Top 100 Quotes About Mess
#1. I do have some leftover chicken and pasta. (Grace)
And wine? ... That's acceptable (Julian)
Look, buster, I'm not your cooking wench. Mess with me and I'll feed you Alpo. (Grace)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#2. Rollerball is an incoherent mess, a jumble of footage in search of plot, meaning, rhythm and sense. There are bright colors and quick movement on the screen, which we can watch as a visual pattern that, in entertainment value, falls somewhere between a kaleidoscope and a lava lamp.
Roger Ebert
#3. But then, you know, I'm very happy, I've got to this stage in my life and I'm not dead. I haven't got married and divorced and done all that palimony business, you know all that mess.
Michael Hutchence
#4. The Second Law of Thermodynamics: If you think things are in a mess now, just wait!
Jim Warner
#5. I hope there is such a thing. I guess it would be quite scary to find a soul mate when you're young because you're probably going to mess it up.
Robert Pattinson
#6. The biggest surprise was that a country like Angola, that has so much money, that produces so much oil, would be in such a mess and so difficult to travel in. Something is almost cursed in striking oil. It's like the lottery winner who ends up broke.
Paul Theroux
#7. Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.
John Cusack
#8. Look at yourself before you pass judgment. Don't make someone else clean up your mess.
Barack Obama
#9. It's time to impeach the president and get a man in there to get us out of this mess.
Bruce Springsteen
#10. If you mess with my friend, I will personally feed you to a great white shark.
Rick Riordan
#11. I think that's how love works. Sometimes it means doing the washing up when it's not your mess, and sometimes it's driving to the airport three times in one week to pick up a loved one, and sometimes it's all unexpected bears and possible surprise giraffes.
Jenny Lawson
#12. When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up.
Loretta Lynn
#13. Money can't buy happiness but it'll sure keep a mess of grief off your front porch.
James Lee Burke
#14. Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole world, is my responsibility.
Anne Lamott
#15. In sports as in child rearing, marital arguments, or tantrums, the same laws of learning apply; when an emotion is encouraged and the rules permit it, it is perpetuated, not 'drained.' ... An emotion without social rules of containment and expression is like an egg without a shell: a gooey mess ...
Carol Tavris
#16. The truth is, there is no line. There's only your life, how you mess it up, and who is there to save you.
Or who isn't.
Mitch Albom
#17. So I submit to you that what we represent is a Fifth Column, a Fifth Column that represents the best aspirations that human community is capable of, a Fifth Column that is willing to look at the structure of the psyche in contrast to the mess of society, and willing to dream.
Terence McKenna
#18. So just be normal," he says, "at least for today. Let's pretend I'm not a mess, let's pretend you're not angry. Let's act like we're friends and forget what happened." I don't want to pretend. I don't want to be friends. I don't want to forget. I am trying to remember.
E. Lockhart
#19. That's the thing about angry words - once you spill them out, they are like a broken jar of honey on the floor, all sticky and mess. And no matter how hard you try to clean it up, you can always feel that sticky part of the tile" -Cordie
Shelley Moore Thomas
#20. No one knows anything about economics. It's the great lie of the economists. By contrast in football people might have contrasting opinions, each of which has some validity. But the economists always speak in conditionals - what a mess.
Vicente Del Bosque
#21. The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much.
Warwick Davis
#22. To Severine, his expression was blank. Spotless and clean. She wondered what it'd be like to create a mess in his eyes, to leave an imprint.
Calia Read
#23. My mother wasn't controlling at all. She was a stabilizing force who grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania. Now it's the big circle game. Taking care of her is a great blessing for me. I'll tuck her into bed, kiss her on the cheek, wipe up the mess on her blouse from whatever she spilled.
Christine Ebersole
#24. The world is perfect. It's a mess. It has always been a mess. We are not going to change it.
