This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds.
My mother once told me that no woman is naked when she comes equipped with a bad mood and a steady glare.
We spent 10 years writing our first fiction story and truly hope people like it.
Algunas veces, sólo decir que odias algo y que alguien esté de acuerdo contigo puede hacer que te sientas mejor, a pesar de lo terrible de la situación.
All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn't so sure.
There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different.
...you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.
it is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.
Sometimes, just saying that you hate something, and having someone agree with you, can make you feel better about a terrible situation.
If you have ever lost a loved one, then you know exactly how it feels. And if you have not, then you cannot possibly imagine it.
Count Olaf had taken out a bottle of wine to pour himself some breakfast, but when he saw the book he stopped, and sat down.
On bad days you wonder, ‘Why not just back off from the war and lead a quiet metalife?
A brick can be neither good nor bad. A brick just is. And it isn’t, because I just stole it from you, which is good for me, and bad for you.
Although a great restaurant experience must include great food, a bad restaurant experience can be achieved through bad service alone. Ideally, service is invisible. You notice it only when something goes wrong.
I am quite hard to live with, and I know that if I go through a bad run, I'm not the best company and am best left alone. But I'm not nearly as bad as people like to make out.
One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary of good and bad has been replaced by the self-help lexicon of positive and negative thinking.
I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings.
I see 30 to 40 gallery shows a week, and no matter what kind of mood I'm in, no matter how bad the art is, I almost always feel better afterward. I can learn as much from bad art as from good.
Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck.
I had no ability, but I was determined to show heart.
You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery.
