Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.

Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world.

I can't stand a house to be dirty or even messy, even. I am a bit OCD. Wash the dishes when you finish eating.

In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.

I do real paintings, you know. I'm a little messy in the studio, so I'm a bit of a danger. But I just adore it.

Both individuals and societies tell themselves stories to simplify and make sense of the messy chaos of reality.

The way we live history is not the way historians tell history. Our lives are messy and chaotic and bewildering.

My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.

For me, it's very important that shows about gay people are messy and complicated and are truthful about what we do.

I have a lot of looks but right now I'm really into grunge. Messy hair, black heels. I get Michelle Pfeiffer with it.

Chaos is the natural state, and theater tries to make sense of it, but it's got to be a little messy to be believable.

Barack is one of the smartest people you will ever encounter who will deign to enter this messy thing called politics.

I am fascinated by people's flaws and delusions: all the messy bits of human nature we all try to pretend we don't have.

My favorite festival beauty look is definitely braids and hats: a messy fishtail braid and a cute outfit, and I'm ready!

Humans are vulnerable, messy little animals and that's normal. And all I want to do is make a space for that in my films.

In America, diner food or roadside barbecue is the best road food, but I am not a fan of eating while driving - too messy.

Spirituality is not about being fixed; it is about God's being present in the mess of our unfixedness. (Messy Spirituality)

If it's not messy and it doesn't drip over the sides, it's not a holiday hot chocolate -it's just an average hot chocolate.

I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right.

I share personal things about myself in the context of my interviews and in 'It's Messy' - but that's 20 percent of my life.

In beauty, there's this idea of this perfect picture, and I think, 'How about being present in the now, and a little messy?'

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.

I lived a block and a half away from four cousins, and I had three siblings. The Jaeger home was a big, messy, happy family.

But my wife doesn't often allow me to cook in our kitchen at home. She says that I'm messy and I don't clean up after myself!

They don't call it the Wall of Death for nothing. The biggest risk is crashing off the top. That's when it gets really messy.

The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.

If I'm not fighting for a good reason, then your personal life starts to get messy, and it's like, 'What am I doing this for?'

Surely it's better to love others, however messy and imperfect the involvement, than to allow one's capacity for love to harden.

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.

Health care, it's going to be political. It's going to be, let's say, the confluence of the politics and the messy implementation.

Bringing your kids into the kitchen doesn't require you to be a top chef; only time and maybe a willingness to get a little messy.

Vampire teeth really aren't very efficient, are they? It looks very messy. I'm not sure it's the best way to get a pint off anyone.

I don't think that I'm broken at all. I no longer think that I'm a mess. I just think I'm a deeply feeling person in a messy world.

I think eyebrows are the symmetry of the face. If they're not balanced and brushed up in the right way, your face looks kind of messy.

The #MeToo movement is a very important movement. It's messy. And it's complicated. And there are places where it's going to overreach.

I write about messy relationships - between friends, rivals, married couples, siblings. I'm not really interested in boy/girl romances.

The responsibility that I ultimately feel to the audience is to entertain, maybe enlighten, and help you take your mind off messy things.

Somebody must be up and somebody must be down. Trouble is, campaigns are messy, subtle creatures that don't follow convenient narratives.

I like the idea of a place that is dealing with painful, messy, frightening, and very human events that is also so beautiful and ethereal.

I never think of a project as just being comedy or just being drama - even with 'Masters of Sex.' I like being sort of messy, like life is.

I'm a private person too, and we don't ever film anything in our home because it's off limits. It's like letting people see your messy house.

Girls shouldn't be afraid to look messy. They shouldn't have to always fit in with the pretty girls. Our goal as women is not to impress guys.

I have the same bedroom I've always had. It's clean and tidy when I get home, and after two or three days it gets messy and my mother nags me.

Cancer is messy and scary. You throw everything at it, but don't forget to throw love at it. It turns out that might be the best weapon of all.

Politics is a messy business, but campaigning prepares you for governing. It prepares you to get hit, stand strong, and, if necessary, hit back.

The most enduring battle is between head and heart; what would be efficient and logical is nearly always trumped by what is messy and illogical.

I don't want to protect my characters. I don't do it with Muslims, either. My job is not to make us look perfect. My job is to make us look messy.

When I'm the happiest, my desk is not neat. It has lots of pens and the books I love. It gets messy when I'm in the flow. So many houses are so neat.

Biological diversity is messy. It walks, it crawls, it swims, it swoops, it buzzes. But extinction is silent, and it has no voice other than our own.

I talk out of experience that relationships don't get messy; it's our heads that are messy. People's expectations and beliefs screw up relationships.

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