Stan Laurel Quotes

That's another fine mess you've gotten me into.

It’s very difficult to come to grips with how we screwed this up, but we screwed this up.

Now for the hitch in Jane's character,' he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I had expected him to speak. 'The reel of silk has run smoothly enough so far; but I always knew there would come a knot and a puzzle: here it is. Now for vexation, and exasperation, and endless trouble!

Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.

If you're not accurate, you'll cause untold trouble.

I am a whole lot of trouble.

No organization, whether it's police or physicians or whatever, wants to have its errors held up to the light of day, but it's wrong, as is coming out so well.

When I make an error, it's a very bad day in my house.

The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis.

I blame myself more so because I hung a curve. If you want to point a finger, point it at me.

It takes two to get one in trouble.

If a botch is made at the other end of the Avenue, I don't mean to be a party to it.

I've never seen such a goddamned mess in my life.

I don’t think its worth fighting for, and I don’t think we can get out. It’s the biggest damn mess.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

I'm not going to be their spear catcher for the rest of this year.

The fault always lies in the candidate or the head coach or the guy holding the ball.

I'm obsessed with the mess that's America.

The job isn't done until you've blamed someone for the parts that went wrong.

It's like my father always said to me, he said to me, he said, Roseanna Roseanadana, it's always something. If it isn't one thing--it's another! It's always something.

I ought to file charges of uncommon stupidity against you for letting her try this alone." ~ Newt, Black Magic Sanction, Kim Harrison

Give a man free hands, and you'll know where to find them.

There's nothing quite as irksome as someone else's mess.

When we make mistakes they call it evil

All the fatt's in the fire.