Top 494 Badly Quotes

I wanted to be a drag queen so badly. I’ll bet I still own more wigs than any drag queen – I love me a wig.

President Obama seems to think that you win by demonstrating that you’re a more reasonable person than your opponents. It didn’t work too badly, I’ll grant, as an electoral strategy in the 2012 election.

Likewise, there is no evidence that texting teaches people to spell badly: rather, research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers, because you have to know how to manipulate language.

I don’t think my life has been badly lived – but I don’t think of it that way. And nor should I.

I used to hurt so badly that I’d ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That’s the way I see it.

Those who have happy homes seldom turn out badly.

I trained really badly during the first 10 years of my sporting career.

I lacked role models so badly when I was growing up.

I think the reality is that, that money was probably badly spent.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don’t paint badly like other people.

I do not like bad photographs. I don’t like to be badly lit. There is a fashion, particularly on stage, for very ‘toppy’ lighting, which makes a child look 50. Ten o’clock is very good. If someone is taking a picture, you say, ‘Lamps at 10 o’clock,’ then everybody looks lovely.

The problems that ail the U.S. economy and American society are one and the same: Both consume too much and refuse to make badly needed changes. This is true above all in the realm of energy.

Guys are so good. It’s just about how badly you want it. I want it real bad.

Things swept so badly that I had distrust – after 1967, let’s say – of American Keynesianism. For better or worse, U.S. Keynesianism was so far ahead of where it started. I am a cafeteria Keynesian.

Judaism to me, as badly as I practiced it, what I’ve always loved about it was its total embrace of complexity, its admission of unknowability.

I sing in full voice in the car and have a tendency to harmonize badly.

When I returned to the United States after three years of World War II service, my total assets consisted of one wife, one small daughter, $276 in the bank, and an idea. The idea was for an export business to supply items badly needed everywhere in Europe.

It’s important for me to treat a girlfriend with respect. My mum would be horrified if I behaved any differently – and I have sisters, and would hate for them to be treated badly by guys.

I did badly in high school. I don’t know why, but I failed all my exams. Then I took them again.

You know what? I’m really attracted to British women, there’s something innately proper about them. However badly they behave their accent is so cute that it makes up for everything!

I was in love with this character of Ray Krebbs. I wanted the part badly. I had done several Western films in my career at that point and there wasn’t much opportunity then to play Western roles on television at that time.

When I saw the original versions of ‘Virasat’ and ‘Gardish,’ I felt the content was so good but that they had shot the films very badly. I knew that if I could get such content, I could shoot it much better. That was what I did.

There is no significant man-made Global Warming underway and the science on which the computer projections of weather chaos are based is badly flawed.

As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

I was warned by the private sector that we would fail and would fail badly. ‘The state can’t run a railway,’ I was told. Well, they were wrong.

Any time there is a lot of money or ego involved, people tend to behave badly.

The country badly needs to have a right-of-center political party, grounded in traditional values that the Republican Party represented till it didn’t.

We did not treat the Americans badly. They left Iran in a relaxed mood. The embassy was active here after the revolution. We didn’t have any problem with them. They started it.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general – even from reading badly written books.

If I want to do something badly enough, I’ll make it work, disability or no disability.

If someone has behaved badly with a woman. and she hasn’t spoken about it for ten, 20, or 30 years, it’s her prerogative when she wants to speak.

There’s a thing that has happened in the U.S. where the spirit has been beaten so badly and so you feel no unity in the voice of the country.

People do things that turn out badly, often for the most benevolent of reasons.

It’s good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

I studied music at school and played the recorder. Later in life music was a great way of supplementing my income because I was paid really badly as a young chef. Luckily an old friend – we did music at school together – and I formed a duo, The Calypso Beat, which later became the Calypso Twins.

I didn’t even drink until I was in college. While other people were out partying, I’d be home watching the Tony Awards and Bob Fosse movies… I so badly wanted to be part of the club.

There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn’t talk at all.

I became a producer and learned I was pregnant within a five-day span. I wanted both things badly, just not at the same time. I cried and hid my pregnancy for an absurdly long time as I proved myself in the job.

I react to stress badly. I handle it better these days. But I’m a very straightforward person.

When I was doing theatre in Mumbai, actors won’t come because they had television. For many years, I did theatre religiously and in Mumbai, I saw people disrespecting it and it hurt me very badly.

An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.

It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you’re a man or a woman, you’ll do whatever you have to do to get it.

As a complete score, I love ‘Sherlock Holmes’ – but we cast it badly. We put Ron Moody into the part – a great Fagin, not a great Sherlock Holmes.

I met my second husband on a bus. We looked at each other and that was it. We were both married to other people at the time and behaved badly, but we didn’t seem to have any choice. We were very happy for nearly 50 years and would still be together if it wasn’t for the bloody railways.

I think ‘Humans’ is more about provoking the idea that there is a class of beings in society that we treat as less than… as subordinates; people who we treat badly and take for granted. Often they are the same people who work hard to keep the city going. We need to think about that.

When my dad was badly weakened by the flu and my mom wanted to call an ambulance to take him to the emergency room, he wouldn’t go unless he could shave first and change into a nice shirt and a pair of slacks.

I remember what it feels like to be fourteen or sixteen, to have the world folded out in front of you, and to have a million choices ahead. I also remember what it feels like to be so open and impressionable and to want something so badly it’s impossible to see that maybe it isn’t the best thing for you.

If one player can say that I, Emmanuel Adebayor, spoke badly to anyone in the changing rooms, then I’d honestly like to know who it is. It has never happened in my life.

They will always assume that this guy – an upcoming actor, what if he becomes a star tomorrow? He would not work with me then… so I might as well choose to be nice. But women are not treated with the same attitude. Women they treat really badly.