Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
T. S. Eliot
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The best thing I have is the knife from Fatal Attraction. I hung it in my kitchen. It's my way of saying, Don't mess with me.
Glenn Close
It's just a mess out there.
John Leblanc
It does seem to be a huge mess.
Louise Christian
We were just a mess. It was great.
Shane Webster
I wanted to be a pilot but I washed out. I washed out-I wanted to be a bombardier after that, but by then they didn't need any more bombardiers. So it was either electrical or mechanical and I couldn't mess with that electrical so that's how I became a mechanic.
Frank Pepe
If it's natural, it's going to be better for you because it's not an outside something coming in to mess things up.
Betsy Mitchell
As a start, we'd rather partner with someone who is an expert, ... If you don't have the capability, why mess around trying to learn that on the dime of your customers?
Jerry Shields
People are lonely, sad, anxious and angry and marriages, families and romances are in a mess and relationships are what people are most interested in and we can offer help there.
John Stackhouse
We have game experience playing in hostile environments. We've learned the speed of the game. We've seen all the different blitzes, all the different defenses. You don't mess up as much as you did when you were younger.
Daniel Inman
The reason he got into this mess is because he wanted to help somebody. When he's back on his feet he'll probably help the next person.
Stephen Katz
The condition of the house is deplorable. It's a mess.
Butch Frati
I don't pay attention to where I'm ranked. I just go out there and play, and just try to help my team and not mess up.
Seth Evans
We're thrilled to have him. It gives us a great chance to contrast what Democrats have done in Virginia with the absolute mess that Washington has become.
Kevin Griffis
It's kind of a mess. But I wouldn't have played anyway.
Ramiro Mendoza
It's a mess. What we've seen is that the standards employed by Broward County are extremely specious.
Larry Klayman
Some plays you couldn't be as aggressive as you needed to, because if you did, you would mess up the whole defense, something wrong would happen.
Rashad Bobino
Don't mess with the Constitution, don't mess with the Bill of Rights and don't mess with Christianity.
Jim Goodnow
I don't pay attention to what has happened, I just pay attention to what's going on now. Every time somebody thinks about (a no-hitter), then you mess up.
Ashleigh Cole
He's a professional. He knows a lot about the game and can give you a lot of insights. The great thing about him is that he provides a lot of detail. He never leaves anything out. After he explains something to you, you'd be an idiot to mess it up.
Braylon Edwards
We're looking at, in 30 years, what's going to be there. If you mess up, everything after that struggles.
Bill Merck
He's not very good looking. He has to clean that mess off his chin.
Dallas Baker
It's all about work when you reach up, tap in and step on that field. You don't mess around when you go through that gate.
Lawrence Jackson
Are kids going to suffer because of all of this unorganized mess?
Stephen Bennett
We did not expect it to be catastrophic. I expected to come back to a mess, maybe our furniture and clothes would be all wet, then we thought maybe the worst was that the house would be gutted.
Felton Mcclellan
It's our job to accept the umpire's decision and to find a way through this mess.
Peter Beattie
Everyone is not looking forward to a format war. It's a mess we're getting ready to get ourselves into - or that the industry is. The battle is not going to be pretty. We're not looking forward to it, the consumers are not looking forward to it.
Scott Shannon
You have some time to prove your life is back on track here... don't mess it up.
Kevin Hess
With the unanimous vote of (the House Transportation and Energy Committee), I feel like I don't want to mess with a good thing.
Rep. Kathleen Curry
Bill Ford had no idea how difficult the job of running the Ford Motor Co. would be. He's trying to find people now who can get him out of this mess.
Keith Crain
I knew it was something very serious and not to mess around with it.
Chris Sanders
If someone rips you off, it's a real mess to clean up.
Robert Mckinley
There's a litter problem here. People clean their fish on the banks on don't clean up the mess.
Jason Snyder
They were competitive. Even though they pitched in some trouble, every one of them, they made pitches to get out of the big mess. I can't ask for any more than they did.
