Best Terrific Quotes
326 Terrific quotes by 289 unique authors
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When people come and tell me I was terrific in this or that, I do not want to fall flat on my face next time.…
— Geoffrey Rush
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Howard Hawks said he'd like to put me in a film with Cary Grant or Humphrey Bogart. I thought, "Cary Grant-terrific! Humphrey Bogart-yucch."
— Lauren Bacall
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Writers would be warm, loyal, and otherwise terrific people-if only they'd stop writing.
— Laura Miller
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Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds, and see prismatic dewdrops, - but her interiors…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Humanity, let us say, is like people packed in a automobile which is traveling downhill without lights at a terrific speed and driven by a…
— Lord Dunsany
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It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which lives by delicate…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Al Michaels is a good announcer. I think Keith Jackson is a terrific announcer. I always loved him on Monday Night Football. I never understood…
— John Turturro
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If someone wants to give me the lead in anyone of those films, and deal with those other complications, terrific, Im ready for them.
— Joe Morton
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I'm not sure Americans are hesitant to do this again - to fight another war, because it looked to them like a courageous and terrific…
— Ashleigh Banfield
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Trace of Magic caught me up fast and pulled me in tight for a fun, action-and-sass adventure full of deadly magic and dangerous romance. Diana…
— Devon Monk
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I think that they had afforded me many opportunities to do good work there, and I think I did. It was a wonderful four years.…
— Connie Chung
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Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war.
— William Lyon Mackenzie King
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Any teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball, I think I set a terrific example of…
— Bob Uecker
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Freaks was a thing I photographed a lot. It was one of the first things I photographed and it had a terrific kind of excitement…
— Diane Arbus
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Standing in the nordic nook of the kitchen, I can gaze down at the flimsy-limbed joggers heading south towards the Park. It's nearly as bad…
— Martin Amis
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Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the…
— Larry Niven
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Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
— Joan Rivers
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Aiming for the marathon is a task of sorts which can include terrific highs and lows.
— Bill Rodgers
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Without a terrific leader, you're not going to have a Great Group. But it is also true that you're not going to have a great…
— Warren G. Bennis
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I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is…
— Akio Morita
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The greatest feeling you can get in a gym or the most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is the pump. It feels…
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Sex almost always disappoints me in novels. Everything can be said or done now, and that's what I often find: everything, a feeling of generality…
— Anatole Broyard
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That Ms. Farahani found Mr. Mohassess and persuaded him to share his story is a terrific coup, even if a great deal of his life's…
— Manohla Dargis
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Nightclub City tells the behind-the-scenes story of Manhattan's glamorous nightlife at its peak. Packed with colorful characters, terrific original research, and an unusually accessible writing…
— Debby Applegate
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To quote the exceptional teacher Marva Collins, "I will is more important than IQ." It is wonderful to have a terrific mind, but it's been…
— Rafe Esquith
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