Quotes About Shoddy

Shoddy explanations that yield correct predictions are two a penny, as UFO enthusiasts, conspiracy-theorists and pseudo-scientists of every variety should (but never do) bear in mind.

Hephaestus glowered up at us. "I didn't make you, did I?" Uh," Annabeth said, "no, sir." Good," the god grumbled. "Shoddy workmanship.

Used to be goddy Now uptown feeling shoddy Bah, haiku don't rhyme

It's really actually been pretty shoddy and appalling, the amount of local content, Australian drama, on ABC TV.

just as Soviet managers responded by producing shoddy goods that met the numerical targets set by their overlords, so do schools, police forces, and businesses find ways of fulfilling quotas with shoddy goods of their own:

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies and policy recommendations, which are nevertheless taken very seriously.

Beijing's foreign investments can be coercive and exploitative - using Chinese laborers and contractors instead of local ones, saddling poorer countries with enormous debts, leaving behind shoddy workmanship and fueling corruption.

'Business Week' is guilty of very shoddy reporting.

Love, I thought to myself abstractedly. Not 'This is love' or 'Is this love?' Not a sentence, not a certainty, not a thought with moving parts or direction. Just love, all of it, as it is. Whether it's enough or not. Wthether it's real or we're making it up. However shoddy it gets, or bent out of shape. It's still extraordinary. However foolish, however vain. However badly it ends. Love.

By the beginning of the 1970s, the Soviet Union's centrally planned economy was failing. It could not produce the goods that people wanted, and what it did produce was shoddy, except for specific sectors, mainly defense. The oil crisis of the 1970s came just in time.

I had many opportunities to get behind products in the past, and I was always careful to evaluate all of them. I will not put my name to shoddy items.

In Rochefort's view, Washington's analytic work was shoddy and its conclusions too often flew in the face of common sense.

I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.

I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.