I always say, ‘What if you had to sell the house tomorrow?’ And if it’s too idiosyncratic, someone won’t buy it and then it’s a bad house. – Jaquelin T. Robertson
To me, the more interesting villains are the ones you can, in some sense, relate to or sympathize with at times. Maybe you sympathize with them one moment; the next moment, they do something truly atrocious, and you feel bad you ever sympathized with them in the first place. – Jason Aaron
I was on stage and I was like I will pay someone to do my time, not only will I expect NOT to be paid, but I will pay someone if I can run off stage right now. It was so bad. – Julia Sweeney
There is probably no such thing as a good divorce, but clinging to an old idea of how relationships are unraveled can make a bad thing even worse. – Laura Wasser
The idea is that if we can put our own people through something almost as bad as what they might have to go through if they were taken captive, they will inoculate themselves. – Jane Mayer
Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher. – John Banville
My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started… I was fine. – John Bonham
I’m attracted to those kinds of roles that could be good or could be bad, and you just don’t know. – Jeremy Renner
I’m not opposed to free trade if it’s fair trade. But I am opposed to bad trade deals. – Martin O’Malley
I’ve written 16 children’s books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad. – Mark Haddon
A great coder can easily be 50 times more productive than a mediocre one, while bad ones ultimately have negative productivity. – Jon Evans
The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before. – Jon Lee Anderson
I was 8 years old when I started listening to Lynyrd Skynyrd and Bad Company and Led Zeppelin. – Johnny Colt
Historically, we have always seen reversion to the mean. After stocks have had an unusually great 10 or 20 years, they typically turn in subpar results over the next 10 or 20, and after bad 10- to 20-year stretches, the next 10 to 20 tend to be above average. – James O’Shaughnessy
I’m very bad at having heroes. I don’t rate anyone particularly highly because I’m so snide and competitive and not very nice. – Jenny Eclair
While short sellers probably will never be popular on Wall Street, they often are the ones wearing the white hats when it comes to looking for and identifying the bad guys! – James Chanos
I can’t recall a bad review – maybe I’m due one. But the worst thing would be if somebody said I was inaudible. Reach your audience’s ears – only then can you reach their hearts. – Miriam Margolyes
