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Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

T. S. Eliot

It's a real mess as anyone can imagine. We've been attempting to help as best we can to coordinate rescue efforts.

John Long

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

The water's one thing, but once the mud gets in, it's just a big mess. It's sticky, it's gooey, it smells. It's just all bad.

Dave Land

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 a mess. We're hoping it's out by morning. That's a long time. That's one of our concerns. It's just going to saturate the ground.

Jack Veit

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

I like to experiment with stuff. Sometimes I mess up and sometimes it comes out pretty good.

Don Ross

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

Wood is dirty and nasty. I didn't want to mess with it in the house.

Bill Ryan

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 don't know that you enjoy looking at any of this mess. It's fun to look at if you're not involved in it. We just have to find a way to rush the passer, to cover some folks and then find some way to pressure it.

Joe Kines

You can like the life you're living, you can live the life you like. you can even marry harry, but mess around with ike and that's good, isn't it grand? isn't it great? isn't it swell? in fifty years or so, it's gonna change you know, but oh it's heaven now a days.

Bob Fosse

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

The Republicans have created a mess in Iraq. We are not going to clean up that mess overnight. We have some responsibility to those people.

Mark Hunt

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

Wasn't their mess. Was the loose mess that had already gathered the night before. Lemme tell you...they did clean.

Dan Ford

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

I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen.

Ted Allen

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

He's fun to look at but he leaves a mess.

Dan Hart

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

They leave an absolute mess.

Jack Cox

Now if you mess up, you mess the whole play up.

Ike Diogu

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

They asked me and I couldn't believe it because I didn't want to mess up his final dunk.

Spud Webb

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

I never lose my sense of urgency, ... We run this like a Fortune 100 company. We don't mess around here.

Giusti

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

Some of us feel NAT boxes are sort of an abomination because they really do mess about with the basic protocol architecture of the Internet.

Vint Cerf

An uncapped year could wind up being a total mess.

Sal Galatioto

It's an enormous mess ... a real nightmare.

Jeanne Finberg

If you mess up, he'll let you know.

Tim Mixon

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

Don't even think about coming ... here. It's a total mess. We've got wrecks everywhere.

Pat Goff

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

[So he has one outdoors.] No mess, ... I'm tickled to death.

Bill Ryan

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

Most of the mess was on the plastic, ... The rest we would just sweep up and get rid of.

Jeff Long

Every time it rains we get a real mess. It's very disheartening.

Fred Hill

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

Don't mess with me, gentleman; you'll get hurt.

Hugo Ch

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