Bad Idea Quotes

#1. My point here is not that the Iraq War was a bad idea in the first place (though it certainly was). My point is that this cynical, foolish, arguably illegal war might still have come right in the end - if only we had tried a little less hard to fix everything that struck us as broken.

Rosa Brooks

#2. I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.

Carly Rae Jepsen

#3. Suicide, I decided, hurt. A lot. Clearly, this had been a bad idea. I wouldn't be trying that again.

Brianna Karp

#4. She should tell him no, but instead she seemed to be running toward trouble, leaving no stone unturned, no boy unkissed, no crush abandoned, and no bad idea unembraced.

Holly Black

#5. It's not a bad idea." "It's a terrible idea," Oi said. "It just has the advantage of being better than the other option.

John Scalzi

#6. It's not a bad idea to occasionally spend a little time thinking about things you take for granted. Plain everyday things.

Evan Davis

#7. It was all right to feel fear, but sometimes a very bad idea to show it. 'You

Stephen King

#8. Congress will always couple one bad idea with another, the better to 'offset' them.

Jeffery Taylor

#9. I really think that people have to think safety; taking risks for higher yield is a bad idea once you're in late or latish middle age.

Paul Krugman

#10. When communism failed, it wasn't a good idea that had gone wrong, it was a bad idea that had been sustained with incredible determination in the face of all the commonsense arguments, and at the cost of 20 million lives at least, in Russia, to build the socialist Utopia.

Martin Amis

#11. This isn't a good idea."
"I know. It's a terrible idea. But right now, it feels like the best bad idea I've ever had. I have to be inside you.

Chanel Cleeton

#12. Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive.

Nigel Farage

#13. Just remember, Harry, I told you this was a bad idea." "Preemptive I-told-you-sos," I said. "Now I've seen everything.

Jim Butcher

#14. So, as you can see and if you reflect on it, awkward headed-females mating with beautifully normal headed-males is a bad idea.

Penny Reid

#15. The "paperless office" is a bad idea because paper is one of the most useful and valuable media ever invented. "On paper" is a good place for information you want to use; a bad place for information you want to store.

David Gelernter

#16. A republican stands up in congress and says 'I GOT A REALLY BAD IDEA!!' and the democrat stands up after him and says 'AND I CAN MAKE IT SHITTIER!!

Lewis Black

#17. Rebecca let out a gusty sigh. "Pregnant, I tell you. I'm definitely getting pregnant." Her mother responded by passing over the tearful little guy. Not a bad idea, Jane decided. Birth control by baby brother

Christie Ridgway

#18. If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, it's more like, 'Oh, this is a really bad idea. Let's do this. This seems really stupid.'

Trey Parker

#19. The sequestration is a bad idea, all around. It is something that is out of the question. If you have spending cuts, education of our children, other investments, on the National Institutes of Health, where you are hindering growth, you're no going to reduce the deficit.

Nancy Pelosi

#20. The Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS), which controls the living environment on shuttles and on the International Space Station, doesn't have the luxury of disposal: discharging trash into space has long been judged a bad idea.

Rose George

#21. Back in '93 and '94, when 'Dookie' was being made, my dad built this tour bus for us, out of a bookmobile. We toured in it for the first year. It was a really bad idea, by the way.

Tre Cool

#22. Opposing the free flow of goods or people is a bad idea.

William Weld

#23. I know, he said. We are into the Bad Idea neighborhood and heading down I Have a Bad Feeling Street. (Shane)

Rachel Caine

#24. In the older folklore, faeries were frightening beings. In fact, it was such a bad idea to get their attention that people would use flattering euphemisms for them, such as 'the people of peace,' 'the little people,' and 'the good neighbors.'

Holly Black

#25. Nuking Russia might not be a bad idea as far as the bleedin' world is concerned. They've plunged a lot of people into miserable lives. You've only got to be in East Germany to see it. It's a horrible way to live. It's like Doncaster.

