Shoddy Quotes

35 quotes by 32 authors

He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but… — Margery Allingham
Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and violence and other shoddy devices to monopolize a child's attention, it's worse than taking… — Newton N. Minow
We should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists and science and extreme ideologues to compete with scientific facts, — John F. Kerry
Service standards keep rising. As competitors render better and better service, customers become more demanding. Their expectations grow. When every company's service is shoddy, doing… — Bill Davidow
It is the whole modern concept of love which should be re-examined, such as is commonly but transparently expressed in phrases like 'love at first… — Andre Breton
I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies and policy… — Juan Cole
My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies. — Mark Twain
And this is a grave responsibility, projected from within each of us, not to settle for the convenient, the shoddy, the conventionally expected, nor the… — Audre Lorde
InherÂent qualÂity is part of absolute qualÂity and withÂout it things will appear shoddy. The users may not know why, but they always senseÂ it. — Erik Spiekermann
I'm too frightened of confrontation, so I will always tip - even if the service has been really shoddy. — Sophie Ellis Bextor
When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy by his inferiors.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The technique of winning is so shoddy, the terms of winning are so ignoble, the tenure of winning is so brief; and the specter of… — Louis Kronenberger
I think all actors have a similar deal. You want some people who understand. Although it looks great - and is great - there are… — Eddie Redmayne
Children's programming in America, I think it's pretty shoddy in terms of lack of diversity. It's pretty much cartoons and Disney sort of shows. I… — Alex Kingston
I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy. — Ralph Thomas Walker
If you cheat, if your weights and measures are inaccurate, if your financial dealings are shoddy, if you take things that do not belong to… — Wayne D. Dosick
I think of the old slavery, and of the way The Economy has now improved upon it. The new slavery has improved upon the old… — Wendell Berry
He's got to do better than the shoddy piecing together of flimsy evidence that contradicts the briefings we have received by various agencies, .. I'm… — Russ Feingold
Those who try to combat the production of shoddy pictures are enemies of the best art today... It always feels tragic to see people labouring… — Asger Jorn
In many ways, large profits are even more insidious than large losses in terms of emotional destabilization. I think it's important not to be emotionally… — William Eckhardt

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