Richie Zisk
The force of commerce got us in this mess and it's the only force that will get us out.
Gary Hirshberg
I think the fun thing is that no one cares if you mess up. A lot of times, I'm tired on Fridays and I don't want to go (to a dance). But when you get there you have a blast.
Pat Buckley
From 1970 to 1995, there weren't that many hurricanes, and the ones we had were nice, well-mannered, housebroken hurricanes that stayed out to sea and didn't make a mess.
Hugh Willoughby
It's been a tough go so far, as you can imagine. The girl's team is a mess and have all gathered together.
John Kearney
You both got us here, this is your mess, you fix it. Because, unlike us, when you go home, you're going to have to live with this.
Richard Bloch
He was like a real dad, you know. We used to sit down with guitars and mess around.
Julian Lennon
That's what I think. That's why I brought it in here. I didn't want to make a mess in my office.
Robert Novak
We talk to Marco about everything. Marco's been in the game longer than most of us may last in it. We mess with him, but there's also the most respect for him.
Demetrin Veal
If you mess up defensively, even one possession, Coach might take you out of the game. He won't do that if you take a bad shot.
Ben Kenyon
I'm concerned about the rescuers going down and the people cleaning up the mess being given protection from diseases.
Bernie Marcus
I think people were loving the fact that we were a mess here for a while.
Scott Gomez
It's unbelievable the lengths this man will go to -- and I'm talking about Ken Starr -- to harass people in this mess.
Nancy Luque
And the parking areas were just a muddy mess and we probably would have done more damage than we would have made on the derby.
David Todd
A lot of it is for the culture of the freestyle side of the sport. It can build confidence for you, too. Like if you're out and dominating for the day and able to mess around, it can be a thing that works in your favor.
Seth Wescott
Most people can't visualize, with the mess I've got in here right now, what I'm going to do with it.
Larry Tuggle
For Harriet to say she was brought in to clean up the lottery ignores the timeline. She's got it backwards: Things were great when she got there and a terrible mess when she left.
Charles Soechting
I was so happy we won. I didn't want to come out of conference with two back-to-back losses. That would start to mess with your head.
Marco Killingsworth
You can't mess up your financial independence to put your kids through college, ... If you hit a snag, you don't have as many years to recover.
Patricia Jennerjohn
[An independent school head teacher has said the education system is] in a total mess ... a disaster.
Ruth Kelly
You just kind of sit back and let him do his thing. Don't mess with him too much. Evidently he's figured it out.
Dru Mahoney
It was a great experience. I had butterflies. We didn't want to mess up. It was on TV. We were representing our country and we just wanted to do our job right.
Taurean Allen
Lottery sales are going great. It's just a mess.
Dennis Thornton
I don't know what was the wisdom in that decision. It confused the mess out of everybody.
Robert Belcher
I think more people were concerned about the mess than him being a sex offender.
Mary Hadley
Our whole purpose here is to create a dialogue. Health care is a mess, a real mess. And nobody seems to be doing anything about it.
Bill Mooney
With all of their success, I don't want to mess that sport up.
Carl Chancellor
Nine times out of 10 they mess it up, and sometimes they mess it up pretty bad.
Robert Hess
We have to watch the race again on video, it's all a mess in our heads right now.
Tania Vicent
The house was all a mess.
William Perez
We are in a mess and in a normal situation one would expect that someone at the ministry of finance or the Reserve Bank would get fired for failing to do their job.
Tony Hawkins
If it hadn't been for the mismanagement of this administration, we wouldn't be in this mess.
Frank Watson
We don't have time to mess around. We stayed together and pulled it out.
Pig Miller
It looks to me that they are slowly picking through what is a bit of a mess. It kind of makes you wonder whether they can't put it all out at once because they don't know it all yet.
Rich Moore
It's a mess that should have never been created.
