Ruined Quotations

I have an issue with others ordering for me, and I spend far too long haranguing people that my choices are the best. I apologize for the amount of conversations I have ruined with this attitude.

I feel like if you enjoyed the 119 hours that precede the finale of 'Lost,' is that whole experience ruined by the fact that you might not agree with everything that we did in the finale? I would hope not! I would hope that you would appreciate the fact that you were entertained for 119 hours even if you didn't love the finale.

I was a rabid 'Seinfeld' fan. Then I did the show, and it ruined the show for me. Not that it ruined the quality of the show, but I had seen behind the curtain at Oz.

That incident ruined my reputation for 10 years. Get one Beatle drunk and look what happens!

Barbie ruined my life! It's a really bad image for women. For a long time I thought I was deformed - because my heels didn't touch the ground. I was walking around on tiptoes. What's up with that? I think that it's a bad thing for a woman to try to emulate.

Had I not done Shakespeare, Pinter, Moliere and things such as 'Godspell' - I played Judas in a hugely successful production before I did 'Elm Street' - I'd probably be on a psychiatrist's couch saying: 'Freddy ruined me.' But I'd already done 13 movies and years of non-stop theatre.

I feel like, with myself, I ruined myself to the point where I wasn't functional enough to work for anybody, even myself. I wasn't working.

Reading 'Youth in Revolt' might have ruined my career because suddenly I wanted to abandon all the emotional truth of something and just go out far on a literary limb with completely implausible things that relied completely on voice and humor. And what saved me is realizing that I couldn't do that very well.

When I was young, Tchaikovsky was ruined for me by conductors who made it slick and treacly. Hearing Valery Gergiev conduct Tchaikovsky has been a revelation - he brings out all its raw passion. And Gergiev with the super-virtuoso LSO - well, it's just the perfect combination.

Music has completely taken over every aspect of my life and ruined everything.

The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses.

Tone is so important because you can have a great script just be ruined with the wrong director - if they shtick it up or something. With 'Little Miss Sunshine,' I was so concerned they weren't going to play the pageant official realistically because you don't have to wink to play those kinds of characters.

The czar always got his dues, no matter if it ruined a family.

My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it cost her dearly. Late in her life, she was furious that she had not followed her own heart; she thought that it had ruined her life, and I think she was right.

Another man whose social life has ruined him.

I've always hated superheroes. I cannot stand them. I love Norse mythology, but I hate superheroes. They ruined movies, then comics, and now games.

If I had one quality that really ruined me and at the same time helped me, it was the fact that I never stopped looking, and by that time I was really working at it.

Most of the films I've done were ruined in the postproduction, not during filming.

I confess that Roy was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pictures, which he stopped doing later. He used to punch a hole through a negative. Some of them were incredibly valuable. He didn't understand at the time.

As a viewer, I never want any movie ruined for me, no matter what the genre is.

I made so many jokes about poor Russell Crowe, he once knocked on my dressing room door, and told me he wanted to go out on this chat show we were on to laugh with me. Now he's ruined it. I can't make another joke about him.

I played one year of fantasy football in high school. You really get into it. It makes more fans of the NFL, and people love talking about it. They'll come up to me and say, 'Why did you throw an interception? You ruined my fantasy team!' Or they're happy because they got you for a bargain.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

More men are ruined by underestimating the value of money than by overestimating it. Let us, then, abandon the affectation of despising money, and frankly own its value.

We feel completely vindicated by the sentencing. This is somebody who ruins lives, he ruined my life and ruined many other people?s lives.

We feel that he is making a very, very serious mistake in this case, that there are innocent young men whose lives can be ruined if they are charged in this case.

The thing I noticed is that a lot of times great material can get ruined if its not in the right hands.

Jesus ruined every funeral he attended including his own.

I ruined my health drinking to other people's.

The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter, the rain may enter -- but the King of England cannot enter; all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!

When I heard the apology, I thought it was sincere. But then Drew opened his mouth and ruined it. It?s sad because it sounded like (Owens) was crying out for help.

I have always noticed in politics how often men are ruined by having too good a memory.

Lewis and Clark's expedition is as great a story as you could ever hope to tell, and like so many people, Brad and I have both been drawn to it for years, ... We both always agreed that compressing that story into a feature-length film ruined the spirit of it ... so we sat down and said, 'How can we really do this justice?'

Losing to Missouri and K-State ... a lot of people thought that ruined our season. But we hung on to the positives. There are going to be a lot of ups and downs, but I'd have to think we're on an upswing right now.

