Quotes About Mess

I like photography because it is a reality medium, unlike drawing which is unreal. I like to mess with reality...to bend reality. Some of my works beg the question of is it real or not?

In Washington, of course, evading responsibility is an art form, so it is not always easy to tell who's responsible for which mess.

After art college, I got a job as a medical illustrator, and I was pretty good. I had to imagine what was going on in the operations because the photographs just showed a mess.

shelter. "You are a mess." She could almost

The point is, our health-care system is a terrible mess. It's expensive, wasteful, inefficient, unresponsive, and infested with lawyers. Which is why there has been a big push, in some quarters, to place it under the management of... The federal government. This is like saying that if your local police department has a corruption problem, the solution is to turn law enforcement over to the Sopranos.

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You really think love messes everything up? Sure do. That's what's so compelling about it.

Pretty is as pretty does" was a stupid cliché in her estimation. Pretty is what God does in the hearts and minds of people who are a mess-whether outwardly or inwardly or both.

I'm a disorganized mess. My purse is gross: I once found a shoulder pad, string cheese, and a Christmas ornament in it!

Someone could cut through the mess in our house and look at it like one might look at rings on a tree or layers of sediment. They'd find the black-and-white hairs of a dog we had when I was six, the acid-washed jeans my mother once wore, the seven blood-soaked pillowcases from the time I skinned my knee. All our family secrets rest in endless piles.

trouble. The Bull hates excess, and seldom messes around with it in any form, but when he slips, he does it the way he does everything else—on a grand scale.

mean, Jesus Christ, when you saw me in the pharmacy that first time, I was a total mess. I had a hangover, and I was waiting for the morning-after pill, for God's sake.

She knew how to love them, but never to care for them. And if she'd had a shred of normal, decent—God, I don't know—humanity, she would not have left me with all this. All her disgusting filth and shit and mess! It's all just so, so, lurid. My whole revolting family. Just one disgusting lurid thing after another." She brought herself to a sudden halt. Too much. Way too much.

Washington is a complete mess. It's become a venue for partisan bickering, where the needs of the working class just don't matter.

I felt as though someone had snuck in and packed my head with beach sand, even including the bottle caps and cigarette butts.

But in all truth, it didn't matter, not even a little bit. It was just one more of the dozens of dopey contradictions making up the many-sided mess that was humanity, and all things considered, it was much less interesting than thinking about what Rita might have cooked for dinner.

The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us.

And so we lie on our backs, probing, recoiling, probing again, and the seeds of death get lost in the mess God made us. It's no different with the girls. Hardly have we begun to palpate their grief than we find ourselves wondering whether this particular wound was mortal or not, or whether (in our blind doctoring) it's a wound at all.

That's not a father. That's a sperm donor. Forget him. He's a mess. Concentrate on me. I'm terrific. -(Linc Blaise)

I smiled at the young woman with the warmth and goodwill that only the pure of heart, or the people who've recently swallowed a handful of OxyContin, can muster. "I'm Allison Weiss. Are you Beatrice?" I had gotten the call the night before, from a woman who'd introduced herself as Kim Caster, a producer for The News on Nine, the local evening newscast. "Did you hear about that mess in Akron?" she had asked.

Peace and harmony do not require perfection. Thank goodness for that—because life so often seems to be an itch here, a glitch there, a mess waiting to happen. Harmony is flexible. It bends with imperfection. So should you.

A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.

I am a mess. Like that MargieMocha, I am spilled across a floor, but there's nobody to mop me up. I have only one thing to show for the day: Perry Delloplane. The sound of a name. It is a grape in my mouth. I roll it over and over on my tongue--perrydelloplaneperrydelloplaneperrydelloplaneperrydelloplane--but when I try to crush it with my teeth, it slips away.

Claire happy to no longer expect...but embrace the sweet lovely mess that is real life.