Terrible Quotes · Page 45

People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.

— Anatole France

I think that people are generally really terrible at being ambassadors of their own work.

— Emily Gould

I'm a terrible cook. I am not allowed to go in the kitchen anymore after I almost burned down the apartment in…

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

Reactions [on my 1979 Massey lectures] were from Anglophones. I'm one. But I'm terrible at French. In fact, there was practically no reaction.

— Jane Jacobs

It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Bad Girls Club is like a car wreck..its terrible but you just can't turn away.

— Anonymous

Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs.

— Bill Gates

Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't.

— Jane Rule

Everybody that writes has their own area of inquiry. And mine has always been kind of, why is it that when life…

— Irvine Welsh

I'm not one of these actors who can make a bad script good. Some actors, a script can be terrible, and they…

— Eddie Marsan

I really wanted to make the worst thing: the thing that even people who liked bad, terrible music wouldn't like - the…

— Ariel Pink

I remember laughing with relief that the same old adolescent boredom goes on from generation to generation. ...the words took me back…

— Julian Barnes

I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and…

— Oscar Wilde

Every part of my body felt electric. My chest ached and my head throbbed with the great terrible limitless possibility of the…

— Dave Eggers

It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty,…

— James F. Cooper

Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it,…

— Fernando Pessoa

We’re all good when it suits us, he used to say: that doesn’t count. It’s when you want so badly to do…

— Ken Follett

I was in Korea. I've noticed all my life I see elderly people who have been close to death in an illness…

— Michael Caine

There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight,…

— Federico Garcia Lorca

This happens to a lot of kids from different backgrounds - they lose a lot of their parents' and grandparents' teachings, language…

— Erik Estrada

God gave a law ... called justice. But they have made a law for themselves that is terrible and intricate, and they…

— Jessie Sampter

--Why are we fighting them? --They're mad. We're sane. --How do we know? --That we're sane? --Yes. --Am I sane? --To all…

— Donald Barthelme

Every year, in the deep midwinter, there descends upon this world a terrible fortnight. ... every shop is a choked mass of…

— Rose Macaulay

The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Brain surgery is a terrible profession. If I did not feel it will become different in my lifetime, I should hate it.

— Wilder Penfield

I feel terrible for what I put my mom through, thinking I was a man and all the stupid decisions I used…

— Cub Swanson

There were three terrible ages of childhood - zero to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

— Cleveland Amory

I have terrible chemical allergies, and I'm constantly battling unsightly reactions.

— Wendi McLendon-Covey

Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation.

— Jon Meacham

We have been growing more food than we need since the '60s... what we have is a terrible distribution problem.

— Kimbal Musk

Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm fully aware, I've gotten terrible reviews my entire career. It's not a really big deal; it's something I can deal with.

— Lou Barlow

We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible…

— Helen Clark

“Conventional lives are the perfect refuge if you are a terrible artist.”

— Kevin Wilson

To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's…

— Andrew Wyeth

What you have to remember is that the great feelings come after the terrible ones.

— Anjelica Huston

“She was still going somewhere terrible, but she had a hedgehog, dammit.”

— T. Kingfisher

It's a terrible thing to say, but I hated school. I'm very ADD, and my report card always said, 'If only she…

— Nancy Dubuc

In England, I suppose I have been known to once or twice tune into 'Big Brother', which is a pretty terrible guilty…

— Freddie Stroma

We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

— Joseph Joubert