I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.
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".
There will always be a part of me that is dirty and sloppy, but I like that, just like all the other parts of myself.
Let's face it, the human eye is clumsy, sloppy, and unintelligible when compared to the camera's eye.
If you notice phrases, ideas, and anecdotes that closely resemble those that appear elsewhere in my writing, it's not a matter of sloppy editing. I'm repeating myself. I'm reshuffling words in the hope that just once I might say something exactly right. And I'm still wrestling with dilemmas that are not easily resolved or easily dismissed. I run at them again and again because I am not finished with them. Any may never be. Work-in- progress on a life-in-progress is what my writing is about. And some progress in the work is enough to keep it going on.
Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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.
Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat. Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself.
A sloppy performance in a photograph is as distressing as a sloppy performance in music.
Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.
Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.
A couple of hours of practice is worth ten sloppy rounds.
A good banker isn't careless with pennies; a good leader isn't sloppy about details.
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.
Those partial to drink were hiding faults and dishonesty. They were sloppy souls, even the ones with pleasant manners and fine noses.
I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy
Jack the Rabbit and Weak Knee Willie, you know they're gonna be there. Sloppy Sue and Big Bones Billy, they'll be coming up for air.
If you have a sloppy religion you get a sloppy atheism.
If you lead a sloppy life, if you indulge in your emotions, if you're always upset, freaked out, stressful, and not happy, you are wasting power and your power level will get very low.
I was a sloppy kid, wanted to be just wild.
