Lousy Quotes

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. — John Mayer

No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square. — Louise Bogan

[Marco Rubio] you're a lousy businessman. — Donald Trump

Any man who looks like a sissy while dancing is just a lousy dancer. — Gene Kelly

When another comedian has a lousy show, I'm the first one to admit it. — Jack Benny

This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings — Paddy Chayefsky

I can't begin to describe the amount of crap I've taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter. — Dennis Rodman

Parents are supposed to protect you, but they seem to be really, really lousy at it. — Hannah Harrington

Is it going to hurt?"
"You bet."
Sergeant Major had a lousy bedside manner. — Ilona Andrews

The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it. — Victor Hugo

The House Beautiful is the play lousy. — Dorothy Parker

All of us knew that climbing was a sure way to stay poor, a lousy way to impress people and definitely no way to meet girls. — Peter Croft

I'm a lousy reader. — Broderick Crawford

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 — Groucho Marx

Like I told you on Thanksgiving, pretending is a lousy way to get through life. — Jennifer R. Hubbard

Generally I like other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. - Donald Trump Sadly, — Sophia Amoruso

That's what I love most about writers
they're such lousy actors. — Vincent H. O'Neil

Lots of people think things would be better some other way. That's why the world's lousy with theme parks.
Feeney in Naked in Death — J.D. Robb

If you are a lousy teacher, you should be fired. — Geoffrey Canada

All the creativity books in the world aren't going to help you if you're unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas. — Seth Godin

Blood makes lousy detergent. — Lynda Williams

Diabetes is a lousy, lousy disease. — Elaine Stritch

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. — Douglas MacArthur

The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large. — Kurt Vonnegut

I wanted it the way an alcoholic must want booze: badly enough to shove aside the hard knowledge that this was a truly lousy idea. — Tana French

I idolized my mother. I didn't realize she was a lousy cook until I went into the army. — Jackie Gayle

There is no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it. — Ayn Rand

Someone once described the information business as exactly the opposite of sex. When it's good, it's still lousy. — Michael Bloomberg

I love making pictures, even if most of the results are lousy. — Larry Sultan

What is it that you like doing? If you don't like it, get out of it, because you'll be lousy at it. — Lee Iacocca

All of Africa will be free before we can get a lousy cup of coffee. — James A. Baldwin

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. — Karen Armstrong

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character. — David Sedaris

I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents. — BD Wong

Bottom line: A market approach to national defense would give us a lousy national defense. — Timothy Noah

One of the greatest benefits of writing a truly awful, lousy, no good first draft is that it can only get better from there. — Martha Alderson

Embrace lousy days. I've learned to remind myself easy days are part of the deal, and a great day is just around the corner. — Dan John

I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one. — Brigitte Bardot

The faster you act, the more stable your company becomes and the higher your chances of success. Perfectionists make lousy entrepreneurs. — Sean Wise

I have a pretty lousy voice. — Adam Brody

People can be great, but they can also be lousy. I am often lousy. But not completely lousy. You, Libby Strout, are great. — Jennifer Niven

We ignore outlooks and forecasts ... we're lousy at it and we admit it ... everyone else is lousy too, but most people won't admit it. — Martin J. Whitman

I tell ya, my wife's a lousy cook. After dinner, I don't brush my teeth. I count them. — Rodney Dangerfield

Blame has no purpose, and it is a lousy teacher. — John Yokoyama

I met an angel in Morocco and all I got were these lousy scars. — Laini Taylor

I'd make a lousy cop. I'd just wear it too close to my skin and wouldn't survive. I'll stick to acting. — Enrico Colantoni

Angry? Yes, I'm angry: I'd be a lousy lawyer if I weren't. — Russell Banks

He made a lousy passenger, barking instructions I ignored — Karen Marie Moning

I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell. — J.B. Priestley

If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste. — Grace Metalious

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. — Mark Vonnegut

Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds. — Ingrid Newkirk

I'm a lousy journalist. — Judith Rossner

The odds are lousy that I actually said something attributed to me. — Morgan Freeman

