86 Sloppy Quotes

Following is our list of sloppy quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about slovenly.

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Famous Sloppy Quotes

The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized mind. — Alan Brien

For the girls with messy hair and thirsty hearts. — Jodi Lynn Anderson

All the untidyactivity continues, awful but cheerful. — Elizabeth Bishop

A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud. — Hugh Prather

Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair. — Dorothy Day

Beginnings are always messy. — John Galsworthy

Ready...set-y...spaghetti! — Dan Wells

Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top. — Italo Calvino

On my own I generally have very messy hair, wear jeans and sneakers. — Jewel Kilcher

I’m not the easiest person to live with. I’m kind of a slob. - Katie Holmes

I’m not the easiest person to live with. I’m kind of a slob. — Katie Holmes

Shakin' like a bowl of soup and make your body loop-de-loop. — Sam Cooke

Specifically, I would suggest that the effective organization is garrulous, clumsy, superstitious, hypocritical, monstrous, octopoid, wandering, and grouchy. — Karl Weick

Life is slippery. Here, take my hand. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Never let me slip cuz if I slip then I'm slippin'. — Dr. Dre

Potty mouth, rock star, at the top and still tryna climb, Drop the top sit back recline — French Montana

Short Sloppy Quotes

  • Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is. — Dick Guindon
  • I have little tolerance for incompetence, sloppy thinking, and laziness. — Michael E. DeBakey
  • If you have a sloppy religion you get a sloppy atheism. — Ronald Knox
  • I don't like to look sloppy. I'm a girly-girl. — Frances Bean Cobain
  • Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care. — William Safire
  • Art is based on order. The world is full of 'sloppy Bohemians' and their work betrays them. — Edward Weston
  • A good banker isn't careless with pennies; a good leader isn't sloppy about details. — John Wooden
  • I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy — Karl Lagerfeld
  • Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid. — William M. Kelly
  • Speed is the cushion of sloppiness. — William P. Driscoll

Sloppy Work Quotes

God help you if you use voice-over in your work, my friends. God help you. That's flaccid, sloppy writing. Any idiot can write a voice-over narration to explain the thoughts of a character. — Robert McKee

A disorganized workspace means disorganized work habits. A sloppy work environment equals sloppy results. — Larry Winget

I'm never sloppy, and I never wear jeans. I don't work one look in particular, but it's usually retro - I'm a flea-market freak. And detailed - I'm always very done, even at the gym. — Sayings

You've always got to work to your highest ability level. When times are great and restaurants are jamming, that's when some restaurants get sloppy and take things for granted. Never take things for granted. — Michael Symon

I do a nice sloppy first draft like everybody else. And then just work at it and work at it and groom it. I get input from other people. — Diablo Cody

Sometimes the characters develop almost without your knowing it. You find them doing things you hadn't planned on, and then I have to go back to page 42 and fix things. I'm not recommending it as a way to write. It's very sloppy, but it works for me. — Barbara Mertz

Slovenly Quotes

Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. — Winston Churchill

Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage. — Mary McCarthy

Baseball is slovenly and excessive in midsummer, with its onrolling daily cascade of line scores and box scores, shifting statistics, highlights and lowlights, dingers and shutouts, streaks and slumps. — Roger Angell

When we got off the streetcar at Times Square, it was somewhat of a letdown. Newspapers were blowing about the road and pavement, and Broadway looked seedy, like a slovenly woman just out of bed. — Charlie Chaplin

When the general is weak and without authority; when his orders are not clear and distinct; when there are no fixed duties assigned to officers and men, and the ranks are formed in a slovenly haphazard manner, the result is utter disorganization. — Sun Tzu

Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes. — Cesare Pavese

Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly. — William Wycherley

Most people call my style of dress slovenly, I call it extreme casual. If I didn't have a mother and a sister for the times I do have to get dressed, I would be absolutely lost. — Joshua Jackson

Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life. — Brenda Ueland

I don't think I would worry about an oversaturation of information if it was indeed information. It is the slovenly, hasty traffic in cliché and sensationalism and bad reasoning that bothers me. I love finding arcane primary texts on the web. The people who think to put them up are heroes of mine. — Marilynne Robinson

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More Sloppy Quotes

Jimmy Page is an excellent producer. Led Zeppelin I and II are classics. As a player he's very good in the studio, but I've never seen him play well live. He's sloppy. He plays like he's got a broken hand and he's two years old. If you put out a good album and play like a two year old, what's the purpose? — Eddie Van Halen

A few well-designed movements, properly performed in a balanced sequence, are worth hours of doing sloppy calisthenics or forced contortion. — Joseph Pilates

In order to win, you must play your best golf when you need it most, and play your sloppy stuff when you can afford it. I shall not attempt to explain how you achieve this happy timing. — Bobby Jones

I don't blame the people for the fact that so many movies are bad. I think there's a corrupt, perverted, lazy and sloppy attitude that's pervasive in the movie business. The whole entertainment business is kind of crumbling around us. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Compassion is not a sloppy sentimental feeling for people who are underprivileged or sick... it is an absolutely practical belief that regardless of a person's background, ability or ability to pay, he should be provided with the best that society has to offer. — Neil Kinnock

Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds. — Dorothy L. Sayers

A lot of men are very sloppy with the way they cheat. You can get caught from your cell phone or hanging around the wrong people while you're doing your dirt. Or you can get caught after a woman purposely leaves something in your car. — Tyrese Gibson

If you're sloppy, that's just fine. If you're moody, I won't mind. If you're fat, that's fine with me. If you're skinny, let it be. If you're bossy, that's all right. if you're nasty, I won't fight. If you're rough, well that's just you. If you're mean, that's all right too. Whatever you are is all okay. I don't like you anyway. — Shel Silverstein

The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke hung sluggishly above the chimney-tops as if it lacked the courage to rise, and the rain came slowly and doggedly down, as if it had not even the spirit to pour. — Charles Dickens

Punk rock should mean freedom, liking and excepting anything that you like. Playing whatever you want. As sloppy as you want. As long as it's good and it has passion. — Kurt Cobain

The spirit of my films... I always want them to be kind of contrarian. Meticulous on the one hand, but unbelievably sloppy and careless on the other. I guess that's what you get anyway, if you're not planning very much. — Guy Maddin

If you're too sloppy, then you never get reproducible results, then you never get reproducible results, and then you never can draw any conclusions; but if you are just a little sloppy, then when you see something startling, you nail it down. So I called it the "Principle of Limited Sloppiness". — Max Delbruck

You start out happy that you have no hips or boobs.All of a sudden you get them, and it feels sloppy. Then just when you start liking them, they start drooping. — Cindy Crawford

I like either skinny jeans or the ripped, casual, super-sloppy boyfriend jeans. A lot of ripped jeans. They are so early 2000, but they are so cute, I love them. I love surfer jeans, too! — Ariana Grande

The thing about curly hair is that it's a toss-up. Some days you can let it air dry and it's better than a hair-do, but some days you just look like a sloppy person. I'm really resistant to a trim. I only do it when it gets hard to brush out in the shower, then I'll submit, begrudgingly. — Natasha Lyonne

When a boy writes off the world it's done with sloppy misspelled words If a girl writes off the world it's done in cursive. — Sage Francis

People always ask me about my makeout scenes with him [Tyler Posey]. We joke around a lot and are like, ‘Oh, that was a sloppy one!’ But seriously, I don’t have to make an effort to have chemistry with him. He’s such a sweet guy and really loyal. — Crystal Reed

Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds. — Dorothy L. Sayers

My hands tend to be full enough dealing with people who hate me for who I am. Concentrate too hard on the millions of people who hate you for what you are and you're likely to turn into one of those unkempt, sloppy dressers who sag beneath the weight of the two hundred political buttons they wear pinned to their coats and knapsacks. — David Sedaris

If you show up without makeup or looking sloppy, no matter how impressive your ideas are, no one is going to pay attention to you. People take you more seriously if you look polished. — Sylvia Ann Hewlett

I just want to comment on how It's become a common thing in the NHL for guys to fall in Love with my sloppy seconds — Sean Avery

My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich. — Chuck Palahniuk

The most effective leaders are actually better at guarding against danger when they acknowledge it that it exists. Cowards, in contrast, cling to the hope that failure will never happen and may be sloppy in the face of danger - not because they don't acknowledge that it exists, but because they are just too afraid of it to look it in the eye. — Simon Sinek

Everyone can get a little sloppy with cash and it's smart to notice. But what's squeezing you is the big stuff you ladle onto your credit cards. — Jane Bryant Quinn

I'm against ignorance. I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking. I'm against fashionable thinking. I am against the whole cliché of the moment. — Herman Kahn

Androgynous fashion, long hair, the Pill, a new interest in the inner psychological life - an unabashed sloppiness, if you will - really marks the sixties. It was when Britain went girlie. And what do girls do? Girls shop. — Andrew Marr

She is sloppy, careless, and have many flaws here and there, but she is so honest and innocent like she's still a kid. — Um Ki-joon

Jim and I hit it off immediately, partly because our interests were astonishingly similar and partly, I suspect, because a certain youthful arrogance, a ruthlessness, an impatience with sloppy thinking can naturally to both of us. — Francis Crick

I don't make an effort to be sloppy. I just don't consider a perfect hairdo and a perfect face to be beautiful. If I had my way I'd dress myself and do my own makeup for magazine shoots. — Juliette Lewis

If you let a child know that you think he is lazy, sloppy, untruthful, unpleasant, and thoughtless, he'll probably prove you are right. Obviously, it is much better to make him stretch to reach a positive image than stoop to match one at ground level. — James Dobson

Have we become a cupcake league? We already have better helmets and gear. Wonder how the old school players feel about this. Not in the back of minds when talking about 18 game season so let's play football please... Even guys using shoulders to hit are getting flagged for helmet-to-helmet. Defense is getting sloppy because guys are avoiding fines and will get worse if suspending comes into play. — Phillip Daniels

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