Bad Quotes

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

The government's view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn't want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better.

My early reviews were so bad that I decided I didn't want to read them again.

Nobody thinks that they're evil or bad, they think that they're doing the right thing.

You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas.

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.

Dear God, let this be just a bad nightmare.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and I'm not interested.

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

It's a very, very fascinating story for me, cause it's about a man who's been doing bad; bad things. And he's a father of four children in parochial school, he's a lieutenant of detectives, but he's in conflict with himself and with trying to do what's right.

When I put some Tabasco on things, and there's really nothing in Tabasco, it's not bad for you in any way, so that's kind of become my substitute. Now you got to get used to a hot mouth, but that's okay.

Never worry about bad press: All that matters is if they spell your name right.

I get offered movies probably twice a month and they are just generally bad.

Iraq is a country that has been invaded. It's not a failing state that you want to help. It's a country that was functioning good or bad, with a horrible dictator, but you have invaded.

I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism.

I'm bad at doing what I'm told. I'm a born free thinker.

Just having the pain of being alive without anything else, whether it's good or bad. There's a lot of serious songs on the record, you know. That song is just about feeling like a fish out of water, feeling like you don't belong on the planet sometimes.

You can have a wrestling idea, but you need to have these momentum-shifting moves. We had the Hulkamania movement, then it shifted to the beer-drinking, Stone Cold era, we reinvented the business with growing the black beard and becoming the bad guy, what's that next level.

Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

I'm an accumulation of every single thing I've done, good and bad.

There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.