Botched Quotes

#1. My sex change operation got botched; my guardian angel fell asleep on the watch; now all I got is a Barbie doll crotch; I've got an angry inch!

John Cameron Mitchell

#2. I watched a couple of really bad directors work, and I saw how they completely botched it up and missed the visual opportunities of the scene when we had put things in front of them as opportunities. Set pieces, props and so on.

James Cameron

#3. What is my joy if all hands, even the unclean, can reach into it? What is my wisdom, if even the fools can dictate to me? What is my freedom, if all creatures, even the botched and the impotent, are my masters? What is my life, if I am but to bow, to agree and to obey?

Ayn Rand

#4. As animals go, even in so limited a space as our world, man is botched and ridiculous. Few other brutes are so stupid, so docile or so cowardly.

H.L. Mencken

#5. Socialism, Puritanism, Philistinism, Christianity - he saw them all as allotropic forms of democracy, as variations upon the endless struggle of quantity against quality, of the weak and timorous against the strong and enterprising, of the botched against the fit.

H.L. Mencken

#6. The work of the world is common as mud.
Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust.
But the thing worth doing well done
has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.

Marge Piercy

#7. What is too often forgotten is that nature obviously intends the botched to die, and that every interference with that benign process is full of dangers.

H.L. Mencken

#8. There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.

Arthur Koestler

#9. He had too much to think about. In the course of his long, useless marches he had sunk deeper and deeper into the tangle of his botched life as into a clump of brambles, and still he had found no meaning or consolation.

Hermann Hesse

#10. John Kerry now getting slammed by the Republicans because of a botched joke he did about President Bush and Iraq in a recent speech. Kerry was stunned about this. He said, 'What? People are listening to my speeches?'

Jay Leno

#11. Confession: Having kids did not fix me. I was not somehow more whole, less botched-up, or more certain just because I had a kid ... I was still me, with all my holes and problems and questions - only now I was also exhuasted and had a lot more laundry to do.

Jerusalem Jackson Greer

#12. Succinctly put, a crime scene is like an archaeology site. If an excavation is botched or bulldozed away, there's no going back.

Patricia Cornwell

#13. Christianity, as a product of the resentment of the botched and the weak, has put in ban all that is beautiful, strong, proud, and powerful, in fact all the qualities resulting from strength, and that, in consequence, all forces which tend to promote or elevate life have been seriously undermined.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#14. As a professional, it pains me to watch a movie that is botched and amateurish. I prefer directors who have control of both their craft and their ideas.

George Cukor

#15. He reminded me of pain and darkness and a double-gauzed finger. I must have reminded him of botched-up vengeance and the monster within,

Leylah Attar

#16. World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.

Richard Holbrooke

#17. Special Assistant Agent in Charge
Lang."
He nearly smiled at the title she knew she'd botched again.
"Just 'Mr Lang' is fine.

Roxanne St. Claire

#18. How about this John Kerry controversy? So he's out there in California, tells some kind of joke and it backfires. He's saying he botched the joke ... This guy can lose elections he's not even in.

David Letterman

#19. In their dreams they touch, they intertwine, it's more like a collision, and that is the end of flying. They fall to earth, fouled parachutists, botched and cindery angels, love streaming out behind them like torn silk. Enemy groundfire comes up to meet them.

Margaret Atwood

#20. I think one of the prophets stuttered when he dictated your specs," Jal said, snickering. "Or the gene-splicer was daydreaming about his high-status trueborn love and he botched your programming.

Karen Sandler

#21. I'm apologizing. For whatever I did. For whatever the guy who hurt you did. For the JFK assassination or the botched moon landing. Take your pick." ~Cain, Ghost of You

Kelly Moran

#22. Through the loveliness and power of her dream world she was now, in her old frock and botched shoes, very likely the loveliest, mightiest and most dangerous person on earth

Karen Blixen

#23. The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#24. I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years been working to undo the botched job your god has made.

Emma Goldman

#25. 59% of all suicides are actually botched murder-suicides performed by dyslexics.

Dana Gould

#26. It was botched. A traffic police officer intervened and the whole plan fell apart. But that was from low-level external sources and had nothing to do with us. Our strike will be quick and clean. And it will succeed." "And you have your team in place?

David Baldacci

#27. A man who would kill himself rather than face capture was a man who had a cause. Or a man who was afraid of what his own masters would do to him for having botched the job.

Anne Leonard

#28. I had my mouth done when I was 27. It was a botched job. Obviously, if I had liked my mouth I wouldn't have had it re-done.

Emmanuelle Beart

#29. Perhaps our supercilious disgust with existence is a cover for a secret disgust with ourselves: we have botched and bungled our lives, and we cast the blame upon the "environment," or the "world," which have no tongues to utter a defense.

Will Durant

#30. The godly have some good in them, therefore the devil afflicts them; and some evil in them, therefore God afflicts them.

Thomas Watson

#31. I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes
it's about all kinds of change

Karl Lagerfeld

#32. It might be said that a great unstated reason for travel is to find places that exemplify where one has been happiest. Looking for idealised versions of home-indeed, looking for the perfect memory.

Paul Theroux

#33. You say you know me, Mr. Railey, but obviously, you don't. If you did, you'd know I don't spit out.

Tiffany Reisz

#34. I always felt that at the moment I was born, God must have blinked. He missed the occasion and never knew I had arrived. My parents had 11 children. While I love them and my five brothers and five sisters deeply, some days I felt lost in the litter.

Regina Brett

#35. They reminded me of birds gathering around and lifting up the broken one of their flock onto their shoulders, bearing it along.

Kate Hamer

#36. The eye and brain are not like a fax machine, nor are there little people looking at the images coming in.

Torsten Wiesel

#37. I mean, families are weird.

Gordon Ramsay

#38. When California provides the same value as other locations, I'd gladly shoot all my pictures here.

Joel Silver