All Quotes

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
‐‐ A. C. Benson

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
‐‐ Paul Klee

The worst story I ever wrote was after the conviction of Jeff Skilling and Ken Lay. My co-author and I wrote a piece for 'Fortune' saying everything's going to be different now.
‐‐ Bethany McLean

The worst storyline I've ever been involved in I wasn't involved in, because I was clever enough to get pregnant with my second child and they wrote me out and they replaced me with Christine Jones. And thank God - that was the worst storyline.
‐‐ Erika Slezak

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.
‐‐ David Letterman

The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong.
‐‐ Addison Mizner

The worst thing a government can do now in Spain is to do nothing.
‐‐ Mariano Rajoy

The worst thing a man can admit is 'I'm not 100 percent fulfilled by my family.' But it doesn't mean he doesn't love his family. I love my family, but I still want to work; I still want challenges. It took me a while to fall in love with the responsibility of family life, and it was a deep thing when I did.
‐‐ David Duchovny

The worst thing a man can ever do is kiss me on the first date.
‐‐ Halle Berry

The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.
‐‐ Russell Baker

The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.
‐‐ Justin Timberlake

The worst thing about being the laureate has been the attitude of a tiny minority of adults who haven't liked some of the things I'm supposed to have said and who have used it as an opportunity to be verbally abusive and nasty, but I haven't let it rule my world!
‐‐ Malorie Blackman

The worst thing about Halloween is, of course, candy corn. It's unbelievable to me. Candy corn is the only candy in the history of America that's never been advertised. And there's a reason. All of the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911. And so, since nobody eats that stuff, every year there's a ton of it left over.
‐‐ Lewis Black

The worst thing about me is my toes. I've thick joints from wearing pointe ballet shoes - I went to a dance school from the age of 11 and danced every day.
‐‐ Pixie Lott

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
‐‐ John Wooden

The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.
‐‐ Nina Simone

The worst thing about the life of a jazz musician on the road is getting to the gig. Once you're there and playing, it's marvelous.
‐‐ Dave Brubeck

The worst thing about touring is the travel.
‐‐ Kerry King

The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.
‐‐ Paul Fussell

The worst thing any decorator can do is give a client the feeling that he's walking around somebody else's house; the rooms must belong to the owner, not to the decorator; and no rooms can have atmosphere unless they are used and lived in.
‐‐ Billy Baldwin

The worst thing as an actor is when you're not getting opportunities to try and show what you can do; the best thing is when you get material that really lets you express something and that you're excited about.
‐‐ Domhnall Gleeson

The worst thing ever for me is go see a movie, and the next day I go, 'What did I do last night? I have no memory of this $300 million movie I watched because I felt nothing.'
‐‐ Asif Kapadia

The worst thing for a filmmaker is for a film to be labeled as pretentious or heavy-handed.
‐‐ John Curran

The worst thing for a politician is to try and cling to power by every possible means, and focus only on that.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin

The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.
‐‐ Stephen Rea

The worst thing for an actor is to be stuck in one kind of thing. But if you're not in people's faces all the time, you can lose traction. And that affects the choice of things you get offered.
‐‐ Joanne Whalley

The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.
‐‐ Hamid Karzai

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.
‐‐ Arnold Schwarzenegger

The worst thing I could be accused of is that I'm a one-way dude, only out for myself. But the worst thing a woman can do is not to say anything. Especially when you're starting a relationship.
‐‐ Matt Dillon

The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player.
‐‐ Mike Gordon

The worst thing I ever wore, really, was rubber pants, but I don't think that was a cliche. They were just way too hot. Rubber doesn't breathe. I look back on my photos, and I dig them. I think I look really cool.
‐‐ Sebastian Bach

The worst thing in the world that can happen to you if you're an engineer that has given his life to something is for someone to rip it off and put their name to it.
‐‐ Tim Cook

The worst thing in this business is to be thought of as a no-talent.
‐‐ Jerry Stiller

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
‐‐ Henry Ward Beecher

The worst thing is always thinking of titles for records, with some reason behind them, and she just came out with the word, which she thought was a good word, a hard word, and since then we've sort of attached loads of meaning to it.
‐‐ Emma Anderson

The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone.
‐‐ Richard Linklater

The worst thing is the day you realize you want to win more than the players do.
‐‐ Gene Mauch

The worst thing is when a guy just looks awkward. It's not attractive.
‐‐ Rita Ora

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.
‐‐ Jim Rohn

The worst thing people ever say is that 'I can't afford to have kids!' It's selfish, and what infuriates me is when people say they can't do stuff they like go on holidays and buy cars when they have kids. You can - you find the money, you've just got to work harder for it.
‐‐ Tamer Hassan

The worst thing Spurs ever did was get rid of Keith Burkinshaw. They have never replaced him.
‐‐ Graham Roberts

The worst thing that an actor can do is go into any project with a lack of respect for the material. You can have an opinion about it, but you have to respect yourself in doing it.
‐‐ Alfred Molina

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
‐‐ J. D. Salinger

The worst thing that can happen for a writer is for a writer to start believing their own press. I think the industry, and the comics industry in particular, is littered with the bodies of writers who believed their own press. And you can see the moment they did, and then the work nosedives.
‐‐ Greg Rucka

The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton

The worst thing that can happen is if you're stuck within a bubble and you think that is what life is all about. It's great to see other people and hear from people of different ages and opinions.
‐‐ Alber Elbaz

The worst thing that can happen to a comedian is to do a documentary on your life and you're watching it with an audience and there's not a laugh.
‐‐ David Steinberg

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
‐‐ Samuel Butler

The worst thing that can happen to us in an ideological struggle is to become what we are fighting.
‐‐ Nick Clooney

The worst thing that can happen to you in travel is having a gun pointed at you by a very young person. That's happened to me maybe four times in my life. I didn't like it.
‐‐ Paul Theroux