“ I inherited a painting and a violin which turned out to be a Rembrandt and a Stradivarius. Unfortunately, Rembrandt made lousy violins and Stradivarius was a terrible painter. ”
- Tommy Cooper- Copy
- 706
“ Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. ”
- Bill Gates- Copy
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“ The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy. ”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower- Copy
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“ But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big problem that we all have to think about. ”
- Alexander Payne- Copy
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“ Well, yes, I've fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. But I have fired many people. ”
- Donald Trump- Copy
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“ I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June. ”
- Carl Yastrzemski- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then — we elected them. ”
- Lily Tomlin- Copy
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“ Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things. ”
- Ray Bradbury- Copy
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“ My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow. ”
- Rita Rudner- Copy
- 2K
“ As lousy as things are now, tomorrow they will be somebody's good old days. ”
- Gerald Barzan- Copy
- 1.5K
“ No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy. ”
- Sir Lawrence Olivier- Copy
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“ Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil. ”
- W. C. Fields- Copy
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“ Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent. ”
- Barbara Ehrenreich- Copy
- 3K
“ You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same. ”
- Chuck Close- Copy
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“ I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics. ”
- Newt Gingrich- Copy
- 932
“ The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes out looking like a brand-new glove again. I'm completely in awe of this skill, since I happen to be both bilingual and a writer, but nevertheless a lousy translator. ”
- Alma Guillermoprieto- Copy
- 1.5K
“ The drink was effecting me badly. I was feeling lousy especially in the morning. Now I have a much fuller time with people. The more you don't drink the more you find you can be high as a kite anyway. I had huge fun when I was drinking. But towards the end I was not genuinely enjoying it… ”
- John Hurt- Copy
- 3.8K
“ When I build something for somebody, I always add $50 million or $60 million onto the price. My guys come in, they say it's going to cost $75 million. I say it's going to cost $125 million, and I build it for $100 million. Basically, I did a lousy job… ”
- Donald Trump- Copy
- 2.4K
“ You have to look at success incrementally. It takes too long to get to any major success… If one can look at life as being successful on a moment-by-moment basis, one might find that most of it is successful. And take the bow inside for it. When we wait for the big bow, it's a lousy bargain… ”
- Norman Lear- Copy
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“ In order to allow ourselves to be creative, we have to relinquish control and overcome fear. Why? Because real creativity is life-altering. It threatens the status quo; it makes us see things differently. It brings about change, and we are terrified of change… we live in a wild universe — a universe in which the truth is frightening… ”
- Madeleine L’Engle- Copy
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