I walked down the hall and saw that [she] was sitting on the floor next to a chair. This is always a bad sign. It's a slippery slope, and it's best just to sit in chairs, to eat when hungry, to sleep and rise and work. But we have all been there. Cha...
I'm convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. If one is writing for one's own pleasure, that fear may be mild — timidity is the word I've used here. If, however, one is working under deadline — a school paper, a newspaper article, t...
Ghost Dog: It is bad when one thing becomes two. One should not look for anything else in the Way of the Samurai. It is the same for anything that is called a Way. If one understands things in this manner, he should be able to hear about all ways and...
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving.
I've done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is, you have to keep in mind, you're never gonna marry a bad boy.
A good culture in a hospital can absorb and manage a few bad nurses, but once the culture becomes bad in itself, bad nursing practice is much harder to hide.
There are plenty of bad actors and there are plenty of bad directors. There are actors who will always be bad and there are good actors who you cry for because they're being badly directed or the material isn't good enough.
I don't have any bad habbits. They might be bad habits for other people, but they're all right for me.
'Malandrinas' means 'bad girls,' but not bad in a negative way. I wrote it in homage to my female fans.
It was because he wanted there to be conspirators. It was much better to imagine men in some smoky room somewhere, made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over the brandy. You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you didn't th...
A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough. --Augustus "Gus" McCrae
There were always choices. I’d made a string of bad ones myself. At least I could admit that.
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
Why are we casting all these stand-up comedians to do 'Breaking Bad,' one of the most dramatic TV shows ever?
I look really bad in one of those orange suits with the numbers on the back. It doesn't do anything for me.
When you are new to the business, you think if you give a really bad performance, that's one they will print. You will be judged. You just have to be brave.
I think that's the greatest gift one can have: point of view. You know? I've come to believe that if you have a bad memory of something, change it.
One of the first things a British visitor to Southern California discovers is that he must have a car. Freeways. Bad public transport. I took driving lessons.
We're one of the forces that causes actors to fasten seat belts before they take off chasing the bad guy in the car... or removes some of the cigarette smoking on television.
