Worst Quotes

It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process.

I think it's the sign of a leader to step up and say, you know, when something's not working to have the guts to reverse it. And the worst thing you can do is to let that mistake linger.

There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.

If the worst that happens is that I wake up and see a picture of myself and a headline saying, 'He wasn't very funny last night', then I've got nothing to complain about.

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.

The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself.

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.

The first year or so on The Daily Show is pretty intense in terms of travel. You're going to the worst places in the country, talking to the craziest people in the world.

I ran into Neal Patrick Harris recently. We were in something called The Purple People Eater. He was maybe 10, but he still remembered it as the worst experience of his life!

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

My theory about why Hemingway killed himself is that he heard his own voice; that he reached the point where he couldn't write without feeling he was repeating himself. That's the worst thing that can happen to a writer.

Worst ideas? Me? Whatever do you mean? There are no bad ideas.

I've been as critically rubbished as acclaimed and the worst thing about that is that it usually plays into your own self-criticism.

My worst quality is impatience.

I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written.

The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.

People feel the worst film I made was 'Jack.' But to this day, when I get checks from old movies I've made, 'Jack' is one of the biggest ones. No one knows that. If people hate the movie, they hate the movie. I just wanted to work with Robin Williams.

Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.

Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.

The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.

I think my worst nightmare is standing up in front of a group of people.

She not only expects the worst, but makes the worst of it when it happens.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!

We begin the path toward defeating Mexico's real adversary, who represents authoritarianism and the worst antidemocratic practice, who represents a return to corruption as a system and impunity as conviction. That adversary is Pena Nieto and his party.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst possible turn.

I was never at my best when I was at my worst. When I did do good stuff in the past, it was because I was able to transcend the parts of my being that weren't healthy.

I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s.