Terrible Quotes

I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is something I feel very unhappy about

Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.

I get terrible butterflies. Before I go onstage, I'll have to freak out for five minutes. I scream. It seems to help!

I have terrible luck. Last week my chauffeur ran off without my wife.

This is terrible, when a writer is bored by his own work, but it was a real bomb and had reached the point where I couldn't even stand to look at it any more.

Creation is not a light-hearted game. The creator commits to a terrible adventure, which is to take up-on himself all of the dangers that his creatures run.

The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.

I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.

When something is too beautiful or too terrible or even too funny for words, then it is time for poetry.

My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind - like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there.

Terrible is the force of the waves of sea, terrible is the rush of the river and the blasts of hot fire, and terrible are a thousand other things; but none is such a terrible evil as woman.

It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.

What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.

Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side.

She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it .

The Church is a terrible engine of oppression, especially as concerns woman

The legend of the jungle heritage and the evolution of man as a hunting carnivore has taken root in man's mind ... He may even believe that equal pay will do something terrible to his gonads.

I'm not as impatient as I used to be. I used to hit people if I didn't like what they were saying. Just lash out. 'Bam - shut up! Hahahah!' I was terrible.

[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.

I have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing.

I have a terrible memory because I'm not interested in the past. It's done, it's done.

My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

We think it will be shortly afterwards, but it seems a terrible thing to gamble with such big stakes in diplomacy without having your master card in your hand.

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

Love can be a terrible curse, Eragon. It can make you overlook even the largest flaws in a person's behavior.

Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs.

I follow the Patriots, but the Steelers were my first and true love. I still have a terrible towel.

I love to play music. I'm terrible at it, but I love learning about it .

Everyone wants peace - and they will fight the most terrible war to get it.

Complaining doesn't change people... All that complain, this is terrible... It's not so terrible.

I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible.

I am terrible at memorizing things. Hence, ad-libbing.

You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm. It's really funny.

When I meet a girl, I just sort of do really over-exaggerated terrible dance moves... a lot of hip movements. I get them laughing, and get them to feel pity for me, and then they like me!

I started studying as an artist, but I got fed up with the fact that you can paint terrible pictures and if you explain them in an erudite way it's called great art. I thought this was rubbish.

The concept of a woman with a terrible life who needs a man to come and rescue her, doesn't apply and isn't something we should probably be teaching kids.

I've got a terrible person in me just as much as anybody else, and I think - I like to think I also have a really good person in me.

The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ.

Wherever schools can be integrated through the busing method, and where it won't be just a, a terrible inconvenience, I think it ought to be done.

Silence is the demon's trap, and the more one is silenced, the more terrible the demon; but silence is also the divinity's mutual understanding with the single individual.

And I was struck all at once how life was out there going through its regular courses, and I was suspended, waiting, caught in a terrible crevice between living my life and not living it.

I've often wanted to play the victim, or somebody who makes terrible choices. I would love to play the alcoholic mother who horribly lets down her children. That's a great morally imperiled role.

People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy.

I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race.

Any work that is really great hovers between terrific and terrible.

You may think using Google's great, but I still think it's terrible.

What was so terrible about grief was not grief itself, but that one got over it.

My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.

If you can't joke about the most horrendous things in the world, what's the point of jokes? What's the point in having humor? Humor is to get us over terrible things.