Patrick Bauer
It was good to get back on the court, ... I didn't really feel the nerves. We've been playing really good and I didn't want to mess up the flow. I just want to mesh with the team.
Tina Thompson
The people are looking for somebody that will clean up the mess. The last thing they're looking for is somebody from the mess. Jim fills that bill.
Jack Roeser
It's pretty much just a mess all around here. There's lots of trees down all over the countryside.
Bill Taylor
This has been a chaotic mess.
Gareth Peirce
We're doing what we need to do. We've released the staff, we've shut the doors. Now we're cleaning up the mess.
Mary Sayre
It something happens on the freeway it becomes a real mess.
Charles Brown
It's such a mess.
Nick Heidfeld
Our game field was always a mess, but when we hired him everything was transformed. Our field has more traffic than any field we play on and it's still one of the best.
Anson Dorrance
It certainly could be a mess.
Douglas Berman
They really picked the wrong person to mess with. But then again, they picked the right person.
Jason Bogle
They wanted someone to clean up the mess.
Kunda Dixit
Things are just such a mess right now that I don't know.
Richard Young
It's okay if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
Billy Joel
I got a little bit of jitters. I've made a mess of things before. But that's the difference today. This time the ball did the lap of honor and dropped in.
David Howell
Physically, he's fine, but psychologically he's a mess.
Michael Gartner
My kids use them as doorstops. That's the only thing they're good for now. I'm not sure if they work or not. I'm not going to mess with them.
Phil Hannon
There's a lot of pressure at district, because if you mess up you're done. I'm really pumped to get out in both.
Justin Max
One person falls, then another falls. ... You get scared to mess up. It's inexperience and sometimes a lack of confidence.
Jessica Parenti
Any action by (superintendent) Blocker is obviously window dressing in an attempt to cover up the bungled legal mess created by her initial suspension.
Fred O'neal
I get pressure from my audience and my agents to be a 'good girl,' and I'm in the public eye, so if I mess up, it's going to be all over the place.
Melissa Joan Hart
[They don't feel screwed by Title IX, either.] We're not in the mess 'cause of Title IX, ... We're in this mess 'cause of excesses by the other sports.
Bob Fraley
This is the height of a conflict, if ever there were one, ... There is a need for this matter to be looked at by higher authorities. And it's further evidence that there needs to be a cleanup of all the corrupt mess in the borough of Brooklyn.
John Sampson
The city has made a mess of firefighters' salaries because of the restructuring process, which is taking far too long.
Helen Zille
It would be impossible to mess this up now. We put together the best deals in the country, period. At this point it's just a matter of how big--not if.
Ryan Jumonville
It causes a huge traffic mess. We are going to hire security, which we are doing again to fight off these ladies bringing their 2- and 3-year-old children to the show.
Patrick Rogers
This is not the time to mess with us.
Ranaan Gissin
I just didn't want to mess it up when I got back in there.
Alex Steen
Who are trying to make money and leave us with the mess.
John Thompson
It's not good. From a common sense point of view, of course it's going to be a problem. It's going to be a mess.
Genie White
The last couple of years, we didn't have that. Now, when you mess up, you're going to know. We're a much better team.
Roderick Wilmont
No, we almost never improvise on stage. We're not clever enough for improvisation. We'd just mess it up.
Kjartan Sveinsson
Traffic, it's a mess, I mean it's wall to wall people trying to get out.
Matt Lewis
It's a mess. There is no question about that.
Patrick Fequiere
There is no other way we can describe it, other than to say it would be an absolute mess.
Tom Gosiorowski
What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.
Henry Ford II
We're continuing to seek a resolution without this becoming a big, big mess.
Marty Dickens
He gets out of things that most guys don't get out of. You should have him for a 5-yard loss and it's a 20-yard gain while you're trying to figure out how he got out of the mess he was in.
Kevin Bentley
I'd be concerned about his handicap mark. He could run well against very good horses without winning, and for the sake of showing he isn't good enough to run in a Gold Cup, we could mess up his chance to win a big handicap.