Let's face it, there was a lot of criticism when he started in New York. I've been saying, if that would have ruined his career, then he's not the guy we thought he was anyway. And we've all seen first-hand that's not the case.

Sharman has thumbed its nose at the court. They were given a chance to do the right thing and they've ruined it. They cannot be trusted to even take the simplest steps towards complying with the court's orders and again have shown they intend to do nothing about the illegal activities occurring on a massive scale on their system.

She was one resident, among many, that was told by their insurance company that she didn't need flood insurance since she lived a certain distance from the coast. But, everything in her house was ruined - every piece of clothes, every appliance.

More and more, owners want you to win now, fans want you to win now. They see that guy and they think he should take over. There have been more of them ruined from the beatings they've taken in that first year and the lessons they've learned than have been successful.

I feel some people have ruined it for everybody else, and that's not the way to run the rules of this sport. It's not 20 percent of the drivers. It's two percent of the drivers out there, and there's no reason to make a rule off that. Those drivers should be quarantined.

I don't understand it when people get cross about how one of their works was adapted and say, 'Oh, they ruined it!' Well, the book is still there.

He did tell me that 'In Cold Blood' scraped him down to the marrow of his bones. That's how he phrased it. He achieved fame, money, everything a writer ever, ever wants in the world, and it ruined his life.

He had a four putt on one hole, which ruined his round.

He ruined (Eli) Manning for about a month. He went in there, they had him double-teamed, he blew past the tackle, strip sacked the ball and messed up Manning's elbow, scooped it up and ran in for a (29-yard) touchdown. It doesn't get any worse than that.

He was lobbing along beautifully, but when he put down at that early fence it ruined the race for us.

He was a bad guy. He ruined a lot of people's lives.

Katrina has shaken the very foundations of the U.S. economic expansion when it ruined much of America's energy infrastructure, ... While a recession is unlikely, the probability of stagflation has greatly increased with inflation moving higher even as the economy slows.

It absolutely ruined the race. I feel like a criminal, even though there's no reason to feel like one.

I think it's important that all members (of Congress) know exactly how many of their constituents' lives have been ruined by this policy.

Passage would bring relief to millions of small-business owners and their families. It would certainly ease Main Street's growing anxiety about being slapped with and ruined by a Mickey Mouse lawsuit.

Suddenly, two bystanders stuck their heads inside the frame and ruined one of the funniest cartoons ever.

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.

Logan called her up just as a courtesy and told her that he was going to have to tell his attorneys and the jury where the money went. she begged him not to. She told him her husband would leave her. Her marriage would be ruined and her life would be ruined.

literally ruined my night. It hurt my feelings.

I think he chews up his own people and spits them out, ... He has taken a perfectly good country and ruined it.

I thought it was a sincere apology, but Drew ruined it, ... It was T.O.'s press conference, and then I had to hear from his agent longer than I heard from the player.

We need a little payback for Storm Lake last year. They kind of ruined our season and we haven't forgotten that. We want to show people we can play well against them. They're a very good team, a very physical team. They like to throw a lot, so it's going to give us a different set of problems. We want to rise to the occasion and come back with a victory in week two (of district play).

When the cat and the mouse agree, the grocer is ruined

You have those songs that are very special to you that you don't want to get ruined by production. Something like 'Start Again' shouldn't be touched. It's a classic-sounding song on a piano and violins and harmonies, and I think those songs are perfect as they are.

Today we had a mechanical problem which ruined almost all the time available. Just before it began to rain I went out on the second bike which was much better, but then the rain brought the test to a halt. We are here to test, and it's better that the problems emerge here rather than in the race!

When they die here naturally, wings get beat up, ants eat off the head or antenna. There's so much damage it'd be a ruined species. It would hurt me more to see that specium ruined and we didn't let more people see it.

The prosecutor and I have seldom, if at all, experienced an investigation being potentially ruined at such an early stage.

The two oldest professions in the world — ruined by amateurs.

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

High definition ruined a lot of things that I used to hold sacrosanct in pornography.

Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature

We thought that we had ruined Charlie Brown.

This was an embarrassment. To play great the whole season and not bring home a district championship, it's like the season was ruined tonight.

This will be dominant form of media because there is no government regulation, ... It's the death of the FCC. They have ruined commercial broadcasting -- down with the FCC!

You have a young African-American taking some food from a grocery store after their home was ruined by a flood and it's called looting. A white person is taking food from a grocery store and it's called finding bread and soda.

