“It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.” — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I think 90% of my ideas evaporate because I have a terrible memory and because I seem to be committed to not… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
But there's so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That's… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Pat Robertson at a national convention, equipped with delegates, certainly remains a terrible sight. He is a charlatan of Chaucerian dimensions. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I love to sing, but I'm just terrible. I play guitar, and I play enough where I can play most country stuff,… — Justin Deeley Copy Share Image
Chris Davis [of the Davisfunds] has a temple of shame. He celebrates the things they did that lost them a lot of… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
You can’t be serious,” Eve said. “Guys. People get eaten in places like this. At the very least, we get locked in… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
Evie hadn’t always felt that way. For a year after James had died, she’d cupped his half-dollar pendant between her pressed palms… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I was a terrible athlete and a pretty bad student. I couldn't focus. My imagination was always racing. — Lisi Harrison Copy Share Image
However often we turn to it [the Koran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You can never be truly happy in a life unless you have known a sorrow. All terrible things we have gone through… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm really terrible at sort of figuring out the thing that's going to make the money, I guess. — Julia Kent Copy Share Image
It's hard to say. Sometimes people have had terrible childhoods. And sometimes they just haven't found their special place in life. And… — Charles Addams Copy Share Image
I can't think of a story that doesn't have something terrible in it. Otherwise, it's dull. So when I embarked into the… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
To me, it seems pretty obvious that socialism is terrible. After all, do you know what's not terrible? Freedom. — Kat Timpf Copy Share Image
What's amazing to me is how many of the issues facing women in the ancient world still linger today. Take Odysseus' wife,… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in music, but I was not born musical. I honestly do think some people have the knack. I can't… — Georgia May Jagger Copy Share Image
There are too many books. The books are terrible. And this is because you have been taught to have self-esteem. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
They are very good reasons why voice acting in games can be so terrible. Writers are in a great position to be… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
If [climate change ] became a serious proposal in the United States, there would be a huge propaganda onslaught by the business… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Inspectors do not have the duty or the ability to uncover terrible weapons hidden in a vast country. The responsibility of inspectors… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
I'm not as impatient as I used to be. I used to hit people if I didn't like what they were saying.… — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Do less of what you're terrible at and more of what you're good at. I don't know if that sounds too simple,… — Bob Goff Copy Share Image
Anybody who is capable of doing terrible things, you don't want them out in the world, but you can't help but respect… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
In this uncertain space between birth and death, especially here at the end of the world in Moonlight Bay, we need hope… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Well, speaking as a feminist, I'm glad that women can lead--uh, groups of unspeakable magical evil." "Yes," Alan said gravely. "It'd be… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Directing is a terrible, anxious process. It's all collaboration, and if you have a dream, it's diluted very quickly by the slightest… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
It was fine," I said stiffly. "We played Mouse Trap." "Is that what they're calling it these days?" she asked, throwing me… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
...in terms of business mistakes that I've seen over a long lifetime, I would say that trying to minimize taxes too much… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Justification is the truly dramatic transition from the status of a condemned criminal awaiting a terrible sentence to that of an heir… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The financial collapse of 2008 got its start with predatory mortgages, that weren’t sold by community banks and credit unions, they were… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
One of the terrible things about George W. Bush Administration is that nobody wants to hear bad news. The neoconservatives are a… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image