Bad Quotes

• Detroit: Cars and rock 'n' roll. Not a bad combo.

  

  Robert James Ritchi
  • Bad
  • Rock

• Any customer of government - whether it's with education, taxes, housing, or health care - understands the frustrations when they have a bad experience. They're stuck and can't go anywhere else.

  

  Pete Hoekstra
  • Experience
  • Education
  • Health

• Good manners. They're forgotten in America. I think it's bad manners to stand around in public with ripped jeans and your hair in a mess, holding a Starbucks.

  

  Dita Von Teese
  • Good
  • America
  • Hair

• I've just had some bad news. Tomorrow is the mother in law's funeral. And she's cancelled it.

  

  Les Dawson
  • She
  • Mother
  • Law

• These days she simply did the best job she could, accepting the good with the bad.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Job
  • Best
  • Do

• Too bad, I'm no poet, I happen to know it, But anyway Here's a roundelay I wrote last night about you...

  

  Cole Porter
  • Bad
  • Night

• I've had quite a lot of bad experiences with Japanese sweets. I reckon, Japanese...they can do most things really well but sweets, they're a bit dodgy.

  

  Ian Graham
  • Sweet
  • Wells
  • Japanese

• Anything that's of any use, famous people get hold of it and take it for themselves and it gets a bad rap.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • People
  • Famous
  • Rap

• I loved Latin - the grammar, the difficult tenses, the history - but for some reason I was very bad at it, shamefully and blushingly bad at it. … In moments of stress the embarrassment of how bad I was at Latin - a subject I loved - really hit me. It was like being laughed at by someone you desperately loved.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • History
  • Moments
  • Stress

• Secretary Clinton and I have worked well together, but the Arab Spring is a different question... This administration, collectively, made some very bad decisions, and they now have to climb out of a deep hole.

  

  Jim Webb
  • Different
  • Together
  • Question

• I am fascinated by that notion of people are never as they seem. And that doesn't make them good or bad. It's just we don't ever really show ourselves if we don't have to.

  

  Joe Carnahan
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• I went down for a week with the Houston Marshals. I didn't know that they hated paperwork as much as I hated it. They loathe it, man. They want to be in their cars catching the bad guys. They don't want to be filling out paperwork about the bad guys, you know, and the ones they've caught.

  

  Kelli Giddish
  • Bad

• I like really bad puns - proper, red-top, nasty puns - I find them funny.

  

  Johnny Flynn
  • Funny
  • Red
  • Nasty

• The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.

  

  Cullen Hightower
  • Trying
  • Bad

• I sometimes think it's better to go with a bad movie that is true to a certain point of view than to take something and make people try to like it when they're not supposed to.

  

  Amy Heckerling
  • People
  • True
  • Movie

• My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.

  

  Jane Campion
  • Music
  • Bad
  • Knowledge

• Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.

  

  Alton Brown
  • Bad

• It was a bad day for love.

  

  Daniel Handler
  • Bad

• Doing my first movie, I realized I could get into real bad habits. If you're the star, all you have to do is show up, and 20 people say, 'Do you want anything? What is it? Let me get it for you.' Believe me, you get spoiled very quickly. I saw some of my contemporaries allow themselves to have that fame, thinking they could handle it. It messed them up.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• War is nothing but a microcosm of peace... it shows you life in a more intense way and that's how I continue to live it... for good or bad reasons.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Life
  • Good
  • Live

• We never said the U.K. is in bad shape if it leaves the E.U.: we said the E.U. would miss a massive opportunity. Without the U.K., the E.U. may never be able to stand up against superpowers like China and the U.S.

  

  Joe Kaeser
  • Up
  • May
  • Opportunity

• I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when they have ideas.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Men
  • Women
  • Bad

• Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.

  

  Buddha
  • Good
  • Growth
  • Charity

• If immigration reform is bad for America's workers, then why does virtually every group that represents American workers support it so enthusiastically?

  

  Luis Gutierrez
  • Why
  • American
  • America

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