Terribly Quotes
567 Terribly quotes by 477 unique authors
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Do you think they missed him terribly when he fell? Did God cry over his lost angel, I wonder?
— Libba Bray
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The fact is that she was terribly undressed and I was extremely undressed too. The fact is that I still had my hand where she…
— Denis Diderot
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Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.
— Katharine Graham
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Myron reached for the phone and dialed Win's number. After the eighth ring he began to hang up when a weak, distant voice coughed. "Hello?"…
— Harlan Coben
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Violence is so terribly fast . . . the most perverse thing about the movies is the way they portray it in slow motion, allowing…
— Jim Carroll
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Quite suddenly Meggie felt fear rise in her like black brackish water, she felt lost, terribly lost, she felt it in every part of her.…
— Cornelia Funke
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It is terribly rude to tell people that their troubles are boring.
— Daniel Handler
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Please don’t think so lightly of liking someone. It’s terribly important. It is a kind of loving, you know, and one that frequently lasts a…
— Anne Perry
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. . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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It's like chasing a beautiful woman for 80 years. Finally, she relents and you say, 'I'm terribly sorry. I'm tired.' [After winning his first Oscar…
— Paul Newman
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There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C...(before then couples hooked thumbs.) And the precise rating of kisses is a terribly difficult thing, often…
— William Goldman
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How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.
— Jostein Gaarder
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You see, Momo... it's like this. Sometimes, when you've a very long street ahead of you, you think how terribly long it is and feel…
— Michael Ende
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it may not always be so; and i say that if your lips, which i have loved, should touch another's, and your dear strong fingers…
— E E Cummings
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The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and…
— Hannah Arendt
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The boy, who did everything well and with a natural unslumped grace the wraith himself had always lacked, and whom the wraith had been so…
— David Foster Wallace
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Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction…
— Theodore Kaczynski
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For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about…
— Oscar Wilde
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You know, when one's in love,' I said, 'and things go all wrong, one's terribly unhappy and one thinks one won't ever get over it.…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves. People are not, for example, terribly anxious to be equal (equal, after…
— James A. Baldwin
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We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.
— Erich Maria Remarque
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Synchronize watches at oh six hundred' says the infantry captain, and each of his huddled lieutenants finds respite from fear in the act of bringing…
— Richard Yates
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Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of…
— Oscar Wilde
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People are all exactly alike. There's no such thing as a race and barely such a thing as an ethnic group. If we were dogs,…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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