Bad Quotes

People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests.

And when things are not going well in Toronto, you're going to hear about it. And you're going to say things are not good at all, where it's really not that bad.

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong.

Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy.

If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.

My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it.

At first, when I got bad press and people would talk bad about my family or something like that, I would get really upset, but now it's just not worth my energy.

Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.

I'm the baddest among the bad guys.

I am a light person. I think of myself with a shield, a protective shield around me. And I think of bad things bouncing off it. Boom, boom, boom, ba-boom, ba- boom!

There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past.

One thing my wife says is bad about me, is that I still care too much.

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.

In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.

It's very tempting to over-eat all the bad things when you're on a film set.

When we did the pilot, I sort of pictured this guy pirating a signal and then this story unfolding of him building this satellite and these robots and watching these bad movies.

I've always wondered what it would be like if somebody from outer space landed with three heads. Then all of a sudden everybody else wouldn't look so bad, huh? Well, OK you're a little different from me but, hey, ya got one head.

The world of manic depression is a world of bad judgment calls.

Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.

It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was their bad karma and they must have hurt a child in a past life.

As soon as I found out how compartmentalized the industry was, I realized, Well, no wonder the cartoons are so bad.

I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

When you're going bad, sometimes you need to relax more. I've always been intense. I didn't need to be more intense.

I've had bad jobs. Now I have a good one. I'm thankful.

In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives.

I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes out when you get me on camera.

If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.

These are challenging times for all Americans. We face the specter of war abroad and a steady stream of bad economic news at home.

I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing.