Top 100 Too Bad Sayings
#1. Too bad he wasn't as nice as his truck.
Diann Hunt
#2. Too bad we don't have a flashlight."
"Thanks for stating the obvious, Mr. Thomas," Minho replied.
James Dashner
#3. It's too bad you can't always live as if it were the last moment of your life. Because, you know, it might be-it might really be. And if we could really see it that way, really live like that, I think we'd all feel a lot differently about everything.
Andrew Klavan
#4. When it comes to life, all you can change is the equivalent of furniture, paint and windows. Doors, maybe. Change the things that are in too bad a state and hope the core holds.
John Ajvide Lindqvist
#5. We don't have too much ritual in our life anymore. And these life symbols which people rely on to keep their feeling of well being, that life is not too bad after all are required more and more.
John Hench
#6. The only thing her mother knew how to do was take. Take interest, take advantage, then take the nearest exit. Too bad she never learned to take responsibility.
Victorine E. Lieske
#7. If you're looking for a story about nice people doing nice things, this isn't for you. You will be burdened with an unreliable narrator who will disappoint and repel you at every turn.
Still with me?
Too bad for you.
I can't wait to break your heart.
Christopher Buehlman
#8. I don't know that there is too far, actually. I think there's only too bad. If it's bad you've gone too far.
Kenneth Branagh
#9. Too bad for the storytellers. Too bad for the sense makers, the apologists, that nothing, then or ever, nothing was inevitable. It's just too bad.
Jincy Willett
#10. It's too bad failures don't give seminars. Wouldn't that be valuable? If you meet a guy who has messed up his life for forty years, you've just got to say, 'John, if I bring my journal and promise to take good notes, would you spend a day with me?'
Jim Rohn
#11. He adds, wistfully, "I don't suppose you have syphilis, do you?"
"No."
"Pity. There's a study starting in Alabama that would have paid for all your medical care if you did. Although you'd have to be a Negro."
"I'm not that, either."
"Too bad." The doctor shrugs.
Lauren Beukes
#12. I love radio, but it's a very limited thing today. Everything has to be edited down to 3:59, and too bad if I didn't make my statement in three minutes and 59 seconds. Everybody's song has to make its point so quickly.
Anita Baker
#13. That's too bad," Mr. Hall said, opening Door 1. "You've won a goat."
"But you didn't open another door yet or give me a chance to switch."
"Where does it say I have to let you switch every time? I'm the master of the show.
Monty Hall
#14. College is so awesome! It's really too bad they try to ruin it with classes!
Jillian Dodd
#15. F1 is giving penalties for people making mistakes instead of for people driving dirty. And that is wrong. Mistakes happen. You run into each other: that's life, that's racing, and too bad.
Jacques Villeneuve
#16. Do either of you know what House you'll be in? I've been asking around, and I hope I'm in Gryffindor, it sounds by far the best; I hear Dumbledore himself was in it, but I suppose Ravenclaw wouldn't be too bad. . .
J.K. Rowling
#17. Too bad you can't quote the look on my face.
Amy Lee
#18. Wonder of wonders, the box had Elvis. Immediately the bar seemed a better place. She fed in coins and then punched the keys for "Hound Dog." Too bad Elvis had never recorded one called "Dickhead.
Jennifer Crusie
#19. This might be the last chance he had to sit with her, the only chance he had to see her face holding concern for him rather than fear or contempt. Too bad she was still half-buzzed from the enthrallment. He lifted a dark curl away from her face, memorizing her features.
Susannah Sandlin
#20. People come up to me and say, 'It's too bad the space program got canceled.' This is not the case, and yet that is what most of the public thinks has happened.
Buzz Aldrin
#22. How many men are stupid enough to dump two Emerson girls?" Dad asked. "Too bad we're not mobbed up. We could have his body dumped in the Farmington River.
Kristan Higgins
#23. It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words.
William Moulton Marston
#25. - Shush sweet baby, I said, so tired, and mixed her gripe water with whiskey and dill weed, but it did no good, so I seen now why lullabies was all about cradles falling from trees, oh dear, when the wind blows, down will come baby, whoops too bad, but at least it's quiet.
Kate Manning
#26. If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist.
John Barth
#27. Too bad for any parent who has become accustomed to ruling by force, because at some point the kids just get too big to slap around.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#29. Those who were so long imprisoned in ice and darkness seem to find the sunlight jarring, painful. The longer I walk around with this grief inside me, the more I understand that. It's as if sunshine is a slap in the face that says, Look, the world's all bright and shiny! Too bad you're not.
Karen Marie Moning
#30. If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.
Hans Eysenck
#31. It was a table that could seat six, but Ben was the only one there. She had never seen Ben with any of the other boys. It was too bad, because she believed Ben Hanscom had treasures buried inside. He would yield them up to a kind and patient prospector...if one ever came along.