Joseph Campbell
#25. If we go around clearing up our own mess and being positive about our own lifestyle, other people will start copying us and picking up their own carbon 'litter' too
Dave Hampton
#26. Time machine ... wouldn't you like to travel through time? I would. I'd go back ... mess with people. You know what I would do? I would go back to when my mom and dad were having sex, to have me. Ya'know, come in, spank my dad on the ass I'm your son from the future! Ahaha!
Dane Cook
#27. Nobody will mess with us, huh? Ever seen The Hills Have Eyes? The Chainsaw Massacre? Psycho!"
He laughed. "Yes, but I'll murder anyone who comes near you, do you hear me?" I nodded with a smirk.
Shelly Crane
#28. I'm the one who ran this whole mess into the jellyfish field.
Nicola Cameron
#29. Children are amazingly adaptable. What would be grotesquely abnormal became my normality in the prisoner of war camps. It became routine for me to line up three times a day to eat lousy food in a noisy mess hall. It became normal for me to go with my father to bathe in a mass shower.
George Takei
#30. christ alive we're abit of a mess arent we?
Dan Abnett
#31. Kids don't come with instructions. We all mess up. Raising a child is pure impromptu.
Harlan Coben
#32. It reminded me of a meat grinder. From when I was a kid. Going to school it felt like you were in a meat grinder. It chews you up and pours out this mess that can't function
Gerard Way
#33. My sister is a mess. I love her to death, but she is a mess.
RJ Mitte
#34. My mother comes in my room and says, "Just look at this mess! This is a pig sty!" Now, I've already been in the room five hours, and she wants me to LOOK at it.
Bill Cosby
#36. I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, how not to make a mess of it, has not yet been met.
Edsger Dijkstra
#37. Presidents tend to tinker, you know, and mess everything up.
Pat Paulsen
#38. Women's liberation by women who are already liberated through channels that would mess them up further
Nikhil Sharda
#39. Ma'am, please," the older man said, sparing a brief glance up at the heavens. "If I may, I would far prefer death by harpoon to death by grappling hook. Less of a mess for the men to clean up after, believe me.
Alexandra Bracken
#40. I'm such a Type A personality - when it comes to a road trip, I plan my food so far in advance. I roll hard with a cooler. I don't mess around. I want to avoid ending up eating fast food. I try to stay away from that.
Justin Timberlake
#41. Life is difficult for everyone; everyone has bad days. Everyone has trouble in their life, because it doesn't matter how rich you are: Sickness and trouble and worry and love, these things will mess with you at every level of life.
Domhnall Gleeson
#42. Unlike art, the making of home does not stay done. Every morning, every evening, the mess awaits us. The messy, hungry, beautiful world, wanting and needing our touch.
Rebecca McClanahan
#43. They changed the press conference, they are trying to change the time of the weigh-in. They are trying to mess with me, but what they don't realize is that they are only fueling me to bring more hurt.
David Haye
#44. The last thing a chef wants in a line cook is an innovator, somebody with ideas of his own who is going to mess around with the chef's recipes and presentations. Chefs require blind, near-fanatical loyalty, a strong back and an automaton-like consistency of execution under battlefield conditions.
Anthony Bourdain
#45. Listen, Tate. I want your mess. I want your clothes on my bedroom floor. I want your toothbrush in my bathroom. I want your shoes in my closet. I want your mediocre leftovers in my fridge.
Colleen Hoover
#46. China has, all of a sudden, found a way of putting the best of the best to work to build an economy that is growing at 10% to 12% per year, and now India is following. And those changes and how quickly they've come out of this mess, how little debt they have, is really important.
Juan Enriquez
#47. I was struck by the way in which meanings are historically attached to words: it is so accidental, so remote, so twisted. A word is like a schoolgirl's room
a complete mess
so the great thing is to make out a way of seeing it all as ordered, as right, as inferred and following.
William H Gass
#48. A short time after tidying, their space is a disorganized mess. The cause is not lack of skills but rather lack of awareness and the inability to make tidying a regular habit.
Marie Kondo
#49. And for all our sakes, tame that mess on top of your head. Use fire and a poleaxe if you have to.
