Top 100 Lousy Quotes
#1. I went drinking with Gray Powell and all I got was a lousy iPhone prototype.
Steve Wozniak
#2. Well, yes, I've fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. But I have fired many people.
Donald Trump
#3. Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then
we elected them.
Lily Tomlin
#4. If you don't sign up your kids for cryonics then you are a lousy parent.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#5. I believe no one can afford, endure or can stomach leaving half a life in the parking lot when she or he goes to work. It's a lousy way to live and a lousy way to work.
Ricardo Semler
#7. I tell ya, my wife's a lousy cook. After dinner, I don't brush my teeth. I count them.
Rodney Dangerfield
#8. I walked all around it [the Guggenheim Bilbao] and couldn't find one clear, clean shot. To make things worse, the weather was lousy. Nothing about this rang commercial money shot. In a situation like this there's only one thing to do: forget about pleasing editors, please yourself.
Robert Polidori
#9. Two women at a resort discussed dinner: "The food here is lousy," the first noted. "You're right! And such small portions!!" the second added
Groucho Marx
#10. Trust is precious and easily wasted, and guessing is a lousy foundation for future progress.
Seth Godin
#11. When I told my wife she was lousy in bed - she went out - she got a second opinion.
Rodney Dangerfield
#12. I get lonesome up there," I told him. "I picked a lousy profession. If I ever write a novel I think I'll join a choir or something and run to meetings between chapters.
J.D. Salinger
#13. I've been in New York only a few days and I have learned only two words of your language: one is Swell, and the other is Lousy ... 'It's swell to be with you and excuse, please, my lousy English!
Vicki Baum
#14. I wanted it the way an alcoholic must want booze: badly enough to shove aside the hard knowledge that this was a truly lousy idea.
Tana French
#15. I grew up in England at a time when England was winning Nobel Prizes right and left. I mean it was amazing how many Nobel Prizes England was winning in chemistry and physics and biology and all the sciences and at that time the teaching of science in the schools was really lousy.
Freeman Dyson
#16. It was almost funny. Life seemed downright accidental in its brevity, and death a punch line to a lousy joke.
Maureen Johnson
#17. Tycho Brahe clung to a lousy idea, Hans. That's all it was. People like us - you must know this by now - we can't do that. We know damn well when we're right. We know a long time before anyone else even suspects it." He cleared his throat. "Or when we're wrong. That's how we live. That's how we die.
Ethan Canin
#18. But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big problem that we all have to think about.
Alexander Payne
#19. Dare to be a sucky skateboarder or a lousy video editor or a completely crappy golfer. If we do only the stuff we're good at, we never learn anything new.
Justin Bieber
#20. She reminded him of ( ... ) all the shivering, stupefying misery in a world that never yet had provided enough heat and food and justice for all but an ingenious and unscrupulous handful. What a lousy earth!
Joseph Heller
#21. I idolized my mother. I didn't realize she was a lousy cook until I went into the army.
Jackie Gayle
#22. You can be a lousy vampire. You can be a lousy human. What you are doesn't mean anything. It's what you do with what you are that counts.
Michelle Rowen
#23. I got lost somehow, began staring up her legs. I was always a leg man. It was the first thing I saw when I was born. But then I was trying to get out. Ever since I have been working in the other direction and with pretty lousy luck.
Charles Bukowski
#24. One of the things that's really lousy about making movies is that you have such little interaction with your audience.
Ethan Hawke
#25. And then of course the music sprang up, lousy rock as bold and dull as a giant potato. "Love this song," Todd said, like it was unusually brave to like what was number one on the radio ...
Daniel Handler
#26. Winter's here, and you feel lousy: You're coughing and sneezing; your muscles ache; your nose is an active mucus volcano. These symptoms
so familiar at this time of year
can mean only one thing: Tiny fanged snails are eating your brain.
Dave Barry
#27. Tell him I think writing is lousy," Bill said. "Go on, tell him. Tell him I'm ashamed of being a writer.
Ernest Hemingway,
#28. Unpleasant in the world. It is called Lousy Lane. Lousy Lane runs through fields that are a sickly gray color, in which a handful of scraggly trees produce apples so
Lemony Snicket
#29. I met an angel in Morocco and all I got were these lousy scars.
Laini Taylor
#30. We have two choices every day: We can feel good about ourselves, or we can feel lousy about ourselves. Why would anyone choose the latter?
