Messing Quotations

Once we start deliberately messing with the climate systems, we could inadvertently shift rainfall patterns (climate models have shown that rainfall in the Amazon might be particularly vulnerable), causing collapse of ecosystems, drought, famine, and more.

I definitely don't like anyone messing with my friends or loved ones. I'm quick to step up to the plate if there's a problem.

Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up.

If you are messing around all day and then scream for certainty, you're not going to get it. If you spend energy and do the work and develop that certainty, you'll get to where you need to be, even if you don't know exactly where that is.

I've always had a fascination about mixing music. So I downloaded an application and started messing around with it, and it just built up from there.

I just feel like a kid that has some money now, that can take care of my family... I think I'll always be a kid. I'm always messing around, always running around, always trying to have a good time.

When you're on the road, there's no time for second chances and messing yourself up.

For some reason, lots of terrible things start here and then spread. The Cold War was one. It didn't start in Berlin - it started in Athens in December 1944; the contagion in the eurozone started here in 2010. We are perfectly capable as Europeans of messing things up unnecessarily.

My stepfather met my mother when I was seven years old, and he was a guitar player. So he caught me messing with his guitar, his electric guitar, and he tried to show me some chords, but my hands were too small.

It's incredible, but I think a lot of people it shot over their heads 'cause they're used to just getting images and messing around with them, and for us to do something quite so 'designed' was a bit of a shock.

I'm always thinking I'm messing up. I did a lot of classes. I can't stand being on stage or the only one talking in a room, so class really helped me deal with that. It doesn't really get any easier, but it helps you focus on the acting.

When people start messing with their foreheads and can't lift their eyebrows, that's weird.

I remember at The Quilted Giraffe, when I was when working there to try out for the sous-chef position. I really wanted it, and the woman working the line next to me kept messing up and making me look bad. The last day of my kitchen trail, I just said to her very quietly, 'Do me a favor and get out of my way, because I want this job.'

I'm reasonably easygoing. Messing up my lines or making a fool of myself is where you find my fears. Like a lot of English people, I'm prey to embarrassment - the dread that everyone's sort of sniggering at you, that you're going to look like an idiot. I think that sort of halts us all.

The more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. The instrument itself became important to me, and I started messing around with classical guitar and took classical lessons.

I got a few marriage proposals in my 20s. I just wasn't ready. I just knew if I committed, I would've wound up doing something wrong, messing it up. I still felt like I had some living to do.

When I'm kissing someone, I don't want to feel as though I'm rubbing off all the makeup that's on their face or messing things around. I think natural is better.

When you walk away from a really wonderful job like that, you start messing with everyone's priorities. It's like you're dissing them.

We're doing fine. I'm not going to start messing around with guys' brains. In time, he'll hit cleanup. We've said that before.

We know - everybody knows. We're messing up, and we need to stop.

With this team we just got up 2-0 (against San Diego in the NL Division Series) and just finished it. No messing around, we came out and scored a bunch of runs early in the first game and got us a lead. Maybe it's just different teams and experience.

Lucille didn't care about messing herself up. A lot of stars of her stature wouldn't do physical comedy because they were afraid they'd get their hair messed up or they'd look bad. I remember once she fell into a vat of green dye. She came out with not only her hair green but everything was green!

Old times. Just messing around. I think he was a little upset so I had to try to put a smile on his face.

She busted some lady's nose. That'll teach you about messing with her. ... I think they threw some beer or something on her, and she hit them. My mom's going to protect herself.

She's about 5-foot-9 and plays basketball, and jumps well. When she came out and was just messing with the high jump, I knew she was going to be good.

No one knows what the environmental costs of messing up the existing infrastructure will be.

I was talking to the doctors and I just said for us to quit messing around with him and get him well so that he is not two steps forward and one step back,

I was surprised they threw, but they needed one more first down to clinch. All day, we'd been messing up some, but that time everyone was in the right position.

I was stunned. I thought he was messing with me at first.

I grew up loving films and making stupid movies with a good friend of mine, who now actually has a career in a really prominent special effects house, so he's still doing it. We just started messing around with a camera.

I got to learn what does and doesn't work on screen. Because the turnaround is so fast, there's no messing around. You have to be on the ball.

I don't know what they are playing at. They are just making the boy unsettled, and they keep upsetting him. I find Bolton's behavior and what they are doing scandalous. They should stop messing around. The situation is becoming a bit annoying.

I 'bout hung up on him. I just thought it was somebody messing with me, ... It's a dream come true. Something I'll never forget.

Cardinal Mahony must be part of a lawless group. The church has no business messing in the rule of law.

I enjoy being a little controversial and messing with people sometimes. But that?s not very good business.