Stephen King
#32. Records were replaced by CDs, and lead type died in favor of computerized fonts. However, each had a 100-year ride of popularity, so you can't feel too bad for them.
Nathan Myhrvold
#33. Paige? Why does the house smell like a swimming pool?" Laura yells from the kitchen. "I opened the windows. It shouldn't be too bad," I call back. She pokes her head in. "It's pretty bad." "But it's clean! Isn't it a lovely feeling to have a clean house?
Bria Starr
#34. It was a once in a lifetime thing. I hate to think it but I bet it's true. It's too bad for us that our once in a lifetime happened when were too young to handle it.
Scott Spencer
#35. Mr. Pony struggled manfully with the engineer's permanent dread of having to commit himself to anything, and managed, "Well, if we don't lose too many staff, and the winter isn't too bad, but of course there's always -
Terry Pratchett
#36. Too bad the things that make you mad are my favorite things.
Brandon Boyd
#37. Men are pigs. Too bad we own everything.
Tim Allen
#38. Don't feel too bad" I offered. "I met him face-to-face, and I missed it, too."
"Yes, but no one expected you to be clever Miss Rook."
"Thanks for that," I said
William Ritter
#39. I didn't see myself as the busty type. Too bad bodies are issued randomly, not selected to match your personality
Phoebe Kitanidis
#40. Its a bit mad. Too bad, I mean, that getting to know each just for a fleeting second
Must be replaced by unperfect knowledge of the featureless whole
Like some pocket history of the world, so general
As to constitute a sob or wail
John Ashbery
#41. I'm an adventurer and I enjoy all types of things, and eating is a part of that. It's just too bad we have to watch what we eat.
Lynda Carter
#42. Good work last night, whiskey, too bad you can't make sleep as restful as you make it deep.
Imogen Binnie
#43. You stupid bastard, does what you're fighting for look so real now? Skin pigment. What a laugh! Why not eye color? Too bad nobody ever thought of that. It cuts it a little finer, but basically it's the same thing.
Philip K. Dick
#44. You won't kill me, you stupid worthless bitch. But you best believe that we will kill you. We'll make your friend's death look as cute as puppies and kittens compared to yours. It's just too bad that you won't be able to witness it. Bummer." - Patrick Calveri
Tina Nelson
#45. I had been a girl of whom certain things were expected, none of them too bad: a career as a nurse, for example; a sense of duty to my parents; obedience to the law and worship of convention. But in one year of being away from home, that girl had gone out of existence.
Jamaica Kincaid
#46. I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it's a very mysterious thing, isn't it? I think it's a response in our minds to perfection. It's too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.
Agnes Martin
#48. He'd already chosen his mate. It was too bad she was trying to arrest him for f***ing murder.
Annie Nicholas
#49. This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.
Edouard Manet
#50. Even true believers had consciences, Too bad.
Tom Clancy
#51. Messi is the Best. There must be life out there somewhere, on some other planet. Because he is too good and we are just too bad for him.
Jurgen Klopp
#52. In thigh-high yellow leather boots Plump Saphonisba strides. Too bad that, just to hide her calves, Two calves have lost their hides.
X.J. Kennedy
#53. The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.
Sally Ride
#54. When a man truly sees himself, he knows nobody can say anything about him that is too bad.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#55. Speechless?" asked Erec. "Don't be ashamed. I bring all ladies to that state sooner or later."
"Too bad for you," she said, "I'm not a lady.
Rosamund Hodge
#56. Get a grip. You're pricklier than a feral cat," he said, sitting up.
"Too bad for you, I'm not in heat," I said, calming down.
Tiffany King
#57. I think it's too bad when teenagers become conformist in terms of fashion,because it's the ideal time to go off into your own crazy thing without looking completely idiotic.
Clemence Poesy
#58. Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.
Imogen Cunningham
#60. Today has definitely been better than yesterday. We are having to do a little bit of sweeping but it is generally not too bad and I am still really enjoying the roads - I love being here!
Ken Block
#61. I debated in high school! If you told things that weren't true or just made things out of whole cloth, you were penalized. It's too bad they don't apply the same standards to presidential candidates as they do to high school students.
Mark Hamill
#62. Nothing ever seems too bad, too hard or too sad when you've got a Christmas tree in the living room. All those presents under it, all that anticipation. Just a way of saying there's always light and hope in the world.
J.D. Robb
#63. Too many people try to please their parents. My parents were Republicans, which is too bad, but they allowed me to be who I wanted to be.
Grace Slick
#64. I've been a radical for a long time. I guess it's too bad. I'd be more marketable as a right-wing redneck.
Kris Kristofferson
#65. It's too bad I'm not a flirt. When I'm on the sets, I'm too busy working on my scenes to look at the ladies.
Randeep Hooda
#66. All I wanted for Christmas was a New Years Eve party that I would never forget. Too bad I got too drunk to remember it.
Carroll Bryant
#67. If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.
