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You can have a Great Day, or a Lousy Day; it's totally up to you. -- Ed Foreman
Every settlement with two shacks and a saloon gave itself a name: Helltown, Fair Play, Grizzly Flats, Piety Hill, Whiskey Flat, You Bet, Nary Red, Lousy Ravine, Petticoat Slide. -- Donald Dale Jackson
I've been in New York only a few days and I have learned only two words of your language: one is Swell, and the other is Lousy. ... 'It's swell to be with you and excuse, please, my lousy English! -- Vicki Baum
I consider your conduct unethical and lousy. -- Peter Arno
I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history. -- Humphrey Bogart
Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter. -- Andy Rooney
I hate tests. It's a really lousy way to judge a person's ability. -- Bill Paxton
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. -- Bill Gates
A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever. -- Garrison Keillor
I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell. -- J. B. Priestley
Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil. -- W. C. Fields
The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them. -- Douglas MacArthur
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. -- Ray Bradbury
Well, yes, I've fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. But I have fired many people. -- Donald Trump
Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them. -- Gary Ryan Blair
Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them. -- Lily Tomlin
Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I'm a lousy delegator, but I'm learning. -- Alton Brown
Borders had lousy management and made bad corporate decisions, so its fate is less like a terrible accident than a slow-motion slide into a ditch, but it's hard to be happy about a bookseller's demise. -- Susan Orlean
I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spiderman. -- Jean-Michel Basquiat
I find it ironic how New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is so focused on such small issues as drink sizes, while ignoring the massive infrastructure challenges in New York - lousy roads, third-world airports, traffic jams, etc. -- Mark Skousen
You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same. -- Chuck Close
We used to say poor people had lousy genes. Then we decided that wasn't OK, but we transferred the prejudice to upbringing. We said, 'You were neglected as a child, so you'll never make it.' That's just as pernicious. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Sochi started with the same problem as every Winter Olympics. Forget the crass commercialism, the fake amateurism, NBC's refusal to televise important events live to all its viewers. As an event, the Winter Games fail on the most basic level. They're lousy to watch. -- Alex Berenson
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 are lousy in politics. -- Newt Gingrich
Work less than you think you should. It took me a while to realise there was a point each day when my creativity ran out and I was just producing words - usually lousy ones - for their own sake. And nap: it helps to refresh the brain, at least mine. -- Amy Waldman
During my own gap year, I learned an invaluable lesson - that I was a lousy teacher. Even though the children I 'taught,' in upcountry Uganda, were desperate for qualifications, they largely ignored me. Until, that is, I realised that they wanted to hear about other young persons around the world. -- Simon Hoggart
When you come off that last hole and you've just finished a good round of golf, life is good. When you come off that last hole and you messed it up through four or five holes and just played a lousy round of golf, it's just not a very good day. It just isn't. -- Tom Watson
Success is a lousy teacher. -- Bill Gates
Vegetarian: Indian word for lousy hunter. -- Andy Rooney
I have a pretty lousy voice. -- Adam Brody
Usually New York has lousy salads. -- Debbie Reynolds
Diabetes is a lousy, lousy disease. -- Elaine Stritch
[Marco Rubio] you're a lousy businessman. -- Donald Trump
Books about suicide make lousy gifts. -- Wilfrid Sheed
I'm a lousy predictor of the future. -- Guy Kawasaki
The House Beautiful is the play lousy. -- Dorothy Parker
And he says I have lousy timing -- Kelley Armstrong
Saints make wonderful grandfathers and lousy husbands. -- Pat Conroy
Reagan's dead, and he was a lousy President. -- Keith Olbermann
It's well known that actors are lousy writers. -- Richard E. Grant
When you feel lousy, puppy therapy is indicated. -- Sara Paretsky
Barack Obama can't beat ISIS. He's a lousy president. -- Donald Trump
Morally repugnant and tactically stupid are a lousy combination. -- Richard North Patterson
I'm not an impersonator. I'm a lousy impersonator, actually. -- Helen Mirren
He made a lousy passenger, barking instructions I ignored -- Karen Marie Moning
I'm not a politician. I'd make a lousy politician. -- Norman Schwarzkopf
You rush a miracle worker, you get lousy miracles! -- Jim Butcher
Blame has no purpose, and it is a lousy teacher. -- John Yokoyama
I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much. -- Pat Travers
As Al Franken has demonstrated, liberals give lousy talk radio. -- L. Neil Smith
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy. -- James Thurber
I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one. -- Brigitte Bardot
Immanuel Kant would've made a lousy lawyer, but a great judge! -- Stephen Gillers
Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character. -- David Sedaris
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Never give a lousy person the opportunity to create lousy babies. -- Roberto Hogue
There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules. -- Harold Pinter
Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. -- Dorothy Parker
