Famous quotes containing the word bad:
“Yknow Pete, back where I come from folks call that love stuff quick poison or slow poison. If its quick poison it hurts you all over real bad like a shock of electricity. But if its slow poison, well, its like a fever that aches in your bones for a thousand years.”
—Dalton Trumbo (19051976)
“Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.”
—Flannery OConnor (19251964)