's your stage, and don't screw with me because I'll make you look bad, which I had to do, because you wind up with drunks and loud people.

  Bob Newhart

  Wind, People, Boss

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• See, this was why I liked coffee. You couldn’t screw up making coffee. Even the bad stuff was good.

  Kim Harrison

  Coffee, Screw Ups, Stuff

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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, Screw Ups, Genius

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Apr 30, 2014

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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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• Always do business as if the person you're doing business with is trying to screw you, because he probably is. And if he's not, you can be pleasantly surprised.

  Steve Martin

  Trying, Screw You, Persons

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• When fans get very passionate about a movie, they just want you to do it well. They don't want you to screw it up. Their idea of doing it well might be different than yours, but ultimately, they really just don't want you to mess up the thing that they love.

  Nina Jacobson

  Ideas, Fans, Different

  "Producer Nina Jacobson Talks THE HUNGER GAMES, Sequels, the Violence, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 12, 2012.

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• Id rather get up early and go out and do something than stay up late and screw up my body.

  Mike Shinoda

  Up Early, Screw Ups, Body

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• I'm so organised. I never screw up. I've done it maybe twice before. I check my calendar seven times a day.

  Anna Paquin

  Screw Ups, Calendars, Done

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• Being under the microscope meant I was never given any slack. I still managed to screw up plenty in life, mind you, but in the things I really cared about - the legal work, or the stories I was telling as a writer, or the office I built in government - I wasn't left a lot of margin for error. It's kept me driven.

  Ronan Farrow

  Errors, Government, Office

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• Zuniga Hides the Evidence ... Like the craven coward he is, Markos Zuniga, rising young star of the Democrats, has now removed the page at Daily Kos where he wrote "Screw them" about the four Americans torn apart and hung from a bridge in Fallujah.

  Charles Foster Johnson

  Stars, Bridges, Coward

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• Their [Republicans] approach to a woman's body is the same as their approach to the economy: they have no idea how it works, but they're eager to screw with it anyway.

  Bill Maher

  Ideas, Body, Republican

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• Nobody can have your psychedelic experience for you; you just have to screw your courage up and raise the cup to your lips or smoke the pipe or whatever it is and face what's in there.

  Dennis McKenna

  Faces, Cups, Lips

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• Get good at being a troublemaker and saying sorry when you really screw up

  Tim Ferriss

  Sorry, Screw Ups, Troublemaker

  "The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich". Book by Timothy Ferriss, 2007.

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• If you have an idea that's going to make a big difference to people's lives, and other people are not doing it, you know, just say "screw it," do it and get on with it, and give it a go.

  Richard Branson

  Ideas, Differences, People

  "Sir Richard Branson: The full interview". "Marketplace" with Jeremy Hobson, www.marketplace.org. April 27, 2012.

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• Every person I talk to has a story about how their smoke alarm went off or woke them up with a battery beeping. So you take it off the wall and you take the battery out and say screw this. They hate the products.

  Tony Fadell

  Wall, Hate, Alarms

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• I talk very slow. I move very slow. I definitely have that Southern drawl and although I never necessarily participated in the activities that go along with screw. I definitely was a huge fan of screw. Because melodically, I don't ever really sing very staccato or very fast. It's really about a groove; it's really about a vibe.

  Solange Knowles

  Moving, Southern Drawl, Fans

  "Solange Knowles On Nas, Juvenile And Dance Moves". Interview with Frannie Kelley, www.wbur.org. February 12, 2014.

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• Here! 'Not thread nor glue, not nails nor screws, will ever self and shadow wed.' Helpful, those poet-types. Perhaps this one: 'Seek the grimy queen of dread machines, if you your errant shadow miss.' Now that's quite good! As a Prophetic Utterance, Third Class (Vague Hints and Mysterious Signs), you couldn't ask for better. It's downright plain-spoken!

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Queens, Self, Class

  Catherynne M. Valente (2012). “The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There”, p.202, Macmillan

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• I've certainly had to bite my tongue on occasion and live to fight another day, so to speak, on certain things. But when you're new and fresh, you come out and think, 'I don't want to screw my chance up, so I'll go along with what everybody else does.'

  Joe Nichols

  Fighting, Thinking, Doe

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• I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.

  Dan Byrd

  Responsibility, People, Littles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Letter-writing I imagine is counted as 'work' from which you must abstain, and I scribble this letter simply from the self-satisfied notion that you will like to hear from me. You see, I have asked no questions, which are the torture-screws of correspondence. Hence you have nothing to answer.

  George Eliot

  Writing, Self, Answers

  George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.671

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