Top 100 Not Bad Quotes
#1. Towards the end of the season it is not bad to have the body. To have experienced joy as the mere lifting of hunger is not to have known it less.
Jorie Graham
#2. I'm bad, and that's good. I will never be good, and that's not bad. There's no one I'd rather be than me.
Ralph Wreck-it-Ralph
#3. An actor knows two important things - to be honest in what he is doing and to be in touch with the audience. That's not bad advice for a politician either.
Ronald Reagan
#4. In my early days, I copied the great French chefs, like most chefs do. Copying is not bad. Copying and not recognizing that you are copying is bad. For me, when I go to a restaurant and am served a dish influenced by something we created at elBulli, if it's well done, it makes me extremely happy.
Ferran Adria
#5. If your brain functioned like a digital video recorder, it could hold more than three million hours of TV shows, enough video storage for 300 years. Not bad for a mass the size of an average head of cabbage,
Greg O'Brien
#6. Nothing except luck protects you from catastrophe. Not love. Not money. Not faith. Not a pure heart or good deeds
and not bad ones either, for that matter. We can, any of us, be laid low, cut down, diminished, destroyed.
Therese Anne Fowler
#7. Biological family is too small of a vision. Patriotism is far too myopic. A love for our own relatives and a love for the people of our own country are not bad things, but our love does not stop at the border.
Shane Claiborne
#8. If it were bad songs, yeah, I'd speak up, but they're not bad songs.
Tom Araya
#9. -"Wow,are we becoming friends?" I asked.
-"Hmmm ... friends." He appeared to think carefully and examined me and my state of blush.
"Yes, I think we are."
-"Interesting. From cockblocker to friend. Not bad." I giggled.
Alice Clayton
#10. She shrugged noncommittally. "Not bad."
Kyle scoffed. "Not bad? Counselor, there are two things I've got mad skills at: And computer science is the other one.
Julie James
#11. It's not bad to get blocked, it's terrible to stay blocked
Ken Norton Jr.
#12. Once a film is shot, the thing that mostly happens is that I go see all the things I would have fixed in my performance and sometimes, very rarely, I see a moment that surprise me and I go, "Oh, that's not bad. That was nice."
James Cromwell
#13. Asuras are not bad people; they just have an understanding of dharma that is not valid for today's world. Sometimes, the followers are good but the leaders let them down.
Amish Tripathi
#14. Being different is not bad. It means you are brave enough to be yourself.....
Unknown
#16. Actually not bad at all. Tastes minty, very refreshing."
"A worthy epitaph," said Jean
Scott Lynch
#17. I went to work at 11 years old. I became governor. It's not a big deal. Work doesn't hurt anybody. I'm all for not allowing a 12-year-old to work 40 hours. But a 12-year-old working eight to 10 hours a week or a 14-year-old working 12 to 15 hours a week is not bad.
Paul LePage
#18. Not only are squats not bad for the knees, every legitimate research study on this subject has shown that squats improve knee stability and therefore help reduce the risk of injuries.
Charles Poliquin
#19. Many of the things that stifle growth are morally neutral. They're not bad things. Facebook is not bad. Television and movies are not bad. I enjoy TV, but it doesn't take long for me to begin to find humorous on TV what the Lord finds heartbreaking.
Matt Chandler
#20. A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
William Howard Taft
#21. Cutting taxes is not bad. But if you cut taxes on the wealthy, which is what they wanted to do, you're not helping people who need better schools and better infrastructure and healthcare. You're basically robbing the middle class and the poor to provide tax cuts to the rich.
Robert Reich
#22. I give great thanks to God that he has created a Dalai Lama. Do you really think, as some have argued, that God will be saying: 'You know, that guy, the Dalai Lama, is not bad. What a pity he's not a Christian'? I don't think that is the case - because, you see, God is not a Christian.
Desmond Tutu
#23. Not bad"? Are you kidding me? He looks like that and his kissing skills are "not bad"? You're killing me here.
Kristina Adams
#24. Sometimes it's okay to give up. Giving up is not bad; not trying to take that back is.
Bhavik Sarkhedi
#25. The journals want the papers that make the sexiest claims. And scientists believe that the way you succeed is having splashy papers in Science or Nature - it's not bad for them if a paper turns out to be wrong, if it's gotten a lot of attention.
Michael Eisen
#26. Some parents were nervous about how they would portray everything, ... At a picnic the moms put on for the team and coaches, I said that all the reality shows are turning around and showing good things, not bad things.
Dick Butkus
#27. They ate silently for a few minutes as she studied him.
"I need a shave," he said when he caught her staring.
She lifted a shoulder in a shrug. "It's not bad."
"I'd scrape your delicate skin if I tried to kiss you."
"Want to find out?" she asked with a mischievous smile.
Donna Grant
#28. Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?
Andy Grove
#30. Today is not bad just because yesterday seemed better.
Pat McBride
#31. Fame is fickle. If the media turn against me, I will just have more time in the library. Not bad as a fate.
