#bad

I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one. ↗

— Leo Burnett

#any #bad #fool #genius #good

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#enforced #laws #nation #randomly #states

This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two. ↗

— George Burns

#book #guy #i #only #read

There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad. ↗

— John Burroughs

#bad #certain #earth #hardly #man

I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can’t believe in it. Things aren’t that way. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#bad #beauty #books #experience #life

I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue. ↗

— Steve Buscemi

#dialogue #i #story #structure #terrible

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#dreams #good #more #mr #prayer

I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place. ↗

— Zhang Ziyi

#badly #came #course #escape #give

By March '87 we're down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we're down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time. ↗

— Eddie Campbell

#bad #because #bottom #down #end

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul. ↗

— John Calvin

#conscience #hell #living #soul #torture