"Messy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... do with such a messy job as a pig-killing, I should like to know!" she said scornfully. "Poor folks ...
— Jude the Obscure • Thomas Hardy
... One's so helpless against them, sticking here waiting to know where the next will drop. And they don't even give a fellow the ordinary four to one chance of a casualty being a wound only. They make such a cruel messy smash of a fellow. . . . ...
— Between the Lines • Boyd Cable
... never made up her bed in her life before, and first she thought she couldn't, but her mother told her to take hold and see what a Madison could do with a bed—they're awfully proud of their old family—so she did; but it looks dreadfully messy yet, and it makes her late for chapel every single morning. ...
— Betty Wales Freshman • Edith K. Dunton
... condition the tower unquestionably provides a strong accent. It has already become a dominating influence here. But it's an influence that teaches people to feel and to think in the wrong way. It encourages a liking for what I call messy art, instead of developing a taste for the simplicity that always characterizes the best kind of beauty, the kind that develops naturally out ...
— The City of Domes • John D. Barry
... I continued this pattern of putting off bowel movements, even though outhouses and potties were a thing of the past. As a young adult I could always think of something more interesting to do than sitting on a pot, besides it was messy and sometimes accompanied by embarrassing sound effects which were definitely not romantic if I was in the company of a young man. During two pregnancies the tendency to constipation was aggravated by the weight of the fetus resting on an already sluggish bowel, and the discomfort of straining ...
— How and When to Be Your Own Doctor • Dr. Isabelle A. Moser with Steve Solomon
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