Poorly Quotes

241 quotes by 216 authors

What is your substance, whereof are you made, That millions of strange shadows on you tend? Since everyone hath every one, one shade, And you,… — William Shakespeare
Joseph Beringer...dances around behind me singing some poorly rhymed and slightly dirty song about my [racing] odds at my skirts. 'I don't even wear skirts,'… — Maggie Stiefvater
Nowadays Iâ€™m really cranky about comics. Because most of them are just really, really poorly written soft-core. And I miss good old storytelling. And you… — Joss Whedon
If a writer knows what he or she is doing, I'll go along for the ride. If he or she doesn't... well, I'm in my… — Stephen King
Its like a hypnotist put everyone from Seattle into a collective trance. "You are getting sleepy, when you wake up you will want to live… — Maria Semple
You lie. Worse, you lie poorly. — George R. R. Martin
Ah. Medieval-style ransom.â€ Toot looked confused. â€œHe did run some, but I stopped him, my lord. Like, just now. In front of you. Right over… — Jim Butcher
Love and faith go hand in hand. You can't have one without the other. And as we all know, taking the leap ain't always safe.… — Kirsten Miller
It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of clarity,… — Claire Messud
The old sleep poorly. Perhaps they stand watch. — Stephen King
Too often the educational value of doing well what is done, however little, is overlooked. One thing well done prepares the mind to do the… — Booker T. Washington
The U.S. public is depoliticised, poorly informed on foreign affairs... and strongly patriotic in the face of a struggle with another Hitler. Even though the… — Edward S. Herman
[Those] who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but they also make… — Claude Bernard
They say that the Soviet delegates smile. That smile is genuine. It is not artificial. We wish to live in peace, tranquility. But if anyone… — Nikita Khrushchev
Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor that… — Jason Epstein
Sometimes the results of a first free election will find the moderates so poorly organized that extreme groups can eke out a victory, as Hamas… — Elliott Abrams
Mycologists are few and far between. We are under-funded, poorly represented in the context of other sciences - ironic, as the very foundation of our… — Paul Stamets
Noise is a parasite. Anything noisy is poorly designed. — Raymond Loewy
To be the child of immigrants from Eastern Europe is in itself a special kind of experience; and an important one to an author. He… — Delmore Schwartz
As I travelled around Australia, strangers in pubs, on airplanes, in beach parking lots would bring up Gina Rinehart, not knowing I was writing about… — William Finnegan

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