Quotes About Screwed Up

#1. My dad used to say that life's a journey, but somebody screwed up and lost the map.

Rachel Caine

#2. When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.

Dimebag Darrell

#3. There are so few true villains, just other screwed-up people who pass the damage on.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#4. I personally believe a crucial ingredient in rehabilitation is to admit that you completely screwed up.

Jonathan Aitken

#5. Medical costs are soaring because our health-care system is totally screwed up. Doctors and hospitals have every incentive to spend on unnecessary tests, drugs, and procedures.

Robert Reich

#6. More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor.

John W. Vessey Jr.

#7. Something got screwed up in terms of your priorities if you think it's more important to get rid of the dividend tax than it is to take care of 11 million kids.

David Broder

#8. Listen cousin, the way things are supposed to work out, one day the struggles of all you screwed up little underdogs will forge a permanent rainbow that'll encircle this entire earth, I should live so long.

John Nichols

#9. Yes, everything's just fine.
It's all perfectly fine.
Except for one thing: it's all screwed up.

Fernando Pessoa

#10. Were really screwed up, aren't we?"
"In a very large way.

Janet Evanovich

#11. I can't imagine that anybody is as screwed up as I am.

Rick Springfield

#12. We're all flawed, but basically, effective managers are people whose flaws are not fatal under the circumstances. Maybe the best managers are simply ordinary, healthy people who aren't too screwed up.

Henry Mintzberg

#13. You have blundered into an adult existence you don't understand, and you can't tell whether you planned it this way or whether you screwed up big-time, though it's too late either way.

Rob Sheffield

#14. You know your life is completely screwed up when you have to look up the mythological figures who talk to you in the bathroom mirror.

Maurissa Guibord

#15. Imagining you are going to die is all part of that third brain ... the neo-cortex. That's where the Landlord really screwed up.

Richard Finney

#16. I have a roommate, and I signed a year lease. I screwed up! That's like I wrote a joke that didn't work, but now I have to tell it for a year.

Mitch Hedberg

#17. The thing about this job is people go to psychiatrists and pay them $60, $70 an hour to tell them all their screwed-up fantasies, and I write mine down and people pay me. That's just how I roll.

Stephen King

#18. The future sometimes looms like a monster, a horrible scary one with teeth and claws.It's hard to plan your life when all the news talks about is how screwed up the world's become.

Ann Aguirre

#19. This is so screwed up, they should fire somebody, even if it's the wrong guy.

Gary Hansen

#20. Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together. They are much more like you than you would believe. So try not to compare your insides to their outsides.

Anne Lamott

#21. The most difficult part of our stories is often what we bring to them - what we make up about who we are and how we are perceived by others. Yes, maybe we lost our job or screwed up a project, but what makes that story so painful is what we tell ourselves about our own self-worth and value.

Brene Brown

#22. Fiction is about stuff that's screwed up.

Nancy Kress

#23. No matter how screwed up the artist might be, there's still the chance that they can produce art that people like us hang on our wall and talk about long after their death. That the sum is greater than one part. That maybe one incident does not a life make.

Charles Martin

#24. You hear about how many fourth quarter comebacks that a guy has and I think it means a guy screwed up in the first three quarters

Peyton Manning

#25. I believe in me. I'm a little screwed up, but I'm beautiful

Steve McQueen

#26. I've screwed up and I've overcommitted and it's typical of me.

Robert Metcalfe

#27. It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.

Jon McGregor

#28. Note to self on waking. Lay off the beer on an empty stomach. This dream is even more screwed up than the time I had a donkey and a corkscrew. (Aiden) Donkey and a corkscrew? (Leta) I don't know you well enough to fill you in on those details. (Aiden)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#29. I realized that I had screwed up my life living different parts of my life in different places. I wasn't whole. I wasn't integrated. I wasn't a complete person. And after that, came out, spent some time at a psychiatric hospital.

James McGreevey

#30. I don't know why people think child actresses in particular are screwed up. I see kids everywhere who are totally bored. I've never been bored a day in my life.

Jodie Foster

#31. I love being from a screwed up family. We have everything in my family: prescription drug abuse, mental illness, one of my uncles is a Mormon.

Christopher Titus

#32. Of course, screwed up families are not the exclusive province of the famous. Still, most families get to screw up in private.

Shawn Amos

#33. It's screwed up, is what it is. Ain't normal to rain roses. That's like a clock running backward, or well water turning to blood.

Jodi Picoult

#34. The whole industry is so screwed up by economics. It's disgusting to me.

Armand Assante

#35. My first novel, 'In the Drink,' begun when I was 29 and floundering and published when I was 36 and married, was about a 29-year-old woman whose life was even more screwed up than my own had been.

Kate Christensen

#36. Those who remember the past tend to get the story really screwed up.

Chuck Palahniuk

#37. Women always put men first. That's how everything got so screwed up.

Janet Fitch

#38. I think that if someone plays a video game, and then goes out and harms another human being, or themselves because of what they just saw in the video game, they were screwed up in the head long before they got their hands on a controller.

