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Quotes About Messy

No one has a right to occupy the privileged position all the time, so it should be contested. It should always be messy in there.
~ Kerry James Marshall
Occasionally someone will tell me that they won't have pets because they're messy, and I suppose there's some truth to that, between the fur and the slobber and the occasional puddle on the floor. I have to choke down the temptation to respond that life is messy, and its vagaries go down hardest with those who fool themselves into thinking they can keep it neat.
~ Anna Quindlen
I'm not sure I even recognize the ever-presence of mercy anymore, the divine and the human; the messy, crippled, transforming, heartbreaking, lovely, devastating presence of mercy. But I have come to believe that I am starving to death for it, and my world is, too.
~ Anne Lamott
You stop pretending life is such fin or makes sense. It's often messy and cruel and dull, and we do the best we can. It's unfair, and jerks seem to win. But you fall in love with a few people.
~ Anne Lamott
I'm not sure I even recognize the ever-presence of mercy anymore, the divine and the human; the messy, crippled, transforming, heartbreaking, lovely, devastating presence of mercy. But I have come to believe that I am starving to death for it, and my world is, too.
~ Anne Lamott
Do people always act this way around you? (Kiara) You should have seen the reactions when I wore a League uniform. Those were actually comical. Except for the ones who lost control of their bowels. Then it was just messy. (Nykyrian)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
You travel with a whetstone on your arm? (Kiara) You don't ever want to kill someone with a dull knife. It takes too long to sever their arteries, or puncture organs, and it makes it even messier than normal. (Nykyrian)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Life is messy, Ren. It's not easy and it's definitely not for the timid. Everyone has a past.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Talon glanced around the loft. It looked as if a bottle of Pepto-Bismol had exploded, or the Cat in the Hat had come for a visit.' (Talon)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
This is getting ugly." – Abigail "Like my great-aunt's underpants." – Sundown
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Life is messy, Ren. It's not easy and it's definitely not for the timid. Everyone has a past.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Really, life is full of contradictions. Life is messy.
~ Tim Blake Nelson
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
~ John Galsworthy
Love is messy and complicated and unfair.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
He was beginning to understand that some of the most irritating that his family did stemmed from the depth of their love. And suddenly it felt wonderful to be worried about and fussed over, to be reclaimed by their messy closeness.
~ Elise Broach
All the untidy activity continues, awful but cheerful.
~ Elizabeth Bishop
Life would always be quirky, dynamic, changing, and messy. The
~ Elizabeth Lesser
Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft.
~ Harlan Coben
Truth be told, I hear stories every day that would make you say, 'If you put that in a movie, you wouldn't believe it.' Real life really is kinda incredible; the stories from people's actual lives defy credibility. People's lives are messy, humans are messy, and they're flawed.
~ Lynn Shelton
I think that, a lot of times in Hollywood pictures, the reality, the messy reality of women's lives - it's avoided, because I think people are just afraid of it. There's a standard that women are set to, to try to keep everybody comfortable.
~ Haley Bennett
The performances that I love are ones like Gena Rowlands in 'A Woman Under the Influence,' where women are allowed to be messy and imperfect. It's that kind of woman that has always inspired me to seek roles that are a little out of the box. I just haven't always had the opportunity to do them.
~ Kirsten Dunst
Pristine vulnerability is just so boring to me. The performances that I love are ones like Gena Rowland's in 'A Woman Under the Influence,' where women are allowed to be messy and imperfect. It's that kind of woman that has always inspired me to seek roles that are a little out of the box. I just haven't always had the opportunity to do them.
~ Kirsten Dunst
I paint very messy. I throw paint around. So when I let myself do the same sort of thing with my writing, and I would just write and write and write and revise, that's when I found my rhythm in writing.
~ Erin Morgenstern
Gonjasufi may sound at first like a rambling hip-hop crackpot, but there's more to the California rapper and singer than mere eccentricity: What appears messy and thrown together is anything but.
~ Anthony Fantano