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lousy

«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 decided law was the exact opposite of sex; even when it was good, it was lousy»
Author: Mortimer Zuckerman | About: Law and lawyers | Keywords: decided, exact, lousy
«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 a lousy»
«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.»
«I inherited a painting and a violin which turned out to be a Rembrandt and a Stradivarius. Unfortunately, Rembrandt made lousy violins and Stradivarius was a terrible painter.»
«I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one.»
«I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.»
Author: Humphrey Bogart (Actor) | Keywords: lousy
«It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout -- not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice whatever it was you had to say. What you've never said before. What perhaps you don't even know till now.»
«I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of p?t? than any other.»
«It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.»
Author: James Thurber (Writer) | Keywords: lousy