Sometimes when something doesn’t go the way it should go, everyone blames the concept. Sometimes we screw up the way we implement it.
Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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.
I really love making movies. I just have this yearning in my stomach to go back and somehow subversively screw up television a little bit again.
I still talk incessantly about ‘SCTV,’ and I say, ‘Screw the kids!’
It can kind of screw up things if you’re trying to overwork something.
There’s a gray area between Conservative and Orthodox people, for whom you don’t screw around with the mezuzah, you don’t mess with the holy melodies.
It takes two to make a relationship, but only one to screw it up.
Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but I’ve consistently strived to create whatever good fortune I can get in my life – and consistently strive just as hard not to screw it up once I have it!
We all assume that if you’re weak and poor, you’re never going to win. In fact, the real world is full of examples where the exact opposite happens, where the weak win and the strong screw up.
My ex-boyfriend said, ‘You have a better chance of getting elected to Congress than getting on the staff of a television show.’ Which was the perfect thing for him to say, because my entire career is, ‘Well, screw you.’ And we broke up.
I think that whether you’re married or not, in any relationship, there’s always the terror that you’re going to screw something up.
Meeting my wife Amanda was the best thing that could ever have happened to me. She wasn’t going to let me screw around my life anymore, so I stopped drinking and started behaving like a decent human being.
I’ve probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don’t want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.
I feel my personality is richer than my bank account. So if I meet a girl, maybe first she just likes me because I’m rich. But then she’s gonna get to know me and say, ‘Screw the money.’
Every time I’ve ever gotten close to being successful, I’ve found some way to screw it up.
If you start doing things because you hate others and want to screw them over, the end result is bad.
Music is the language of the heart, and conservatives always screw it up.
I became a qualified machinist at Vauxhall. For some reason it’s been erroneously reported that I used to screw on hubcaps, but that’s not true. You can’t screw on a hubcap, anyway, so I have no idea where that came from.
I always tell the fans, ‘Screw it! Like what you like. Listen to what you want.’ Insisting that one type of music is better than the next is snobbery, and I have no time for that. Check out all the music that’s out there. There’s great stuff you’re probably missing.
When you screw up in the ring, it’s so embarrassing. But the fans don’t know you screwed up unless you act like you just made a mistake.
Adele shattered the image of how the stereotypical singer is supposed to look. She has that whole ‘Screw you, I’m awesome for what I do’ attitude, which I really look up to and want to be a part of.
You’ve got a great chance in college to do all sorts of terrible irresponsible things, and you should totally do them. I mean, make huge mistakes. This is the time in your life if you screw up, it’s okay because you can bounce back from it.
Up until my first book was published, I had all this potential, people would say, and I screwed up. After it, I could say: ‘No, I didn’t screw up.’
I try to be as real and honest about everything and very genuine with people and say, ‘Listen, I’m a Christian, and I’m not perfect. I screw up every day, but I think that’s what grace is all about.’
I gave my life for Styx and I’m really very proud of it and I didn’t want to perform that music and screw it up.
I hate performing on live television. It’s so scary, because, if you screw up, you don’t really get any retakes. So when I do television shows now, having been on ‘Idol’ really helps me mentally to just kind of take it all in. So I learned a lot from it.
To become a doctor, you spend so much time in the tunnels of preparation – head down, trying not to screw up, trying to make it from one day to the next – that it is a shock to find yourself at the other end, with someone shaking your hand and asking how much money you want to make.
Know that you’re gonna screw up, and be OK with it, and do better next time.
And I laugh at myself when I screw things up, which happens all the time.
I can’t change the preconceived notions a reader brings to a work, but I can do my best to be aware of, address, and subvert tropes and expectations that readers may have as best I can and hope I don’t screw it up too much.
If I screw up then everyone’s paying attention and I’ll hear about it.
I love that as a theme for women: Stop standing by! You’ve got to make stuff happen! You’ve got to create your own world because if you let other people do it, they’re going to just screw you.
It’s not the most normal life in the world, but I screw up plenty of times to be a normal teenager.
Of course, screwed up families are not the exclusive province of the famous. Still, most families get to screw up in private.
I liked to screw around in the kitchen when I was a kid. But I started cooking when I was 15.
Introductions are always weird for me because my name is Hari and it’s constantly mispronounced . ‘Hurry’, ‘Hairy’ – there are different ways to screw it up, and it leads to these awkward conversations.
Screw them. Yeah. But not literally. I’m not advocating promiscuity.
At the end of the day, what difference does it make if you made 10 films or 18 films? You made 10 films, but you had a great relationship with your kids, or at least you did your best not to screw them up irrevocably, or you made 18, and they don’t return your phone calls.
The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up.
The most satisfaction I get is from doing a good gig, which really makes you feel in control. If you’ve worked a room really well, it makes you feel great. TV is a bit more difficult; there are more factors that can screw it up along the way.
If I screw up, I’m gonna say, ‘You know what? I really screwed up.’ That’s all you can do. Some people gonna forgive you, some people not gonna forgive you. That’s just the way it works.
It’s like the Boy Scouts’ motto, be prepared. You’ve got to be ready when the moment is offered. If you’re not, you can actually screw it up for life.
In our system of government, an opposition party doesn’t have the ability to pass legislation, but it has the ability to massively screw things up.
Regardless of what you feel about Obama and his politics – screw all that. The fact of the matter is, he was the first black guy to be the president of the United States. The history is still being made.
There is only so much I can understand and not screw up.
I’m astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial sense, and basically traded them for being able to screw around online.
The way to screw up somebody’s life is to give them what they want.
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