Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wilfred Burchett

Hundreds and hundreds of the dead were so badly burned in the terrific heat generated by the bomb that it was not even possible to tell whether they were men or women, old or young.

W. G. Sebald

Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.

Henry Ward Beecher

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.

Gloria Steinem

A bad facelift is like a bad toupee.

Amy Adams

School was hard for me. If there had been a school for the creative arts, I might have thrived, but... I needed that creative outlet so much. Also, I'm just bad with numbers.

Amanda Peet

Since I got a really bad review when I was, like, 28 in 'The New York Times,' I don't read reviews anymore.

Amrish Puri

I am happy to play the bad man.

Amish Tripathi

In the early '90s, I was disillusioned after the blasts and riots in Mumbai. I was in college and started thinking that religion was the root cause of all these evils. While my father told me not to blame religion because of a few bad people, I wasn't convinced. The faith was restored after I started writing my first book.

Amish Tripathi

A bad book and good marketing won't work, the same way a good book and bad marketing will also not work. There is no choice in the matter that if you need to write a good book, you also need to have good marketing for it.

Amish Tripathi

I turned atheist in the '90s when India went through troubled times - communal riots, bomb blasts... Mumbai, where I live, was badly affected. I blamed religion; also, extremists on both sides - right and left.

Alice Oswald

That is the best instruction you could ever give a poet: whether you're examining a bad line in a poem or a bad motive for action, keep well your repining - meaning, don't ignore the honest muttering in your head.

Bruce Forsyth

You can only be as good as your audience. Sometimes you can be as bad as your audience, but you have to remember you can never be better than them.

Ashley Tisdale

I just like guys who have an edge to them. But it could go either way. Like, I have been into the surfer blond frat guys, and then there's definitely a thing where I like the dark, mysterious bad boy.

Apolo Ohno

As seemingly impossible as it may seem of having zero regrets, when I look at my life now and all the mistakes I've made, all the bad decisions I've made, all the things I could have done differently or done more in, I don't think I would have changed anything.

Ariel Sharon

There is no good terror and bad terror. Terror is terror. There's not terror that you can accept and terror that you cannot accept. Terror is terror. Murder is murder.

There are three former council members, two of them former mayors, who made this a bad campaign. I can say that the candidates themselves were wonderful. Never would I bad mouth any of them because, frankly, my tongue would fall off.

The reaction to this data in the past would have been much more positive. These days only bad news is carrying weight.

There are better ways of doing things than to just implement it on us. It hurt a lot of teachers that we couldn't compromise. For every one bad teacher you get several good ones. We don't want the collective bargaining changed for one bad teacher.

Noel Coward

There are bad times just around the corner,/ We can all look forward to despair, / It's as clear as crystal / From Bridlington to Bristol / That we can't save democracy / And we don't much care.

There are bad times, but thats okay, just look for the love in it, don't burn the day away.

There are bad guys out there. They're looking for potential targets.

There are bad apples, as there are in any tax system. What puts this high on the radar screen is that people who don't pay already have collected the money at the point of sale.

There is more bad news to come in May. Gasoline will be up sharply, and tobacco will be up.

Ruud Nistelrooy

There is a very negative feeling after Saturday. You could talk for hours about what went wrong. It was a bad performance and we didn't do ourselves or the fans justice.

There is a very bad tone to this market. There is no leadership. There's obviously a lot of bad news out there and a lot of disillusioned investors.

There is a structural problem in the rural economy and a structural problem in the urban economy, that's really the story. It's really coincidental that everything has gone bad at one time.

Volumes are increasing (for Rohm & Hass) as the economy turns around, ... Their profitability has been good, even when, you know, business was very, very bad and very slow for them. They've cut costs and run their organization in a very efficient and effective manner. And you know, when business volumes do return, when pricing returns, this would be a really good play.

Volatility should be expected. At some point, really low inflation is bad for earnings. If you can't raise prices you can't bring in the earnings Wall Street wants.

Wal-Mart is giving capitalism a bad name. It?s lost touch with its small-town roots and has become a company that is depending on corporate welfare ... and an all-too-cozy relationship with China.

Emmanuelle Seigner

Everything in life, bad or good, makes you change and grow - happily, because if it didn't, we'd be machines.

Buddy Valastro

I would never talk bad about anybody, even if they have something derogatory to say about me. I'm the bigger person.

Kate Atkinson

The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard for me, as a writer, to give a bad ending to a good character, or give a good ending to a bad character. That's probably not a very postmodern thing to say.

There are good days and there are bad days, and I've had my share of both.