As Bad Quotes

There's a saying - "Write what you know." It's bad advice if you take it as an unbreakable rule, but good advice if you use it as a foundation.

Superhero movies and comic books teach a lesson that runs directly counter to the culture-of-violence idea: guns are for bad guys too cowardly to fight like men.

I'm convinced that FEAR is at the root, of all bad writing

A writer's notebook is the best way in the world to immortalize bad ideas. My idea about a good idea is one that sticks around and sticks around and sticks around.

The bad ideas kind of just drop out of the mix. You forget about them. The good ones stick around.

You have good games, you have bad games. You have good years, you have bad years. I have always been kind of philosophical about that.

I read a lot of true-crime books, but sometimes they can put you in a bad mood.

If bad taste were a felony, every writer I know would've done prison time.

Republicans have to be relieved. Given all the bad news this White House has faced, at least the president's hemorrhaging has stopped.

If you're not getting any bad reviews, you're not taking enough risks

And even if you carry a survival kit around with you at all times, it won't guarantee you'll survive. No kit in the world can protect you from all the possible bad things.

Avoiding life, avoiding making any concrete plans for your life-that's just one way you're pretending you can keep bad things from happening to you again.

Too bad guys aren’t like Mr. Potato Head Where you can pick and choose which parts you want. Then we might come up with a guy who meets your standards. - Maggie

There are good and bad movies, and long ones, and pretentious ones, and fun ones, and it's kind of healthy not just being able to switch off after ten minutes, but have patience.

Praise and blame, good and bad, even heat and cold, must be equally acceptable to us.

Each person tries to hold himself hss and lay the blame upon somebody or something else, or even on bad luck.

Bad things happen because we live in a world with evil.

I'm a coffee enthusiast. I try not to have too many bad habits.

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you're obsessed with yourself, and I'm not - you can become unhinged so easily.

I could make the bad guys good for a weekend.

If guys don't want me to write bad songs about them, they shouldn't do bad things.

Ryan Seacrest: Trouble, trouble trouble. So why do girls go for the bad guys, what is it Taylor Swift? Why? Taylor Swift: Because maybe we could change them! Everybody wants to like tame a lion.

You know what the [Barack] Obama administration keeps getting wrong is whenever anything bad happens they focus on law-abiding citizens instead of focusing on the bad guys.

I'm very proud to have joined with conservatives in both the Senate and the House to reform how we target bad guys.

I take really good care of myself. I promised myself long ago that I would never miss a hunting season, never poison my sacred temple with drugs, alcohol, tobacco or bad food.

Sometimes we forget about common sense. Autism is used too much as an excuse for bad behavior.

What's wrong with a bit of nostalgia between friends? I think nostalgia sometimes gets too much of a bad press.

Good and bad is tricky," she said. "I ain't too certain about where people stand. P'raps what matters is which way you face." (pp. 348-349)

He who must needs have company, must needs have sometimes bad company.

You don't have to be sick to get better! You don't have to have a bad attitude to get a better one.

If we don't have a more serious energy policy, the difference between a good day and bad day for America from here on will hinge on how the 86-year-old king of Saudi Arabia manages...change.

Because it's his bad luck to be the best.

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

Nobody in Hollywood ever sets out to make a bad movie ever but about 99% of the time, that's what happens.

The bad guys, when they start getting picked off, they're upset that their friends died, too. But that's the thing. That's what life is. It's that weird gray area.

I've done some pretty bad things in my life.

It's a new medium, it's a universal medium and it's not itself a medium which inherently makes people do good things, or bad things. It allows people to do what they want to do more efficiently.

The bad stuff never stops happening: it lives in its own dimension, replaying itself over and over.

I think at this point in my life, I'd like to play more good guys than bad guys.

I don't enjoy any kind of danger or volatility. I don't have that kind of 'I love the bad guys' thing. No, no thank you. I like nice people.

I think a lot of American comedies tend to apologize for their bad behavior in the last 10 minutes of the movie.

The thing is I'm very interested in bad taste, as anyone who's ever seen me perform or had dinner with me would know.

People do not like to have their favorite myths of idols challenged and as a rule I think that the public does not like bad news.

Some of us do not accept the Establishment myth that bad laws must be obeyed.

As soon as you see 'Dame' in front of someone's name, you get nervous, but Dame Maggie Smith is the most wonderfully gentle woman I have ever met. She never had a bad word to say.

In the periods of my life when I've had least contact with the Church, I've always assumed a belief in God is a solid thing, but clearly it's a relationship; it has good days and bad days.

Making "bad people" seem human is the key to making them really scary.

There is good and bad in all of us and the Church uses the idea of original sin to control us by saying that, if we do not obey the bishops, we will rot in Hell.

You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie.

I've never worked for a newspaper. I've had some very bad reviews in newspapers.