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#31. I think Franklin Roosevelt was a lousy president. What he did- which is to impose this great nanny state on America- was a great mistake.
Ed Crane
#33. I do not think that anybody should get paid for lousy performance. I've said that for a long time. If you work hard and you do good, you get paid well.
Michael Bloomberg
#34. It's so strange. Everything can be going alone just great, and then one day, whack, you're blindsided
a lousy, crammy blow you didn't see coming.
James Patterson
#35. Life for the unwell is discontinuous and unpredictable. Things just come out of nowhere. People try but mostly do a lousy job of taking care of you.
Mark Vonnegut
#36. Bottom line: A market approach to national defense would give us a lousy national defense.
Timothy Noah
#37. When you get right down to it, everybody's having a perfectly lousy time of it, and I mean everyone. And the hell of it is, nothing seems to help much.
Kurt Vonnegut
#38. Better than an orgasm? Clearly the woman was having lousy orgasms.
Amy Andrews
#39. I was a lousy waiter, dealing with people and having people in your face like that.
Judge Reinhold
#41. Sure it is, but global warming isn't the death of the Earth. It's the death of humanity. It's more like the Earth's way of evicting mortals because they've been lousy tenants. Just because the Earth isn't habitable doesn't means it's dead. Just not in the mood for guests and freeloaders.
Jon Skovron
#42. Lucullus certainly couldn't sail the boat. Cats make lousy sailors.
Manel Loureiro
#43. Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
Ingrid Newkirk
#44. Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.
Barbara Kingsolver
#45. Your dad wasn't just a lousy gambler. He was a disloyal sneak who spied on my grandpa at the bakery. - Sara Jane
T.M. Goeglein
#46. I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I'm a lousy delegator, but I'm learning.
Alton Brown
#47. If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches and most Southerners don't live there any more.
John Shelton Reed
#48. Cinderella never had it so good. All she got was a lousy coach and breakable shoes.
Sonya Bateman
#49. A good newspaper is never good enough, but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.
Garrison Keillor
#50. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sakes. Now, I mean, I'm talking about singing in the shower, I'm talking about dancing to the radio, I'm talking about writing a poem to a friend
a lousy poem.
Kurt Vonnegut
#51. The kind of player who has turned his game around, he used to be lousy and lazy and now he is lazy and lousy.
John Kessel
#52. George Bowering doesn't play fair. Baseball Love is so good there is no memoir in the league that can go up against it. Bowering has a sense of story and an eye for detail that eliminate the possibility that he was a lousy second baseman. Reading a home run is fun.
Robert Kroetsch
#53. They put me on the shift where they thought I could do the least harm, midnight to eight in the morning. Although the hours were lousy, they were perfect for an apprentice reporter.
Andrea Mitchell
#54. Here is the topography of false starts. Here
a whole constellation is lousy with desire.
Here what passes for love is the same
as anywhere. Here no one has said
a prayer for the stars, and here no one
comes, except to leave, except to stay
long enough to bruise.
Paul Guest
#55. I'm tired of eating your family's lousy, tasteless recipes," Dad said.
"Tasteless recipes? My grandmother's rolling in her grave!"
"It's from indigestion.
Neal Shusterman
#56. Any man who looks like a sissy while dancing is just a lousy dancer.
Gene Kelly
#57. You can have a Great Day, or a Lousy Day; it's totally up to you.
Ed Foreman
#58. I was a pretty lousy bass player. But the band I was in couldn't find a bass player in our small town and it was more important to have a bass than keyboards, so that's what I did.
Anne Boleyn
#59. Thus, not only am I a monster, I'm a really lousy one. A lonely, classic Five Stages of Grief following, insecure, shut-in of a pathetic beast who talks to the snakes on her head and the statues on her island.
Heather Lyons
#60. Embrace lousy days. I've learned to remind myself easy days are part of the deal, and a great day is just around the corner.
Dan John
#61. Listen, identify withe the victims and you become one yourself. Victims make lousy litigators.
Russell Banks
#62. Gawd, he thought furiously, he hadn't expected it to be like this. Just a lousy walk down the yard to give a carrot to the gangly chestnut. Guilt and fear and treachery. They bypassed his sneering mind and erupted through his nerves instead.
Dick Francis
#63. The ending is really the most important part of the movie. If the first hour and 20 minutes is terrific and the last ten minutes stinks, everybody walks out of the theatre and says: 'That was a lousy movie!'