Mary Beard
#32. This is not bad, but the pace of globalisation has surpassed the capacity of the system to adjust to new realities of a more interdependent and integrated world.
Anna Lindh
#33. I was working the hole with the Sailor and we did not bad fifteen cents on average night boosting the afternoons and short timing the dawn we made out from the land of the free but I was running out of veins.
William S. Burroughs
#34. Building weapons that we don't need, don't work, and aren't necessary, and have no mission - that's not bad politics, that's robbery.
Paul Newman
#35. Abraham, a simple farmer, at a word from the Invisible God, marched, with family and stock, through the terrible desert to a distant land to live among a people whose language he could neither speak nor understand! Not bad, that!
Charles Studd
#36. My friends, we did it. We weren't just marking time, we made a difference. We made (America) stronger - we made (America) freer - and we left her in good hands. All in all, not bad. Not bad at all. And so, goodbye. God bless you. And God bless the United States of America.
Ronald Reagan
#37. Sometimes it's not bad to hurt. Sometimes you don't want things until you get hurt. We got hurt today, let's see what we do.
Mike Krzyzewski
#38. The executives who run the fast food industry are not bad men. They are businessmen. They will sell free-range, organic, grass-fed hamburgers if you demand it. They will sell whatever sells at a profit.
Eric Schlosser
#39. When sex is good theres nothing better, when its bad its not bad.
Bill Maher
#40. Ohhhh," Molly said wisely. "Those are fun-time handcuffs, not bad-time handcuffs. I gotcha.
Jim Butcher
#43. Yes. I'm a doctor, an epidemiologist, and lots of my professional colleagues flip back and forth between industry and medical roles. I know them; they are not bad people. But it is possible for good people in bad systems to do things that inflict enormous harm.
Ben Goldacre
#44. A wolf is not bad for eating and tearing apart something, if it's for survival. It doesn't do it to be menacing.
Jason Momoa
#45. These are not bad people. All they are concerned about is to see that their sweet little girls are not required to sit in school alongside some big overgrown Negroes.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#46. Our desire for knowledge is not bad but our failure to believe what God said is deadly.
Jonah Books
#47. Smartass Disciple: Master, you keep preaching the truth. They don't listen.
Master of Stupidity: Oh that's not bad. That attitude keeps us in the business.
Toba Beta
#48. The Greeks were more preoccupied with, where these ousted gods resided. That is: The fallen son's of God could go where humans were, but humans could not go where they were. According to Greek mythology, Tartarus was an imposed condition for bad gods
not bad humans. (page 10)
Michael Ben Zehabe
#49. Not bad," he decided.
"I'm overwhelmed by your flattery.
Nora Roberts
#50. You want to do your job well so that people in the future say, 'OK, he's not bad, let's hire him.'
Javier Bardem
#51. No; I'm not bad. But sometimes beautiful things grow bad by doing bad, and it takes some time for their badness to spoil their beauty. So little boys may be mistaken if they go after things because they beautiful.
George MacDonald
#52. I'm not bad at singing - at least in the shower.
Sean Bean
#53. If Capitalism improves the economic position all round, it is of secondary importance that it does not raise all to the same level. A social order is not bad simply because it helps one more than the other.
Ludwig Von Mises
#54. Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.
Joanna Russ
#55. I approached writing a story for the CBC Literary Awards as a mercenary venture - $5,000 for one story, not bad. Now, how do you win it? Jurors are wading through skyscrapers of paper, looking for one story that stands out.
Michael Winter
#56. At the Isle of Wight, the sound went out and kind of kept on going. And I wasn't ... when I came off stage I was kind of unhappy about how we had played. But now, I listen back to those recordings and it's not bad.
Keith Emerson
#57. POPPY: Not bad. I'd put you in the top three on my list of possible cherry poppers.
EMMETT: No way. Unless your list is me, myself, and I, you've only got one name on that list.
Bijou Hunter
#58. 'Malandrinas' means 'bad girls,' but not bad in a negative way. I wrote it in homage to my female fans.
Jenni Rivera
#59. Authority is not bad; abuse of authority is bad. God
Matt Chandler
#60. That is OK, not knowing something is not bad. What is bad is refusing to recognise that you are missing knowledge and refusing to learn.
Christos Tsotsos
#61. Thanks for that by the way, not bad for a fucking Fairy - " I laughed - "get it? Fucking Fairy?" I snorted and closed my eyes.
"I get it," he growled,
Amelia Hutchins
#62. Part of you wants to look over at the people watching and say, "Not bad, huh? Me and Clint Eastwood." But you have to get past that and just be an actor.
Gary Cole
#63. Here's the thing: I love what I do for the magazine, and I love what I do on television. When you do the things that you love, it's not bad. It's about being very organized.
Nina Garcia
#64. Yeah, well you're not bad-looking, but you've got that stick up your ass and I always top. It'd get crowded, trust me. Now
Amy Lane
#65. Oh, well, that's not bad, I suppose. I mean, I'd prefer devastatingly sophisticated - but almost endearing is more than I could have hoped for under the circumstances.
