- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bad Quotes
Straight talk about the bad stretches.
These quotes cover a pitcher accepting that pain eventually comes with the job, a squad's uneasy feelings over uneven pay, and a nod to how poor choices tend to drive horror-film plots. For the flip side of tough moments, see Good.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't say I'm a friend of David Byrne, but I guess I'm an acquaintance. I'm obviously an admirer, and we've met, but we don't call and chat about 'Breaking Bad' or anything.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, - being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.
- Nov 07, 2020
You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I remember most about junior homecoming was my date getting sick afterwards. That kinda sucked. Then, senior year, someone got gum in her hair when we were dancing. She had to get one of the chaperones to take her to the office and cut up her hair. I felt really bad for her, but it worked out fine.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
He had one uniform practice, and a very bad one it was, during the time of family worship, and just three or four seconds before the conclusion of the prayer, he started to his feet, and ran barking round the apartment like a crazed beast.
- Losing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did want to lock each game up before Final Jeopardy, to avoid losing to a bad bounce in that round.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of attention on me which can be good, it can be bad. Sometimes my daughter's acting up in public and I really wish I could become anonymous for a few minutes.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a writer. I never expected to be recognised on the street. I never expected to get that kind of coverage, good or bad. I never expected to sell as many books as I have.
- Regret
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's important with any new technology to try to pay conscious attention to what the drawbacks might be. We choose to multitask. Sometimes our choices aren't the wisest of choices, and we regret them, but they are our choices. I think it'd be wrong to think that they're automatically bad.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
The corporate system dictates what gets made, and the movies are so bad because of the economic structure of Hollywood. The big business takeover of Hollywood is at fault rather than American storytellers - it's what keeps textured movies from getting made.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to see these bad, bad, bad, bad men come to grips with their humanity.
- Nov 07, 2020