Quotes About Messing Around

#1. I couldn't be messing around and acting like an 11-year-old if we expected to compete well. I wanted to compete well, because it was great to see the looks in the eyes of men-like, "Wow, I am having a hard time beating this kid."

Karch Kiraly

#2. If there's a supernatural agent that is working in the natural world, then the idealized conditions described by the law are no longer in effect. The law isn't violated because the law has this implicit provision that nothing is messing around with the conditions.

William Lane Craig

#3. I was listening to a lot of math rock-y type bands do lots of complex stuff and I couldn't figure out how they were doing it. Then I realized that sometimes they were finger tapping, so I started messing around doing it.

Marnie Stern

#4. Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand? I'm going out to find my woman, caught her messing around with another man.

Jimi Hendrix

#5. Well, no. I was getting into trouble messing around with it for roles. So one night I went home, cut it down with a pair of scissors and then got in the bath and shaved it all off. I've never looked back.

Richard O'Brien

#6. I just feel like a kid that has some money now, that can take care of my family ... I think I'll always be a kid. I'm always messing around, always running around, always trying to have a good time.

Billy Horschel

#7. We're like a two-year old playing with fire ... we're messing around with something really dangerous and don't really understand what will happen.

William F. Laurance

#8. It's always fun messing around with costumes and stuff. You know there is an element of acting that you've got to dress-up; that's part of it.

Gina Bellman

#9. In closing, I'm not going to try to warn you about the dangers of messing around with the paranormal. I know it won't do any good. Most people (And I speak of myself here too.) have to have that proverbial brick to hit them in the

Melissa George

#10. I've been messing around in the studio the last couple of years. But I don't want to worry about being taken seriously as a singer. It just really feels good to do it.

Rebecca Romijn

#11. Maybe we'll admit this thing we have is perfect, not worth messing around with. And stay together forever. If you're interested, that is."
She glanced away. "I could think about that."
He buried his face in her neck. "Think fast

Robyn Carr

#12. It's incredible, but I think a lot of people it shot over their heads 'cause they're used to just getting images and messing around with them, and for us to do something quite so 'designed' was a bit of a shock.

Sean Booth

#13. If you are messing around all day and then scream for certainty, you're not going to get it. If you spend energy and do the work and develop that certainty, you'll get to where you need to be, even if you don't know exactly where that is.

Yehuda Berg

#14. There are certain songs that are sacred. People want to hear them just as they are in their head; they don't want you messing around with them. And then there are some other songs, if they've been around a long time in our set list, that I think we can take some creative liberties with.

Keith Urban

#15. I went backwards and forwards over it until I was 22. And then in the past few years I began to say to myself, OK, look, I'm not messing around. This is something I want to attack, instead of thinking, I'll just see what happens with it.

Christian Bale

#16. Are you sure I can't mend a shirt or darn a sock for you in trade? Anything?"
"You can quit your yammerin' and carry this table downstairs so I can get back to minding my own business instead of messing around in yours.

Karen Witemeyer

#17. I was messing around with the harmonica ... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.

Muddy Waters

#18. Sometimes God picks you up and tells you, "You've been messing around now. You're going to have to stop this, stop that, but I'll give you another chance." And you wonder why you're given another chance. It must be for something; it must be to celebrate life.

Martin Scorsese

#19. We're not messing around tonight, I informed him as we reached the main road.
I never mess around. I'm all business in the sack.

Cara McKenna

#20. But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music.

John Cena

#21. When life throws you a curve ball just give up, no need messing around with that off speed shit

Bradley Bowman

#22. No more messing around with Hell. They play for keeps.' 'So does Heaven.

Jana Oliver

#23. I think a lot of people learn to code messing around with things while in secondary school. And for me, it started up as a hobby and a plaything, and I just became more curious over time.

John Collison

#24. I've just been away for a week, and I dropped my BlackBerry in the sea while I was messing around with the kids, so no one can reach me. Blissful. I heartily recommend it.

Nick Clegg

#25. One thing I've learned in my brief career: It's the side projects that really take off. By side projects I mean the stuff that you thought was just messing around. Stuff that's just play. That's actually the good stuff. That's when the magic happens.

