Top 1200 Bad Grammar Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

All bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things.

To succeed, you have to do something and be very bad at it for a while. You have to look bad before you can look really good.

People get mad at bad comedy. Way more mad than at bad novels.

We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.

I am a bad boy. I don't come across clearly to a lot of people, so I am bad for them.

Catholics have more extreme sex lives because they're taught that pleasure is bad for you. Who thinks it's normal to kneel down to a naked man who's nailed to a cross? It's like a bad leather bar.

I think, unfortunately, some people are just bad, they're just born bad, and I don't know why.

It makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man, or a bad man defrauded a good man, or whether a good or bad man has committed adultery: the law can look only to the amount of damage done.

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

Bad criticism has followed things like comic books or TV, and they put down a medium. A medium cannot be inherently good or bad.

I'm bad at rationalisation - very bad.

You see so many movies... the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there's no sense of film grammar. There's no real sense of how to tell a story visually. It's just cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, you know, which is pretty easy.

I go through a lot of bad stuff, because most of the stuff that's written is pretty bad. But occasionally something comes along that's good, and I want to do it.

With bad girls, you can't go as many places as you can with a good girl. But, it is fun to play the bad girl because you always get the better wardrobe!

I think there were bad actors in the government and bad actors in the finance, mortgage, markets industries that need to be called out and held accountable.

If you expect a bad lie for even one second, the gods will know it and give you a bad lie.

When people close to me die, I never feel bad for myself. I feel bad for them because they was good at living, and they don't get to do it no more.

The thing that was bad about colonialism, and the thing which is residually bad in some of our aid programs, is that it involved elements of coercion and condescension.

Let your letter be written as accurately as you are able,--I mean with regard to language, grammar, and stops; for as to the matter of it the less trouble you give yourself the better it will be. Letters should be easy and natural, and convey to the persons to whom we send them just what we should say to the persons if we were with them.

It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since, as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad.

Bad English was the second language of Israel and bad Hebrew, of course, remained the national language.

I'm not a believer in predetermined fates, being rewarded for one's efforts. I'm not a believer in karma. The reason why I try to be a good person is because I think it's the right thing to do. If I commit fewer bad acts there will be fewer bad acts, maybe other people will join in committing fewer bad acts, and in time there will be fewer and fewer of them.

I don't put pressure on myself. When I put pressure on myself, then I just play bad. When I play bad, my team plays bad.

Otherwise, three little words would have leaked from his mouth. And undoubtedly doomed him in ways he couldn’t even guess at. Bad time. Bad place. For that kind of thing. Forever.

Yes, there are probably too many tattoos. But there are too many bad haircuts, too many bad shoe choices, too many bad jeans.

It's much easier for people to compare wages or identify bad employers or discuss bad labor practices in the Internet economy than it was in, say, a factory environment, where that stuff wasn't usually published or available.

I feel that bad people exist everywhere. I've always maintained that it is not the industry that is good or bad: it's the people.

When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try to treat the world better than it treated you.

If I have a bad game I go home and see my daughter and I don't think about the bad game anymore.

I started to become more active and when I was at Auckland Grammar I went for the first time to the mountains. I went to Ruapehu and for the first time I saw snow. I had never seen snow before and for 10 days the group of us had a marvellous time.

When somebody says something bad about you, they feel bad about themselves in some way.

What you learn from bad habits and in bad society you will never forget, and it will be a lasting pang to you.

When you walk through the hospital, you waiver between feeling bad for everyone else and feeling bad for yourself. It's a war of the worlds - the healthy and the sick.

We say in a democracy that good ideas will drive out bad ones, so if the good ones aren't there, we're left with the bad ones

I definitely don't want to be one of the bad guys. And I don't want to be one of the people who bring rap a bad name. That's not me.

Jesus, I wondered, what do you do with pain so bad it has no redeeming value? It cannot even be alchemized into art, into words, into something you can chalk up to an interesting experience because the pain itself, its intensity, is so great that it has woven itself into your system so deeply that there is no way to objectify or push it outside or find its beauty within. That is the pain I’m feeling now. Its so bad, its useless. The only lesson I will ever derive from this pain is how bad pain can be.

I dated a guy who played bad guys in movies all the time, and I think he was just a bad guy.

Bad beginnings, bad endings.

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an independent school, it was not part of the state educational system.

I really do think that Breaking Bad is probably the greatest television show that's ever been made. Just in terms of, everything, it's flawless. I can't think of one flaw with Breaking Bad. Every other show, even shows that I really, really love, they're not perfect. Breaking Bad, to me, is a perfect show.

I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of today. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.

One of the things I like about my job is that it draws on the entire person: not just your knowledge of grammar and punctuation and usage and foreign languages and literature but also your experience of travel, gardening, shipping, singing, plumbing, Catholicism, midwesternism, mozzarella, the A train, New Jersey. And in turn it feeds you more experience.

Post fast on good news or bad. Someone say something bad about your product? Link to it - before the second or third site does - and answer its claims as best you can.

'Tis a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company, and taverns steal from the best economist.

There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and so there are today a lot more women writers, editors, producers, and so a lot more women's stories. God, the BBC's practically run by women.

Virtually all bad ideas come from universities, bad ideas that only survive when insulated from reality.

Civil lawsuits do two important things: they compensate people who are injured by the bad acts of others, and they penalize people and companies for bad behavior.

In football there for a long time, I knew even if it was a bad day, a bad day at the office, it was still going to be really good in most cases.

To us, being the bad guys is cool, because we always root for the bad guys in the movies.

One thing we never did with 'Bad Company' was talk down to our reader. And we certainly don't do that with the new story, 'Bad Company, First Casualties.'

As a former high school teacher and a student in a class of 60 urchins at St. Brigid's grammar school, I know that education is all about discipline and motivation. Disadvantaged students need extra attention, a stable school environment, and enough teacher creativity to stimulate their imaginations. Those things are not expensive.

These are the kinds of stories I'm really interested in telling: bad stories about bad people, I'm comfortable with.

Usually if you read a screenplay, no matter who's writing it, the bad guy is always written as a one-dimensional bad guy.

Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

I felt like I had a really bad case of writer's block... Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.

I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism.

Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading.

You cannot say the whole industry is bad. There are bad people, but there are many good people as well.

Why bad people - who are bad to other people - keep getting hired after they have proven their selves time and again is a mystery to me.