A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.
Garrison Keillor

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

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

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

I consider your conduct unethical and lousy.
Peter Arno

I decided law was the exact opposite of sex; even when it was good, it was lousy.
Mortimer Zuckerman

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

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

I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer.
Colleen McCullough

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.
Douglas Wood

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

I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.
Humphrey Bogart

I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.
Kingsley Amis

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

I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.
Burt Bacharach

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

I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June.
Carl Yastrzemski

I was a lousy waiter, dealing with people and having people in your face like that.
Judge Reinhold

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.
Peter Gallagher

I would have made a lousy stripper. I'm just not very comfortable exposing myself.
Robin Wright Penn