If people cannot be flawed in fiction there's no place left for us to be human.
If the gods do decide to wipe us out, is it such a bad thing? Maybe we've earned a little annihilation.
Everything we go through, the good and the bad, make us who we are; why would I want to be anyone else?
Which isn’t, like, as bad as it sounds, because the general public kind of sucks ass.
Dying in vain isn't really all that bad since nearly everyone does it. It's the living in vain you really have to watch out for.
Where I am always thou art. Thy image lives within my heart
You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.
May be its mine bad-luck Or yours not to get me But I still have hope Of being yours
We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past.
You can do everything you can to try to stop bad things from happening to you, but eventually things will happen, so the best prevention is a positive attitude.
From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I was a member of the Rough Gang - we went around and terrorized all the pupils in school.
A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'
When you experience bereavement at a youngish age, you suddenly realise that life is unjust and unfair, that bad things will happen, and you have to take that on board.
The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I miss out on the gregarious, social way that most musicians work.
When I did 'Frantic,' I didn't have a lot of experience. My English was so bad, and I did an OK job, I think, but I was not amazing.
The Republican and Democratic parties have accomplished an amazing feat with the red state/blue state paradigm. They've convinced everyone that regardless of how bad they are, the other guy is worse.
Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent.
Architecture has curled up in a ball and it's about itself. It has found itself either as a freakshow, where you're not sure if it's good or bad but at least it's interesting, or at the behest of forces of commerce.
There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.
There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.
Yes, bad or mediocre ballets can be useful to the dancers and temporarily fun for the audience, but in the long run, the lowering of standards can only erode the art form we all love.
