Terrific Quotes · Page 3

I believe that everybody, whether you believe in the afterlife or the chance of a near-death experience and you come back and…

— Clint Eastwood

I thought ['Sailcloth'] was a terrific script. Elfar Adalsteins, the director, is bound to be a director we'll hear from, and the…

— John Hurt

The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific…

— Jason Alexander

A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or…

— Sally Kirkland

[Scott Derrickson] is terrific, really sharp on the details, and he's not afraid to go to dark places.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

I have a terrific headache.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I really need to know where I'm going with fiction to write it in a way that at least I'm happy with.…

— Dave Barry

Why cat were given such terrific peripheral vision when they spend so much time looking down their noses is difficult to understand.

— Roger Caras

I mean, I've been given a terrific life by the audiences who stuck with me all over the world.

— Don McLean

In my view, the ebook world for both established and new authors is a terrific new and exciting format. It is a…

— Robert Gottlieb

Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever…

— Tom Chapin

It's a privilege. It's a real honor. It's a challenge. Michael and I always feel we stand on tall shoulders when we…

— Barbara Broccoli

I've been very lucky. I wanted to be an actress, but I didn't really have the drive to sell myself. Fortunately I…

— Blythe Danner

I've spent the past month in Washington D.C. and it is terrific to be back in America.

— Ted Cruz

'Cabin Fever' was very much inspired by 'The Thing.' It's really a perfect guy's horror movie: There's no love story, it's just…

— Eli Roth

Humor is a terrific tool for explaining things, especially when what you're explaining is frightening or dull and complicated.

— P. J. O'Rourke

People forget how outcast 'They Might Be Giants' can be. They have a reputation for writing really deft, funny, clever melodies, and…

— John Hodgman

“I’m a firm believer that in-depth subjects can be better handled in a fantasy setting. ... Let’s face it, traveling to some…

— Jim Starlin

A Wired reader told me once, Get a life, which I read from the back of a yacht in the Aegean, while…

— Nicholas Negroponte

[Children] use up the same part of my head as poetry does. To deal with children is a matter of terrific imaginative…

— Libby Houston

I don't know why the guys with the big money don't find five terrific young producers and give each of them enough…

— Harold Prince

There are epic impulses everywhere you look in There Will Be Blood; what's missing is character development, focused storytelling and, most significantly…

— Stephanie Zacharek

Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution.…

— W. Averell Harriman

I think disease and all the things that we treat are tied to national security in a lot of ways that we…

— Laura Bush

It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which…

— D. H. Lawrence