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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
Valentine's Day is the day when you remember that Cupid was a lousy shot.
It's easier to revise lousy writing than to revise a blank sheet of paper.
It's so strange. Everything can be going alone just great, and then one day, whack, you're blindsided-- a lousy, crammy blow you didn't see coming.
That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.
The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.
I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.
Comics who consider themselves 'mavericks' or think the crowd doesn't get them are normally lousy comics.
I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.
Any sportswriter who thinks the world is no bigger than the outfield fence in not only a bad citizen, but also a lousy sportswriter.
I think Franklin Roosevelt was a lousy president. What he did- which is to impose this great nanny state on America- was a great mistake.
I just was non-political and didn't see myself as a person who could push people around, make their decision, you know, and tell them how lousy their work was.
Lots of people think things would be better some other way. That's why the world's lousy with theme parks.
Whatever is newly expensive has two attributes: wonderful past returns and, in most cases, lousy future returns.
I used to have a theory actually that, if you've had a good childhood, a good marriage and a little bit of money in the bank, you're going to make a lousy comedian.
A speaker is like a lousy auto mechanic: Every time he fixes something in the language, he screws up something else.
hermes has threatened me with slow mail. lousy Internet service and a horrible stock market if i publish this story. I hope he is just bluffing.
You can have a Great Day, or a Lousy Day; it's totally up to you.
You look lousy,"Simon said. Jace blinked."Seems an odd time to start an insult contest,but if you insist,I could probably think up something good
Many people must have looked at my life and thought I was quite fortunate. But I felt lousy about myself - and as you now know, I didn't come from a place where I had a lot of self-confidence.
Life for the unwell is discontinuous and unpredictable. Things just come out of nowhere. People try but mostly do a lousy job of taking care of you.
The lousy guitar player in any band is the bass player.
Mutual funds dare to be average. In fact, they dare to be lousy. They have long since ceased striving for anything resembling perfection when it comes to managing your money.
Two women at a resort discussed dinner: "The food here is lousy," the first noted. "You're right! And such small portions!!" the second added
I'm pretty good at taking accountability now, and I never did anything to deserve that. It was a really lousy thing for her to do.
Tennis is like a wonderful, longstanding relationship with a husband. Golf is a tempestuous, lousy lover; it's totally unpredicatable, a constant surprise.
Some businesses offer such a lousy customer experience that they are prime candidates for competition from Internet based stores.
What is it that you like doing? If you don't like it, get out of it, because you'll be lousy at it.
One thing both men have in common is a love of golf and a shared knowledge of the word "mulligan," which means a do-over to replace a lousy shot.
For me, Twitter is a public persona. I don't interact. It's a lousy form for conversation and opinion, but a wonderful propaganda and sloganeering tool. I use it as a one-way street.
I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's why I became an actor.
I was a lousy waiter, dealing with people and having people in your face like that.
You will make a lousy anybody else, but you will be the best "you" in existence.
I know a lot of people in the business recommend the many Story Structure seminars being offered here, but I point to them as the single biggest contributor to lousy scripts.
I will tell you, I'm a lousy cook, but I think I'm a pretty good judge of a good meal.
'The Robe' was lousy but an almighty hit. I was dull as ditchwater and an almighty flop.
They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no reason to say he's a lousy painter.
In a lot of ways, being a writer is a lousy job - grueling, emotionally taxing, terrible hours, no health care - so if it wasn't about love, what would be the point?
I think with pictures; I'm a very lousy writer. If I write without pictures, I become this pathetic chick sitting somewhere trying to be interesting.
The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.
We've got rights the right to starve We've got jobs waiting for work We're all brothers lousy and dirty We're all free and equal to die like dogs
Subordinates look for their bosses to be positive, in good humor, and cheerful. They aren't supposed to be emotional or have bad days. but leaders are guman, too, and when they are in a lousy mood and snap at a subordinate, it can have a devastating effect.
Cleaning out your locker the first week of January is not a whole lot of fun and it always leaves a lousy taste in your mouth.
If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.
Now I want to make it plain that 'The Virgin Spring' must be regarded as an aberration. It's touristic, a lousy imitation of Kurosawa.
There is a growing sense among Americans outside the Beltway that while President Obama may be a good talker, he is a lousy manager.
I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for very few people.
I was like the family clown. The middle child entertaining. I was a lousy student, but interestingly, the nuns always let me write plays or do drawings, endless special projects.
I am firmly of the opinion that people who can’t speak have nothing to say. It’s one more thing we do to the poor, the deprived: cut out their tongues … allow them a language as lousy as their life
Dare to be a sucky skateboarder or a lousy video editor or a completely crappy golfer. If we do only the stuff we’re good at, we never learn anything new.
This is the extreme left's problem in both television and in politics. Whether it be lousy ratings on TV or getting votes, if you don't listen to and understand Americans, you'll pay the price at the ballot box.
I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June.
My lousy way of getting it done is better than your great way of not doing it.
To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he's just much misguided. He's boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I guess, the one thing we have in common is the pursuit of lousy diets.
I want to make a memorial for our turkey. Never has a bird been so tortured to provide such a lousy dinner.
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.
I don't hurt the industry. The industry hurts itself, by making so many lousy movies - as if General Motors deliberately put out a bad car.
Not changing your strategy merely because you're used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy.
It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand?
