Lousy Quotes
220 Lousy quotes by 198 unique authors
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The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes out…
— Alma Guillermoprieto
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It's easier to revise lousy writing than to revise a blank sheet of paper.
— S.A. Bodeen
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Stop worrying about the lousy science, and how me the money already.
— Rajendra K. Pachauri
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I am a messenger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting (WWI) to those who want the war to go on…
— Unknown Author
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I believe no one can afford, endure or can stomach leaving half a life in the parking lot when she or he goes to work.…
— Ricardo Semler
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Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.
— Edward Tufte
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This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings
— Paddy Chayefsky
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My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and…
— Norman Rockwell
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It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat…
— Jean Anouilh
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You'd think is something one would grow out of. But you grow into it. The more you do, the more you realize how painfully easy…
— Glenda Jackson
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Immanuel Kant would've made a lousy lawyer, but a great judge!
— Stephen Gillers
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The grid is like the lines on a football field. You can play a great game in the grid or a lousy game. But the…
— Wim Crouwel
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A speaker is like a lousy auto mechanic: Every time he fixes something in the language, he screws up something else.
— Joseph H. Greenberg
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Oh, we've had our share of hotels bein' smashed and all, but that was a long time ago. You get lousy room service... I mean,…
— Angus Young
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I got lost somehow, began staring up her legs. I was always a leg man. It was the first thing I saw when I was…
— Charles Bukowski
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Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no reason to say…
— Steve Guttenberg
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If you don’t sign up your kids for cryonics then you are a lousy parent.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
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What is it that you like doing? If you don't like it, get out of it, because you'll be lousy at it.
— Lee Iacocca
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This same economic system, based on short-term growth and endless profits is also the reason for pretty much everything else that is lousy in our…
— Naomi Klein
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You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting…
— Chuck Close
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If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy…
— J D Salinger
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We ignore outlooks and forecasts... we're lousy at it and we admit it ... everyone else is lousy too, but most people won't admit it.
— Martin J. Whitman
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Not changing your strategy merely because you're used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy.
— Seth Godin
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You've got one life, live it. Follow your dreams, quit your job, drop out of school, tell your boyfriend that he's lousy and walk out…
— Jared Leto
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Some days are born ugly. From the very first light they are no damn good what ever the weather, and everbody knows it. No one…
— John Steinbeck
Who Wrote These Lousy Quotes
198 authors contributed a total of 220 Lousy Quotes, led by these top contributors: