Terrible Quotes · Page 185

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

— Vanessa Paradis

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

— Victor Hugo

I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers.

— Anonymous

I stare at the pile of discarded remnants and think of my mother. Did she touch that pillar there? Does her scent…

— Libba Bray

Nature is purposeless. Nature simply is. We may find nature beautiful or terrible, but those feelings are human constructions. Such utter and…

— Alan Lightman

You know, I have had a terrible life. I married two men I really didn't like. My only daughter was killed in…

— Clare Boothe Luce

One of the things I love about the theater is that no one can tell you to stop. Once you're onstage, it's…

— Carey Mulligan

I just sat there looking at television, sort of dumb and thought how horrible it was. I had -- the grand aspects…

— Andy Rooney

As someone who was born and raised in Los Angeles, I was really interested in the idea of people who move here…

— Amber Tamblyn

It's the first time I can ever remember being scared that the United States might mess up and something terrible will happen…

— Stevie Nicks

Not much to be perfectly honest! I thought The Phantom Menace was terrible, except for the Pod Race.

— David Prowse

What is poetry? Do not enquire. The secret dies by prying. How does the heart beat? I fainted when I saw it…

— Elizabeth Smart

I've played music that's terrible in the past, and not everyone likes you, which is fine.

— Tash Sultana

I'm a pretty good winner. I'm a terrible loser. And I rub it in pretty good when I win.

— Tom Brady

I think racism is a terrible thing. I think we should all learn to hate each other on a individual basis.

— Cathy Ladman

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

— James F. Cooper

It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see.

— Jonathan Tropper

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

— Alfred Adler

what is terrible when you seek the truth is that you find it..

— Victor Serge

As an actor, especially one who's worked in casting, you read so many scripts, and some of them are terrible. They're terrible…

— Erin Maya Darke

When I used to go the E.U. for meetings, I often had a terrible cold to insist that I didn't get enveloped…

— Amber Rudd

Distance of time and place generally cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking leave of our friends resembles taking leave of…

— Henry Fielding

Ah, gratitude, that's a terrible thing, a dangerous thing.

— Elizabeth Ferrars

What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

— Dan Quayle

Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to…

— Arthur Henderson