People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.
The world is noisy and messy. You need to deal with the noise and uncertainty.
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.
It’s as if to be interesting, you had to be depressed and messy, but that’s complete nonsense.
Of course, life is not a Disney movie. Life is messy. There were some people in my family who made gay jokes and used inappropriate language while I was growing up. Coming out to some people was more challenging than others, but in the end, I was amazed by how much my sexuality didn’t matter.
I write everything out in longhand in one fast go. And then I throw out the first few and start over again. By the end of the first draft, the whole thing’s messy and disgusting and horrible, but you really understand the foundational stuff.
Emotions are messy and hard to figure out.
I’m not a neat freak. I don’t mind things being messy but I mind them being dirty. I just can’t relax in a dirty environment. I like things organized.
Flannel shirts, denim, Converse, a guitar, messy hair? That’s literally me.
I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated, that we are indeed messy, that we do our best with what we’ve been given. We come into the world exactly like you. It’s just that there are circumstances in the culture that are dictated and put on our lives that we have to fight against.
I think showing people being messy and showing them being wrong and showing them in their humanity is something that we can do, but it becomes difficult because there’s this weight put on comedy to be part of change and I’m like, ‘I don’t think it changes anything.’
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 am so organized that it’s dysfunctional. Everything has a place. I am a very visual person, so my environment is important to me. If my environment is messy, I can’t think clearly. I don’t like clutter. A clean desk is a clean mind for me.
I can be a little messy and wild and carefree with my creativity as a solo artist. In a group, there’s a certain structure, and everyone has a part to play, and being a solo artist, I can do as I please.
This life is messy.
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.
Revolutions can be messy but they can’t be perceived as unjust.
I am the god of being messy – I’m trying to get better. I was terrible in my 20s. My kids are much tidier than I am, I don’t know where they get it from, maybe their mother.
I love to do a messy top knot because it’s so easy but looks like it could have taken a bit of effort!
This beautiful, messy, wonderful and volatile world of ours needs more heroes.
In some ways, I missed my era because I’m big and messy and have big feelings and take up space on a stage rather than being diminutive and childlike in my woman-ness.
There are two things that I hate: getting up at 6 in the morning and making my bed. I’m as neat as a pin, but I will not make beds. Period. I don’t care if I get into them and they’re messy. I just don’t care.
Kids are messy!
Open your arms to life! Let it strut into your heart in all its messy glory!
Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn’t methodical, but jazz isn’t messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
Flannel shirts, denim, Converse, a guitar, messy hair? That’s literally me.
Life is just so painful and messy and hard and worth it and all that stuff.
It’s as if to be interesting, you had to be depressed and messy, but that’s complete nonsense.
I really like to rock it natural and let my hair go wild, but when I do style it, I slick all the hair over to one side with pins. It’s either that or a messy bun.
I have so many messy moments.
I’m definitely a messy person… I know where everything is but I just can’t organize. I don’t make lists and find scripts on the laundry machine, and under my bed, or in the bathroom, kitchen. It’s bad, I really need to take control.
When you walk away from God, and you walk away from Christ, you’re basically uprooting the very foundations of being. So I don’t think there is an easy way to do that. Even for the guy who becomes an atheist out of it, it’s messy. It ain’t pretty.
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 still feel like we’re a skate brand – it doesn’t mean we can’t present our stuff well. It doesn’t mean that when you come in, everything has to be messy.
The heroines in ‘That’s What She Said’ are flawed, messy, damaged, hilarious and culpable and not really concerned about being acceptable to the audience in any traditional sense, which for me is what makes them all the more gorgeous. And the fearless truth of that is what makes it funny.
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.
Whenever I get home the house becomes messy and chaotic. Kinvara, my daughter, said, ‘Mummy, do you like it when Daddy is away, because the house is nice and clean?’
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.
My workspace is a white room with a big computer monitor and a light box. It can be very messy. Sometimes I get into trouble with my husband for that. Then I run around like a lunatic cleaning up and creating the appearance of order.
Every company has messy data, and even the best of AI companies are not fully satisfied with their data. If you have data, it is probably a good idea to get an AI team to have a look at it and give feedback. This can develop into a positive feedback loop for both the IT and AI teams in any company.
On my own I generally have very messy hair, wear jeans and sneakers.
In fact, things are moving along rather well in Iraq. Nothing is perfect, of course, and freedom is messy work. The cooperation of the three major interests in Iraq has been remarkable.
I’ve gotten used to using individual lashes as well. A lot of girls will use strip eyelashes, but the glue comes out of each side and it gets messy. Individual lashes make your eyes look bigger and much more natural.
Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn’t make for a compelling thriller.
It’s a form of human love to accept our complicated, messy humanity and not run away from it.
Female characters in literature are full. They’re messy: they’ve got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don’t often have that kind of richness.
I’ve always believed that pastry chefs are born, not made. They’re patient, methodical, tidy, and organized. It’s why I stick to the savory side of the kitchen – I’m far too messy and impulsive to do all the measuring, timing, and rule-following that pastry demands.
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.
Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
There’s a constant tension between the excitement of new people and security with one person. If you go with excitement, you create chaos; you hurt people. There’s jealousy, and it gets very messy. If you have security, it can be boring, and you die inside because of all the opportunities missed.
I am so organized that it’s dysfunctional. Everything has a place. I am a very visual person, so my environment is important to me. If my environment is messy, I can’t think clearly. I don’t like clutter. A clean desk is a clean mind for me.
I go to the gym a lot, and I see these guys, these young actors or models there, really punishing themselves – I mean, just killing themselves. And then I’ll see one of them on a billboard, with the artfully messy hair, looking as though it’s just natural and easy to have a body like that.
Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.
My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she’s more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything’s perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It’s sad. I’m a little like Ray, a little bit.
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.
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 was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I’d draw a big ram’s head, really messy. I’d never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spiderman.