Mark E. Smith

#26. The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example. It is still clinging to one or two things which were useful once, but which are not useful now, neither are they ornamental.

Mark Twain

#27. It's not a bad idea to be single, so I can concentrate on my job.

Emily Procter

#28. Keep going until it seems like a bad idea, then go a little further.

Steve Wilson

#29. I want to take you home! And you, oh you're really sad-looking, I need to stop looking at you. This is such a bad idea, I need to get out of - Oh, I want to take you too!

Molly McAdams

#30. A full mind is unlucky if a good idea comes to enter inside; an empty mind is unlucky if a bad idea comes to enter inside!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#31. I'm not going to pontificate and tell you to execute your government at dawn, but it wouldn't be a bad idea.

John Lydon

#32. All in all, he thought it was a bad idea to get involved with the woman investigating his ex's possible suicide with intent to haunt.

Marybeth Niederkorn

#33. I'd forgotten how cold it was. Especially when we turned the corner and the wind from off the lake hit us. I was thinking that buying fur-lined boots wasn't enough. Finding some fur-lined underwear might not be a bad idea.

Rachel Hawthorne

#34. Yeah, well, what are you going to teach me next ... how to take over the world?" I asked sarcastically.
"Good idea!" Sampson exclaimed a little too enthusiastically.
"No, bad idea!" I stressed.
"See? You are learning," Sampson said.

Jennifer Priester

#35. They obviously weren't trying to recruit us, which was sort of a shame. I imagined a full unit of vampire soldiers and I got a little giddy, and distracted. Bad idea, maybe. But it'd be epic, wouldn't it?

Cherie Priest

#36. It's not at all a bad idea for scientific questions to be chosen because a democratic deliberation would identify them as important for people's lives.

Philip Kitcher

#37. Sometimes I feel like seeing if I can track down anybody from the old days, but then I think, what would I talk to them about now? They wouldn't even recognize Megan the happily married suburbanite. In any case, I can't risk looking backwards, it's always a bad idea.

Paula Hawkins

#38. Our phones are so intimately connected to us, to our lives. Putting advertising on a device like that is a bad idea. You don't want to be interrupted by ads when you're chatting with your loved ones.

Jan Koum

#39. After all, if you have the majority of customers, then what you do becomes the standard. Your competitors have little choice but to follow. If you are the leader, then having a nonstandard infrastructure is a bad idea. Ultimately, it leads to extinction.

Douglas Gwyn

#40. I use vaporizers a lot. It cuts down on the heat and the smoke. And for a singer that's not a bad idea.

Willie Nelson

#41. It's better not to try to learn all the lines by rote. It's a very bad idea, in fact. You have to do it by using the process, and as I say, the process is to learn during rehearsals, and that's how you'll do it.

Angela Lansbury

#42. Good strategy, keep the conversation going until a guard notices the bodies outside the door. Maybe bursts in to save you. Not a bad idea.

C.M. Hayden

#43. It takes so long to put a movie into production and finish it that anyone with a bad idea has time to give it to you before the movie is completed.

Dave Foley

#44. I know that nuclear is better than fossil fuels when it comes to carbon dioxide, but nuclear energy is by no means clean. We don't know what to do with the waste we already have and it seems like a bad idea to me to make more when we have so many cleaner options such as wind and solar.

Sheryl Crow

#45. China is not a great idea: capitalism and a dictator. It's like the two worst possible things you could imagine together. It's a very bad idea.

Fran Lebowitz

#46. I was much crazier than I had imagined. Or maybe it was a bad idea to read DSM-IV when you're not a trained professional. Or maybe the American Psychiatric Association had a crazy desire to label all life a mental disorder.

Jon Ronson

#47. When you can't draw chameleons and you can't draw blenders, it's a bad idea to write strips where chameleons become blenders.

Stephan Pastis

#48. So, one-third of the time it's a bad idea to move, which means that two-thirds of the time it's a good idea.

Ian McEwan

#49. Here's a tip: if even maggots think it's a bad idea, it is a really bad idea.

