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Quotes About Sloppy

Bob summed it up best when he was on his knees at the end of the night saying, 'Don't trust in Guided By Voices.' You were there; was the show awful or something? I know it was sloppy, but they're not really that tight anyway, but was it embarrassing, was it sad?
~ Kim Deal
There are a lot of things I suck at. I'm not organized. I have to have partners and people around me who dot my i's and cross my t's. I'm sloppy. I'm a ready-fire-aim guy. I need to have people around me who aren't.
~ Mark Cuban
Booze made people sloppy and unfocused:
~ Donna Tartt
My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall - what's going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
People don't like to see a sloppy fight, to see heavyweights wallow around. They like to see exciting fighters.
~ Tommy Morrison
I went into science, ending up with a Ph.D. in cell biology, but along the way I found out that experimental science involves many hours and days and nights of laboratory work, which is a lot like washing dishes, only a little more challenging. I was too impatient, and maybe a little too sloppy, for it.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
An English gentleman never shines his shoes, but then nor does a lazy bastard.
~ Will Self
Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid.
~ William M. Kelly
God help you if you use voice-over in your work, my friends. God help you. That's flaccid, sloppy writing. Any idiot can write a voice-over narration to explain the thoughts of a character.
~ Robert McKee
And when the chickens that didn't hatch come home to roost, we will rue the day when, misled by sloppy accounting and rosy scenarios, we gave away the national nest egg.
~ Paul Krugman
I thought of my favorite business analogy—the mouse who says let me out of the trap, I've decided I don't want the cheese.' There are a million business traps. You can get sloppy, you can get alcoholic, you can get megalomania, you can not understand your own limitations. There are a million ways to gum it up.
~ Janet Lowe
Emma was a shocking driver, simultaneously sloppy and petrified, and for the first fifty miles had been absent-mindedly driving with her spectacles on top of her contact lenses so that other traffic loomed menacingly out of nowhere like alien space cruisers.
~ David Nicholls
We are actors who show up for work in our sloppy gear, and we've got this extraordinary tailor. It's someone else who's done the design; someone else who's cut the suit; someone else who's measured it. Basically, your job is to just wear it.
~ Colin Firth
I've never been able to understand 'faith' myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion out of an infinitude of false ones—by faith alone. It strikes me as a sloppy way to run an organization, whether a universe or a smaller one.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
If you have a sloppy religion you get a sloppy atheism.
~ Ronald Knox
Look at the care we take w/ our secrets, when we're so sloppy w/ everything else.
~ Amity Gaige
Lots of lawyers don't like circumstantial evidence. I do. I've never had any quarrel with the evidence of circumstances. My quarrel is with the habit of giving events the obvious, careless interpretation. I dislike sloppy thinking.
~ Erle Stanley Gardner
It was the sloppy thinking, the laziness which irritated him most.
~ Ann Cleeves
It is woefully hard to find good, or even merely literate, writers, and they laugh at me when I say that sloppy, go-as-you-please writing carries less authority than decent prose. You must remember our public, they say. And indeed that is what I do, and I think the public is fully able to deal with the best they can produce. Patronizing the public, and assuming that it hangs, breathless, upon what it reads in the papers, is almost the worst of journalistic sins.
~ Robertson Davies
marksmanship on the rifle range was not as good as his drill instructors expected. Some called his work "sloppy." When
~ Jim Bishop
Fear has made them sloppy. The world teeters at a precipe. All scared to take a step in case they put a foot into empty air. The instinct of self-preservation. It can destroy a man's efficiency.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Evolution, dismissed as a sloppy programmer, has seen fit to create us as a wild amalgam of everything that came before us: except for the realm of insects, the whole history of life on earth is inscribed within our bodies.
~ Ellen Ullman
Tell me something wonderful, he said to Dane. Tell me that we are going to die dreamfully and loved in our sleep. You're always writing one of your plays on the phone, said Dane. I said, something wonderful. Say something about springtime. It is sloppy and wet. It is a beast from the sea. Ah, said Harry.
~ Lorrie Moore
Don't get sloppy, Marcie. If I had a freezer, I might shoot him." "You wouldn't!" He smiled at her. "I like venison. Don't you?" She thought about that chili Jack had given her, how it melted in her mouth. But she said, "Not that much!" And she whirled and went into the house, his amused laughter at her back. *
~ Robyn Carr