Terrible Quotes

Reactions [on my 1979 Massey lectures] were from Anglophones. I'm one. But I'm terrible at French. In fact, there was practically no reaction.

Backward cities, or younger cities, or newly forming cities in supply regions, have to develop to a great extent on one another's shoulders. This is one of the terrible things about empires.

Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't.

I don't even know why somebody's Twittering as me. I don't understand it, and I wish that it would stop. But there's nothing that can be done. It's so terrible.

You must be a terrible burden to your mother. I am feeling so sorry for her not to have a proper daughter." Mrs. Apusenja - To the Nines

As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I've waited all my life for the computer.

Group texts are the worst. They're like a terrible, technological snowball, coming down a mountain, and you can't stop it.

You know how hard it is to swim take after take and perform the next day swimming again? Me, I'm a terrible swimmer, but most actors with that tight schedule would be sick pretty quick.

The FBI is urging all Americans to beware of any letters or packages that have badly misspelled words. Man, this is going to be terrible news for the rap industry.

[Dalton] Trumbo himself was a terrible Communist.

Our interests are grains of opium to our consciences, but they only put it to sleep for a terrible awakening.

I hated the place (Hollywood), not the work, but the lack of privacy, those terrible prying fan magazine writers and all the surrounding exploitation.

When life is unhappy it is hard to endure, when it is happy it is terrible to think of it ending. Both amount to the same thing in the end.

Love is a terrible weakness. It gives your enemies a perfect target, clouds your judgement, makes you reckless... and that's on a good day.

I’d relived enough terrible events happening to cautious people to know that prudence wasn’t a guarantee for happiness.

No, communication is terrible!

I got very depressed. Hollywood can be a terrible place when youre depressed. The pits. I decided I had to change my life and do different things.

It's terrible to have to depend on someone else.

I didn't know how to run a business. I was a terrible gallerist, the worst in history, possibly.

Military strikes on Afghanistan will not prevent something this terrible from happening again, for the simple reason that bombs will not deter people who are unafraid of death and desire martyrdom.

I'd also talk about the period and of course all the different gender things that people might feel that they are. I'd be a terrible teacher because of what I don't know about that.

I am the Wizard of Oz of housewives (in that I am both "Great and Terrible" and because I sometimes hide behind the curtains

It's amazing what storms your face can hide, what terrible wrecks can writhe and heave beneath, without one ripple on the surface.

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

I woke up and all I could see was Iraqis standing all around me, looking down upon me. I knew at that moment something terrible had happened and I wasn't in the right place.

It must be a terrible pressure to have to go to the office.

Sweet Jesus, war does terrible things to people.

Fading light means more than just the end of another day. Night is when terrible things emerge from their sleep and seek soft flesh and hot blood.

I know I was a businessman for years, and I stayed up countless nights worrying about having to let one person go. It's a terrible thing to do.

It's a terrible and tragic and counterproductive policy to avoid communicating with people who disagree with us.

To live with the terrible truths about ourselves is the only way of not living them out. A need denied has infinitely more power than a need accepted.

When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course.

I think it's terrible to show that to kids. It's - I think you should - if you - if you do a piece where something violent happens and someone dies or is badly injured, you must show the pain.

Being decent is the only thing that matters in a terrible world like this.

A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.

The terrible thing about having New York go stale on you is that there's nowhere else. It's the top of the world.

It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.

Abroad, the balance of power is shifting. There are new and more terrible weapons - new and uncertain nations - new pressures of population and deprivation.

You must make, always. You must act, if you believe something. Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you're going to paint. The most terrible bad form.

This terrible frustration that we so often feel in the West in not being able to articulate and express ourselves.

The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory. The living, thank heaven, retain the ability to surprise and to disappoint. - Van Houten

I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.

You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet.

The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory.

I think, as we all learn as a child, you have to learn to tolerate ambiguity better and I'm still terrible at it and I hate it; even the word ambiguity makes me sick to me stomach.

Adolescence-is it the first time in life we discover that we have something terrible to hide from those who love us?

The role of money in politics is terrible, particularly when you're running for president. You get a handful of billionaires who can basically buy the White House.

The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.

There is wonder and a certain wicked pleasure in these giddy ascents and terrible falls, especially as they happen to other people.

The reason I said the Internet is dangerous is that a couple smart guys could hack into a computer and shut down the Eastern seaboard if they wanted to. It's a terrible, out-of-control thing.