He who writes badly thinks badly

A politicians willingness to listen to good advice rises in inverse proportion to how badly he thinks he is doing.

— Patrick Caddell

A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert ... writes badly.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it's funny. And it's not funny. It's not.

— Joe Biden

When I want to do something badly enough, I do it, but there is a practical side of me that thinks I should be…

— Elaine Stritch

At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any word. I…

— Ben Schwartz

I was turning up at sets where inexperienced people were making these badly written films - but they were doing it; that was the…

— Dexter Fletcher

There are two ways of knowing if something ends badly: If you're honest with yourself, you just kind of know it. And then there's…

— Vince Gilligan

I'm talking to anyone who has been dumped - have not gotten the job you really wanted or have received those horrible rejection letters…

— Jill Abramson

“Anything worth doing is worth doing badly.”

— G.K. Chesterton

You know, sometimes you fall in love and you get treated badly, sometimes you get treated well.

— Estelle

People are generally badly advised when they're starting out in the creative field.

— Julian Lennon

Trump spoke badly about women... It sparked worldwide reactions.

— N. Chandrababu Naidu

You can have everything you want as long as you don't want it badly enough.

— Yogi Berra

In an era when party fundraising is badly tainted, dinners are a really good way of raising cash for campaigning. Lots of people giving…

— Lucy Powell

I love pushing my boundaries and seeing how far I can go without, you know, dying or injuring myself too badly. On set I…

— Spencer Grammer