Tim Buckley

#39. I'm screwed up, mixed up, messed around, dive-bombing, crashing and burning.

Jaclyn Moriarty

#40. There's something in there," Matt said. "Something alive. It punched me."
"Punched you?" Baldwin's face screwed up. "Are you sure a bat didn't fly into you? I bet there are a few in there."
Matt rubbed his tender jaw. "Unless its name is Bruce Wayne, that wasn't a bat.

K.L. Armstrong

#41. Fate has a way of letting us know when we have screwed up by turning everything into an uphill battle.

Ronnie Schiller

#42. I wish we did have responsibility for the hair. I have been screwed up by the hair on many occasions.

Julie Harris

#43. I'm a bad case of arrested development, stuck in early adolescence, more screwed-up-twisted-up-tangled-up than a couple earthworms makin' babies.

Dean Koontz

#44. I just think that I screwed up what could have turned into a more significant relationship, or at least a lasting friendship.

Emily Giffin

#45. Oh, what am I going to do with this life I have been given." I said to myself as I sat and thought about life, and how screwed up mine really was. I was brought back into reality by Colin's answer.

Nicole Eglinger

#46. What I could relate to was the common fear that you are secretly so uniquely screwed-up that there is no way anyone would like you if they really knew you.

Tim Kreider

#47. Families are the deepest, most screwed up relationships that we have.

Antony Starr

#48. That's his superpower. Invasion. The Invader and the Infiltrator. They pretty much have the same meaning, so I guess we make one screwed-up team.

Colleen Hoover

#49. No, I don't think 'The Wire' screwed up my career at all.

Dominic West

#50. People who go into show business are screwed up.

Craig Kilborn

#51. Who would name their kid Jack with the last words 'off' at the end of the last name? No wonder that guy is screwed up.

George Clooney

#52. Truth I have no trouble with, it's the facts I get all screwed up.

Farley Mowat

#53. She's way too old to be acting a fool because she has a screwed-up mommy." "Please. Just please with the blame-my-mommy-'cause-I'm-a-bitch crap,

P.C. Cast

#54. No matter how screwed up life is today, today is just a collection of moments that stop and start where you want them to. And nothing upsetting matters when you know tomorrow's gonna be better than yesterday

Robyn Schneider

#55. You're both so screwed up alone that together you're like the perfect mess.

J. Sterling

#56. Your past doesn't define you. Only your present and your future. If your life is screwed up, stop making excuses. What are you going to do about it today?

Ingrid Weir

#57. We put these things through their paces." He tensed suddenly. "Have you been using these the whole time we've been apart?" I knew what he was asking. "Only when I was by myself." I'd kept the sheets faithful to Tristan. Bully for me. We were so freaking screwed up. So freaking screwed.

R.K. Lilley

#58. The shorter the time, the cooler you have got to be. If you've got only one shot, you've got to make it count. You can't afford to miss because you screwed up the planning.

Lee Child

#59. I guess we all have a bad night now and then and really screw up. I listened to our earlier stuff and we screwed up a lot. But at least now that we are sober, when we screw up it's for real.

Joe Perry

#60. By the way, you guys seriously screwed up just now. (Nero)
We know. (They said in unison.)
Yeah, well, what you don't know is how grateful your girl is to you. I just thought you should know that you guys are a hero to her ... and she thinks we're all idiots. (Nero)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#61. I'm a sucker for a screwed-up protagonist. We all have issues.

Chelsea Cain

#62. In the new style, homosexuals and heterosexuals could be equally unhappy, equally happy, and equally screwed up.

Christopher Bram

#63. We have to laugh at how hard life can be and how screwed up we can be at times ... It's a really freeing process when you're not hitting the jokes too hard.

Brett Gelman

#64. They're trying to say that greater federal authority would have made a difference, ... The reality is that the feds are the ones that screwed up in the first place. It's not about authority. It's about leadership ... They've got all the authority already.

George Haddow

#65. I was unsettled at the thought of going the entire weekend without him. Worse, I hated the thought of him spending that amount of time away from me. He had a world of choices and possibilities out there, women who weren't so screwed up and difficult to be with.

Sylvia Day

#66. What the hell? We're all screwed up some way. At least you bathe and I don't have to fight you for chicks. In my book, that makes you all right.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#67. Forgive me, Father, but I'm still screwed up.

Lani Diane Rich

#68. We're putting all of our energy into making it right. And we have already had several software updates. We've got a huge plan to make it even better. It will get better and better over time. We screwed up. That's the fact.

Tim Cook

#69. I screwed up. Again. You're shocked, I'm sure.

Kelley Armstrong

#70. Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That's not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that's what life needs to be - and that if it's not that, it's all screwed up. It's not.

Tom Brady

#71. For an author, the nice characters aren't much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They're doing it for themselves.

Terry Pratchett

#72. I'm a screwed-up person who no longer knows how to communicate with the people I love. But I meant everything I told you in my letter. If I were your Nikki, I would have come back to you on Christmas Day, but I'm not Nikki. I know. And I'm sorry.

