Getting Screwed Quotes

#1. Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#2. my generation's screwed - we're not the immigrant experience, we're not the assimilation experience - we're the first nothing generation, we've got nothing to write about and no one to read it, everyone too busy getting technologized, too harried with degrees.

Joshua Cohen

#3. He smelled too good, he looked too good and it was just completely unfair. Villains were supposed to be ugly. Just another way I was getting screwed in this deal. My villain didn't even look like he was supposed to.

Donna Augustine

#4. The bungle tour is a bit up in the air due to the fact this at we are getting screwed by our overseas label.

Trevor Dunn

#5. I used to be sceptic, but not anymore, because now I am positive that I'm getting screwed.

Dennis Miller

#6. I need to know - " he broke off, a vulnerable expression crossing his face. "That is, I want to know whom you intend to choose.

Sabrina Jeffries

#7. Open the hurt locker and see what there is of knives and teeth.
Open the hurt locker and learn how rough men come hunting for souls.

Brian Turner

#8. Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.

Roberto Bolano

#9. I don't believe that just because one person is born on one side of some imaginary line and another person is born on the other side means that a lot of people should be getting screwed through no fault of their own.

Ben Cohen

#10. Even if we become glowing clouds of ectoplasm, there's going to be something we're competing for - and most of us will feel as though we're getting screwed.

Rudy Rucker

#11. Americans are not getting screwed by the Republican Party. They're getting screwed by the large corporations that bought and own the Republican Party.

Molly Ivins

#12. As I say the words, I realize how true they are. And maybe that's the trick to getting through it, through life: realizing that everybody, including ourselves, is lugging around some kind of screwed-up baggage. Maybe we are put here to help each other carry the loads.

Lisa Ann Sandell

#13. Fancy feathers make peacocks, but you pluck them and see what's left.

Catherine Cookson

#14. In my experience, what defines a crime depends on who's getting screwed.

Mark Frost

#15. If I've learned one thing in Spain, it's that we have to fight the Communists just as hard as the Fascists. They're both evil.

Ken Follett

#16. Women are wired to take on others' needs. Own your role in stress, establishing boundaries on what you can reasonably accomplish within your current bandwidth and reduce your stress load.

Sara Gottfried

#17. My name is Four," I say. "Call me 'Stiff' again and you and I will have a problem.

Veronica Roth

#18. Rigidity is the enemy of acting. And I think that people who stay up all night focusing on every beat they're going to do the next day always end up getting screwed.

Jay Baruchel

#19. Words have a life; without response they die.

Russell Hoban

#20. I grew up in Seattle, where there isn't a lot of sun.

Josie Bissett

#21. Life is all about seating and lighting.

Graydon Carter

#22. Even if one incurs a loss, he should expose this fact to the other person. This way the intent the other person does, will dispel the [negative] atoms and one will, become lighter himself. Otherwise suffering alone increases the mental burden.

Dada Bhagwan

#23. When a guy's getting screwed he's got a right to holler. And we've been damn well screwed.

Ken Kesey

#24. Stephen Hawking is getting a divorce. That's scary. If the smartest guy in the world can't figure out women, we're screwed.

Jay Leno

#25. If they stop loving, be grateful for that.

Frederick Lenz

#26. The teachers are getting screwed, blued, and tattooed by the system.

Kinky Friedman

#27. I sensed a mutual indifference behind polite smiles and had the overwhelming impression that, more and more frequently, I was watching people who didn't really know why they were living.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

#28. As human beings, we're born believing that we are the apex of creation, that we are invincible, that no problem exists that we cannot solve. But we inevitably die with all our beliefs broken.

Shaun David Hutchinson