Scott Lynch
#50. 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
#51. You've got to make it a good example for those kids regardless of how much you mess up.
Fantasia Barrino
#52. I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.
Shirley Manson
#53. Can't nobody [mess] with me. I'm like toilet paper, Pampers and toothpaste. I'm definitely proven to be effective.
Shaquille O'Neal
#54. I realize you're planning on fighting all the dragons single-handedly-"
"I'm going to protect you from John, dammit. Show him that he can't fucking mess with you. This is about territory."
Tom narrowed his eyes. "Are you going to piss a circle around me too?"
"If that's what it takes.
S.E. Jakes
#55. Never lose hope. Stay close to Allah and when you mess up, go back to Him. Never, ever stop going back to Him. Repent often. Cry to Allah. And hold on tight-with your life-to His remembrance and to prayer. If you do this, you may get wet, but insha Allah never drown in this ocean of dunya.
Yasmin Mogahed
#56. Perhaps if I'd arrived donned in a pair of trousers, with my hair in a tangled mess - a style you apparently prefer - you'd have shown me the courtesy of granting an interview before sending me away.
Karen Witemeyer
#57. He likes you. You like him, you're just scared. Well," she glanced over her shoulder and dropped her voice, "unless you tell me he's some freaky psycho-killer ... " I rolled my eyes and shook my head. "Then I'm not letting you mess this up for yourself. Your creepy hermit status is officially over.
A&E Kirk
#58. I wouldn't trade making love to you for anything in the world, but you made the choice to leave for a reason, and you made the right choice. You know that. You deserve better than my anger and hurt and mess. I want you to have better.
Elizabeth Finn
#59. When I'm winning, winning, winning with a certain way why would I mess with that? When I realised there was lot to be gained from failing in some people's eyes, it made it all the more interesting!
Bob Mould
#60. Aye.' It's a good word, I think. More a whole attitude than a word, really. With lots of meaning in it, too. A bit of 'yes' and a bit of 'well, fuck' and maybe some 'we're all in this mess together'. So, a word to sum up the Malazans.
Steven Erikson
#61. I am intimidated by that eyeliner in a pot. You have to take a brush and wet it and then dip it in and get it straight. It's just a mess.
Tyra Banks
#62. Cleanliness is very important. If you let kids make a total mess in the kitchen and then leave, you're not really teaching them anything.
Emeril Lagasse
#63. Each time I think there is no place lower to go, I find that there is at least one place that will mess you up worse than you were.
Walter Dean Myers
#64. I was a real mess at school. I got a bit of a reputation for being the weird girl: the girl who'd go silent randomly and just kind of write down replies to people's questions in a book.
Helen Oyeyemi
#65. With all her finesse for cleaning, Snag sometimes felt that her biggest contribution to mankind was making a mess of things.
Sere Prince Halverson
#66. I always love design but the more I designed for clients, the less I liked the process of designing for them. I do lettering and illustration for money, which clients don't mess with too much and web design for fun.
Jessica Hische
#67. Transformation helps us more clearly see Jesus. And when we more clearly see Him, we can more clearly see the miracle in our mess, the good in our difficulty, the redemption in rejection.
Lysa TerKeurst
#68. The whole political mess, the universal squalor, the essential pettiness of mankind oppressed him and he'd submerged himself in work and writing and books.
Laird Barron
#69. I mess up, a lot, but that's ok, nobody's perfect.
Selena Gomez
#70. The primary component upon which all else rests in a kingdom is the authority of the ruler. Without that, there is anarchy resulting in mess.
Tony Evans
#71. Annabelle, I'm going to kill you! I cried, frowning at the mess. Then I glanced down the stairway and gasped.
It looked like someone had beaten me to it.
Cleo Coyle
#73. you have to embrace forgiveness if you love someone. Everyone's going to mess up. Everyone's going to need grace. It works both ways.
Christy Barritt
#74. It is unfortunately true that our generation and that of your parents have left you with a big mess that will now be yours to clean up: wars, budget challenges, pollution, global warming, battles of health care, natural disasters. They're all there for you. We're willing those to you. Are you ready?
