Terrible Quotes

Well, I've cleaned bathrooms in a warehouse. That was pretty terrible. But I can't complain because I'm sure other people have done worse.

I'm a terrible photographer.I'm not being modest. My photos really are crap. But in a way, the more the photo is crap, the better to paint from.

The world seemed a bad and terrible place, all its denizens suspect, and I the lamb wandering through the valley of death with a bell around my neck.

There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death.

We repeal sanctions, it tells Russia, go ahead and interfere in our elections and do bad things; it tells China, it tells Iran. That would be terrible.

I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.

I'm terrible at reading fiction. I don't have the attention span - it's awful.

I was fine with everything except Maths. I was terrible at Maths.

Is there not a terrible hollowness, mockery, want, craving, in that existence which is given away to others, for want of something of your own to bestow it on?

It's also a terrible kind of sentiment [ reality TV] for children and for people. It makes people feel like they all want to be famous for no reason.

Originally a stylist took terrible dresses and did everything she could to make them wonderful. Now, you create an image. It's much more specialized.

I was the class clown, but I was a reluctant class clown because I was always and still am somewhat embarrassed by performing. I have terrible stage fright, and I don't like being in front of people.

It's interesting - a lot of good actors are good mimes. But I'm terrible. If I tried to do an impression, nobody would know what I was doing.

I learned you could suffer a terrible tragedy and still be happy again.

Soccer is like punk rock: The product is not necessarily terrible. The problem is the fan base.

You can't go into the office and be a jerk. You can't yell at your kids or your wife or your husband for no reason. That makes you a terrible person.

There's a terrible dark joy when the only person who knows all your secrets is finally dead.

We’d turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we’d survive to talk about.

Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea.

I'm a terrible long-term planner.

Maybe I shall never achieve happiness, but one thing I have had - the terrible wisdom of love.

I have a terrible attention span, so if something can keep my attention, I know that that's at least a great start.

Obviously, I can't perform; admittedly, I'm terrible.

I'm a terrible interviewer. I'm not a journalist - although I have a Peabody Award - and I'm not really a late-night host. What I am is honest.

To remain alone did not seem to me a terrible fate, no worse than being falsely joined to another person.

It's terrible, once you've got a man into your blood!" she said.

Without mutual tolerance emerging as the foundation, terrible situations like those of Tibet and Sri Lanka, Bosnia and Rwanda, can never be effectively improved.

Rainy day savings are incredibly important, because from time to time, bad things happen. And if you're not prepared for that, it's going to be really terrible.

Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.

I was not a particularly brave child, I think, because I had a narrative mind, because my mind automatically went to any terrible thing that could happen.

How can someone so wonderful do something so terrible?

It is always terrible to be told to go play with people one doesn't know.

I can't think of a story that doesn't have something terrible in it. Otherwise, it's dull. So when I embarked into the world of picture books, my first thought was to do something about the dark.

It seemed to me that every adult did something terrible sooner or later. And every child, I thought, sooner or later becomes an adult.

This is love if it's not with you, a terrible fiery something that makes people look away, and it feels like a punch in the throat.

I had this idea about terrible things happening to orphans, and I knew it was such a horrible idea that the idea of writing it down and then submitting it professionally was obviously absurd.

I decided that it might be interesting to have terrible things happen to orphans over and over again.

I do think of emotions as being on a circular path, so you can feel terrible and terrible and terrible, and then all of a sudden it becomes quite funny.

With any kind of artistic thing, it's a muscle, like any athlete, and the moment you're not doing it, you lose all confidence. That's why I'm terrible with down time.

I hate the idea of making any of my children into a mini-me. That would be terrible.

I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that.

Two terrible behaviors don't make a good behavior.

Real courage is not to give up hope, even in the most terrible darkness, and to carry on. That if courage and love is deep as despair, deeper, then light may come again

That the world was silent and cold and bare and that in this lay its terrible beauty

I went and took golf lessons so Dad would let me play with him. I was just terrible... but I was able to have a wonderful time just walking around with Dad. I can see the real pleasure of that game.

I think Republicans so mistrust Barack Obama, that if Barack Obama says Putin is terrible, they will be some Republicans who just take the other side.

I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again.

Don't be discouraged if you think you're not a great writer because terrible writers are successful in Hollywood

They came looking for dark and terrible revelations and instead found out something even more dark and terrible: that their lives were trite and boring.

I used to do some terrible things in the marshalling area to upset my rivals.