Quotes About Shoddy

#1. I had many opportunities to get behind products in the past, and I was always careful to evaluate all of them. I will not put my name to shoddy items.

Bear Grylls

#2. When Wu-Wear started making shoes and sneakers and pants, it was shoddy material.

Method Man

#3. The technique of winning is so shoddy, the terms of winning are so ignoble, the tenure of winning is so brief; and the specter of the has-been-a shameful rather than a pitiable sight today-brings a sudden chill even to our sunlit moments.

Louis Kronenberger

#4. In our timidity and our shoddy opportunism we are always stirred when a man appears on the horizon willing to stake his all on a conviction.

Clyde S. Kilby

#5. He's got to do better than the shoddy piecing together of flimsy evidence that contradicts the briefings we have received by various agencies, .. I'm not hearing the same things at the briefings that I'm hearing from the president's top officials.

Russ Feingold

#6. Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and violence and other shoddy devices to monopolize a child's attention, it's worse than taking candy from a baby. It is taking precious time from the process of growing up.

Newton N. Minow

#7. Used to be goddy Now uptown feeling shoddy Bah, haiku don't rhyme

Rick Riordan

#8. I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy;
But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.

Moliere

#9. The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.

Wendell Berry

#10. Christ's sacrifice on the cross and resurrection out of the grave are big enough, grand enough, effective enough, and eternal enough to cover your shoddy Christian life,

Jared C. Wilson

#11. I won't eat what I can't kill. It seems shoddy, hypocritical.

Jeanette Winterson

#12. Those who try to combat the production of shoddy pictures are enemies of the best art today ... It always feels tragic to see people labouring to saw off the branch they are sitting on.

Asger Jorn

#13. Scarlett, when you are forty-five, perhaps you will know what I'm talking about and then perhaps you, too, will be tired of imitation gentry and shoddy manners and cheap emotions. But I doubt it. I think you'll always be more attracted by glister than by gold.

Margaret Mitchell

#14. I'm too frightened of confrontation, so I will always tip - even if the service has been really shoddy.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

#15. It is the whole modern concept of love which should be re-examined, such as is commonly but transparently expressed in phrases like 'love at first sight' and 'honeymoon'. All this shoddy terminology is on top of that tainted with the most reactionary irony.

Andre Breton

#16. The consumer is getting fed up with shoddy material, poor quality, unsafe products, bad service, weak warranties, lack of adequate information
the whole gamut of such problems.

Virginia Knauer

#17. 'Business Week' is guilty of very shoddy reporting.

Jerry Della Femina

#18. I never wanted to marry anyone like my father; I always preferred those more shoddy.

Christina Stead

#19. It's really actually been pretty shoddy and appalling, the amount of local content, Australian drama, on ABC TV.

Gillian Armstrong

#20. There is a difference between dramatizing your sensibility and your personality. The literary works which we think of as classicsdid the former. Much modern writing does the latter, and so has an affinity with, say, night-club acts in all their shoddy immediacy.

Paul Horgan

#21. My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.

Mark Twain

#22. I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies and policy recommendations, which are nevertheless taken very seriously.

Juan Cole

#23. Faffing is completely harmless, whereas its opposite - dynamic, purposeful activity - is often very harmful. Faffers do not tend to kill people or make them work 12-hour days or sell them shoddy merchandise or lend them vast sums of money that they cannot pay back.

Tom Hodgkinson

#24. It's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse.

William Faulkner

#25. The first 'Wii Fit' games I tried were the slalom and ski jumping. I believe my spectacular failures here had more to do with the board resting on thick carpet than my shoddy balance.

Jen Lancaster

#26. And this is a grave responsibility, projected from within each of us, not to settle for the convenient, the shoddy, the conventionally expected, nor the merely safe.

Audre Lorde

#27. What greater prestige can a man like me (not too gifted, but very understanding) have than to have taken a cheap, shoddy and utterly lost kind of writing, and have made of it something that intellectuals claw each other about?

Raymond Chandler

#28. Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find it less trouble to provide a new, cheap, and shoddy thing than to get the full use and full pleasure out of a finely-made and carefully-chosen old one.

Vernon Lee

#29. He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.

Margery Allingham

#30. If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies ... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.

Albert Einstein

#31. You must know what life is. One can do no good by shutting one's eyes to everything that doesn't square with a shoddy, false ideal.

W. Somerset Maugham

#32. Shoddy work is not just shoddy work. It's a failure of love.

Matt Perman

#33. Hephaestus glowered up at us. "I didn't make you, did I?"
Uh," Annabeth said, "no, sir."
Good," the god grumbled. "Shoddy workmanship.

Rick Riordan

#34. My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

V.S. Naipaul

#35. The plain, unvarnished truth is that public education is a shoddy, fraudulent piece of goods sold t to the public at an astronomical price. It's time the American consumer knew the extent of the fraud which is victimizing millions of children each year.

Samuel Blumenfeld

#36. The hermit Anthony once told me that a monk is like a fish: take him out of his element and he dies. Silence is his element. In silence you can trade this shoddy world for Heaven.

Gillian Bradshaw

#37. We should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists and science and extreme ideologues to compete with scientific facts,

John F. Kerry

#38. When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy by his inferiors. It should be a rule that bad writers must start with plain heroines and ordinary mornings, and, if they are able, work up to something better.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#39. I think all actors have a similar deal. You want some people who understand. Although it looks great - and is great - there are also shoddy moments when you feel really rotten, and when it's going well, you're not allowed to complain.

Eddie Redmayne

#40. Children's programming in America, I think it's pretty shoddy in terms of lack of diversity. It's pretty much cartoons and Disney sort of shows. I don't find any of that stimulating for children.

Alex Kingston

#41. I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.

Ralph Thomas Walker

#42. A Christian message or moral cannot redeem a text marred by shoddy workmanship.

Susan Gallagher