John Morgridge
#75. Write with your heart, not your head. Brains tend to ooze out of your ears and nose when things get intense. Then you're a mess.
Lori Lesko
#76. I believe in love and lust and sex and romance. I don't want everything to add up to some perfect equation. I want mess and chaos. I want someone to go crazy out of his mind for me. I want to feel passion and heat and sweat and madness. I want valenties and cupids and all of that crap. I WANT IT ALL
Barbra Streisand
#77. I can't sit through plays and musical theatre. I just want to run up onstage and mess up their hair and turn over the furniture.
Billy Bob Thornton
#79. Don't mess with me, lady. I've been drinking with skeletons.
Mike Mignola
#80. I didn't think about being king," he said, his voice hoarse.
Eddis stared. "Your capacity to land yourself in a mess because you didn't think first, Eugenides, will never cease to amaze me. What do you mean you didn't think about being king? Is Attolia going to marry you and move into my library?
Megan Whalen Turner
#81. It's amazing how kids can be brutalized into a mold in witch they it right back to the weaker one and never think of escaping from the whole filthy mess.
Rona Jaffe
#82. I take my hair, and I just play with it. I'll just take my hand, I'll mess with the front, and then I'll just pat it on the back, and that's it. I promise you, I don't use hair spray, I don't go crazy with products. I just wake up, flip it, and boom, I go bowling.
Blake Jenner
#83. I'm very conscious that I want the dance audience to respond and respect what I'm doing, so I'm always very true to the music and I honour the music in the way I see it - I don't mess around with the music.
Matthew Bourne
#84. He hugged her again, before she could put some distance between them. Then the most sneaky wolf in the den lowered his voice and whispered, But you've got an advantage, sweetheart. You're already in his head. And you know how to mess with it.
Nalini Singh
#85. Maybe we could learn a little lesson, maybe this all shine a little light, cause there's no healthy way to mess with the line between wrong and right.
Randy Travis
#86. Oh these mathematicians make me tired! When you ask them to work out a sum they take a piece of paper, cover it with rows of A's, B's, and X's and Y's ... scatter a mess of flyspecks over them, and then give you an answer that's all wrong!
Thomas A. Edison
#87. The mind that constantly wanders through the past is always a terrible mess.
Marwane Caber
#88. Every time you make a decision, you mess with someone's life.
Kevin James
#89. Nothing sounds better than being away from this mess. Nothing sounds better right now than getting higher than the hole I'm in.
Walter Dean Myers
#90. Whole part of the world is a mess under [Barack] Obama, with all the strength that you're talking about and all of the power of NATO.
Donald Trump
#91. I pick up my journal, mug, and granola bar wrapper, look up to the sky, and curse the God of Summer Vacations for getting me into this whole albatross-ditching, Sam-avoiding, aiding-and-abetting mess in the first place.
Sarah Ockler
#94. [H]istory viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians.
Dan Simmons
#95. Oliver Stone is a great director and I've seen many films over the years, but I try to create stuff out of my own imagination. I want to break all the rules and mess about with it and make a different movie just for the fun of it.
Anthony Hopkins
#96. I know I can cook, but the place where I cook ... it's a mess! I'm very disorganized.
Paula Deen
#97. What if I mess up?"
"Oh, you will. You'll mess up, you'll make mistakes, you'll break things. Some you'll be able to piece together, and others you'll lose. That's all a given. But there's only one thing you have to do for me."
"What's that?"
"Stay alive long enough to mess up again.
Victoria Schwab
#98. It is the mess that readers love. The fact that sometimes the people who love us the most aren't people we're related to, but people who join our family later. The book acknowledges how difficult family relationship are, and this fuss just proves it.
Kristine Grayson
#99. When you mess up publicly, it can be difficult to get vulnerable again or to put yourself out there.
Macklemore
#100. I don't think that Dreamworks would have signed me expecting to really mess around with whatever it is I do.
Elliott Smith
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