Vanessa Hudgens
#68. It didn't exactly depress me to think about it, but it didn't make me feel gay as hell either. Certain things should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in those big glass cases and just leave them alone. I know that's impossible, but its too bad anyways.
J.D. Salinger
#69. Too bad I can't afford to patent it.
I can make a fortune.
But again,I have a fortune.
-Batman, Year One comic.
Frank Miller
#70. God bless Interlibrary Loan. I pay a lot of library fines. In the case of 'A Single Shard,' I was using books that hadn't been checked out in 30 years, so I didn't feel too bad.
Linda Sue Park
#71. It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, for all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.
William Sloane Coffin
#72. Saying something is 'too bad' is easy. You say you disapprove, which makes you a nice person, and then you can go about your business and not be interested anymore. It's a lot worse than 'too bad.' It's against everything decent and natural.
Isaac Asimov
#73. Thank you, Edward. You really are special. Being able to create something so wonderful ... But it's too bad ...
... You couldn't put me back together too.
Trisha Elric
Hiromu Arakawa
#74. It's too bad we're not all teddy bears. More stuffing would only make us cuter and cuddlier.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#75. Ah well. He'd beaten her twice sind then: once on their honeymoon, though he still suspected her of throwing the game, and once on the day she lost the baby. And two out of eight hundred and six wasn't too bad, against such an opponent.
K.J. Parker
#76. That's the truth, I guess. We don't catch moments in the passing. We don't catch them at all. We just reach and scramble and wish for fairy godmothers and Prince Charmings. It's too bad none of it is real. It really is too bad.
Amy Zhang
#77. It's too late and it's too bad, don't think of me.
Dido Armstrong
#78. Too bad a person couldn't pick whom they shared the apocalypse with.
Keith C. Blackmore
#79. So I needed to play with some dogs, beat up a company of guards, and call the Ghostbusters? And I needed a guide? Okay. This didn't sound too bad.
I smiled. "I know just the person.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#80. For a second," Megan added, "I thought you were going to be forced into the bathroom there with me. Too bad. It would have been amusing to watch you squirm.
Brandon Sanderson
#81. And what do you think I'm after?"
"Her heart," I said. "Which is too bad. You see ... that's mine, and it always will be. Odd as it might seem, she'd rather have me broken than you whole.
Ann Aguirre
#83. I am for the animals, I couldn't care less about your need to eat animals, wear them, shoot them or exploit them. Too bad if you consider it suffering to let all that self-centered and traditional bullshit stop you from having the will to help the animals..
Rikki Rockett
#84. You hear about people your whole life, 'So-and-so has cancer,' and you're like, 'Wow, that's too bad,' and then most people tend to go about their day. But when someone tells you that it's your father or it's your family, that doesn't tend to go away.
Jake Owen
#85. Too bad the smile was on the face of the wrong man.
Jennifer Estep
#86. You only get one life.
Too bad you already made a mess of it.
Peter James West
#87. Best thing that ever happened to me, that shredded washer," he whispered.
"Too bad I didn't know what a washer was or I would have shredded it myself," I whispered back and he burst out laughing.
Kristen Ashley
#88. But I know something else, too: bad people are rare. Good people are everywhere.
Jeff Bauman
#89. Two things are terrible in childhood: helplessness (being in other people's power) and apprehension - the apprehension that something is being concealed from us because it is too bad to be told.
Elizabeth Bowen
#90. It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.
Julie Bowen
#91. Too bad it's not Logan's bridal shower. This game would have questions like Who offered to do anal first?" We looked at each other and said at the same time, "Logan.
Tijan
#92. I suppose it's too bad people can't be a little more consistent. But if they were, maybe they would stop being people.
Budd Schulberg
#93. Layla tried to maintain eye contact, but couldn't. "You're not used to compliments," he concluded. "No," she confessed, looking back up. "Not ones like that." "That's too bad," he scowled, but then he raised his eyebrows. "We'll have to change that.
B.C. Burgess
#94. Isn't it too bad that the great truths are all such lies.
Stephen King
#95. Too bad,Elizabeth. You're Stuck with me.Not for a few decades,not for centuries. You're tied to me forever. That boy and girl offspring you talked off? They'll come from me
or no one.
Kresley Cole
#96. I turned and looked into the gas station, where Wes was now paying, as the man who'd driven us looked on. "That's too bad," I said.
"It's okay, though," she assured me. "Someday I'll show you an extraordinary boy, Macy. They do exist. You just have to believe me."
"Don't worry," I said. "I do.
Sarah Dessen
#97. Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.
Jane Asher
#98. So, there is a God protecting the innocent. Too bad, he didn't act sooner.
Pepper Phillips
#99. Life wasn't too bad. The trouble with Man was, even while he was having a good time, he didn't appreciate it. Why, thought Milligan, this very moment might be the happiest in me life. The very thought of it made him miserable.
Spike Milligan
#100. Well, too bad, boys - life wasn't an epi of Doctor Who. And you know what?
J.R. Ward
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