Kathy Benjamin

#50. Zara: It's just a registry...
Kit: Am I the only one who's read X-Men and realizes why this is a bad idea?

Cassandra Clare

#51. I know I have to stop. We all have to stop. Funny how knowing something's a bad idea doesn't make a difference.

Sara Ryan

#52. It's quite simple, just follow the dotted line," the Planmaker explained. "Don't let any bad idea lead you astray. Don't let them persuade you to take a short cut or take one yourself. Life is a winding path. One sometimes has to make detours. That's my humble opinion, anyway.

Walter Moers

#53. Where ideas are concerned, America can be counted on to do one of two things: Take a good idea and run it completely into the ground, or take a bad idea and run it completely into the ground.

George Carlin

#54. There's only one thing in life more dangerous than a bad idea, and that's a good one.

Greg Curtis

#55. But the pendulum has swung way out of whack here. A bad idea is still bad, and the pivot happy world we're in today feels suboptimal.

Sam Altman

#56. No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. When the secular is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old, it is always a bad idea, and not infrequently it is downright idiotic.

H.L. Mencken

#57. When I was in my early 20s, I had my hair permed. Bad idea! It turned into total frizz. My advice to women is, if you have nice hair already, don't get a perm, leave your hair alone!

Mariska Hargitay

#58. Anyone who wasn't half-stoned on pain meds would have instantly realized what a really bad idea this plan was, but since that didn't include me, I didn't worry about it.

Josh Lanyon

#59. I've never seen bad drawing destroy a good idea. On the other hand, I've never seen a good drawing save a bad idea.

Paul Conrad

#60. My advice to would-be young authors is to read a lot, write a lot, and not worry about creating a finished product. Keeping a journal is not a bad idea either.

Kevin Henkes

#61. And I learned that it's a bad idea to curse if you're in trouble, but a good idea to sing, if you can.

Tobias Wolff

#62. My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.

Gillian Flynn

#63. The idea that human beings have taken a few steps closer toward asserting control over the Earth's climate is likely to strike you as a really bad idea.

Jeff Goodell

#64. I've literally opened it up to suggestions and it's totally chaotic and kind of a bad idea. You don't need the actual feedback to get a sense. When you're showing a song for the first time, people can feel that newness.

Andrew Bird

#65. But I don't understand God. I don't understand how he could see the way people treat one another, and not chalk up the whole human race as a bad idea.

Jim Butcher

#66. No idea is a bad Idea. No dream is a bad dream. If your dream was good enough to have its good enough to do

Darrius Garrett

#67. This is a bad idea."
"If you ever stop saying that, I'll know it's time to start worrying.

Mark Lawrence

#68. I have done conferences explaining that cloud is a bad idea. It's putting all your eggs in one basket.

Michael Demon Calce

#69. The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.

Jack Kemp

#70. Sanctions are a bad idea.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#71. Ronin had tried desperately to be smart about it all. He really, really tried. He knew she was absolutely plowed. He knew she would probably hate him in the morning. He knew with every fiber of his should that giving into the passion she evoked was a bad idea.

But good God, he wanted her.

Sibylla Matilde

#72. What a bad idea it had been to give the Bible to anyone but priests, Ghosh thought. It made a preacher out of everybody.

Abraham Verghese

#73. Here, honey," he said quietly, handing her the panties he'd untangled from her dress. "I'll be good, but it might not be a bad idea to put these back on.

Sibylla Matilde

#74. I was already at an age when putting off anything was a bad idea.

Philip Sington

#75. My father said I should become a doctor and do science in my spare time, which in retrospect might not have been a bad idea, but I wasn't interested in taking care of people's ills.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

#76. I think it's probably a bad idea for young boys to see how they're being depicted in men's fantasies. It could get very dark. You could learn how to do things wrong.

Amanda Seyfried

#77. Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage.