Philip Hobbs
They are a Godsend. If not for them we'd still be in a big mess. I mean even a bigger mess that we're in right now.
Charles Owens
Florida's system is in meltdown. That's the state that has the mess because politicians created it.
Rep. Michael Lawlor
I'm sorry, I'm a mess, that was too much but it was uplifting.
Gaynell Sherrod
Bananas are more like flowers, ... you can't mess around with them.
Richard Benson
Somebody has to be held accountable. We need to find out who was responsible for the mess over there.
Brian Fitzgerald
I don't want to mess up my songs. If I didn't end my songs with commercials, I wouldn't know what to say.
Wesley Willis
We've got a Byzantine mess if we get into every form and every regulation.
Larry Moore
It's a mess. As the elections get closer, the politics will get nastier.
Michael Heath
I don't mess around, boy.
Ricky Nelson
An uncapped year could wind up being a total mess.
Sal Galatioto
It's an enormous mess ... a real nightmare.
Jeanne Finberg
Let me tell you something. This is an important election. We're going to straighten this mess out.
Gerald Miller
Sometime during this mess, we caught Tim's group. Then, someone decided that it wouldn't be a good idea if we came into the sprint with the 3s, so we went easy until they finished that lap.
Andrew Olson
The crux of this whole mess is that both entities should be using the same criteria when making their estimate.
David Sutton
It's kind of a mess, and they wanted some fix. This would be a good fix.
John Abrams
You just can't move around in here. It's a mess.
Sean Scott
You know, I had spoke to Pugh earlier about joining the organization. Pugh told me he wasn't going to have anything to do with that mess.
Charles Phillips
They were talking a lot of mess all month. We heard it.
Frostee Rucker
If you're down here in the summer, you can't get in and out of town. It's a mess.
Pat Collins
She wasn't stiff. She was very heavy. Very heavy. Very, very. And I remember that she, she was (a) mess, and so heavy I think I probably ended up dropping her.
Kelly Ryan
It's such a beautiful, unique stadium because it's a war memorial and it's an historic building, ... I know the buildings there. We're not going to mess it up. Not on my watch.
Tim Cahill
America is a great big team, ... You mess with one of us, you mess with all of us.
Bruce Hall
If you mess up, he's definitely going to let you know about it. Whether you like how he says it or not, he's still going to say it.
Cedric Humes
Builders and environmentalists say don't mess with these programs.
Katherine Kennedy
I stayed his him both nights. He wouldn't mess (around) with me.
Lance Francis
The state is focused on cleaning up this huge, historic mess. We don't believe we're asking for anything extravagant (from the federal government) to do it.
Tom Rathbun
We were expecting to come home to a mess, and we end up with all this.
Florence Mathe
We believe a lot of people thought they were going to get a free tank full of gasoline, so it created a bit of a traffic mess out there.
Dick Roberts
Elrod came out to the mound and said, 'Boy, did we get ourselves in a mess.' He acted like it was his fault, too.
Jim Palmer
I got a very bad feeling about this guy. Something told me don't mess with this guy. They were 'bang, bang' like that, in rapid succession.
Robert Christenson
We took three cars, left at midnight and drove until 6 a.m., ... Everybody was leaving, and the roads were a mess.
Jack Curry
Both his game and his poise and maturity on the course were critical to our success last year and we expect more of the same this year. He doesn't let one shot mess him up.
Rich Bruneau
Mess isn't a 'What if?' guy. That was Mess. He played on the edge.
Adam Graves
Don't mess with me.
Ali Rodriguez
We probably have a different viewpoint. But the one thing we have in common is that we were all athletes being thrown into this mess together.
David Pelletier
I'm a mess but God is dealing with me every day. That's what all these songs are about: problem, cause and solution.
Lauryn Hill
They're both mental sports. You make one mistake and it can mess up your whole day. In both, you have to learn to deal with it.
Jeff White
You have this large SIG (the Bluetooth Special Interest Group) that's made up of so many vendors, and everyone's coming at this from a slightly different angle, which makes for kind of a mess.
Chris Kozup
I don't think he's going to have the moral authority or the support of his people to help clear up the mess.
Thomas Groome
One thing we uncovered was the attitude that 'Africa's always a mess' and 'what are we going to do anyway?' ... We were able to answer this, tell them what is really happening.
John Weiss
My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.
Loretta Lynn
I was caught up in that mess. I won't be coaching football next year. I'm just trying to keep my focus on wrestling and distance myself from that.
Kenny Walker
They stayed off the interstates because they heard that [those roads] were a mess.
Shirley Jackson
The geese and the seagulls make such a mess all over the beach that it's a health hazard.
Donald Miller
It's a mess. It's a mess.
George Schultz
Iran is now much less worried about the US attacking them because of the mess in Iraq... They're testing the waters.
Gary Samore
The gym was just a mess. The club was so rundown. But without a doubt, we have so much more interest here.
William Mahoney
The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.
Laurence J. Peter
She was a mess, and I knew I won't have her long, but it's the best thing I've ever done. The older animals are always harder to place. A lot of people look at everything over eight as old, but you get a lot of good years out of them. Older animals are really the best ones.
Katie Nordhaus
It's part of racing. We were the innocent victims in that mess, but what could we do about it?
Jeremy Mayfield
Republicans didn't find themselves in this mess because they couldn't communicate. It is what they are communicating — things like corruption at home and dangerous incompetence abroad. That is the problem.
Rebecca Kirszner
If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?"
Will Rogers
I just began to lose it. It wasn't for lack of trying. But I just couldn't believe there was a God in charge of this mess.
Bart Ehrman
New York didn't create this mess, but we have the power to help people survive it.
Assemblyman Richard Gottfried
He always had certain rules, and you didn't mess around. But I never felt uncomfortable talking to him about anything. My friends felt the same way. A lot of them like him better than they liked me.
Rick Roche
On Oct. 1, civil unions become law in Connecticut, but there is not a JP in that room who knows what to do with it. It's going to be a mess.
Saul Haffner
Danny did a heck of a job coming in and cleaning up my mess, and the defense also did great.
Bryan Brainer
They tried to do it cheaply, without masks and gloves. It was a mess. That's why we want assurances that the work will be done properly.
Satinath Sarangi
You don't mess with a man's money; you don't mess with a man's woman; you don't mess with a man's family or his manhood these were a man's principles . . .
Claude Brown
I had the perfect accident for the perfect idea. I was rendered immobile where the only thing I could do is mess with my computer.
Harry Knowles
Things are going to be worse before they get better. But this bill begins the process of driving through the mess we're going to face by changing the regulatory structure by encouraging competition.
Mark Delegal
We didn't play aggressively in the second quarter. The game doesn't allow you to mess around. As hard as we played in the second half, it didn't make a difference.
Brent Barry
I don't usually mess with kids. This is my first time ever messing with kids.
James Effler
Last year, to be honest, I wasn't as happy, ... I didn't play that much last year. I was depressed, well, not depressed. It was frustrating. Now I look forward to the games. I look forward to practice. I look forward to - if I mess up, going in there and doing it better.
James Reed
If studidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
Will Rogers
You clean up the mess or you are sitting on the bench tonight.
Patrice Neveu
It's a mess. The distinctions are muddied and get sillier and sillier.
Heather Gerken
I know that it had to be a crack (cocaine) user, because who else would mess with an electric wheelchair?
Gary Besong
It would be a big mess.
Robert Nelson
Oh man, oh boy what a mess.
Carole Kaufman
Welcome to my grand mess.
Michael Turner
We decided not to mess with that. Maybe he had an accident and lost his tail at some point.
Matthew O'callaghan
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