Austin Kleon

#26. I admit to wasting my life messing around with fast cars and motorcycles.

Brock Yates

#27. It was one thing to talk about ghosts, quite another to have them messing around with things in the physical world.

Hunter Shea

#28. And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.

Bill Bruford

#29. When you're on an ensemble show and you're messing around with everybody every day and you're not in every scene, and then all of a sudden you're in every scene, it's rough.

Paget Brewster

#30. I grew up loving films and making stupid movies with a good friend of mine, who now actually has a career in a really prominent special effects house, so he's still doing it. We just started messing around with a camera.

D.J. Cotrona

#31. While you're sleeping, traveling, attending meetings, or messing around online, the same thing is happening to you. You're going soft. You're not aggressive enough. You're not pressing ahead.

Ryan Holiday

#32. I took a correspondence course with a guy at Ohio University. He gave me ten exercises, and one of them resulted in the story "Bactine." It pleased me a lot more than anything else I'd ever done, so I kept messing around and by the time I got to Ohio State I'd written maybe eight stories.

Donald Ray Pollock

#33. We had fun just messing around and being awkward like they would be awkward. There's always that stage in a friendship when you wonder whether it could be more.

Emma Watson

#34. I like the idea of it as a trickster motif. You know like you're kind of just messing around with people's memories of songs.

DJ Spooky

#35. I make make music in my own time, messing around with beats and riffs I write. Always practicing performing in my room most times I probably look like an idiot dancing around haha.

Christina Grimmie

#36. As a rule, I do not approve of messing around with coffee. No sugar, no milk, no chocolate, hazelnuts, cinnamon, no nothing ... Just drink it black, the way God does

Klay Thompson

#37. I just don't want anyone messing around with my pure smoking pleasure.

Max Cannon

#38. The techie was still going. Now I want to know what else the dude did while he was messing around in there, right? So I do a scan for any other stuff that was deleted around the same time. And guess what pops up? The entire Outlook PST file. Nuked. At four eleven in the A.M.

Tana French

#39. I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.

Shia Labeouf

#40. I thought the whole idea of being a conservative was to keep the government from messing around in people's lives. And yet they say the government should be getting into people's families. That's messing pretty heavily where I come from.

Edward Zigler

#41. I'm not messing around with nobody's woman. If I want a woman I go get her - you know what I mean?

Miles Davis

#42. What are you boys doing?" she asks, as if we're still little kids messing around.
"Arguin'," Carlos says matter-of-factly.

Simone Elkeles

#43. So, in other words, we tore our world apart to get rid of these gods. And they were very bad gods, right?' I say, just to be clear. 'Not just messing around and having funsies with their adoring followers but truly wicked and vile?

Liz De Jager

#44. He still had the problem with getting the album finished. Now was definitely not the time to be messing around with a reporter or a woman. And now he had both those things rolled into one glorious package. He just hoped he survived them both.

Samantha Chase

#45. A kiss? A fucking kiss got me tortured to within the last inch of sanity? Maybe you could have laid out the rules for messing around with you? You know, before I did that? (Arik to Limos)

Larissa Ione

#46. What did I tell you about messing around with my old stuff?

Zade Ryar

#47. Relax, Salazar. I'm just messing around. Besides, I have my eye on somebody right now."
"Who?" Danielle and Colt said at the same time.
"That's on a need-to-know basis," Oz said, "and right now neither one of you needs to know.

Jon S. Lewis

#48. You can't go messing around with people's hearts. It never ends well, no matter how good your intentions might be -Daniel

Amanda Hocking

#49. You need to play to your strengths as a couple. Sharing is really awesome when you're messing around with Play-Doh in kindergarten. It's less awesome when you're adults and one of you is good at something and the other person sucks at it. So just let the more skilled person take the reins.

Peter Scott

#50. I'm really glad that I spent my twenties messing around and having disaster after disaster - with people who were doing likewise - because it's really my greatest treasure now.

