Terrible Quotes · Page 42

Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a…

— Isabel Paterson

“Death, when it's right there it doesn't seem too huge and terrible to let into your mind.”

— Rosie Thomas

I was extremely shy and had a terrible fear of public speaking. But I had fallen in love with stand-up.

— Kumail Nanjiani

Desks are terrible places, no matter how many wheels a chair might have. You can't do much about how drawers fill up.

— Gary Lutz

Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is…

— William Osler

Of course newspaper sportswriting is mostly terrible - and of course it is usually the best writing in the paper.

— Donald Hall

People say life ain't fairlife is very fair. People aren't fairpeople are terrible.

— Patrice O'Neal

“...How terrible, those dreams before sleep were—the worse kind, mixing hope with despair...”

— John Geddes

I'm a terrible sentence finisher. I think that's why I'm a songwriter. When you write a song, there are no rules, and…

— Mirah

I believe young children in particular enjoy witnessing the survival of youthful protagonists against terrible odds. I think it's gratifying to the…

— Robert Paul Weston

Some men are too dull to feel what might happen. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more…

— Mark Lawrence

I am subject to very powerful lows. When you have highs, you have terrible lows. When you pinpoint that you are responsible…

— Jeanne Moreau

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

— Amber Tamblyn

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by…

— Umberto Eco

Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the…

— Emmeline Pankhurst

Another false philosophy that appeals to the Mr. Hyde side of our natures is that peeking into pornography is harmless. This is…

— James E. Faust

I use a lot of similes and metaphors when I work, simply because it's my best way of describing a building or…

— Robert Cormier

Hope is a terrible thing, she said. Is it? Yes, it keep you living in another place, a place which doesn't exist.…

— Susan Minot

And if you look at pictures of Eleanor between 1918 and 1921, she becomes anorexic. She really loses a tremendous amount of…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

There are terrible, terrible memories of September 11th, things that I saw, people that I lost, the devastation, the identification of bodies.…

— Rudy Giuliani

The thing on cyber-security. Yes, it was - every government employee goes through this training. You do hear at corporations, as well.…

— Dana Perino

[After playing Indiana Jones and Han Solo] hero image concerns me a little, though not for my sake. All it means to…

— Harrison Ford

I blame it [never taking a break] on my mother. She was a born entertainer. Leave the songwriting, the singing and all…

— Stevie Nicks

Waiting for Godot was not allowed. Neither was Henry Miller. The Soviets condemned them both. Miller would have been used as an…

— Barney Rosset

It's terrible to know that no matter how you try to help your child, his condition will worsen.

— Emily Susan Rapp

If a movie goes south, it might not capsize me the way it used to. But I still have a terrible fear…

— Owen Wilson

Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time.

— A. Lee Martinez

Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.

— Amy Winehouse

People always say, 'Write what you know', but I've always found that to be terrible advice. It's quite limiting, what you know.

— Steve Toltz

“I thought how that was wrong and terrible and beautiful all at the same time.”

— Carol Rifka Brunt

I'm always too fat. And I always look terrible. But I love the theater of the red carpet.

— Margaret Cho

Discerning the legal difference between what WikiLeaks did and what news organizations do is difficult and would set a terrible precedent.

— George Packer

This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Not understanding anything is terrible, because I communicate very much in my real life.

— Paz Vega

I'm terrible at reading fiction. I don't have the attention span - it's awful.

— Charlie Brooker

Look at your life without the thought "Something terrible is going to happen."

— Byron Katie

I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.

— Brian Eno

I used to not be a good ball striker. Terrible. And slowly, once I started learning in college, I became a good…

— Jon Rahm

Fear and prejudice put up a terrible fight when they sense change coming.

— Susan Dorothea White

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one…

— Jean Anouilh