The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it. -- Victor Hugo
I love making pictures, even if most of the results are lousy. -- Larry Sultan
The odds are lousy that I actually said something attributed to me. -- Morgan Freeman
Stop worrying about the lousy science, and how me the money already. -- Rajendra K. Pachauri
All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson. -- Leonard Cohen
I'm a lousy writer; a helluva lot of people have got lousy taste." -- Grace Metalious
Look, we have a very lousy system for retraining workers that get disrupted. -- John Kasich
The shrimp was lousy and the champagne tasted like water [at the Golden Globes -- Ian McShane
It's easier to revise lousy writing than to revise a blank sheet of paper. -- S.A. Bodeen
Valentine's Day is the day when you remember that Cupid was a lousy shot. -- Milton Berle
Success is a lousy teacher. It makes you think you know what you're doing. -- Bill Gates
Any man who looks like a sissy while dancing is just a lousy dancer. -- Gene Kelly
Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write. -- Barbara Kingsolver
I think I would make a lousy stay-at-home mom. It just wouldn't suit me. -- Claire Danes
When another comedian has a lousy show, I'm the first one to admit it. -- Jack Benny
If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste. -- Grace Metalious
I would have made a lousy stripper. I'm just not very comfortable exposing myself. -- Robin Wright
Deadlines have a lousy name. Call them live-lines instead. ThatÂ´t what they are. -- Seth Godin
Trust is precious and easily wasted, and guessing is a lousy foundation for future progress. -- Seth Godin
Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring. -- Dorothy Parker
Did it ever strike you, Jennifer [Palmieri], that maybe [Hillary Clinton] is a lousy candidate? -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
Did it ever strike you, Jennifer [Palmieri], that maybe [Hillary Clinton] is a lousy candidate? -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
I went drinking with Gray Powell and all I got was a lousy iPhone prototype. -- Steve Wozniak
For an omnipotent and omniscient being, God has made some really lousy earthly staffing decisions. -- John Cole
All of Africa will be free before we can get a lousy cup of coffee. -- James A. Baldwin
Never trust a woman who doesn't like to eat. She is probably lousy in bed. -- Federico Fellini
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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos. -- J. D. Salinger
I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story. -- Isabel Allende
I started playing bass for the same reason everyone else does "? I'm a lousy guitarist. -- Mike Dirnt
You will make a lousy anybody else, but you will be the best "you" in existence. -- Zig Ziglar
I was a lousy waiter, dealing with people and having people in your face like that. -- Judge Reinhold
No matter how well you perform, there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy. -- Laurence Olivier
When the outcome of a meeting is to have another meeting, it has been a lousy meeting. -- Herbert Hoover
That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers. -- Larry Niven
Whatever is newly expensive has two attributes: wonderful past returns and, in most cases, lousy future returns. -- Robert D. Arnott
I decided law was the exact opposite of sex; even when it was good, it was lousy. -- Mortimer Zuckerman
My lousy way of getting it done is better than your great way of not doing it. -- Terry Rossio
I think if you need to use a gun you're doing a lousy job as a detective. -- Joe Gores
I can't begin to describe the amount of crap I've taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter. -- Dennis Rodman
I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other. -- Kingsley Amis
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow. -- Rita Rudner
Really good mountain bikers are lousy judges of trail difficulty. We haven't a clue, we just ride. -- John Olsen
You can't get too far into the Gospels without noticing that Jesus made a pretty lousy apologist. -- Rachel Held Evans
No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square. -- Louise Bogan
Someone once described the information business as exactly the opposite of sex. When it's good, it's still lousy. -- Michael Bloomberg
The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Choosing a Board of Directors based on race and gender is a lousy way to run a company. -- T. J. Rodgers
Not changing your strategy merely because you're used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy. -- Seth Godin
Tax cuts were not going to be effective at creating jobs, and the job creation record is lousy. -- Paul Krugman
I idolized my mother. I didn't realize she was a lousy cook until I went into the army. -- Jackie Gayle
I tell ya, my wife's a lousy cook. After dinner, I don't brush my teeth. I count them. -- Rodney Dangerfield
I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June. -- Carl Yastrzemski
Some businesses offer such a lousy customer experience that they are prime candidates for competition from Internet based stores. -- Walt Mossberg
Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard. -- Edward Tufte
If you can't bring yourself to applaud because the performance was lousy, then applaud because it's over. They tried. -- Mark W. Boyer
Lots of people think things would be better some other way. That's why the world's lousy with theme parks. -- Nora Roberts
There is no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it. -- Ayn Rand
I will tell you, I'm a lousy cook, but I think I'm a pretty good judge of a good meal. -- Barney Frank
When I told my wife she was lousy in bed - she went out - she got a second opinion. -- Rodney Dangerfield

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