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Do It Badly - But at Least Do It! -- Ernie J Zelinski
Badly gotten, badly spent. [Lat., Male partum, male disperit.] -- Plautus
We fouled up. I did. He got hurt. Badly, maybe. And the god...is not helping him today. -- Janet Morris
Badly off as the men...were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives. -- Edward Bellamy
He who hugs too much, hugs badly! -- Jeanne Calment
It is better to die well than to live badly. -- Jan Hus
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. -- Oscar Wilde
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. -- Truman Capote
The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced. -- Frank Zappa
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. -- Plutarch
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact. -- Bertrand Russell
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. -- Oscar Wilde
You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price. -- Mary Kay Ash
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of. -- Confucius
I was always the black sheep of the family and always told that I was dumb, and I had a low IQ and did badly in school. -- Francis Ford Coppola
It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane. -- Charles Lindbergh
I wasn't a competitor. I would play outside with my friends, but not really anything like ballet or soccer. I tried to play soccer, and it went badly. -- Sibel Kekilli
Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations. -- Alan Watts
I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co-workers, business associates and others. -- Kate Moss
Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough. -- Sophia Loren
He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly. -- B. C. Forbes
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Math was a two-part exam and I once didn't go for the second part. I knew I'd done so badly on the first it was hopeless. I re-took it about four or five times. I think I eventually got it by getting the top GCSE grade. -- Rob Brydon
I don't know why people eat so badly. I could eat pasta all the time, but it really is fattening. And I love ice cream, but I can't do that. There was a time, until I was in my mid-forties, when I could eat a whole pizza - and really, no effect. -- Christopher Walken
You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear. -- Greg Boyle
I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should be done based on one's need, because I think if you are from a poor white community, I think that poor white kid needs a scholarship just as badly as a poor black kid. -- J. C. Watts
A big part of managing a golf course is managing your swing on the course. A lot of guys can go out and hit a golf ball, but they have no idea how to manage what they do with the ball. I've won as many golf tournaments hitting the ball badly as I have hitting the ball well. -- Jack Nicklaus
The World War I, I'm a child of World War I. And I really know about the children of war. Because both my parents were both badly damaged by the war. My father, physically, and both mentally and emotionally. So, I know exactly what it's like to be brought up in an atmosphere of a continual harping on the war. -- Doris Lessing
To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a good player, but I lost the skill and now I play very badly. I do it every day even so. The reason is that I want to return to my childhood. For me, the trumpet is evidence of the sort of young man I was. -- Umberto Eco
The most common thing I find is very brilliant, acute, young people who want to become writers but they are not writing. You know, they really badly want to write a book but they are not writing it. The only advice I can give them is to just write it, get to the end of it. And, you know, if it's not good enough, write another one. -- Teju Cole
Doing nothing, badly. -- Graham Greene
Anger manages everything badly. -- Johannes Stadius
I divide my time badly. -- Antonio Banderas
Everyone behaves badly--given the chance. -- Ernest Hemingway
Foreign interventions always end badly. -- Stephen Kinzer
Correction badly undertaken creates distance. -- Kevin Thoman
Better alone than badly accompanied. -- Candace Bushnell
These people really aim very badly. -- Charles de Gaulle
Fifteen percent of Russia badly polluted. -- Vladimir Putin
Aristocracy: government by the badly educated. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The world's fat is badly divided. -- Martha Gellhorn
He who writes badly thinks badly -- William Cobbett
Life imitates art -- but badly. -- Edward Abbey
Tests of love always end badly. -- Melanie Thernstrom
The war is always going badly. -- Catherynne M. Valente
It will all end very badly, Gus -- John Kennedy Toole
I miss him so badly it hurts. -- Suzanne Collins
I handle screenings and award ceremonies really badly. -- Damien Chazelle
Everything ends badly, otherwise it would not end. -- Lou Holtz
John McEnroe has hair like badly turned broccoli. -- Clive James
You must never feel badly about making mistakes, -- Norton Juster
