Terrible Quotes · Page 27

I'd like to write a biography of Ivan the Terrible.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

“They are not sorrows, so much as terrible things.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Death is terrible, tho' borne on angels' wings!

— William Blake

That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us.

— Nick Flynn

9/11 was a terrible, horrific, tragic day.

— Richard Engel

A thing of orchestrated hell-a terrible symphony of light and flame.

— Edward R. Murrow

I am the enfant terrible of literature and science

— Samuel Butler

I left the band because I developed a terrible fear of flying.

— Christine McVie

I was a terrible actor. The analytical part of my mind never quite let go.

— Edward Hall

When I was in college, my high school best friend and I had a terrible falling-out. It was entirely because of Facebook.

— Sarah Jeong

One of life's terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they're doing.

— Anthony Bourdain

Seriously, I am a terrible plotter when it comes to my novels. Terrible. I love to kind of feel my way into…

— Rebecca Serle

I did a lot of terrible TV shows and was really terrible in them, and I've done terrible films I was terrible…

— George Clooney

A lot of gay-themed films are terrible. And mainstream audiences and the press aren't interested, understandably.

— Andrew Haigh

Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.

— Anonymous

Those are terrible people who don't like Glenn Gould... I will have nothing to do with such people, they are dangerous people.

— Thomas Bernhard

I did a play in high school, then one in college. My first professional experience was off-off-Broadway. I'm conveniently blocking the title.…

— Peter Riegert

But I'm here to serve people. I'm not here to wave my finger in people's faces and point out to them how…

— LeCrae

In the case of all the carmakers, there's a certain amount of greenwash. Take Toyota: They were pushing the Prius while they…

— Chris Paine

The thing you've got to watch for is going broke when you're old. Look at all the people that go down and…

— Pearl White

I was terrible at sport at school. I was fat, which made things slightly tougher, but it also meant that people were…

— Romesh Ranganathan

the last cigarettes are smoked, the loaves are sliced, and lest this be taken for wry sorrow, drown the spider in wine.…

— Charles Bukowski

After reading The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander's stunning work of scholarship, one gains the terrible realization that, for people of color,…

— David Levering Lewis

I want to look my fellow Americans directly in the eye and declare to them, 'I am not the anthrax killer.' I…

— Steven Hatfill

The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might…

— John Milton

Giving back has to do with the way I was brought up and the fact that I've traveled widely and seen terrible…

— Richard Branson

You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning,…

— Terry Pratchett

Media reporters have pointed out that the paragraphs in my Time column this week bear close similarities to paragraphs in Jill Lepore's…

— Fareed Zakaria

I do here in the most solemn and bitter manner curse the Prime Minister of England [sic] for having cumulated all his…

— Enoch Powell

I don't think you ever want to be too settled, because once you become settled, you lose a lot of your drive.…

— Andrew Bogut

Of course, you have politics, the Vietnam war and all that monkey business. There are all kinds of reasons. At every one…

— Garry Winogrand

People are important too, however, and what a terrible impact a total ban on hunting would have on the rural economy, which…

— Ann Winterton

To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.

— Carl Jung

I think ISIS can do terrible things.

— John McCain

Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.

— Richard Steele

It's terrible when anyone passes too soon.

— Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm an awful, terrible person, but I'm working on it.

— Lynn

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

— Helen Keller

I am terrible at making food. I love eating, but I can't make anything.

— Nicola Formichetti