Matthew Quick

#73. Everybody's a bit screwed up, you know. You can take it as symptoms of a disorder, or you can take it as personality. Me, I'd rather think it as parts of personality.

Jarvis Cocker

#74. I detest computers. If you had a device like that 30 years ago that froze up constantly, misbehaved constantly, lost your information and screwed up when you needed it the most, it would have been laughable.

Tom Scholz

#75. The best people in the world aren't those who never fail - but those who fail and learn something from it. I hope that your goal in life isn't to slide safely into death not having screwed up much.

John Townsend

#76. Remember when I said that thing about not doing anything stupid?"
"Yes."
"You screwed up.

Kieryn Nicolas

#77. It's great that I get accused of not being politically correct. People need to take themselves less seriously. This world is so screwed up as it is, we've all got to relax a bit more.

Michael Bay

#78. Life is messy and the universe has an awful lot of people to keep track of. Sometimes things get screwed up. Sometimes bad things happen to good people. Sometimes good things happen to bad people.
That isn't fair.
Bad things should happen to bad people.
And they will. They will.

Amy Zhang

#79. Pickaxes?" Alex screwed up his brow. "What do you plan to do with those in Bristol, Pooele? Beat upon little old ladies?

Katharine Ashe

#80. But I'm not ready to stop listening to the screwed-up inner voice that's been ordering me around for a lifetime. My head thinks it can kill me ... and go on living without me.

Mary Karr

#81. All of my friends were seeing a therapist, and I thought something was wrong with me that I didn't see a therapist. So I went to a therapist to find out why I wasn't seeing a therapist. And it turns out I'm very screwed up. Thank God I found a therapist to tell me for $125 an hour.

Ellen DeGeneres

#82. The commercial for Diet Dr. Pepper says it tastes just like regular Dr. Pepper. Well, then they screwed up!

Mitch Hedberg

#83. Throughout my training we always had a mantra; They come first. If I had really and truly screwed up my future, I'd have a new mantra; A comes first. Then B, C, D ...

Richelle Mead

#84. Adam says I isolate. He is addicted to telling me that I spend too much time in my head. It's an unhealthy behavior. Look, I don't see how not bothering other people with your screwed-up vision of the world constitutes unhealthy behavior.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#85. It was my dream that screwed up, the stupid hearthside idea that it would be wonderful to follow one great red line across America instead of trying various roads and routes.

Jack Kerouac

#86. I sort of became infatuated with soldiers. I got to know some of them and got a little perturbed with Hollywood making a spectacle out of them and making them look like they have screwed up somehow.

Channing Tatum

#87. If babies held the same tendency toward self-criticism as adults, they might never learn to walk or talk. Can you imagine infants stomping, 'Aarggh! Screwed up again!' Fortunately, babies are free of self-criticism. They just keep practicing.

Dan Millman

#88. By the time I was twelve, I had progressed from "If he doesn't get better, he may have to be institutionalized" to "He's a weird, screwed-up kid.

John Elder Robison

#89. Most actors I know come from a screwed up background, so it makes sense that if you can walk on to a space and recreate your reality, then that's the place that will become very dear.

Peter Mullan

#90. One of the torturous things about my job is that, as time goes on, you get more and more clarity on all the things you've screwed up and all the mistakes you've made.

Matt Cohler

#91. I think young people have a wonderful reaction to color because it's not screwed up by too many references.

Jim Hodges

#92. Dougal, your breath is disgusting." The noxious odour assaulted Aster's nose, rousing her from sleep. She screwed up her face and rolled over, but the smell leapt over her and continued its assault. "Honestly,

Alice Wallis-Eton

#93. I believe that no matter how many mistakes we've made; how badly we've really, really screwed up; how old, worn out, or dejected we've become; as long as there is true, steadfast ambition, all of us have an opportunity for greatness.

Dave Pelzer

#94. I know certain actors are totally screwed up on drugs, yet it gets covered up. Why wasn't I excused for 'exhaustion' or 'the flu'?

Drew Barrymore

#95. You're an idiot. You've screwed up every play we ever ran. You're too stupid to even remember the plays. We ought to get rid of you.

Michael Jordan

#96. The world is crazy. You need a license to drive a car and go fishing. You don't need a license to start a family. Two people have sex and BAM! Perfectly innocent kid is born whose life will be screwed up by her parents forever.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#97. Yeah, and she's really screwed up, as screwed up as me, but I don't look at that as an insult. I look at that as a chance to connect.

Ned Vizzini

#98. I had a head start in acting. Because of my parents, I had a SAG card, an agent and a recognizable name. But I knew if I screwed up, people would never forget. I'd be dead.

Mary Crosby

#99. You go get to hang out with a bunch of weird, seriously screwed up humans."
"I'll fit right in, then."
"My thoughts exactly!

Kiersten White

#100. There was something special about being in a strange place, all alone in a mass of people even if you had just screwed up your life, or perhaps especially if you had just screwed up your life.

Louis Sachar