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Lousy Quotes

J. B. Priestley quote: "I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'...."
I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell. J. B. Priestley
She smiled. "I know, this is a place where one employs nothing but aristocrats for the lousiest kinds of jobs."They're all aristocrats, that's true," said Wyatt, "because they know that there's no such thing as a lousy job--only lousy men who don't care to do it. Ayn Rand
Grace Metalious quote: "I'm a lousy writer; a helluva lot of people have got lousy taste."
I'm a lousy writer; a helluva lot of people have got lousy taste. Grace Metalious
Grace Metalious quote: "If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy..."
If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste. Grace Metalious
The tree man eulogized them by screaming, 'And now get the hell out of here with your tree, you lousy bastards.'Francie had heard swearing since she had heard words. Obscenity and profanity had no meaning as such among those people. They were emotional expressions of inarticulate people with small vocabularies; they made a kind of dialect. The phrases could mean many things according to the expression and tone used in saying them. So now, when Francie heard themselves called lousy bastards,... Betty Smith
Ayn Rand quote: "There is no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who..."
There is no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it. Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand quote: "There's no such thing as a lousy job-only lousy men who don't..."
There's no such thing as a lousy job-only lousy men who don't care to do it. Ayn Rand
My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris. Norman Rockwell
If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. 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. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous... Kurt Vonnegut
Reading a book, for me at least, is like traveling in someone else's world. If it's a good book, then you feel comfortable and yet anxious to see what's going to happen to you there, what'll be around the next corner. But if it's a lousy book, then it's like going through Secaucus, New Jersey -- it smells and you wish you weren't there, but since you've started the trip, you roll up the windows and breathe through your mouth until you're done. Jonathan Carroll
Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something. Kurt Vonnegut
Someone had to do something sometime. Every victim was a culprit, every culprit a victim, and somebody had to stand up sometime to try to break the lousy chain of inherited habit that was imperiling them all. Joseph Heller
Douglas Adams quote: "Well the hours are good...' ... 'but now you come to mention..."
Well the hours are good...' ... 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy. Douglas Adams
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. J. D. Salinger
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and..."
The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large. Kurt Vonnegut

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