Something deep within us drives accurate messiness into the neat channels of canonical stories. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
People are messy; therefore, relationships will be messy. Don't be surprised by messiness. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Educate yourself, welcome life's messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Grime is not like messiness or some fingerprints on a cabinet; it takes a long time to accumulate. — Roz Chast Copy Share Image
You need messiness and magic, serendipity and insanity. Creativity comes from time off, and time out. — Timothy Egan Copy Share Image
. . . the messiness of experience, that may be what we mean by life. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
I think the messiness and embodied nature of modern life just produces an enhanced signal for our attention. — Richard Davidson Copy Share Image
Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“As a general rule, I didn’t like guys who styled their hair like they just woke up. Messiness should never be a… — Veronica Rossi Copy Share Image
I always say that my artist statement is to not be afraid to talk about the messiness - the unpleasant feelings and… — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
The messiness [in my books] is nothing like an Atwood novel. For me, the deeper subjects are secrets versus intimacy, and how… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
We as beings are very contradictory, complicated creatures that work in our best interest and against our best interest. In a certain… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
Stop trying to distinguish the joy of meditation from the messiness of life. Begin to see the divine in everything. She is… — Rod Stryker Copy Share Image
Great sermon helped me to reflect on scape goats, forgiveness, revenge and the messiness of community. .. where I referenced this sermon.… — Bill Peterson Copy Share Image
God is erratic, sometimes vindictive, sometimes merciful. The people I was taught were heroes - Jacob or Moses or David - were… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Coming of age movies are like perfect recipes for messiness, because everything's happening for the first time in your body, in your… — Taylor Russell Copy Share Image
Nothing is ever perfect. You have to make compromises and sacrifices, and it won't always be as glamorous as the fairy tales… — Nicholas Galitzine Copy Share Image
“Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
I think the key to writing the truth of our existences, so much of this is being incubated online, is examining the… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
California seemed to me to be all about secrets and the need for safety. And this leads to this thematic messiness I'm… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
It's the messiness of life that ultimately leads you to the most interesting things. Everyone asks what you would do over, and… — Rachel McAdams Copy Share Image
The programmer, who needs clarity, who must talk all day to a machine that demands declarations, hunkers down into a low-grade annoyance.… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
Messy stuff irritates me. I don't like messiness. If you leave something around my house, I'll tell you to move it back,… — Russell Westbrook Copy Share Image
Everything okay?" Cam asked, placing his hand on my lower back. Concern pinched his brows. "Yes." I dropped my cell back into… — J. Lynn Copy Share Image
The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer. — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
“When you have a company of smart creatives, you can tolerate messiness.” — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
There is no control and perfection is arrogant. Practice messiness, letting go, and doing things badly. — Sark Copy Share Image
I've let a lot of my type A personality go. When you have a kid, the messiness doesn't matter anymore. — Tiffani Thiessen Copy Share Image
“Love the stale glitter on your tired face and the tangled bird’s nest you call hair. Love your wobbly messiness, bad grammar,… — Tanya Markul Copy Share Image
I like my messiness on stage, though I watch comics who come at a joke from every angle and I think, 'Yeah!… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
I often wonder whether real conversation in real time may eventually give way to these sanitized and easier screen dialogues, in much… — Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield Copy Share Image
I always say that my artist statement is to not be afraid to talk about the messiness - the unpleasant feelings and… — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
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