Jane Costello
#66. Not good, not bad. I'm grateful for whatever I get.
Ken Doyle
#67. Not bad looking? He's damnably handsome. Brave in battle, smart as a whip. An excellent dancer, oh, and an even better shot.
Leigh Bardugo
#68. No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad.
Eric Idle
#69. If you want to do other things, you have to leave soap operas, otherwise you'll be there forever, which is not bad, you know. Some people have made a great living off of being on soap operas. But if you want to branch out you have to leave early, otherwise you'll never get the shot.
Jackee Harry
#70. If Ashley Cole is ready we have 15 players for the final. I'll have to choose between Hilario, who's not bad playing forward or I'll bring in one of the kids.
Jose Mourinho
#71. Kitsch is certainly not "bad art," it forms its own closed system.
Hermann Broch
#72. Concentrate. Level the sight. Breathe in.
Ease the trigger. And relax?
BLAP! The can somersaulted across the sand.
Pride swelled till I thought I'd burst.
But my pride slipped at Dad's reality check.
Not bad. Pretty good, in fact. For a girl.
Ellen Hopkins
#73. Anger is not bad. Anger can be a very positive thing, the thing that moves us beyond the acceptance of evil.
Joan D. Chittister
#74. It's not bad to cough. But cover your mouth when coughing. It's not bad to complain. But cover your mouth when complaining, else you'll spread infections of complains on us!
Israelmore Ayivor
#75. which is not bad considering we're leaving the same day." Smith charged off in the direction of the station's parking deck without so much
Scott E. Baughman
#77. It's not bad to stand in front of 20,000 people and sing. It's nerve-racking, a huge adrenaline rush, but it's also very exciting, and not many people get to experience that. It's pretty special.
Lauren Hart
#78. Darlin'," he drawled, "go when you are invited. Bring good boots, drive slow, take blankets, carry your own salt, but by all means... go where the light is.
That's not bad advice, wherever you live. Darlin'.
Ellen Stimson
#79. You all set?" he asked, tossing me a pair of sunglasses.
"Wow, nice." I felt the frame, rubbing my finger over the lenses to wipe away a smudge. "Not bad, Phoenix."
"Twinkies." He slid his pair on and adjusted the gun across his chest. "Told you. Breakfast of champions."
- Skylla and Jet
Rachael Wade
#81. Trial and error is not bad, but not the best. If you don't know where the crowd is going, don't follow it. Get set.
Israelmore Ayivor
#82. To be closed as a person, it's not bad if you know that when this two rules, playing by your rules doesn't mean that you won't end up in jail, security why?
We both know that everyone dies... it really doesn't matter who is first... in the end all die!
Deyth Banger
#83. Maybe 80 percent of what we conceive to be a song idea or the meaning of a song is not exactly what the artist meant most of the time. It's not bad - people can take what they want from it.
Matt Corby
#84. Tantrums are not bad behavior. Tantrums are an expression of emotion that became too much for the child to bear. No punishment is required. What your child needs is compassion and safe, loving arms to unload in.
Rebecca Eanes
#85. 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.
Mike Ditka
#87. You know, I was on 'Cheers' for eight years, and I couldn't get another job, and I thought, 'I'm going to be Woody Boyd forever.' Which is not bad, but I really thought I was capable of more.
Woody Harrelson
#88. I'm not a jazz musician, because, I mean, firstly, I can't play anything. I'm not bad on the tamborine. I have a certain way with the triangle. But I'm not a jazz musician ... my band, they always joke, they always say that I'm a disposable, pop, jazz superstar.
Michael Buble
#90. Cirocco liked space, reading, and sex, not necessarily in that order. She had never been able to satisfactorily combine all three, but two was not bad.
John Varley
#91. I am not bad, thank you. But don't worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
Charles De Gaulle
#92. I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.
Peter Ustinov
#93. Driving Benzes with no benefits, not bad huh, for some immigrants
Jay-Z
#94. There are some real positives for Wales. Their back four's not bad, sometimes.
Iain Dowie
#95. It's not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
Clarence Darrow
#96. It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final.
Francis Bacon
#97. That is the difference between St. Jude's and all other children's hospitals. The other hospitals are not bad at all; they're good hospitals, but they're just working with what they know, and St. Jude's is working with what nobody else knows, because they're doing research.
Marlo Thomas
#98. Will punched his shoulder. "Thanks for the assist. Six at once isn't bad." "Not bad?" Nico glared at him. "Next time I'll just let them run you down, Solace." "Ah, they'd never catch me.
Rick Riordan
#99. I'm not good enough to be a saint and not bad enough to be interesting.
Bernadette Devlin
#100. The fault lies with us, and only us. It's not fate, not genetics, not bad luck, and it's definitely not Mom and Dad. Ultimately it's us and our choices ... but the most powerful spectacular thing is that the solution rests with us as well.
Louise Penny
