Crappy Quotes

I work out two or three times a week, whether it be a run or a workout class, a hike… I really try and mix it up a little bit so that it keeps me interested. I have a gym in my house, so if all else fails, I’ll get on the running machine and book a movie or some crappy reality TV and just zone out.

High School is like a spork: it’s a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it’s just plain useless.

There’s a lot of crappy music that people like, you know, all over the world, and Norway is definitely not an exception.

I worked in the book publishing business for nearly two decades before I turned my attention to writing, first with a couple ghostwriting projects, plus a crappy novel that absolutely no one wanted to publish. Then I moved to Luxembourg for my wife‘s job and found the inspiration for ‘The Expats.’

Sitting down at the table is a sacred event. It’s the heart of the home. People have ginormous homes or crappy little homes, but the kitchen is where we always end up sitting. It’s where the stories happen, the family happens.

Someone will always hate what I say. There’s always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.

I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books.

In rowing, you’re always striving for that perfect stroke, that repetition, each one being as good as the last. Same thing with cooking. You can’t say, ‘Oh, I don’t feel well, so I’m going to put out a crappy plate.’

I don’t think anyone ever sets out to make a crappy movie, but there are a lot of forces working against those people who are trying to make something decent. There are a lot of fine lines to walk and small battles to fight.

I hate staying in resorts. When I go on holiday, I like to stay in crappy places with great surf.

There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they had a crappy childhood. Well, that’s the definition of childhood; nobody gets out alive. You either get stronger from what you experience, or you turn it into a crutch, an excuse, a dodge.

I love really crappy carnivals, where you think the ride is going to break. There’s something so seedy about them.

An effective found footage movie is much harder to make than an effective traditionally shot movie. A crappy one is much easier to make because you take your camera, and you shoot the scene, and you’re done. But to make it effective, they’re actually much trickier.

I am a really passive person to begin with so I have written a lot of pretty crappy songs with strangers because I let it go in a direction that I didn’t feel it should have and I didn’t know them well enough to speak up.

When I first started touring, we had a crappy van, and we would all share rooms. So for many years as a grown adult woman, I would share a bed with a bandmate, whether it would be Jimmy Tamborello from the Postal Service or Pierre De Reeder from Rilo Kiley, just a pillow barrier between us sleeping on the same bed.

What I do on international flights is watch crappy, sappy love movies… Sometimes they’re so bad, it’s laughable. It kills time.

You know what I didn’t realize at the time is a really good blessing, is that I was a really crappy player.

I’ll never forget the first concert I basically went to. Actually, Sonny and Cher was my first concert, but U2 was my first real concert. I was 17 and saw them at JFK Stadium and had really crappy seats.

I mean, people have created great shows, produced wonderful television, and nobody tunes in. For whatever reason, it just doesn’t resonate with the masses. And vice versa, people have produced some really crappy television and mediocre stuff, and for some reason it hits. And there’s no rhyme or reason.

Music is the soundtrack to the crappy movie that is my life.

I consider a day without running a crappy day. When I don’t get to run, I am a grump, but some days my schedule just doesn’t allow me to.

If I eat too righteously, I turn to crisps and crappy chocolate bars.

Usually with me, the ideas I have for movies just sort of pop into my head. I’ve read a bunch of screenwriting books over the years and, to be honest, they’re mostly pretty crappy.

I was 27, an unemployed actress living in a really crappy studio apartment. I had just moved to Los Angeles alone, away from my family. I had cervical and uterine cancer and I was told that I would never be able to carry a baby.

In a sufficiently prosperous society where people specialize sufficiently, and where enough of the crappy work is done by machines, all work becomes art.

You have to write badly to write at all. If it’s crappy, I will rewrite it later. But it will be mine. You can hear the resonance of an artist who goes into herself.

When you treat your career early on really crappy, you can’t expect to be in a good position. That’s just the way pro fighting is.

I’m not a terrible person, I know that, but sometimes in a relationship, I can be crappy.

I had heard a live show, where my voice didn’t sound the way I wanted to hear it and I got paranoid. I’m not an amazing singer, I just belt it out in this crappy old way, but for a while I had it in my head that I couldn’t sing.

I’m happy with how ‘Feast Of Friends‘ finally turned out. It’s been bootlegged so much, and of course, the quality was always crappy with those things.

I’m a professional model, but I still take crappy selfies.

It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don’t they do something about it? They’ve done all these crappy attempts at comic book film adaptations. What can we do different? Why don’t we just re-release this thing?

Pay attention to how you think and speak, and if it turns out that you’re sounding snide or crappy or doubtful, make the conscious decision to change.

Technology is a bit of a double-edged sword. Used right, it’s a wonderful tool, but unfortunately, it makes it easier for a lot of mediocre people to get really crappy ideas out.

When we push against who we naturally are, we feel stress, things don’t progress easily, we beat ourselves up for getting crappy results, and everything is an effort.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

In 2006 or something, I was recording the voices for this short, ‘The Real Animated Adventures of Doc and Mharti.’ I was having fun doing these really crappy Doc Brown and Marty McFly impressions. During the middle of a line, a burp came out naturally. It was just so funny and gross.

I was making crappy beats since I was, like, 17 or 18, using Florida rappers, where I’m from. Then I started DJ’ing because I just wanted to have a new job.