Terrible Quotes

There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.

But once in a great while he remembered that he had felt pain, a terrible ache in his heart, and he swore he would never let himself feel love for a human again.

There is a terrible, mean American resentment toward a writer who tries to do many things.

I believe an artist dies twice. The first time, it's just terrible - I've been there when the phone isn't ringing for years.

Let's face it: I'm scared, scared and frozen. First, I guess, I'm afraid for myself...the old primitive urge for survival. It's getting so I live every moment with terrible intensity.

The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He's always on the wrong side of every door, And as soon as he's at home, then he'd like to get about.

Why would I want to read something about somebody that's just a really nice, decent person who overcomes terrible trials? That's not how life is to me.

If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.

Bards were terrible at keeping secrets. They insisted on putting them to music.

I was in a love that was wonderful until it was terrible, and both people got hurt from it.

People have only two or three adjectives to describe people in the public eye. And that's okay. As long as those adjectives aren't train wreck, mess, terrible.

It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs.

Every year it changes, sometimes I'm good at the 50m, sometimes I'm terrible, it really depends. I'm still not sure what my best event is.

Child. That was a terrible thing to say to anyone who was almost thirteen.

She walked quickly through the darkness with the frank stride of someone who was at least certain that the forest, on this damp and windy night, contained strange and terrible things and she was it.

But in his experience it was only a matter of time before the normal balance of the universe restored itself and started doing the usual terrible things to him.

Anybody can make 'good' music. I make terrible music, which is what makes it so different, and therefore better.

A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill.

That cold accretion called the world, so terrible in the mass, is so non formidable, even pitiable, in its units.

One quality in a person doesn't rule out any other quality. They can exist side by side, good and terrible. Socrates said it a lot better.

They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.

Now, Social Security through the years, for many many people, has been a terrible investment. It's really a tax, that's all it is. Social Security is a tax.

I am great at delegating when someone is doing great work. The problem - and this sounds terrible - is that there are very few people who are strong enough for you to be able to delegate to.

I actually don't subscribe to the notion that comedy is easier than drama. When you're trying to be funny and you're not funny, that's really terrible. It's a horrible feeling.

I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music.

It's terrible for the culture of music. Like anything that is purely economic, it ignores the most important component.

The waist is a terrible thing to mind.

Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed.

I would be a terrible director, I could never write anything. One of my great strengths is that I know all of my weaknesses.

People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.

Anything a wife should do, I'm terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I'll try.

There are bands, like R.E.M., who want to have 17 records, and some are terrible and some are great. I don't know if people think like that anymore. Things are more atomized now.

Advice is not really very useful. People gave me terrible advice, and I guess I was just smart enough to ignore some of it.

I am actually a terrible coward. Fear is a constant fact of my life.

You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the mage said...'And life is also a terrible thing,' Ged said, 'and must be feared and praised.

Donald Trump's a great deal-maker with a lot of momentum and it will do a lot of damage to us. We are in grave peril and it's going to be terrible.

I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.

Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that "something" is a fake bathroom break.

I want to cry because something terrible happened, and I saw it, and I could not see a way to mend it.

Inadequate nutrition can lead to terrible health consequences, both physical and emotional.

Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.

The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.

My motto is: When in doubt, just keep lying. Even if you're terrible at it.

There are a lot of guys who have terrible throwing motions-worse than mine. But they still get the ball downfield. That's all that matters.

I've got a terrible memory; it's probably because I'm always concentrating on what I'm doing now.

The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.

Wouldn't it be terrible if I quoted some reliable statistics which prove that more people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol.

Great and terrible systems of divinity and philosophy lie round about us, which, if true, might drive a wise man mad.

My first album is like a terrible John Hammond album, with drums.

To be patient in an emergency is a terrible trial.