Worst Things Quotes - Page 14

• 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

  Musician, Gigs, Jazz

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• 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

  Health, Men, Next

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• Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.

  Carrie Fisher

  Mother, Worst, Happens

  "What I've Learned: Carrie Fisher". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• The future is the worst thing about the present.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Worst

  Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.8, Harvard University Press

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• Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.

  Morgan Freeman

  Drinking, Struggle, Weather

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• 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

  Inspirational, Hurt, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 23, 2014

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• Googling yourself is maybe one of the worst things you can do. I did it once, and someone had to talk me off a ledge.

  Winona Ryder

  Ledges, Worst, Can Do

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• The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

  J. D. Salinger

  Artist, Unhappy, Would Be

  J. D. SALINGER (1968). “FOR ESME- WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR”

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• The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspirational, Fitness, Motivational Sports

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Hurt, Thinking, Self

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• The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Writing, Paper, Consciousness

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• The worst thing you want is a willy-nilly judge who is swayed by the political whims of the era or the time. What you want is a judge who is thinking about what he or she is doing and is thinking about it in a principled way.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Thinking, Judging, Political

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• I think one of the worst things that happened to me was, you know, my voluntary fallout with my father. And then the greatest thing that happened to me was when I saw the light, and realized I needed to love him in a way that he could love me back.

  Steven Spielberg

  Father, Thinking, Light

  "Spielberg: A director's life reflected in film". "60 Minutes" with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. January 10, 2013.

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• One of the worst things you can give to your people is someone you're not.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  People, Giving, Worst

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• The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.

  Justin Timberlake

  Invasion, Privacy, Fame

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• The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.

  Ted Turner

  Fighting, Use, Want

  "Ted's tears". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2002.

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• The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Funny, Adversity

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• The worst thing that ever happened to me on stage is someone ran forward to tell me they loved me and projectile vomited all over the stage. It was horrible.

  Joan Rivers

  Stage, Horrible, Worst

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• Being nervous isn't always the worst thing for me.

  Danica Patrick

  Nervous, Worst

  Danica Patrick talks about the Indy 500, www.newsday.com.

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• Buying phosphate-free soap allows you to say, 'My detergent doesn't have the harsh chemicals others do.' The question is, how are you washing with it? The very worst thing for the Earth about detergent is that we heat water to use it.

  Daniel Goleman

  Water, Use, Earth

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• The absolute worst thing that you ever can do, in my opinion, in bringing science to the general public, is be condescending or judgmental. It is so opposite to the way science needs to be brought forth.

  Brian Greene

  Opposites, Needs, Way

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• The worst thing we can do is to do nothing.

  Brad Henry

  Worst, Can Do

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• Any time you try to create an Internet meme, automatic fail. That's like the worst thing you can do.

  John Hodgman

  Trying, Internet, Failing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The worst thing you can do to a child, and I've seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon.

  Elton John

  Children, Spoons, Silver

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• Stay out of the sun, because it is the worst thing in terms of aging. I'm very medical. I come from a medical family.

  Nicole Kidman

  Sun, Medical, Aging

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