Bad Quotes

I feel like I was born and bred to stay self-motivated. I'm not one of those people who ho-hums and feels sorry for himself when something's bad.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

I work too much to be an appropriate parent. I feel like a bad mom to my dog some days because I'm just not here enough. I just feel like I would do a bad job if I took the time to literally give birth to a kid right now and try and juggle everything I'm doing.

That I would rather be in another business where a bad cold wouldn't put me out of work.

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.

I've had good times and bad times. That's me. That's how I am.

Here I was, this good guy that played football; I was gonna go play in college but I had a bad senior year. But I played guitar in assemblies whenever I could.

There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.

But I'm not as bad as Al Pacino - he doesn't even know what month it is half the time when he's working.

But by showing us live coverage of every bad thing happening everywhere in the world, cable news makes life seem like it's just an endless string of disasters - when, for most people in most places today, life is fairly good.

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.

The interesting thing about the China story, getting back to the macro and micro, and as dire as I think the macro story is - due to bad credit and credit extension that makes Greece and Spain and the U.S. look like child's play - when you get to the micro of individual companies, they look even worse.

Any species capable of producing, at this earliest, juvenile stage of its development... the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, cannot be all bad.

My father helped me become a ballplayer and take the good with the bad.

I'll sign anything except bad legislation.

There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay there too long - I think if you start staying for too long, you tend to fall into certain bad habits, and I tried not to do that.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Find what's hot, find what's just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.

If it wasn't for prison, I was in a bad way.

There is no such thing as a bad beer. It's that some taste better than others.

I feel not unlike a small boy, waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement.

I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.

Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

Nobody thinks of themselves as sexy, really. Some days you go, 'Hey, I'm not going too bad today.' But if you try and be sexy, you'll never be sexy.

If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom, you must beat up for a march; you must make an excitement, do something that everybody will notice.

You don't want flame to hit your food. Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot and it makes deposits of various chemicals that are not too good for us. The last thing you really want to see licking at your food while it's on a grill is an actual flame.

The introduction of political pluralism often quickly led to bad results.

Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.