Chuck Palahniuk

#51. I got to learn what does and doesn't work on screen. Because the turnaround is so fast, there's no messing around. You have to be on the ball.

Rhys Wakefield

#52. There is one thing above all others that I despise. It is fingers, especially female fingers, messing around in my guts. My guts, like Victorian marriage, are private.

Wallace Stegner

#53. When you're in love, it's not just about the messing around in the sack, it's about how empty you feel when they're gone.

Ozzy Osbourne

#54. Live stand-up is my thing. I love being on stage and just messing around.

Jack Whitehall

#55. Are you guys seriously messing around with real weapons?" she exclaimed. "It's like you want Darwin Awards!"

Tom flushed, and set his gun back on its hook. "It's not like we were going to start a dynastic war or something."

"Yeah," Vik said guiltily, returning his own weapon.

S.J. Kincaid

#56. I love physics because it is about truth, a world determined by principles and laws - no messing around or twisting things like in politics, particularly those in my country.

Malala Yousafzai

#57. The thing with Ridley [Scott] is he's been doing this forever, he knows what it is he wants and how to get it. There's absolutely no messing around on set. Having said that, he's very accessible to actors, very open to what you want to do and willing to t.

Orlando Bloom

#58. Henry looks from my face back to the field, and his eyes pop open wide. I turn to see why he's gaping: JJ and Carter are messing around, trying
to shove a scrawny wide receiver into Jerry Rice's stroller.
"JJ!" Henry yells, "You can't fit a freshman in that stroller.

Miranda Kenneally

#59. 'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.

Adam Levine

#60. Drugs?"
"Rituals. Are you messing around with drugs?"
"No. But maybe rituals."
"Drugs might be better.

Maggie Stiefvater

#61. he had never imagined she would leave him for messing around with girls he would never have married and didn't love.

Dorothy Allison

#62. I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.

Otis Rush

#63. Ito and colleagues (2009) describe an interest trajectory for creating digital artifacts that graduate from hanging out and messing around to "geeking out." When

Daniel L. Schwartz

#64. The more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. The instrument itself became important to me, and I started messing around with classical guitar and took classical lessons.

Alex Lifeson

#65. I know what I look like. I'm not a babe who's automatically going to be the leading-lady type. I think I would always be cast as the friend. I probably tend to look crap more often than I look good. I like messing around and pulling funny faces and doing funny walks.

Ashley Jensen

#66. The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.

Rick Moody

#67. When I'm kissing someone, I don't want to feel as though I'm rubbing off all the makeup that's on their face or messing things around. I think natural is better.

Chris Pine

#68. I was three years old. I was messing with my grandparents' dog in Las Vegas, and he decided to pick me up by my head and run around the backyard with me.

Brian Austin Green

#69. How dreadful it is that because of our wills we can never love anything without messing it around! We couldn't even love a tree, a stone even; for sooner or later we should be pruning the tree or chipping a bit off the stone.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#70. I'm very proud of my area around the plate. I don't want anyone messing with my dirt.

Jorge Posada

#71. You can't keep messing me around like this. It's been going on too long. I can't take it anymore. I get sick every time you come around. Then I get sick when you leave. You're like a disease to me.

Sam Shepard

#72. It's hard enough bein' people as it is, without other people coming and messin' you around.

Terry Pratchett

#73. I like messing up the song, doing some improvisation. And I like running around the room with the mic.

Erika M. Anderson

#74. You shouldn't be around me anymore. You shouldn't want to, Lex. Because all I see when I look at you is the woman I love, the woman I want to take home with me, the woman who I've spent damn near ten years messing things up with. And you should stay away because I know I'd do it all over again.

K.A. Linde

#75. I knew I was playing with fire messing with J-Boy while I was still fuckin' around with Trinidad. Although Trinidad was still with my sister, he'd made it clear that he claimed my ass as his.

Porscha Sterling

#76. The hot air wrapped me up like a blanket, curling around my body and making me want to hang my tongue out like a dog. And then spray it with water. From a fire hose. On full blast. I don't know, I think the heat was messing with my mind. It

Robert J. Crane