Messy Quotes
293 Messy quotes by 246 unique authors
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Everything okay?" Cam asked, placing his hand on my lower back. Concern pinched his brows. "Yes." I dropped my cell back into my bag. Everything…
— Unknown Author
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Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.
— Khaled Hosseini
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Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you’ve got to…
— Patrick Ness
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I'm almost thirty and my day job is folding shirts at the Gap. Have you seen my room? I'm not messy. I'm rebelling against folding.
— Tiffanie DeBartolo
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I don't have to be perfect. All I have to do is show up and enjoy the messy, imperfect and beautiful journey of my life.
— Kerry Washington
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History is tangled, messy, contradictory. But is where we are.
— Eamon Duffy
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Honest hope has an edge. It's messy. It requires that we let go of all pat answers, all preconceived formulas, all confidence that our sailing…
— Frances Moore Lappé
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A hypothesis or theory is clear, decisive, and positive, but it is believed by no one but the man who created it. Experimental findings, on…
— Harlow Shapley
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[B]inary opposites fit nicely the formulation of history as written, but they do little to capture the messy, inchoate reality of history as lived.
— Ira Berlin
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The world is noisy and messy. You need to deal with the noise and uncertainty.
— Daphne Koller
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A messy participatory process is representative democracy at its best.
— Mark McKinnon
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My big thesis is that although the world looks messy and chaotic, if you translate it into the world of numbers and shapes, patterns emerge…
— Marcus du Sautoy
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Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life.
— Simon Beaufoy
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Really, life is full of contradictions. Life is messy.
— Tim Blake Nelson
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My filing system is messy but orderly.
— Tony Benn
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Not all single women want to be married. Not all boys like football. Not all homemakers like to cook. Not all messy people are lazy.…
— John Piper
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My workspace is a white room with a big computer monitor and a light box. It can be very messy. Sometimes I get into trouble…
— Catherine Martin
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I like the idea of a place that is dealing with painful, messy, frightening, and very human events that is also so beautiful and ethereal.
— Aimee Bender
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I like messy. What fun is tidy?
— Dasha Zhukova
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In the scope of a happy life, a messy desk or an overstuffed coat closet is a trivial thing, yet I find - and I…
— Gretchen Rubin
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Biological diversity is messy. It walks, it crawls, it swims, it swoops, it buzzes. But extinction is silent, and it has no voice other than…
— Paul Hawken
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
— Jack Davenport
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The innovative process is a fragile one, dependent on a complex, often messy interplay of imagination, competition, and exchange. Curbing new ideas hurts not only…
— Virginia Postrel
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The history of the Internet is not, as some people have tried to make it, a libertarian just-so story. It is a messy tale in…
— Virginia Postrel
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With the likely nominations of Barack Obama by the Democrats and John McCain by the Republicans, one of these two parties is headed for a…
— Chuck Todd
Who Wrote These Messy Quotes
246 authors contributed a total of 293 Messy Quotes, led by these top contributors: