Famous Quotes & Sayings

One hit can get the audience's faith back that a comedy can be good. They've been exposed to so many dire, bad half-hour shows that the expectation is that any half-hour comedy is going to be the same stale stuff we've seen. So there's a disinclination to sample them.

Kevin J. Anderson

One of my very favorite things to do is to write bad guys. Because I learned that bad guys never think of themselves as the bad guy.

One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.

Randy Carlyle

Obviously, we had planned to have Sergei as part of our hockey club. Things happen behind the scenes, and you have to make adjustments. It's unfortunate that Sergei got hurt. He did everything right from the beginning of training camp, performed at a high level. I can't say a bad word about him.

Mike Hargrove

Obviously, we didn't hit our spots today. When you miss as badly as we missed, you see what can happen. We just couldn't get the ball where wanted to.

Obviously, we didn't come out and start well. We did a bad job of making adjustments. We've got to be focused for seven innings to win games.

Alex Tanguay

Obviously, we're not some of the teams in the past. We don't have as much depth as we had in the past, scoring wise. We did play bad a few games, and with Patrick (Roy) in net and (Peter) Forsberg and all the tools we had offensively, we could still win the game.

Oscar Wilde

Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Richard McCabe

October is not all that bad, but there have been some eye-catching examples that have fed the folklore that October can be a bad month.

October is a bad month anyway. Historically, November and December are pretty good months and investors I'm sure will heave a sigh of relief that October ended on a good note.

J. C. Watts

Of course before we race it's freezing, but as soon as you get on the line, you've got to get it out of your head. We knew that we'd basically go in anything besides thunder and lightning, but I didn't think it would be this bad today.

Stephen Sommers

No one is going to think going into this movie that they are going to come out loving Frankenstein, and not in a cheap of cheesy way at all - he's really an angry, vicious guy - a beast. But when you think of the originals, they were scary melodramas. The characters were so deep. I always felt as badly for Frankenstein as I did for his victims because, like Lenny in Steinbeck's 'Mice and Men,' he's a man-child. I've always found that fascinating.

I think they had a better game plan and they executed it better. It was just a bad day.

I think they're scared. They see somebody get into a program, and to them that legitimizes the program and puts them into a bad light.

I think they did what they knew best. It's too bad that he died, because I loved him. But we totally support their actions.

I think they already had our attention. Effingham is always a tough game. They're 13-10. We haven't lost to a team with a losing record this year. We haven't lost to a bad team, and Effingham certainly isn't a bad team.

I think the shots that we took were good shots. We made sure we didn't force anything as well. I think I can count the number of bad shots we took on one hand.

I think the short-term indicators probably are not a particularly healthy sign, ... Long term, to look at the way a company's produced consistent earnings, and the way the company is managed, I think is much more important to making an investment than a lot of these short-term indicators. But, in a bull market, there's no such thing as bad news. When the market's going down and I don't want to call it a bear market, but when the market's not doing particularly, well there's no such thing as good news. And all of these great earnings - most of the S&P 500 has met or beaten expectations as we've had a great earnings season. And the market doesn't really seem to care. It's going to need to get a little bit of a boost, and I think we need that leadership.

I think them beating Oklahoma that bad caught most of us off guard. The (turnovers) in the first half shifted the momentum for good. It will be important for us to limit the turnovers and, if it does happen, we will have to put out the fire.

Barney Frank

It is a very bad idea for the United States government to spend tens of billions of dollars to send people to Mars and to the moon,

It is a very bad and sad sign. If it is so, then the Geneva meeting may be in danger or jeopardy.

It is a mess. I feel badly for the property owners. We have a procedure in place which makes it harder for something like this to happen.

Luiz Scolari

It is better playing 12 or 14 matches than going into the playoffs where we can have a bad match and then the preparation of two or three years can be totally lost.

It is bad procurement policy for any state to unilaterally lock itself into one set of technologies.

John Spratt

It is bad news for taxpayers, who might have to cover part of the unfunded pension costs for Northwest and Delta employees,

It is bad news for renters. These people are being squeezed out of the marketplace.

It is bad news. But we just have to get on and deal with it.

It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday.

It is bad judgment to speak of halters in the house of a man who was hanged

It is bad for America. It is bad for the rest of the world. It is bad for Russia, but it's your decision.

It is bad as it creates instability in the government.

Avery Johnson

I think there's another level for us to go to. We did some good stuff. We did some bad stuff.

I think there's a lot of anxiety about being seen as a bad parent. There's still a lot of subjects that I think people aren't entirely comfortable being honest about.