Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Adams

A good metaphor can make any bad idea sound good.

Josh Elliott

A good meal is very important to me. When I have a bad meal, especially out, it's like I'm sitting in an airport during a flight delay. It's a part of my life I can't get back.

A good knot on a bad rope is no better than a bad knot,

Jon Evans

A great coder can easily be 50 times more productive than a mediocre one, while bad ones ultimately have negative productivity.

A grand coalition would be a very bad solution for Germany. A grand coalition would mean stagnation.

Ernest Newman

A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.

Paul Anderson

A good actor is like watching a great musician, but having a bad actor terrifies me, because it means I've got to find something to say or something to do. And that's really frustrating, because you want to be concentrating on everything, and instead you find yourself bogged down with helping someone know their lines or not bump into the furniture, and that's when you want to strangle them.

Dusty Baker

You want to beat them. You don't like to look bad on TV, especially in Chicago. You don't want to make it the World Series when it's not, but it's very important. You always want to beat the Sox.

John Gibbons

You watch Ortiz the last couple years -- there's not a more clutch player out there. I don't care who you're talking about. Of course, the guy behind him ain't bad either.

You know, the blond guy plays the good guy and I play the bad part, the bad guys. Which is a lot of fun. Playing the bad guy is great. And it's the whole British thing. You know, in so many films the bad guy is British. Gary Oldman makes a living doing that.

Chad Campbell

You know, not a bad start to the year. Hopefully, I can take something from here that is positive. I wasn't able to get anything going today, but my first three rounds were really solid. David was just too tough today. He played well all week.

Jeff Adrien

You'd have to catch us on a really bad day, everybody gets sick. Anything is possible, but I don't think it's going to be possible (tonight).

Michael Landon

You'd have died of a real bad case of slow.

You?d be surprised ? sometimes the light goes on and kids do very well. You never know what will catch. These kids have as much potential as everybody else, but sometimes they make bad decisions.

You create your own luck. We're not playing good soccer and bad things are happening to us. We have no one to blame but ourselves.

Jack Wilson

You could tell he thought it was the third out. I don't think it was a bad play to go for it. But Eckstein made a good play.

Ron Gardenhire

You could tell he got frustrated after the big one out there in the gap, where he gives up three more. You know he's frustrated and then he makes a couple more pitches up and they hit a couple of bullets off him. So he's just frustrated right now. He makes a good pitch, they hit it, makes a bad pitch, they hit it. It's just not working out for him right now.

You could spend $20 to watch a three-hour movie or $20 to spend three hours in a casino. Now we have a bad idea joined with an unknown company to operate it targeting local customers and creating horrible traffic snarls throughout our county.

You could say those were bad years for the weather,

You couldn't say he was trying to break my neck. You could say it was a bad move on his part not to let up, to finish the hit the way he did. Unfortunately, the consequences from the league really are not that bad. Three games for him are like a holiday, three games without going out there and getting his lunch handed to him by the other teams in the league. Sounds like a pretty good tradeoff to me.

You couldn't have scripted it any better. That's the way it would have been drawn up with our best shooters at the line. But as bad as we were, we were still in the game. Both teams played their guts out.

You could look at it from the perspective that the responses mean there's a problem that needs to be addressed, or it could also be indicative of how much more interest there is in the use of the browser, ... No feedback and then problems occurring later on is a bad situation. The best situation is the release candidate goes out and people respond and say, 'Wait a minute! What about this? What about that?

Shonda Rhimes

You could. And I think it says that's bad and it's black and it's a code, honestly.

You can't have a bad day in the Big Ten or else you'll be looking out for everybody. It all comes down to the athlete's desire to see us (coaches) through to their senior year -- they have to want it and need to see their future.

You can't get mad at Katy. Katy has carried us for most of the year, and she just had a bad day.

You can't forget it, but I wouldn't say (it was) revenge. I'd say motivation. That was something that hurts really bad deep inside, and it's something that we've felt from the time we lost.

Tiki Barber

You can't even blame them for blowing us out, because we were so bad then. But this is a completely different team, a different feel, a different coach staff.

Eleanor Catton

You can tell when a writer moves out of a place of struggle and into a place of comfort, and it's always a bad thing.

John Calipari

You can't win this kind of game. To give ourselves a chance to win as bad as we were playing, I was stunned.

Claude Julien

You can't say he had a bad game because as a team, we didn't play well,

You can't really talk about these issues without talking about Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart drags everybody down, but they are not the only bad actor out there.

You can't really say it was fatigue. It's me making a couple bad passes here and there, not being smart with the ball.

You can't put out bad healthcare and expect to succeed.