Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite. Edward Albee
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them. Napoleon Bonaparte
Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century. Mickey Mantle
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good peopleMartin Luther King
How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life. Jack Nicklaus
I am a businessman. This is what I do each and every day. I love it. I love coming to work. I never have a bad day. Magic Johnson
I am always nervous before the start of a race. It helps me to say to myself to try my very best. That is my commitment. No matter how bad it gets, I will try my hardest. Dean Karnazes
I am human, when people write bad stuff about me it bothers me, but I know that will never end. Curt Schilling
I began these clinics because I want to share my years of experience in around the ring, in addition to my proven winning methods. I have seen the good and the bad. I have learned valuable lessons, which I want to pass along to those truly interested in the sport. Emanuel Steward
I don't believe that I personally have been changed by the money. The bad thing is people assume you've changed because now you have money. Shaquille ONeal
I don't care how good you play, you can find somebody who can beat you, and I don't care how bad you play, you can find somebody you can beat. Harvey Penick
I don't react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don't care about anything. It's just too hard for me to get emotional. I can't cry no more. Mike Tyson
I don't read a lot of the sports, because I think people sometimes either build it up, or you have this guy that hates sports that is going to write bad about it, so I figure I'm not going to read it. Because I'm not going to let him put an idea into my head. Herschel Walker
I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should. Mike Tyson
I feel like, with ski racing, you need to have a short memory. You crash all the time, and sometimes it's a really bad one, but sometimes it's not so bad. Lindsey Vonn
I feel not unlike a small boy, waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement. John Byrne
I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have a slightly bad back which has made an enormous contribution to American literature. David Eddings
I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom - there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock. Beverly Cleary