Messed Quotes
271 Messed quotes by 226 unique authors
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That I learned even as a three year-old that I see this world that is really a mess and I learned to say, this is…
— Story Musgrave
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When I was born, they put casts on my legs 'cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.
— Bebe Neuwirth
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I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and…
— Randy Newman
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My concept of an advice giver had been a therapist or a know-it-all, and then I realized nobody listens to the know-it-alls. You turn to…
— Cheryl Strayed
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I do wish I could write like some of the American women, who can be clever and heartfelt and hopeful; people like Lorrie Moore and…
— Anne Enright
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The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying to create a…
— Tim Finn
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Down to my last dime and coming apart at the seams. I'm messed up in Mexico, living on refried dreams.
— Tim McGraw
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I have fallen, I have sunk so low. I have messed up, better I should know.
— Sarah McLachlan
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I sometimes try to write something that is actually really simple and I can't do it. So, then, it's not simple anymore. It's really hard…
— Sondre Lerche
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When you're writing for the New York Times someone reading it knows the topic better than you do and knows when you've messed up.
— David Plotz
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Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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When you're angry, you can't fight rationally. Your body chemistry is all messed up. Your energy goes to all the wrong places. You can't do…
— Frank Shamrock
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My father had wanted to be a commercial artist. He got as far as being a photographer in the army in World War II, but…
— David Salle
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We can’t change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.
— Guy Spier
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Because I've been that drunk person in the club so many thousands of times, when I'm in an environment where people are drunk or on…
— Unknown Author
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As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children…
— William Hague
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If carrots got you drunk, rabbits would be messed-up.
— Mitch Hedberg
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Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his or her wildest, most messed-up children -…
— Anne Lamott
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I am not writing to try and convert people to fundamental Christianity. I am just trying to share my experience, strength and hope, that someone…
— Anne Lamott
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I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
— Doris Lessing
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There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of…
— Jena Malone
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I want to let you in on a little secret: I don't always feel like I'm a success. That's right. There are plenty of times…
— Joyce Meyer
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No one leaves the edit room thinking, 'Yeah, I nailed that one!' Everyone I know goes into their first premiere or their first screening thinking,…
— Mike Mills
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I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most…
— Samantha Morton
Who Wrote These Messed Quotes
226 authors contributed a total of 271 Messed Quotes, led by these top contributors: