Messy Quotes
293 quotes by 264 authors
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd never win painting…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the…
— Zygmunt Bauman
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Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be…
— Harlan Coben
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I took biology in high school and didn't like it at all. It was focused on memorization. ... I didn't appreciate that biology also had…
— Francis Collins
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Like life, basketball is messy and unpredictable. It has its way with you, no matter how hard you try to control it. The trick is…
— Phil Jackson
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Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.
— Hugh Mackay
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Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Honor your humanness and all of your feelings - the messy ones, the growing pains, the ache - because we can't have the dark without…
— Sabrina Ward Harrison
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What I think is coming instead are much more organic ways of organizing information than our current categorization schemes allow, based on two units -…
— Clay Shirky
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The more I look around and listen I realize that I'm not alone. We are all facing choices that define us. No choice. However messy…
— Sabrina Ward Harrison
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I would be a liar if I said I don't care [about my appearance]; yes, I care. I found it very difficult, when I first…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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A messy house is a must - it separates your true friends from other friends. Real friends are there to visit you not your house!
— Jennifer Wilson
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Live life messy and love every moment of it.
— Ashley Smith
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I've always thought that a lot of really good writers go wrong by getting so into the craft and the technique and perfection. Perfection can…
— Patterson Hood
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You can’t understand light unless you understand darkness, because that’s where life is most often lived – somewhere between the two. It’s messy and it’s…
— Bebo Norman
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That's creativity in a nutshell. A messy tug-of-war with imagination to erase that feeling that nothing really matters anyway.
— Zoe Whittall
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Flowers are the fastest way to a woman's heart. Well, actually, the fastest way is through her rib cage, but flowers are a lot less…
— Eddie Murphy
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I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every…
— Dakota Fanning
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Bernard Williams has been a distinctive presence on the intellectual scene for more than three decades. . . . His writings do not offer the…
— Colin McGinn
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A woman who can eat a real bruschetta is a woman you can love and who can love you. Someone who pushes the thing away…
— Nick Harkaway
Who Wrote These Messy Quotes
264 authors contributed a total of 293 Messy Quotes, led by these top contributors: