Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Di Filippo

The term 'steampunk' itself, now a badge of honor, began as a putdown, a joke. But like 'Big Bang' in cosmology, the diss became the standard.

Paul Giamatti

This whole business feels kind of intense, like a bad fit. Round peg, square hole. But whatever, I'll take it.

My hope for AI and Facebook in the next decade is you can sit down and tell Facebook, 'This is what I want to hear about today.' Like, I'm having a bad day; I want to hear some good news. If we make our products better, more people will use it - people use it more. It's fairly easy to understand.

Prince Royce

I don't think I've ever had a bad Valentine's Day, I mean... c'mon, y'all know I never get a bad Valentine. Nah. Um, no, I've never really had - I don't have a bad Valentine's Day. I never really think... it doesn't come up to my mind.

Pippa Middleton

'Celebrate' is meant to be a guide to party planning and, as such, it has to cover the basics. If I were to write a cookery book, for instance, I would be compelled to say that, to make an omelette, you have to break at least one egg. Actually, that's not a bad idea. Or maybe I should write a sequel and call it 'Bottoms Up?'

Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.

I never put down a bad script and I never walk out of a bad movie because I'm always hopeful things will change.

Peter James

The police feel that most of the public are against them and that there is a lot of bad feeling.

In and of itself, keeping the country safe for business is not a bad thing.

Peter Mullan

The working-class aspirations are worse now than when I was a kid - and it was pretty bad when I was a kid. Reality TV means they are being told they are no longer a working class, they're an underclass. Young lassies want to be Jordan or Jade, but very few aspire to be the next Germaine Greer.

Phil Klay

Bombs do very, very bad things to human bodies. It's incredibly shocking to see.

Orhan Pamuk

Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.

Orhan Pamuk

Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.

We have had some bad luck this season. Hopefully things don't carry into next year for us.

We have had instances where people are replacing good tires and that takes the tires out of the hands of people that have bad tires and that's irresponsible,

We have had great fun together. But I don't think we played inspired the last 40 minutes. We just played, not with our hearts. We didn't want it as bad as they did.

We have a new middle name. Call us the Lady 'One bad inning' Tigers. Two runs is not hard to pick up. But the third inning -- and that's what it's been all season. The girls know that.

David Johnson

We have an assortment of bad guys who are going to be mixing with the audience. They're all local businessmen and members of the Rough Riders.

Charles Rangel

We have a million people -- a million Americans out there that have worked every day, that have paid into the unemployment compensation package -- and the bad cops are saying, 'forget about it,'

David Blunkett

We have a media that presents every politician as being as bad as the next. There is no distinguishing between one good idea or another; no explanation of why constitutional change should be uppermost in the minds of the people I represent.

We need to know how bad it is — but we want a little good news, too. We've heard a lot about how bad Americans are, or some Americans were in Katrina, but we're not a bad people.

We need to keep getting the message out with days like today where we can try to keep kids from making bad decisions.

Brandon Roy

We can't give up hope. I've started off 0-5, so it doesn't get any worse than that. Five-and-four is not bad at all. We just have to keep scrapping and keep fighting and know that if we win this game we've got two games at home and chance to go to 7-4. The future is still bright for us.

Brendan Haywood

We can't give up 38 points in a quarter to the Hawks. That's just bad defense.

Bud Selig

We know that we have to work to do, ... We'll continue to intensify our efforts. I'm very aware, I'm extremely sensitive about it, and I feel badly about it. But we need to get to work to change things.

Haley Barbour

We know that there is a lot of the coast that we have not been able to get to, ... I hate to say it, but it looks like it is a very bad disaster in terms of human life.

We have what is called an historic piece of legislation to try to cover 11 million uninsured children. That's the good news. The bad news is we have a nation that does not know that we've enacted this legislation.

Mike Maddux

We just didn't score. If a ball took a bad hop, it was in his game. If we booted a ball, it was when he was out there.

Jerry Angelo

We just didn't look like we were ready to play. We didn't play well, and we got beat in our backyard. We got our butts kicked. That leaves everybody with a bad taste. You can't have that happen in your backyard.

We just didn't get it done today. We swung the bat at some bad pitches. A bad weekend, overall.

We just didn't execute. But it's been a great season. It's too bad it had to end with this kind of performance. It would have been nice to be here one more day.

We just didn't do much offensively. We got a lot of good looks at the basket that just didn't fall. It's not like we were taking bad shots. They just got real physical with us and we didn't respond to that well.

We just didn't come with it. We didn't come with energy, we didn't make plays, we didn't play to win. We all around had a bad game.