Badly Quotes
1092 Badly quotes by 867 unique authors
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To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a good player, but…
— Umberto Eco
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When I got back to my father and mother and was sitting up there in our tepee, my face was still all puffed and my…
— Black Elk
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Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity,…
— Gustave Flaubert
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An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.
— Ken Follett
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He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though…
— B. C. Forbes
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I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him.…
— Salma Hayek
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If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and…
— Anthony Hopkins
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We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if…
— William Ralph Inge
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If the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to people's sense of alarm... but there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly…
— Brit Hume
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I'm always very nervous about the word 'dancer' next to my name because anyone who's really trained in dance will go, 'This guy's fudging so…
— Hugh Jackman
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Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I'd hide my face…
— Michael Jackson
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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd…
— Janis Joplin
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Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn't mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and…
— Hedy Lamarr
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The Faces do not, as some have recently alleged, play badly. They are more than competent, especially at creating a mid-Sixties Rolling Stones-styled groove, as…
— Jon Landau
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Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, 19, 26 and 32 missing, and it's badly translated,…
— Hugh Laurie
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I tell young comics, 'Do you want this badly enough? It's there. But you have to go get it. And if you think I'm going…
— Jerry Lewis
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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New…
— A J Liebling
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It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly…
— Charles Lindbergh
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Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you…
— Sophia Loren
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If the height of the heel is the same as the length of your foot, it starts to look wrong. And if the heel is…
— Christian Louboutin
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We spent last night listening to Liverpool football team on the radio, wanting them to win so badly. Paul supports Liverpool. He was Everton for…
— Linda McCartney
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
— H. L. Mencken
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I'm always amazed to hear of air crash victims so badly mutilated that they have to be identified by their dental records. What I can't…
— Paul Merton
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We should fight to preserve a country where people such as Michael Moore get to miss the point as badly as he misses it. Michael…
— Dennis Miller
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