Lousy Quotes

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

Success, Teacher, Smart

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

Enemy, Thinking, Try

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
Lily Tomlin

Country, Two, Honest

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

Great, Husband, Show

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

Old, Word, Meaning

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

Best, Talk, Word

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

Men, Hard, Loved

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

Fire, Yes, Task

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

Politics, Great, Words

Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
P. J. O'Rourke

Politics, God, Done

I'm not a politician. I'd make a lousy politician.
Norman Schwarzkopf

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

Career, Thought, Moral

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.
Ann Bancroft

Teacher, Struggle, Wanted

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

Started, Actress, Remained

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

Good, Enough, Joy

Borders had lousy management and made bad corporate decisions, so its fate is less like a terrible accident than a slow-motion slide into a ditch, but it's hard to be happy about a bookseller's demise.
Susan Orlean

Happy, Bad, Hard

I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I'm a lousy delegator, but I'm learning.
Alton Brown

Work, Learning, Almost

There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.
Harold Pinter

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

Taken, Begin, Describe

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

I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.
Isabel Allende

Sometimes, Whole, Story

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

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

Words, Two, American

My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris.
Norman Rockwell

God, Best, Sense

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

Good, Judge, Pretty

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

Future, Predictor

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

Country, Problem, Big

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

History, Actor, Pictures

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

Often, Greedy, Racing

The best moderators are the moderators who are essentially invisible. A moderator who is there to be seen and heard and to be talked about either, 'oh, God, what a great question,' or, 'oh, God, what a lousy question,' that to me is a failed moderator.
Jim Lehrer

Great, God, Best

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