Mess Quotes

It's by your own actions you're able to get more in a mess or out of one. It's your own actions that relieve or bind you.

We should be long past applauding politicians of any hue: they got us into this mess. The best deserve a probationary opportunity to prove themselves, the worst should be in jail.

I have so many books to write now. So I'll write from home. Sometimes I'm writing in the office too, in my cubicle. It looks like a mess. It doesn't look like anybody uses the spot.

The United Nations is a mess, riddled with scandals. In fact, the U.N. itself is a scandal.

Lately, my mind is like an orchestra. If you don't have the conductor, you don't know what to do. One guy is playing jazz, one guy is playing rock and roll, another classical. It's a big mess.

For me, a breakup changed my entire life. I was a mess. I really got rocked, and I ended up turning it into a positive thing.

Sometime female characters, especially in the genre of something that people consider rom-com, make mistakes in a cute way or they're a mess in a way that's palatable. I like that.

I cannot function if there is a physical mess around me. If everything is falling apart, I go on a cleaning frenzy.

I had the perfect accident for the perfect idea. I was rendered immobile where the only thing I could do is mess with my computer.

Writing is making a mess, and then working and reworking to create a beautiful piece.

When I first met my girlfriend, I was super intimidated. I wanted to impress her. I was thinking, Don't mess this up, man. You've gotta play your cards exactly right.

Have you ever heard the expression 'one hot mess?' I think the term was custom-made for the mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford.

"Don't you have a religion?" Dorolow asked Horza. "Yes," he replied, not taking his eyes away from the screen on the wall above the end of the main mess-room table. "My survival."

I pray thee, sir, forgive me for the mess/And whether I shot first, I'll not confess. - Han Solo

Lessons cut short to prep for tests that only test how well you prep. ...Man, no wonder why the score's a mess.

No matter what federal program one selects - Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the drug war, the income tax and the IRS, education, foreign interventions and wars - they are all a giant mess.

Everyone's life is a mess. Everyone's. We all make mistakes . . . and not just little slip-ups. Major mistakes that hurt us and other people.

You better not mess with chimps. They are much stronger than humans.

I'm proud of my wrinkles. They give my face character. As an actress, you mess with that at your peril.

You're a magnet for mess. I've never seen anything like it. Lula to Stephanie

Look, I play all these tough guys and thugs and strong, complex characters. In real life, I am a cringing, neurotic Jewish mess. Can't I for once play that on stage?

It was a lot easier when we could just brand'em," Ben said. "Then everybody'd know not to mess with our womenfolk.

That’s not a father. That’s a sperm donor. Forget him. He’s a mess. Concentrate on me. I’m terrific. (Linc Blaise)

Mommy. It's just the one thing you don't want to mess up.

We [in my family] don't like to mess around and talk about our problems or complain, it's just not anything that we do.

Well this is just a fist. But when I start throwing it around I can leave one hell of a mess.

Social Security mess is another failed progressive policy.

Leave it to a man to mess things up

He (Frank Robinson as Manager) can step on your shoes, but he doesn't mess up your shine.

This is a f***ing mess," I said tactfully.

There's no better way to mess up a good cowdog than to let him discover that goofing off beats the heck out of hard work.

The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless.

Things have been a mess for so many years that trying to pin down a starting point is like trying to figure out where your skin starts.

Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like 'knight.'

After all, nothing helps to write lyrics more than to mess around with the language.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

Do I look like a mess?” she asked. He nodded. “But you’re my mess,” he whispered.

My music - that's the one area I won't let myself be pushed around. But in other parts of my life, I'm a confused mess.

Doing interviews can sometimes mess up my head. It makes me feel dirty. It's frustrating how the press recycles a quote to death.

Human relations, I mess them up, and they let me down.

The fuzzy boundary lines between different readership ages have always puzzled me, so these days I just write what comes, and assume I can fix the mess later with an editor's help.

There's an expression: Great is the enemy of the good. Sometimes in trying to be great, you make a mess of things.

I love The Golden Girls. I've watched recently, and it's sort of insane there's a chef that they're always referring to as "fancy" - the pilot's kind of a mess.

Sometimes everyone does the right thing and there's still a mess left to clean up. Someone has to take responsibility for it.

When I warm up now though—especially on center court—there is usually music playing, so I don't really mess with music.

Mess with my weed again and I’ll be informing Daddy that there was an early casualty on the mission.” I saw him wince at my designation for Mircea and grinned.

It's my job to turn my mess [life] into a message and never regret a day of my life.

Better he learns now that if you mess with people, you might get messed with in return.

God help anyone who messes with the Virals!

At first when you start a company, everything's gonna feel like a mess and it really should. It should feel like everyday there's a new problem, and what you're doing is fundamentally triaging.