Terrible Quotes

... Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate one antidote - the Daguerreotype. (1845)

I've dyed my hair a million times and it looks terrible, always. It just looks fake. And it doesn't make me look that much younger.

I'm a libertarian. It's a terrible word.

Terrible things always seemed to happen to hitchhikers in movies - including my own. It has always been glamorous and dangerous and scary and sexy.

That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white.

Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation.

One of the central memories of my childhood is of hunting - not well; I am a terrible shot - quail and dove and grouse on a farm on the Tennessee River.

That, what we're really seeing in Iraq is not a terrible war, but in fact, just the media's portrayal of it.

And on Thursday, President Obama seized the opportunity of the National Prayer Breakfast to forthrightly criticize the 'terrible deeds' . . . committed 'in the name of Christ.'.

I think it's a terrible system, but money in politics is like water running downhill -- it finds its way.

Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible struggle.

It was terrible. All of the things we couldn't share. The room was filled with conversations we weren't having.

If anyone else asked that question, O He Who Is Terrible and Great, I would have said they were an ignorant fool; in you it is a sign of the disarming simplicity which is the fount of all virtue.

Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage: and they were always mortal enemies.

I'm not pessimistic. It is the world that is terrible. How can we be optimistic in the face of a planet where people live so badly, nature is being destroyed and the dominant empire is money?

My wife who is non-Jewish regrets it all the time that I can say these terrible things about fellow Jews and she can't.

One thing that I discovered about myself is I really don't like traveling. I feel like it's a terrible personal failing, but I was so satisfied to arrive at the conclusion.

I leave the world in terrible turmoil. I come back, same turmoil. Nothing at all different. Well, outfits are a little different.

I feel a terrible loss when I (eventually must) complete a work of fiction.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

I had a very specific type of terrible network experience where I was told that people like Seth Rogen and Jason Segel weren't leads, so it truly drove me mad. So to be trusted is all I value.

I play a garbage man who moonlights as a stand-up comedian. Terrible.

I'm really terrible at sort of figuring out the thing that's going to make the money, I guess.

I live alone with my one dog and they say it like it's a sad, it's a terrible thing. This woman lives alone with her two cats.

I find most films about fashion terrible because they are caricaturish.

Some people have a terrible stretch between family and work. It is a difficult thing to achieve.

'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening.

I love to sing, but I'm just terrible. I play guitar, and I play enough where I can play most country stuff, and I'll sing when it's just me.

I wrote my first song when I was nine, and it was called 'Notice Me'. My Mom still has the piece of paper around somewhere, but I can't even imagine how terrible it is.

I moved to New York with the derangement of love. I was writing all these terrible stories, but I had never been happier.

It's very unfortunate that war has always been and probably always will be a part of human beings on this planet. It's a terrible thing.

I am home because I am a writer, but sometimes, when I'm not productive (productivity: the expectations of capitalism), I feel like a terrible housewife, or a sick person.

Newish friends, if they get ghastly, can be weighed and found wanting, but you'd never do a thing like that to old ones; their terrible habits are just part of the universe.

I can hide, and my husband's just terrible at finding me. I do like to jump out from behind doors and scare him.

I'd be a terrible secret agent. I can't keep a secret and I'm not sneaky.

Yes, my mother's death is a terrible sorrow to me. I feel - do you know what I mean - the silence of it so. She was more alive than anyone I have ever known.

Paper Covers Rock is dazzling in its intensity and intelligence, spell-binding in its terrible beauty.

Without humor, a sports fan is a religious fanatic. Without humor, a newscast is a terrible, depressing, unpalatable thing.

The initial spark usually has something to do with panic -- I'm due to turn in a story to a workshop or an editor. It's a terrible working method.

When I was younger, I used to write to directors when I was unsure I could play a role. I'd say: 'You've made a terrible mistake.'

I'm cursed with this puritanical streak that makes me want everything to be about something. It's a terrible affliction.

I used to get made fun of a lot for being a male dancer, especially growing up in Boston. Kids are terrible, they don't realize how heavy words can be.

My love life is like everyone else's - great, and then terrible.

I am the god of being messy - I'm trying to get better. I was terrible in my 20s. My kids are much tidier than I am, I don't know where they get it from, maybe their mother.

It turns out I'm absolutely terrible at staying away from you. It's a very serious problem.

Acting? No, it is not for me. I would be terrible.

We're talking about really vital services to people who are already in a terrible situation and really in need of emergency services - and there aren't alternatives.

Personally, I don't like watching films about victims - people where you're meant to think, 'Oh, this is terrible,' and you go home feeling really depressed.

In a world of plenty, continued suffering is a terrible stain on our conscience. It is inexcusable that we not strive, with every resource at our disposal, to eliminate suffering.

I'd make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list.