If I have several bad guys and I only want to end up with one of them, then I have to decide which one I want in the end. And normally it’s the one who is the most interesting talker. – Elmore Leonard
You get a bad review with a novel, and it hurts. But I imagine if you get a bad review with a memoir, it hurts more because you can always say, ‘Well, they didn’t like my characters,’ but when you’re the character, it’s like, ‘Oh, yeah, they actually didn’t like me.’ – Darin Strauss
How do I handle it? I would say more times than not, if I have a bad shot, I just get angry and almost like kill the next one. And it usually works I would say 9 times out of 10. – Nancy Johnson
When I retire, the only thing that concerns me is that no one can say that I was a bad team-mate or disrespectful or self-important. – Fernando Torres
It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels. – Nicholas Mosley
Radio in England is nonexistent. It’s very bad English use of a media system, typically English use. – David Bowie
I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all. – David Lynch
I love an underdog. No, I don’t necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears. – Nancy Lublin
I mean, the death in the late eighties and early nineties really shook out a lot of hacks. The pond just sort of dried up for a lot of really bad comedians. – Patton Oswalt
As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn’t know the bad he might do. – Elias Canetti
I do love that witches haven’t really been explored that much. Usually, witches are the little side character… a bad female character that comes in and leaves. – Madchen Amick
All my books explore fatherhood. I look at what it means to have a big father figure at the centre: sometimes they’re a good father, sometimes bad. – Monique Roffey
I never really ate that bad, I just ate too much. It wasn’t like I had to switch to whole wheat bread or something like that. I really just had to eat less of what I was eating, and I had to exercise more. – Patrick Stump
The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests. – David Deutsch
I find the trick to playing a villain is that you can’t be bad for the sake of being bad. It has to be rooted in some sort of heartbreak. – Matthew Davis
I’ve always had, like, from the age of about 11, I’ve had such an intolerance for bad behaviour of actors that I don’t think I was ever going to be that person. – Daniel Radcliffe
The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine. – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If you strike out or look bad on the field, we’d get on each other. If you can’t take the heat, you gotta get out of the kitchen. – Mickey Rivers