If we were playing a team that wasn't in it we'd still want to win. I don't want to say we like messing up their plans. I'm not trying to stir up nothing on the other side.

If we were messing up, he'd work us. He kicked us out one time. He can be pretty tough.

If the Bible is correct, and the Earth is only 6,000 years old, that means there were no dinosaurs, and museum curators have been messing with us. Or the dinosaurs were here, and we never noticed them. Or a lot of people saw them but didn't want to say anything.

I always loved to sing so I was going to be the singer. We were looking for a drummer and having problems finding one, so one time, I was messing around on the drums and they just taught me a simple drum beat. Ironically, it was the beat to 'I Love Rock 'n' Roll.' They said 'You can keep a beat and you can sing.' It's funny how things work out.

He had good command of his cutter. He was getting strike one with his fastball and then cutting all the lefties in on their hands and just being able to stay on the attack. He did a great job of not messing around and making effective pitches.

He goes off sometimes, but I think it's good. When people make mistakes and are repeatedly messing up over and over again, at some point you've got to grab them by the back of the neck and slap them.

I was listening to a lot of math rock-y type bands do lots of complex stuff and I couldn't figure out how they were doing it. Then I realized that sometimes they were finger tapping, so I started messing around doing it.

I think that's a bunch of crap. He might like to talk, but he's just messing around. He's a four-time finalist and a two-time champ, so he's got a reason to be like that.

I think you kick a guy in the butt in a tough situation, it's only gonna make it worse. You shouldn't go out there and say, 'You (stink), it's still a strike.' It's messing with a kid's head.

It is getting to that point in the year where you have to start playing your best basketball. Not that we have been messing around, but it's time to get serious. We are nine days to the end of the regular season and it is time to put up or shut up and I am challenging these guys to put it up.

I went to OZZFEST 2005 san bernardino last night and things got pretty crazy. Sharon osbourne had people throwing eggs at bruce dickenson and messing with Iron Maiden's equipment during Maiden's set. Bruce said

I was just tired of messing with my hair.

Spring is where you win a job. I've been telling all the young guys, come out here and give effort every play. Don't worry about messing up now. Just see yourself improve and get your way up the depth chart. We're going to have a lot of fight this spring.

Some guys like to start it out, and they get out of the blocks well. But from a mental standpoint, if I'm coming off the bench, I like to sit down and see what's going on. I can clear up some things when I get out there or try not to do the exact things that someone else has been messing up on.

My mom is just someone who's easy to talk to and hang with. My sister, it's always cool to be able to help her out with things. My brother is fun when we're just joking and messing around. And my dad is someone who's helpful with my music and easy to talk to about that stuff because he understands me in that sense.

I suppose we could bring him back and let him pitch in Boston (next week) but he only threw 32 pitches the other day (against Triple-A Syracuse) and I don't think he'll throw a whole lot more (Thursday). I like keeping him on track to pitch on the 16th (at U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago) without messing it up.

It definitely was messing with his mind a little. Once he got the lid off, it helped his confidence. He can bang and rebound . . . He's a guy you want to have on the court.

I thought my eyes were messing with me, so I looked again. She breathed. It was almost disbelief that she was still alive.

That's two full games where we haven't stopped anybody. Somehow we outscored Charlotte. We didn't outscore Dayton. We're messing with fire if we think that's how we can play. We have to stop people.

I was quite naughty at school. I was always in the back of the class messing about with the Bunsen burner rather than paying attention.

I was online looking at the box score, play-by-play. I kept refreshing it, and it kept messing up on me. Finally, I just saw it on the ticker on ESPN.

Williams gets ignored because you can't tell his story without messing up the mainstream story.

We're always like that. We're just messing around with each other. He's my family.

We had jitters in the first half. We were worried about messing up.

You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president. I mean, you can't make as many calls as you have to make without messing up once in awhile. The thing we ought to be focused on is what is the right thing to do now.

Unless your dogs started messing with it, or a child stepped on it.

We'll still be messing with him in the training room. We need to keep (him) feeling connected.

We don't always know what they're going through, and they don't always open up. I'm here to listen, but I don't sugarcoat it. If they are messing up, I tell them.

We're not messing around. We want to win every game from here on out. We have to or else we go home. I'll tell you what, we do have our thoughts in the right place, though, and that's winning. We're a winning football team, that's what we do.

To tell you the truth, when I rounded second, I thought he had it. It looked liked he took it out of his glove. I thought he was messing with me.

The only thing I learned from him was about messing up, so I'll try to be a better father than he was, ... I didn't even play football when I lived with him. My mom got me into it.

