Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Sedaris

I love getting attention, just like a child loves it, and it's never worn off. So when people say, oh the book signings go on, why would I shoo away someone who's giving me attention? What part of standing in line for 10 hours to say how much they love you is bad to you?

Don Winslow

A great review is great. A bad review is the worst.

Drew Goddard

I think that there's good movies and there's bad movies, and sometimes the bad movies spoil it for the rest of us, and we focus on them, but in the long run, all that matters are the good movies. Those are the ones that we will remember.

Dwight Schultz

The director calmed me down and told me I was being too hard on myself. He went on to say that I wasn't quite as bad as I thought, but needed to tone things down a bit.

Damien Chazelle

If there's a good review, I'll skip over the headline, but I always find the bad reviews and read those. I don't know why. It's a little sick and demented.

Paul Haggis

I made a very good living as a bad writer. I wrote a lot of comedies, 'Diff'rent Strokes,' 'Facts of Life,' while all my friends were doing the good shows, like 'Cheers,' but I loved it because I got to be a working writer in Hollywood.

Paul Farmer

If you look at people who seek a lot of care in American cities for multiple illnesses, it's usually people with a number of overwhelming illnesses and a lot of social problems, like housing instability, unemployment, lack of insurance, lack of housing, or just bad housing.

Norman Jewison

And I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic.

Pete Townshend

The bad part about growing older is I'm going bald. The good part is my nose seems to be getting shorter.

Peter O'Toole

I suggest that an education and reading and facts aren't bad things on which to ponder a few notions.

Carlos Zambrano

We played with a little bad luck. Hopefully we can win the next two and move on.

We played as bad as we've (played) since I've been here as a unit (in the second half). . . . It's pretty depressing.

We played a lot of tough people on the road, played in some tough environments. We're used to it. We're gonna battle. It taught us how to battle, how to overcome a bad call by the umpire, how to overcome the mistakes that we make. We could've folded our tents early, saying we won (Friday). But in this conference, you can't give in.

Steve Sullivan

We played a little too much out on the perimeter. We've been lucky enough to be scoring five to six goals per game in the last few games, so we might have gotten in some bad habits. We have to get back to working toward the goal and creating better chances.

Andre Miller

We played a bad game tonight. But we can go out there and get them tomorrow.

Bill Parcells

We played 56 minutes and 51 seconds worth of pretty bad football.

We preach it. You've got to control the ball. Bad things happen when you don't.

We opened up the floodgates of bad news. The good news is, a lot of this is behind us, and we probably overreacted on the downside.

We opened up the floodgates of bad news, ... The good news is, a lot of this is behind us, and we probably overreacted on the downside.

Terry Gilliam

They make Spy Kids, they make Scream, they make A Scary Movie. This doesn't do that, so it could be a very bad marriage. I'm trying to keep this potential nightmare quiet because we're just finishing editing.

Terence Winter

The thing is, when you paint somebody in all of their colors, they're never all bad or all good. Even the worst person has humanity in there somewhere.

Terence Winter

I think people, whether they realize they're doing it or not, seek out distractions to take their minds off what they know is bad behavior.

Teri Hatcher

Changing what you don't like about yourself can be empowering, and that's not a bad thing. Feeling secure enough to own what is weak and missing from either your body, mind or spirit and to commit to action to change it is a good thing.

Sigourney Weaver

That whole generation that's gone now, that lived through the two world wars, is a great example to all of us. They knew how to live. If something bad happened, they didn't sit at home, eat Haagen-Dazs, and watch a movie.

Susan Minot

So many bad things happen in this world because people don't know how to express things.

Steve Wilkos

It's basically taking a 911 call, bringing them on stage and dealing with it just like when I was a Chicago policeman for 12 years. I personally become involved. Where Jerry lets people tell their story and lets everything happen on stage, I kind of go after the bad guy and protect the little guy.

Stewart Butterfield

Email has the virtue - sounds like a bad thing, but it's the virtue of being the lowest common denominator messaging protocol. Everyone can have it. It can cross organizational boundaries. No one owns it. It's not some particular company's platform.

Stewart Butterfield

There's a lot that's wrong with the way we work - bad habits that develop around control of information, people hoarding information as a means of preserving their own power. When you're using Slack, everyone can see what's going on because the default mode is public.

Steven Sinofsky

People love to play expectations games, and that is always bad for collaboration internal to a team, with your manager, or externally with customers.

Sebastiao Salgado

I photographed with film for many years; now that I work in digital, the difference is enormous. The quality is unbelievable: I don't use flash, and with digital I can even work in very bad light. Also, it's a relief not to lose photographs to x-ray machines in airports.

V. E. Schwab

I love being new places and hate getting there, and have been known to say on multiple occasions that I would give anything from a piece of my soul to a limb to a portion of my life savings to teleport. Especially when bad weather keeps me off planes.

Tommy Lee Jones

I've made some bad movies. And I really enjoyed it!

Thalia

The bad experiences make you stronger and makes you focus on the next project.