A Quote by Anthony Trollope

Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.

Anthony Trollope

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Down Only Peg Screw The Only Thing Thing Up

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Anthony Trollope
English - Novelist
April 24, 1815 - December 6, 1882

You'll find that education's about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and that it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away. Everything else is screwed down tight and the screw-driver lost.

George Horace Lorimer

That is their way, those plagues, those scientists - peg, peg, peg - dig, dig, dig - plod, plod, plod. I wish I could catch a cargo of them for my place; it would be an economy. Yes, for years, you see. They never give up. Patience, hope, faith, perseverance; it is the way of all the breed.

Mark Twain

It's easier making a smaller film like El Mariachi. There are no budget worries because there is no budget. There is no crew problem because there is no crew. And if you screw up, no one is around to see you screw up -- so it's no longer a screw up.

Robert Rodriguez

You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.

Elbert Hubbard

You might say what if I screw up? Then screw up big! Go for it! Do a big screw-up!

Tony Robbins

I don't believe in make-or-break moments in your life. If you screw something up, it can knock you down, but that only means you'll be better when you get back to where you were before.

Romesh Ranganathan

If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass.

Randall "Tex" Cobb

I guess we all have a bad night now and then and really screw up. I listened to our earlier stuff and we screwed up a lot. But at least now that we are sober, when we screw up it's for real.

Joe Perry

Screw up often; but screw up ahead of everybody else, and than learn as much, and than use it to make subsequent investments.

Vinod Khosla

Government can screw up just about everything. Given enough power and time it will screw up everything.

Mark Thornton

Stand up, speak out, and be bold. Screw political correctness. Never let them tell you to sit down and shut up.

Sarah Palin

Actors tend to get in their own way, a lot. A lot of times you will do things that will screw up your audition process. I was very bad at auditioning, and I always went in to it saying ‘God I hope I don’t screw this up.’ But at the same time, the directors are saying, ‘God, I hope this person is the savior.’ You have to remember is that the worst thing that could happen is you don’t get the job you don’t already have.

George Clooney

But I've always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I'm here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.

Keith Richards

There is only so much I can understand and not screw up.

David Krumholtz

Real people aren't perfect; they fall down and mess up and screw up. Those are the kind of people that I look to, and I've always aspired to just be authentic.