Larry Cohen
#64. Lots of people think things would be better some other way. That's why the world's lousy with theme parks.
Feeney in Naked in Death
J.D. Robb
#65. I will tell you, I'm a lousy cook, but I think I'm a pretty good judge of a good meal.
Barney Frank
#66. I don't care how loyal you think you're going to be Dink. It's not in you. You're a brat and you always will be. So admit what a lousy follower you are and go ahead and LEAD.
-Petra
Orson Scott Card
#67. What you're doing--it's the right thing. Going after what you love despite everything you've done, and I won't sugarcoat it, you've done some pretty lousy things, but you did it all because you love this single human being so much you couldn't help yourself. There is an honesty to that.
Tarryn Fisher
#68. I would suggest maintaining a life and a career outside the Industry. This is a fickle business and a lousy one to make a steady living in, so it's important to have a good family, friends, job and education to fall back on.
Fred Savage
#69. I think a lot of people can relate to that school is pretty lousy for a lot of people, and it just shows that you don't have to be perfect and you can still be a hero.
Matthew Lewis
#70. I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
BD Wong
#71. I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer.
Colleen McCullough
#72. The CIA laid out several scenarios and said life could be lousy, life could be OK, life could be better, and they were just guessing as to what the conditions might be like.
George W. Bush
#73. There are people in this life for whom even the best of things don't work out. They could wear cashmere suits and still look like tramps; be very rich but badly in debt; be tall but lousy at basketball.
Martin Page
#74. I want to make a memorial for our turkey. Never has a bird been so tortured to provide such a lousy dinner.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#75. As Al Franken has demonstrated, liberals give lousy talk radio.
L. Neil Smith
#76. Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out. Let us kill them without mercy, and let it be a war of extermination.
Lucy Parsons
#77. That's what I love most about writers
they're such lousy actors.
Vincent H. O'Neil
#78. Would that I were still a ludicrous character in his lousy book!
Philip Roth
#79. The people on Wall Street broke this country, and they did it one lousy mortgage at a time. It happened more than three years ago, and there has been no real accountability, and there has been no real effort to fix it.
Elizabeth Warren
#80. If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste.
Grace Metalious
#81. I think the Obama Administration has done a lousy job marketing and selling and explaining this entire thing. And, as a result, all of these right-wing front organizations financed by the Koch brothers, are blanketing the airwaves with lies about Obamacare. And people are scared.
Robert Reich
#82. I love making pictures, even if most of the results are lousy.
Larry Sultan
#83. I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one.
Brigitte Bardot
#84. Believe me, I love a good chocolate chip ice cream. I'm not going to go for some lousy version of it. If I'm going to have it, I'm going to have a really good one. I believe in treating yourself occasionally to something.
Christie Brinkley
#85. There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.
Magnus Scheving
#86. This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings
Paddy Chayefsky
#88. Maybe there was just the Devil, the real God of this lousy world.
Janet Fitch
#89. It's easy (and fair) to blame lousy management on lousy managers. But it's not enough. It's also necessary to blame the people who allow themselves to be managed so badly.
Tom DeMarco
#90. Great teachers are precious. Lousy teachers cause damage that lasts forever. We need to reorganize our schools to free the great teachers from tests and reports and busywork, and to expel the lousy
Seth Godin
#91. It was another thing you didn't learn at a top-drawer school. Bickering is like baldness or lousy gifts. It runs in families.
Lemony Snicket
#92. I don't get hardly anything out of anything. I'm in bad shape. I'm in lousy shape.
J.D. Salinger
#94. I've really been sick with this cold, but I think I might have kept the columns going anyhow except I was just so low in spirit, I didn't have the will to struggle against them when my deadline was so close and I felt so lousy.
Ernie Pyle
#95. I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.
Pat Travers
#96. Find one lousy body in your aunt's fireplace and the first thing you know everyone is talking.
Jayne Ann Krentz
#97. to Maxfield to get away from the crap I'd put up with all my life in lousy schools. I wasn't going to let a couple
Robison Wells
#98. Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by cities provides us with name and nation.
Basil Bunting
#99. We were working with this lousy print and it just wasn't going to be good enough. I said that we should get the original negative and do it from that. Well, a couple guys pointed out that the negative was locked up over at Deluxe.
David Fincher
#100. I think I would make a lousy stay-at-home mom. It just wouldn't suit me.
Claire Danes
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