Top 95 Lousy Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Lousy Quotes from famous people such as Barbara Hale, Carole Radziwill, Newt Gingrich, Tim O’Reilly, John Rzeznik, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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I guess I was just meant to be a secretary who doesn’t take shorthand. I’m a lousy typist, too – 33 words a minute.
Barbara Hale
You can call someone a lousy writer. You can say you hate their book. You can even call a person ‘white trash’ but you can’t go on television and slander a person’s career. It’s illegal, even on reality shows.
Carole Radziwill
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
There are a lot of lousy conferences that pander to sponsors. They end up creating an opportunity for boring speakers who are paid shills for their companies. We still get a few of those, but we really try to police it. Think about who the audience is and what works for them, and deliver high-quality content.
Tim O’Reilly
Sometimes it doesn’t feel like I’m in control but that I’m going along for the ride. And I’m a lousy passenger; I love to drive.
John Rzeznik
I would have made a lousy stripper. I’m just not very comfortable exposing myself.
Robin Wright
I’ve really been sick with this cold, but I think I might have kept the columns going anyhow except I was just so low in spirit, I didn’t have the will to struggle against them when my deadline was so close and I felt so lousy.
Ernie Pyle
Believe me, I love a good chocolate chip ice cream. I’m not going to go for some lousy version of it. If I’m going to have it, I’m going to have a really good one. I believe in treating yourself occasionally to something.
Christie Brinkley
I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June.
Carl Yastrzemski
Whether we agree with them or not, politicians aren’t for trusting. They are for getting done what can be done to make really horrible problems into plain old lousy problems.
Ian Lustick
I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn’t keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.
Burt Bacharach
I like to find music that shares a rhythm with the sentences I’m working on. And though I’ll probably regret saying this, I think some songs actually don’t sound too bad when they’re played through lousy speakers.
Rosecrans Baldwin
One thing my father said was that if you find yourself in a country where you have to carry papers, you know it has a lousy government.
John Mortimer
The history of post-war Britain shows us that we are lousy at running our economy. We need someone to do it for us.
Harry Enfield
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
You can lower premiums in a variety of ways, but one way to lower premiums is to just give people lousy coverage.
Bill Cassidy
This is the extreme left’s problem in both television and in politics. Whether it be lousy ratings on TV or getting votes, if you don’t listen to and understand Americans, you’ll pay the price at the ballot box.
Trish Regan
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
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
I’m a lousy predictor of the future.
Guy Kawasaki
I have a pretty lousy voice.
Adam Brody
I was a lousy waiter, dealing with people and having people in your face like that.
Judge Reinhold
I’d make a lousy cop. I’d just wear it too close to my skin and wouldn’t survive. I’ll stick to acting.
Enrico Colantoni
The disaster at the Bay of Pigs intensified Kennedy’s doubts about listening to advisers from the CIA, the Pentagon, or the State Department who had misled him or allowed him to accept lousy advice.
Robert Dallek
What I like is the acting itself. But I’m a lousy celebrity. I’m not interested in selling my private life. I take my private feelings to the work, but I want there to be a difference between me and whoever it is I’m playing.
Tyne Daly
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
Then I went through a whole bunch of crap with my lousy movies and pop records. I had people behind me kind of steering me in that direction, but it wasn’t really my bag.
Pia Zadora
I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.
Humphrey Bogart
I know only two words of American slang, ‘swell’ and ‘lousy’. I think ‘swell’ is lousy, but ‘lousy’ is swell.
J. B. Priestley
Writing is pretty flexible work, don’t you think? If you want to surf, you just have to get a lot done when the waves are lousy. That’s what I’m always telling myself, anyway – write while the surf’s down!
William Finnegan
Every few years, the feds and the courts change direction or fail to answer important questions. And every day, the Internet becomes more of a platform for lousy ads, for increasing the power of a few rich companies, and for intrusive tracking. It’s too important to leave unprotected.
Walt Mossberg
They put me on the shift where they thought I could do

They put me on the shift where they thought I could do the least harm, midnight to eight in the morning. Although the hours were lousy, they were perfect for an apprentice reporter.
Andrea Mitchell
I decided law was the exact opposite of sex; even when it was good, it was lousy.
Mortimer Zuckerman
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
I hate tests. It’s a really lousy way to judge a person’s ability.
Bill Paxton
How is it we could have a system where schools could remain lousy for 50 years and yet you do exactly the same thing this year that they did 50 years ago when it didn’t work then, and no one feels any pressure to change?
Geoffrey Canada
I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.
Isabel Allende
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
No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square.
Louise Bogan
Fridays after school, especially when the weather was lousy, Mom would take me to the library. She’d let me check out whatever I wanted, and I checked out a lot.
Anthony Doerr
I’m a lousy reader.
Broderick Crawford
I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.
Kingsley Amis
Almost 30 years ago, I started seeking help from a counselor with a master’s of social work in New York City, but we were never a good match. It was like being in a bad relationship, except the guy could actually bill my health insurance company for lousy dates.
Gina Barreca
If you are a lousy teacher, you should be fired.
Geoffrey Canada
I don’t mind getting involved in a risky project as long as I don’t have to stay married to it if the script turns out lousy.
Milos Forman
Lousy, ineffective actions lead to lousy outcomes. Terrific, effective actions lead to terrific outcomes.
Mark Goulston
There’s a really fine line between artistic license and artistic licentiousness. And history is a lousy filmmaker. It doesn’t give you all the ingredients you need. No story will quite fulfill that three-act structure.
Anthony McCarten
I would suggest maintaining a life and a career outside the Industry. This is a fickle business and a lousy one to make a steady living in, so it’s important to have a good family, friends, job and education to fall back on.
Fred Savage
Yes, Justin Bieber is a contrivance. Yes, Justin Bieber’s lyrics are insipid – worse still, disingenuous. Yes, his tattoos stink. Yes, he’s lousy at skateboarding. But what does any of this actually matter? In case you missed it, Bieber won.
Mary H.K. Choi
To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he’s just much misguided. He’s boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I guess, the one thing we have in common is the pursuit of lousy diets.
Dan Castellaneta
I used to be a pretty hard-core iPhone fan. But over time, I grew more and more frustrated with the lousy service on AT&T. My iPhone simply could not reliably make and hold a phone call. Not just in New York and San Francisco, where I spend a lot of time, and where AT&T’s service has been notoriously bad for years.
Daniel Lyons
I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn’t bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn’t have any brains. I didn’t know what I was doing there. That’s why I became an actor.
Anthony Hopkins
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
When we started looking at the bigger television ecosystem, you see that there’s not that many serialized TV shows being made for TV. The economics are lousy: They don’t sell into syndication well; they’re expensive to produce.
Ted Sarandos
I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I’d be a lousy businessman, and if I didn’t give acting a try I’d regret it for the rest of my life.
Peter Gallagher
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