My mother, who died aged 82, had Alzheimer's. Losing your memory is bad enough, but everything shuts down. You can't remember how… — Bonnie Tyler Copy Share Image
Jimmy Baldwin was not only a writer, an international literary figure: he was a man, spirit, voice - old and black and… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
What's terrible is that there's nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite. — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After my husband died, I could not write much - I could not concentrate. I was too exhausted most of the time… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
That was what her parents did not understand—and had never understood—about stories. Liza told herself storied as though she was weaving and… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I used to get made fun of a lot for being a male dancer, especially growing up in Boston. Kids are terrible,… — Kenny Wormald Copy Share Image
The Church is composed of people, and people do terrible things and commit sin - it's what the Church has been telling… — Michael Coren Copy Share Image
Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
The IT people who have made such an effort to know and understand computer technology. They are frustrated that you cannot use… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
The pressure to be thin, which causes guilt and obsessiveness around food, is terrible and starts so early. For me, it started… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
Guilt? It's this mechanism we use to control people. It's an illusion. It's a kind of social control mechanism -- and it's… — Ted Bundy Copy Share Image
Why go around dating random girls and having terrible sex when you can be with someone you really like? — Ansel Elgort Copy Share Image
The thing that most haunted me that day, however...was the fact that these things had - apparently - actually occurred...For all his… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
Scientific work will never stop, and it would be terrible if it did. If there were no more problems, you would put… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Some call-in moderators are neutral and courteous. Then there's Rush Limbaugh, who is funny and pompous and a scapegoater and hatemonger. His… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
You don't have good community relations in Chicago. It's terrible. I have property there. It's terrible what's going on in Chicago. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