English is the easiest language to speak badly. -- George Bernard Shaw
Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic. -- Aaron Allston
All writers behave badly. All people behave badly. -- Claire Tomalin
I don't like to speak badly of people... -- Andre the Giant
What you do for money you do badly. -- Jules Verne
Royalty does good and is badly spoken of. -- Antisthenes
Play well, or play badly, but play truly. -- Constantin Stanislavski
Life is too short to be lived badly. -- Marjane Satrapi
I'm doing badly, I'm doing well; whichever you prefer. -- Franz Kafka
Whatever you do without confidence will be done badly. -- James Cook
Lampard is a specialist in insulting people very badly. -- Jens Lehmann
There are no bad people, only badly loved people. -- Arnaud Desjardins
Though you treat me badly, I love you madly. -- Smokey Robinson
Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. -- H. L. Mencken
Things have a way of turning out so badly. -- Tennessee Williams
I play piano very badly. That's my great regret. -- Marcello Giordani
It is unbecoming for a cardinal to ski badly. -- Pope John Paul II
History started badly and has been getting steadily worse. -- Geoffrey Willans
It all started with a badly timed bald joke! -- Colin Mochrie
I want to play a Disney villainess so badly. -- Kristen Johnston
Those who have happy homes seldom turn out badly. -- Daniel Harvey Hill
Dreams will be fulfilled if you want them badly enough. -- Han Seung-yeon
Allow time and moderate delay; haste manages all things badly. -- Statius
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. -- Oscar Wilde
Authors always take rejection badly. They equate it with infanticide. -- P. D. James
If things look badly to-day they may look better tomorrow. -- Horace
A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm. -- Anton Chekhov
I don't want money badly enough to work for it. -- William Faulkner
You have to write badly in order to write well. -- William Faulkner
In real life I can play guitar, sure, but badly. -- Stuart Townsend
Is not living at all not better than living badly? -- Critias
My music is not modern, it is merely badly played -- Arnold Schoenberg
One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say -- Voltaire
The reality is the park has been badly maintained for years. -- Scott Michael Foster
It's always the badly dressed people who are the most interesting. -- Jean Paul Gaultier
We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80. -- Jack Klugman
Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them. -- Tom Clancy
I react very badly when mediocrity throws a tantrum of entitlement. -- Lee Siegel
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly. -- Moliere
Not badly, considering I was seated between Jesus Christ and Napoleon. -- David Lloyd
Our runaway judiciary is badly in need of restraint by Congress. -- Phyllis Schlafly
The secular world is full of holes. We have secularized badly. -- Alain de Botton
Religious beliefs...should never be an excuse to treat people badly. -- Zach Wahls
All I need is a badly mangled, irate sentence stalking me. -- Karen Marie Moning
If anything is worth doing, it is worth doing it badly. -- Martha Beck
As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen. -- Lady Starlight
I knew dating the son of Satan would turn out badly -- Darynda Jones
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
If matters go badly now, they will not always be so. -- Horace
Better to do a little well, then a great deal badly. -- Socrates
For ruining a fact, do not attack it, defend it badly. -- Ali Shariati
Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen. -- Sylvia Plath
An epic is the easiest kind of picture to make badly. -- Charlton Heston
If you are doing something wrong, you will do it badly. -- Robert Heller
I realized I could do anything if I wanted it badly enough. -- S. Truett Cathy
I think the reality is that, that money was probably badly spent. -- Alan Hansen
I want to be loved so badly, it verges on mild insanity. -- Gary Shteyngart
I know my career is going badly because I'm being quoted correctly. -- Lee Marvin
We hated each other so well and loved each other so badly... -- Seanan McGuire
There are few things easier than to live badly and die well. -- Oscar Wilde
You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough. -- Abraham Lincoln
I guess it's easier to think badly and then be pleasantly surprised. -- Ellie Kemper
I feel bad only when I play badly. Fortunately, that happens rarely. -- Cristiano Ronaldo
I actually never got badly injured - I'm tough as frickin' nails. -- Ellen Page
Instead of doing more badly, government should focus on doing less well. -- Joel Miller
Life is too short to waste time on books that end badly -- Jayne Ann Krentz
Shakespeare I love, but for an English graduate, I'm incredibly badly read. -- Samuel West
No one respects the flame quite like the fool who's badly burned -- Pete Townshend
Fate weaves the darkness, which is perhaps why she weaves so badly. -- Max Beerbohm

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