We try not to think of the cost of the lab. It's certainly not something we could pay back if we ruined it.

Even if this spill doesn't get any worse, the damage from it -- and that's of course not sure -- a leading fishing industry executive says that the Christmas season is already ruined by this spill for several thousand fishermen and their families.

Bhutan - having looked at its neighbor, Nepal, which is overpopulated, has ruined its environment and is very unstable politically - knows what it wants: not to become another Nepal,

At the time it was airing, Claire had been kidnapped. So instead of hearing her husband was a little nervous, she just went, 'So Claire comes back? You just ruined it for me!' To this day, my wife refuses to hear anything about 'Lost.' She just wants to watch it.

Disney would have ruined this movie and, please, say that in the articles. They would have ruined this picture because they don't know how to make, and don't want to make, funny movies for adults.

And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Drew had to open his mouth and it ruined everything. Personally, I don't like Drew. The day I'm holding a press conference, my agent is going to be in the back of the room.

I should be watching an execution. I shouldn't be watching this. It's a waste of taxpayer money. This is a cold-blooded killer. He ruined two families. (His execution) would be the happiest day in my life.

They absolutely ruined the race. I was already a little bit tired yesterday.

It was a long night without sleeping. I was tested at 1:30am. They absolutely ruined the race.

The technology is moving far faster than the checks and balances across the nation, but this is one check we should have in place. People could be hurt, killed or have their reputations ruined for no reason.

Professor Frank Nelson, he teaches ethics for God's sake. These people are pillars in this community. But they don't have the moral fortitude to understand that his musical achievements are completely trumped by the fact that he ruined more than one child's life.

People do ask me for advice for some reason. And I'll just kind of pose it back to them and let them answer on their own. I never like to give my advice 'cause I don't want them to come back and 'You were wrong! You ruined my life!' so it's more about 'Hey, this is what you just told me. What does that sound like to you?'

After I false-started once, I felt like he targeted me on the second one, so I just sat there and waited for the gun. It ruined my whole race.

That's my daughter's baby pictures and my son's baby pictures. They're all ruined and mildewed.

There's discussion in athletics about how sport - where they say 'SportsCenter' has ruined the fundamentals of basketball because it's - it only applauds dunks and three point shots and blocks, and I think, you know, the cable news has done the same thing for politics.

The most embarrassing thing for me was the day Bob Hope called me up and I was spaced out on cocaine. I was supposed to do his TV special, and I didn't turn up. Consequently, I was blacklisted by NBC for a long time. I damaged my career, and almost ruined my whole life.

It's heartbreaking. Losing my mum has ruined his life.

Students going off to a vacation location for Spring Break need to be watchful and aware to remain safe. If students are underage, they should not drink alcohol. A wonderful travel experience can be ruined if young people put themselves in a situation where they can be harmed.

It literally ruined my night. I got my feelings very hurt actually.

Not changing ruined Buddy Ryan . He wouldn't change from the 46 defense, even when people figured it out. Not Bill. He changes every year.

The walls of the Franciscan Church of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin Mary were ruined stucco chipping away from the brick underneath, with ghostly frescoes, concrete-filled niches, and one complete, vivid crucifix painted over the altar.

These peoples' careers have been ruined because someone has some sour grapes.

I kind of dislike 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' but most of Hemingway in general, mainly because his stylistic shenanigans ruined so many young writers of my generation who tried to imitate him. I think, for his time, he moved fiction to a different level stylistically, or at least added to the dialogue, but in our time, he's annoying.

I never knew a girl who was ruined by a book

I needed a place to put the dogs. The prisoners ruined the jail, so I put the prisoners in the tents and I had a nice place to put the dogs. We treat the cats nice too, and horses. I have the inmates take care of the animals. It's therapy too, you see.

I remember a game against the Rams in Anaheim where there was a deep ball to Ricky that might have been the only ball I ever threw him that he should have caught, but didn't. He dropped it. Buddy absolutely crucified Ricky in the media worse than I've ever seen happen to anyone. But Ricky then is just like Ricky now. He's a total pro and he just kept working. Buddy Ryan tried to bury both Ricky and I while we were there. He was pretty good at that kind of stuff and he ruined some careers. I survived it and Ricky's still surviving it.

In training this week we have talked about the dropped catches, which ruined our chances. The batting of the St Catherine team... they have a good batting line-up with Tamar Lambert and others. They'll be coming gunning. They have won outright, so it should be a good match.

The war has ruined us for everything.