A Fine Mess Quotes

#1. Softly! Softly! I want none but the judges to hear me. The Jews have already gotten me into a fine mess, as they have many other gentleman. I have no desire to furnish further grist for their mills.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#2. The latter was considered a good fellow and a fine leader, until a year later, when he disappeared with a mess fund of eleven hundred dollars and, like so many leaders, proved exceedingly difficult to follow.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#3. Ewan McGregor stars as Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi, again doing a fine Alec Guinness impersonation but otherwise seeming lost and alone in the galaxy as the one actor attempting to give a real performance in this mess.

Stephanie Zacharek

#4. People are always saying that Hollywood messes up kids. I'm like, 'No, families mess up kids!' I grew up in Hollywood, and I'm perfectly fine. If my children want to go into the entertainment business, I won't stop them, as long as they're passionate about it.

Tori Spelling

#5. I will work with a director who has good material because at the end of the day, that's what counts.

Javier Bardem

#6. A lot of the time writers are just sponges ... for what's around them, and so books are helpful for focusing your mind and literally putting it into words.

Marcus Mumford

#7. The man who keeps busy helping the man below him won't have time to envy the man above him.

Henrietta Mears

#8. He quite liked the wizards. They didn't commit crimes. Not Vimes's type of crimes, anyway. The occult wasn't Vimes's beat. The wizards might well mess up the very fabric of time and space but they didn't lead to paperwork, and that was fine by Vimes. There

Terry Pratchett

#9. We all enter the world with fairly simple needs: to be protected, to be nurtured, to be loved unconditionally, and to belong.

Louise Hart

#10. You'll do fine if you have any strength at all, but listen to your Green angel and give yourself more exit points. You're in for some rude awakenings in battle, and young souls often retreat under fire. You'll end up trying to find a shortcut back home and that always makes a big mess.

Dawn Jayne

#11. The woman stared at the ruined body. Blood dripped from her arm. A fine spray of red covered her face
must've been cast off when she slammed down the cans. She wiped her face with her left forearm and kicked the stalker's corpse with her sneakered foot. Don't mess with Texas.

Ilona Andrews

#12. Another fine mess you've gotten me into.

Stan Laurel

#13. Strong feelings are fine; it's the overreactions that mess us up.

Albert Ellis

#14. People go through life blindly, ignoring death like revellers at a party feasting on fine foods. They ignore that later they will have to go to the toilet, so they do not bother to find out where there is one. When nature finally calls, they have no idea where to go and are in a mess.

Ajahn Chah

#15. I especially love all the instruments of art: inks, pens, paintbrushes, watercolors and oils, fine papers and canvases, and although I love to mess around with these tools and objects, I have minimal artistic skills.

Sharon Creech

#16. 'E.T.' began with me trying to write a story about my parents' divorce.

Steven Spielberg

#17. There was a certain beauty in the chaos, a certain order in the mess.

Sarah Fine

#18. I suddenly knew, in a way I'd never had before, what want meant, and why it was dangerous and greedy and huge.

Amy Lane

#19. It may sound like a mess, but sometimes mess can be okay, mess can be fine. Sometimes mess is just another word for living your life as real you, not someone else's version of what they think you should be.

Terence Blacker

#20. Like a button on a shirt buttoned wrong, every attempt to correct things led to yet another fine
not to say elegant
mess.

Haruki Murakami

#21. What kind of performance would your car deliver if every morning before you left for work you scooped up a double handful of dirt and put it into your crankcase? That fine engine would soon be a mess, unable to do what you want it to do.

David J. Schwartz

#22. Look before, or you'll find yourself behind.

Benjamin Franklin