Quotes of: Bad-rap Keyword

We are strangely biased, as individuals and media institutions, to focus on big sudden changes, whether good or bad - amazing breakthroughs, such as a new gadget that gets released, or catastrophic failures, like a plane crash.

Steven Johnson

I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line.

Daniel Radcliffe

Cleveland has a very bad reputation, but there's a lot of stuff that's left over from when there were very wealthy people - the Art Museum and a world class symphony that's still world class.

Harvey Pekar

But I'm interested in the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia. I hear there are some of the worst Matisses there. I like seeing bad art by good artists. It's inspiring. I'm able to identify with them. It makes them real.

Jemima Kirke

I really think there's no difference between an art piece made by a man and one made by a woman. Is it a good art piece or a bad art piece? Of course, if you're female, you're maybe dealing with different issues.

Marina Abramovic

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art.

Muriel Rukeyser

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.

Truman Capote

Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.

1984

And then she walked out of my life forever. Too bad she was hitchhiking. I should have picked her up.

$3.33

If you could smell my smile, you’d nose how bad I want to kiss you. But you can’t, and I don’t.

$3.33

...after rare beef and wine, when the lobes turn red, was the time to ask favours or tell bad news.

The Art of Eating: 50th Anniversary Edition

The best way to filter out the bad seeds was to place a job ad for Prime Minister in a national newspaper and all those that applied would be automatically disqualified.

Afterlight

You know it’s a bad sign when the theme song from Titanic describes your relationship.

All Mortal Flesh

We are like guests on this Earth, either we get to be nice or we get to be bad

Always in My Heart

...if anyone who speaks up to criticise something obviously evil is punished merely for speaking, civilisation will be in a bad way.

Ancillary Justice

The worst part of childhood is not knowing that bad things pass, that time passes. A terrible moment in childhood hovers with s kind of eternity, unbearable.

Aquarium

Obelmäker is a deeply fearful person and terribly indecisive. Even when he makes a choice, it’s usually bad.

From the Horse’s Mouth

And that's what makes you angry. What makes you hate. You don't want to believe that sometimes bad things happen just because they do.

Heartbeat

When the bell rings, and lunch is over, I decide to come back here tomorrow, and the next day. I tell myself it really isn’t that bad.

Hold Still

I could feel her breasts up against my stomach. I wanted a beer real bad.

Hear the Wind Sing

It's sad that bad things have to happen in order for us to stop and look around.

Infinite Limits: A Conclusion to Small Circles