Poorly Quotes

241 quotes by 218 authors

In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence… — Werner Herzog
The symphony orchestra had played poorly, so the conductor was in a bad mood. That night he beat his wife--because the music hadn't been beautiful… — George Carlin
...despite all this, it is still hard to admit that there is no one more English than the Indian, no one more Indian than the… — Zadie Smith
The power of "can't": The word "can't" makes strong people weak, blinds people who can see, saddens happy people, turns brave people into cowards, robs… — Robert Kiyosaki
In the words of a very famous dead person, 'A nation that does not know its history is doomed to do poorly on the Scholastic… — Dave Barry
Iâ€™d discovered, after a lot of extreme apprehension about what spoons to use, that if you do something incorrect at table with a certain arrogance,… — Sylvia Plath
I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly. — Cassandra Clare
We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go outâ€¦we… — Erich Maria Remarque
The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the… — John Green
Brief is this existence, as a visit in a strange house. The path to be pursued is poorly lit by a flickering consciousness. — Albert Einstein
I need some kind of... like... last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!! — Bryan Lee O'Malley
About halfway through I broke down crying, which I hadn't expected. I was a little ashamed, but only a little;it was her, you see, and… — Stephen King
Sorry,â€ she said, â€œI got out as fast as I could, but I had to stay and socialize. Protocol, you know.â€ â€œExplain protocol,â€ Nell said.… — Neal Stephenson
We could say that the human race is a great coauthorship in which we are collaborating with God and nature in the making of ourselves… — Wendell Berry
Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free. — Sheldon B. Kopp
And my fear of failure has been lifelong and deep. If you are what you do- and I think my parents may have accidentally given… — Anne Lamott
She was clean": no piercings, tattoos, or scarifications. All the kids were now. And who could blame them, Alex thought, after watching three generations of… — Jennifer Egan
The academic bias against subjectivity not only forces our students to write poorly ("It is believed...," instead of, "I believe..."), it deforms their thinking about… — Parker J. Palmer
You can trust that caring, as a rule, ends poorly,â€ which is true. Caring doesnâ€™t sometimes lead to misery. It always does. — John Green
Jesus.. says, 'Let go of your complaints, forgive those who loved you poorly, step over your feelings of being rejected, and have the courage to… — Henri Nouwen

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