I think I would make a lousy stay-at-home mom. It just wouldn't suit me. — Claire Danes

It's the worst kind of bad film: the kind that gets you all worked up and then lets you down, instead of just being lousy from the first shot. — Roger Ebert

I will tell you, I'm a lousy cook, but I think I'm a pretty good judge of a good meal. — Barney Frank

You have one lousy dream, and you think you're destined for coloring book greatness. — Tarryn Fisher

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. — Bill Gates

Success is a lousy teacher. It makes you think you know what you're doing. — Bill Gates

There is no money in the world that would compensate me for writing a lousy book. — David Lagercrantz

Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring. — Dorothy Parker

There is a growing sense among Americans outside the Beltway that while President Obama may be a good talker, he is a lousy manager. — Kathleen Troia McFarland

Sickly gray color, in which a handful of scraggly trees produce apples so sour that one only has to look at them to feel ill. Lousy Lane traverses the — Lemony Snicket

Tax cuts were not going to be effective at creating jobs, and the job creation record is lousy. — Paul Krugman

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. — James Patterson

I hate tests. It's a really lousy way to judge a person's ability. — Bill Paxton

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. — Humphrey Bogart

You rush a miracle worker, you get lousy miracles! — Jim Butcher

Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos. — J.D. Salinger

Tell him I think writing is lousy," Bill said. "Go on, tell him. Tell him I'm ashamed of being a writer. — Ernest Hemingway,

One of the things that's really lousy about making movies is that you have such little interaction with your audience. — Ethan Hawke

Stop worrying about the lousy science, and how me the money already. — Rajendra K. Pachauri

I think I know where my life went wrong. For all the world's a stage and I'm a lousy actor! — Greg Curtis

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

Just because you're looking for the one, doesn't mean that you have to subject yourself to every single lousy date you're set on. — Claire Contreras

More and more people are seeing the films on computers - lousy sound, lousy picture - and they think they've seen the film, but they really haven't. — David Lynch

I want to make a memorial for our turkey. Never has a bird been so tortured to provide such a lousy dinner. — Laurie Halse Anderson

I'm a lousy writer; a helluva lot of people have got lousy taste. — Grace Metalious

Stupidity is an unfortunate consequence of lousy genetic heritage. Ignorance is a choice. — Rowan Manahan

The fact that iron rusts so readily is one of the great lousy breaks of chemistry, responsible for untold billions in costs every year. — Theodore Gray

That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers. — Larry Niven

I don't get hardly anything out of anything. I'm in bad shape. I'm in lousy shape. — J.D. Salinger

Listen, identify withe the victims and you become one yourself. Victims make lousy litigators. — Russell Banks

Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter. — Andy Rooney

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. — Ed Crane

Never trust a woman who doesn't like to eat. She is probably lousy in bed. — Federico Fellini

Cinderella never had it so good. All she got was a lousy coach and breakable shoes. — Sonya Bateman

Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too. — Flannery O'Connor

Vegetarian: Indian word for lousy hunter. — Andy Rooney

My lousy way of getting it done is better than your great way of not doing it. — Terry Rossio

For an omnipotent and omniscient being, God has made some really lousy earthly staffing decisions. — John Cole

I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much. — Pat Travers

I'm a lousy predictor of the future. — Guy Kawasaki

I died at Lake Silencio and all my wife got me was this lousy T-shirt. — Joseph Lidster

John [to Sherlock]: You're incredible. A genius. A good friend. And a lousy driver. — Guy Adams

Mankind invented a system to cope with the fact that we are so intrinsically lousy at manipulating numbers. It's called the graph. — Charlie Munger

If you can't bring yourself to applaud because the performance was lousy, then applaud because it's over. They tried. — Mark W. Boyer

to Maxfield to get away from the crap I'd put up with all my life in lousy schools. I wasn't going to let a couple — Robison Wells

I'd be somewhat of a lousy writer if I didn't know what to say. — S.A. Tawks