Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kate Atkinson

The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard for me, as a writer, to give a bad ending to a good character, or give a good ending to a bad character. That's probably not a very postmodern thing to say.

There are good days and there are bad days, and I've had my share of both.

Walter Dean Myers

I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book. I never had people like the people I knew. People who could not find their lives in books and celebrated felt bad about themselves. I needed to write to include the lives of these young people.

Walter Kirn

Cross the wrong state border with your gun, or wake up one morning to new legislation or a new presidential executive order, and suddenly you're the bad guy, not the good guy. No wonder some gun owners seem so touchy; they feel, at some level, like criminals in waiting.

Walter Kirn

Literary dementia seems dated now, but there was a time when a month in the funny farm was as de rigueur for budding writers as an M.F.A. is now. To be sent away was a badge of honor; to undergo electroshock, a glorious martyrdom.

Waylon Jennings

Jessi is a great person. She really is. She's been a friend to me all through all my bad times, and she's understood what I was doing. She came up with that one saying, which was great.

Tre Cool

Back in '93 and '94, when 'Dookie' was being made, my dad built this tour bus for us, out of a bookmobile. We toured in it for the first year. It was a really bad idea, by the way.

Denis O'Hare

I'm a little bit of an obsessed artist, and I'm not very talented. But isn't Suzanne Somers a bad painter?

Denis O'Hare

Probably I have more phobias, fear and eccentricities than I would care to admit. I don't think I'm in danger of losing my mind, but I do often question my own behavior. I have a very bad temper, and it's not always healthy for me and for others. I make my way in the world more difficult, and I could do with a little more yoga.

Derrick Jensen

My audience consists mainly of people who already recognize how bad this culture is, and I want to push them to become more radical. It doesn't really matter to me if they are Left or Right.

Dee Dee Ramone

I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again.

Casey Affleck

The four movies I can remember seeing as a kid were 'The Elephant Man,' 'The Magnificent Seven,' 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly' and 'Mad Max!' Two of those are westerns. So the western genre is emblazoned on my memory from childhood, and those are two great movies.

Stephane Hessel

I always say that when a country wins with such overwhelming might, it's bad news for that country.

Dan Aykroyd

You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.

Billy Joel

The good ole days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.

Blake Lively

I feel like heels must be a workout! I know that they're really bad for you, but I run around in heels a lot and go up a lot of stairs, so maybe that's my terrible workout. I know that's not really a workout.

Blake Lively

When I have bad days, I just eat lots of chocolate ice cream and dance to the 'Lion King' soundtrack. It's really odd, but it's true.

Liza Minnelli

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.

Kimora Lee Simmons

Women call me all the time and tell me, 'You inspired me to get out of a bad situation,' or 'You inspired me to take the reigns for myself and go and do this.' I try to tell people to live their best life, and do what you know you need to do for yourself and your family. You need to be supported.

Kendall Jenner

Me and Kylie are sisters, but not everything we can always do together. She's not trying to be a model. She's trying to be more like a personality. We're trying to kind of separate ourselves - not in a bad way!

Kendall Jenner

It's true, I used to be so shy. I used to never talk, just sit back and do my thing. I was never bullied, though, and it was never like it was something that needed to be 'fixed', like being shy is a bad thing.

Kevin Mitnick

To some people I'll always be the bad guy.

Kevin Whately

I know actors who court personal publicity because they believe no publicity is bad publicity.

B. B. King

I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.

This would mean that the person is told to go back home, another 10kilometres, not having been given service. This does not only hurt the person and his family, but it also portrays a bad image of our civil service.

Allen Iverson

This would have been a bad one to lose, man, because we did put our effort on defense. We did play one of the best defensive games that we played.

Mark McGwire

The only team that could have competed with us was the Cubans. It's too bad they're boycotting. The teams we're playing just can't compete with our power.

LaMarcus Aldridge

Those were still the same shots I normally take, but my shot wasn't falling. But in no way was this a bad season for us.

Rick DiPietro

Those were just bad games. If you look at them, I don't think we deserved to win. This is one of those games, you look at it, you left everything you had on the ice. You felt like you deserved better.

Bill Guerin

Tip just told us how serious this is. He told us there are some game tapes that you look at and think, 'Oh, it wasn't as bad as I thought.' Then he told us, this wasn't one of them.

Jon Evans

Traditional technical interviews are terrible for everyone. They're a bad way for companies to evaluate candidates. They're a bad way for candidates to evaluate companies. They waste time and generate stress on both sides.

Traditionally latex is coagulated with sulfate acid. It smells very bad. The liquid smoke technology helps reduce the bad odor. But the liquid smoke factory was officially opened only in 2004 with a capacity of seven tons of liquid smoke a day.

Craig Venter

Traditional autobiography has generally had a poor press. The novelist Daphne du Maurier condemned all examples of this literary form as self-indulgent. Others have quipped that autobiography reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.