Harold Prince

#78. And I tell you one thing, if the primates that we came from, had know that someday politicians would come out of the gene pool, they would have stayed up in the trees and written evolution off as a bad idea.

John Sheridan

#79. I have a tendency to hire people who tend to be unattractive to the studios. Maybe this is a bad idea.

Charlie Kaufman

#80. still want you in ways that isn't right. By the time I'm done with you, you'll beg to be mine, and that's a bad idea.

Pepper Winters

#81. Cash from a reverse mortgage can be paid out in several ways, including a lump sum, a monthly payment, a line of credit, or a combination of those. If you do not need money right away, it is usually a bad idea to take all the money upfront, since it starts accumulating interest charges immediately.

Charles Duhigg

#82. I've never been quarantined. But the more I look around the more I think it might not be a bad idea.

George Carlin

#83. She released a small sigh at her own stubbornness. There was no greater fool than a woman who looked at a man and saw what he might be rather than what he actually was. But nothing died harder than a bad idea.

Victoria Lynne

#84. I think I ought to cut my hair off," said Maia, one morning, as she tore yet another tooth out of Finn's comb.
"No. That's a bad idea."
Maia looked up, surprised. "But you wanted Clovis to cut his hair."
"That was different.

Eva Ibbotson

#85. Songs are like fish. You just gotta have your line in the water. And it's a bad idea to fish downstream from Bob Dylan.

Arlo Guthrie

#86. It's absolutely of no importance who or what V was under the mask. He isn't a who or a what, he's an idea. The thing is, you couldn't continue it. Now and then the idea of a sequel has been raised, in vague forms, but I think it would be a bad idea. The story's finished.

David Lloyd

#87. This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.

Tavis Smiley

#88. My sports were team sports: ice hockey and baseball. The whole team dynamic is similar in business. Leadership is earned - the captain earns that role; it's not because he's the coach's son. These are all things we know, but in today's world, it's not a bad idea to remind ourselves.

James McNerney

#89. It's bad idea to try to prevent people from knowing their own history. If you want to do anything new you must first make sure you know what people have tried before.

E.H. Gombrich

#90. The thing about plummetting downhill at fifty miles an hour on a snack platter - if you realize it's a bad idea when you're halfway down, it's too late.

Rick Riordan

#91. When you find something that's whole, you do what you can to keep it that way.
And when you fins something that isn't, then maybe it's not a bad idea to try to make it whole again. Maybe.

Gary D. Schmidt

#92. It is almost always a bad idea to use a reverse mortgage to pay for a vacation or to buy a risky investment, like stocks or deferred annuities.

Charles Duhigg

#93. The idea of taking what people call the 'entertainment culture' as a focus of study, including historical perspective, is not a bad idea.

Neil Postman

#94. My position hasn't changed over the years. Which is that online voting is a very unsafe idea and a very bad idea and something I think no technological breakthrough I can foresee can ever change.

Avi Rubin

#95. We should invest in people not ideas. A good idea is often destroyed by bad people and good people can always make a bad idea better.

Simon Sinek

#96. There are certain things a girl just knows, like that a fourth minute on a punk song is a bad, bad idea,

Rachel Cohn

#97. Judging by the results so far, it had possibly been a bad idea to suggest a scientific approach to political problems, but on most days Frank was still glad they had tried it. Something had to be done. Although choosing which something remained a problem.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#98. I told myself this was probably a bad idea, to let him kiss me into a confession. But, I reasoned, if there was ever a way to cave, this was it.

Kiera Cass

#99. This was a stupendously bad idea." William
"No bitching, Mr. Death I tried to get you to leave." Devyl
"Deeth! And I regret me decision, Captain. Seriously. Should have done it when you told me to."William

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#100. This is a sensationally bad idea, Ash." "So you said. About twenty times now." "You remember what Marielle did to Hush?" "Maw's teeth, Corvere. When my da got tortured in the Thorn Towers of Elai, they chopped his bollocks off and fed them to the scabdogs. What's your excuse?

Jay Kristoff