Famous Quotes & Sayings

I have to say that most of the deals I have done initially were badly received, and after a while, people realised that maybe I was not that wrong.

Stanley Elkin

I don't read much nonfiction because the nonfiction I do read always seems to be so badly written. What I enjoy about fiction - the great gift of fiction - is that it gives language an opportunity to happen.

Dave Stephens

We didn't play with heart and that is especially disappointing on our home floor. We have to question how badly we wanted it. Right now, we are not doing the little things that we need to do to be successful.

We didn't play too badly in the first half, it's just that the other team shot the ball really well.

Michael Ballack

We didn't play so badly but they won quite decisively.

Lulu

I think it's nice to have children. I didn't have many, and while I don't sit around regretting it, I maybe would have liked a couple more. But it wasn't meant to be, and I didn't want it badly enough.

Martha Beck

Fact: From quitting smoking to skiing, we succeed to the degree we try, fail, and learn. Studies show that people who worry about mistakes shut down, but those who are relaxed about doing badly soon learn to do well. Success is built on failure.

Marian Keyes

When I first met my husband, he had a very good job - company car, pension plan, grudging respect from his staff - the lot. I, on the other hand, was badly paid and devoid of ambition. Then I had a couple of books published and confounded all expectations by starting to earn more than he did.

Greg Boyle

You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear.

Bono

Mandela's heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities.

William P. Leahy

I would be with those who say the hierarchy in the United States has badly mishandled this whole situation.

Wilfred Burchett

Hundreds and hundreds of the dead were so badly burned in the terrific heat generated by the bomb that it was not even possible to tell whether they were men or women, old or young.

Amish Tripathi

I turned atheist in the '90s when India went through troubled times - communal riots, bomb blasts... Mumbai, where I live, was badly affected. I blamed religion; also, extremists on both sides - right and left.

I thought that kick-off would spark us on offense. But that was about the only spark we had all game. We played very badly last week, we've worked on getting tougher this week in practice.

Bob Schieffer

I think we've come a tremendous distance here. We had been beaten about the heads and shoulders so badly for so long there that people were pretty quiet about the office. People are talking again. They're having more fun, and they're smiling more.

Amanda Eliasch

My marriage started to go badly wrong after I had my second son.

Allan Sloan

I wanted to be a columnist so badly that I took a huge pay cut to leave Forbes, which wouldn't give me a column, and join Newsday, which wanted my column for its Sunday business section.

Irwin Redlener

When you drive around Biloxi and see all those houses that have been very badly damaged and see people living in the rubble for weeks and weeks, it's easy to understand how traumatizing this has been for these families.

E. P. Thompson

When you draft a player you draft a human being and you get to know these guys and you know how passionate they are and how badly they want to play. It tugs on you pretty hard. It's probably one of the toughest things I've had on the job.

Gloria Estefan

I wanted very badly to be a mum. I'm a very maternal person. But at the point that I met Emilio I was focusing on a career. I never would have thought that I would get married at 21 and much less be a mum by 23.

We watched so much on the news and it looked like everything down there was pretty badly botched up.

The reason we came is because we wanted to patronize the businesses in San Anselmo. We feel so badly about how they've suffered and all the damage they had. I think -- I hope -- a lot of people are doing what we are doing.

Elaine Stritch

When I want to do something badly enough, I do it, but there is a practical side of me that thinks I should be paid fairly.

The 2008 Democratic presidential candidates would be wise to note that unwarranted negativism is dangerous and badly underestimates the strengths of the American people to adapt to and prosper with change.

There are many veteran organizations, but we wanted to concentrate on those who (help the) badly wounded.

Francis Ford Coppola

I was always the black sheep of the family and always told that I was dumb, and I had a low IQ and did badly in school.

Daniel Keys Moran

The reason Ronald Reagan gets slammed for having so badly exacerbated the problem of deficit spending is that he so plainly deserves it.

When you play this badly in a big tournament, you don't want to do it again. All we can do now is try harder to improve at district.

This whole thing is so seedy. It looks like the Native Americans were very badly mistreated and Henry, as soon as he heard what was going on and realized we had received money, said he wanted to send it back.

We're not prepared. It's the ugly truth. If our emergency response failed so badly for a Category 5 hurricane, imagine what would happen if a Category 5 viral storm hit every state.

Why he should be governor and any kind of personal connection ... was never there. I think the money was badly spent.

Luis Aragones

To say that we've played badly and we've failed in this, this and this is normal. I believe in the national team and in the players I've got and I think that little by little they're believing in what I tell them.

We put ourselves in a position where all of a sudden our No. 5 guy had to play better than his average. He didn't play badly at all. That's just a lot of pressure on one kid.