Brett never really changed the whole time I was around him. He enjoyed playing and messing around in the locker room. He seems to be the same type of guy now. We had a pretty solid team around him to keep him humble. It was a lot of fun, a fun group of guys. Everyone was tuned in to what we were trying to do.

At the end of practice, I always shoot crazy shots like that just messing around. When it went in, I went crazy and our crowd did, too.

The thing is you (pitchers) can't be messing around with the guys in the front of the order. Eventually, it will catch up with you. They could be the best at those positions (in the batting order) in the league.

People thought he was messing with Mark White. It embarrasses the governor.

As long as I'm doing what I'm supposed to do, and I'm going out and helping this team in any way, I'm going to be here, ... The only way I'm going to lose my job is if I'm messing up and not getting the job done.

This is a Category 5 storm. Trust me, it is a powerful, powerful force of nature that you shouldn't be messing with.

You don't want to waste talent by getting in trouble on the streets and messing your life away by doing stupid things. That's the message: don't go out and do things that can hurt your team. That's what we did in the past.

There were times he could get very pointed with people he thought were messing with landmarks, but for the most part I thought he was genteel, gracious, very polite. I saw him a lot, and I thought he was nice to everybody. He never rubbed his wealth in anybody's nose or acted above anybody.

They're bad. They weren't bored. They're bad. Messing with people's stuff on their property. I think they should make them pay for it.

There's a return to the values we learned as a kid. Most of us remember messing around with our dad or our mom in the garden and the workshop. There's an inherent satisfaction in working with your hands. The only space you can control is the space within your four walls.

Accuracy was the big, big objective in making the film. We had to be accurate, otherwise we would fall under that perception that Hollywood was messing around with a very vital event.

It's exciting, because if I go down there and play well, hopefully it will open up a lot of doors. I'm hoping to make a strong showing. And it's especially good to go down relaxed, show them what I can do, and not have to worry about coming in and messing anything up with a team's chemistry that's in the playoffs.

It was a winning car, and it's my fault for messing that up. You've just got to learn.

It's messing up my daughters' chance to get a scholarship.

It's not like we're messing with some jokes at wideout here,

It's kind of funny. I was joking with Hines about that. I told him it's the consolation prize for us. We didn't think it was rigged, that they just gave it to us. I was just messing with him. It just shows you what kind of players we have on this team. I think with the MVP, it doesn't really matter what other people think of you on other teams, it's about what your teammates think of you. Obviously, our teammates think very highly of us.

You think you are clever, I will sort you out. You are messing around with a wrong guy.

Sunday was like a run-out, doubling as a training session, I was not messing about but I knew I was not on for a world record time.

It's definitely something in the back of our minds. What are they doing? They're messing us up. We just have to show them on the field.

No, man, I was just messing around down there.

It's tough, because you're messing with how you make a living, ... But I needed that upgrade. Just to show I could do it.

I started messing around with the family 8mm camera or a borrowed VHS camera so I could make my own bloody special effects scenes.

They were so close. I wasn't even going to do it until the game. The offensive staff was tired of messing with it. They wanted to go ahead and name a starter, so that's fine.

They were using alcohol. They were attracted to each other. They got together behind this Dumpster at Seville Quarter. They were messing around, and it ended up with a push and a hit and turned into a tragic situation.

On a studio film, you don't have to worry about running out of film or messing up your costumes; you have five other sets of it. Studio films make you the most comfortable so you can just act.

It's really nice to get them outside at 6, 7 or 8 o'clock where they're in the backyard skating and I don't have to worry about them getting into trouble. It's nice to look out the back window and see the kids messing around on the ice ? as long as they're not fighting, which happens often.

In all honesty, it's a matter of me not messing up. Today had nothing to do with me. The only impact I had on the day was to be a warm-blooded person who could turn the thing on and mash the gas.

I have nothing against a mall, but it's just a place. Why do they have to take away this golf course? They (were considering) messing with the quality of life. That just doesn't seem right.

I like the way it's situated right now, ... That's why I don't like messing with it. I'd like to gear myself to stay on track because of how important these games are.

I remember going through school and doing art, which was the only thing that I actually found fulfilling, and I couldn't really figure out why. Then I got into college and started messing around with photography, and I realised that it was about getting the images that were in my head out in a way that didn't have to be spelt correctly.

I'll probably have more fun messing with the judges than the referees.

I know. Just stop, OK? You're messing with my train of thought.

I heard about Facebook, before BV got it, from my friends that go to other schools, ... I was messing around on my computer on Friday night and it let me register.

I don't know if he's ready, but he tries every day. We've been messing around with him there. It's kind of fun to watch him. There's going to be some difficult things for him, but I think it will make him a better basketball player taking on that responsibility.