Cleaning Messes Quotes

#1. "Do you have any more surprise stowaways up your sleeve?" I ask Morpheus.
Pushing dents out of his hat, he scowls. "I'm starting to fear I didn't bring enough. If there's one thing netherlings are good at, it's cleaning messes."

A.G. Howard

#2. You can't feel the need to be liked in public life, because if you do you will compromise the principles that are so important to the public having confidence in your ethics and integrity.

Graeme Samuel

#3. Excuse the mess, but we live here.

Roseanne Barr

#4. I played for Santos at 16, and we had an excellent team, so it helped a lot. And then I played for Brazil at the Maracana against Argentina. So I get more experience. This was one year before the World Cup, and it made a lot of difference.

Pele

#5. See, my special gift is that I'm a mediator. I help guide the tortured souls of the newly dead to their afterlife destinations-wherever that happens to be-generally by cleaning up whatever messes they left behind when the croaked.

Meg Cabot

#6. Listen to your heart, it speaks, hear its words

Patricia Kay

#7. Melody's an F5 tornado, and I've easily settled into my roll of playing National Guard and cleaning up her messes.

J.M. Darhower

#8. Industrial opportunities are going to stem more from the biological sciences than from chemistry and physics. I see biology as being the greatest area of scientific breakthroughs in the next generation.

George E. Brown Jr.

#9. In his first term, President Barack Obama played a cautious manager navigating the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression and cleaning up the messes left by President George W. Bush in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Kevin O'Leary

#10. It was curious that he seemed not merely to have lost the power of expressing himself, but even forgotten what it was that he had originally intended to say.

George Orwell

#11. It would be nice if life weren't so messy, but that's just not the nature of things; we want things to be perfect, but most of the time we just spend our existence cleaning up the messes we make - and sometimes the messes of other people, people about whom we care most in the world.

Craig Johnson

#12. People come to my places to eat dinner with their friends, not with me.

Peter Morton

#13. I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations.

Terry Tempest Williams

#14. I live to play music, and hang out with my wife and kid, and hang out with my friends, and discover the world. Read books, watch movies, see art, see the world, meet new people.

Mark Hoppus

#15. I learned how to lend money by cleaning up the messes of others who had made loans before me.

John Stumpf

#16. I don't have many memories where I was truly happy. I lived for the day and got along the best I could. It's always been my way.

Raine Miller

#17. Probably the most important single element that I found in my own marriage was a sense of humor. My wife had a delicious sense of humor, and I think I have an adequate one.

Walter Cronkite

#18. All my books are accidental books - they come from reacting to things and thinking about things and engaging in a real way. They are not about, 'Oh, did it get a good review in the Guardian?' I don't care.

Arundhati Roy

#19. From time immemorial we've been cleaning up after male messes. When a man does it for a woman, it's called being rescued. When a woman does it for a man, it's housework.

Kate Meader

#20. I'm a ridiculous person. If you take anything any comedian says seriously, then you're stupid.

Chelsea Handler

#21. Life was a series of messes, and one spent one's time cleaning them up; if one had any heart at all one also gave a part of one's time to cleaning up those of other people.

Phyllis Bottome