Success is a lousy teacher.
I'm a lousy predictor of the future.
I'm not an impersonator. I'm a lousy impersonator, actually.
The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.
I never pretended to be rock star. I would make a lousy rock star. I don't have the right voice for it. I don't have the "sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll" spirit. But the greatest flattery in the last couple of years is being called a "badass" by young singers.
That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.
If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.
Subordinates look for their bosses to be positive, in good humor, and cheerful. They aren't supposed to be emotional or have bad days. but leaders are guman, too, and when they are in a lousy mood and snap at a subordinate, it can have a devastating effect.
I consider your conduct unethical and lousy.
You rush a miracle worker, you get lousy miracles!
My lousy way of getting it done is better than your great way of not doing it.
Books about suicide make lousy gifts.
Deadlines have a lousy name. Call them live-lines instead. That´t what they are.
Any man who looks like a sissy while dancing is just a lousy dancer.
When the outcome of a meeting is to have another meeting, it has been a lousy meeting.
I saw a lot of lousy movies and watched a ton of crappy television and read a bunch of utterly forgettable books and comics and listened to hours of junk music as a kid. And I'm still drawing profitably in my own art on some of the tawdry treasure I stored up in those years.
My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris.
Choosing a Board of Directors based on race and gender is a lousy way to run a company.
Did you ever get fed up?' I said. 'I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?
George Bowering doesn’t play fair. Baseball Love is so good there is no memoir in the league that can go up against it. Bowering has a sense of story and an eye for detail that eliminate the possibility that he was a lousy second baseman. Reading a home run is fun.