Best Terrific Wisdom
326 Terrific quotes by 289 unique authors
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It's been a terrific life.
— Ernie Harwell
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My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland,…
— Seamus Heaney
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It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.
— Katharine Hepburn
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There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our…
— Jim Hightower
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Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a…
— Anthony Hopkins
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I don't have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I've been too lucky and that I'm over-praised. It makes me nervous. I…
— Christopher Hitchens
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I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper…
— Hugh Jackman
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It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
— Stephen King
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Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!
— Ed Koch
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During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time…
— Jonathan Kozol
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My kids watch everything downloaded; they have no idea what the numbers or the names of the channels mean, except, 'FX makes the show that…
— Denis Leary
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There are some guys I know for a fact, like Louis C.K., who always talk about how not-great of an actor he is, and he's…
— Denis Leary
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I'm a terrific Mexican cook, and I just love Mexican food. And I love cooking Mexican food.
— Eva Longoria
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I was a novelist first. But in the mid-'80s, I did work in television for ten years. And yes, that was frequently the reaction to…
— George R. R. Martin
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Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade…
— Jon Meacham
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During rehearsals I am confronted by things very mysterious. I have terrific fights with inner demons, and it's more painful than it ever was.
— Jeanne Moreau
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Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens…
— Edward Norton
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To get asked to do stuff like 'United States Of Tara' and 'Caprica' is terrific. I can't complain.
— Patton Oswalt
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A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories really…
— James Patterson
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I think e-books are terrific in their own right. I love being able to get on a plane and basically carry around seven books and…
— James Patterson
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There are terrific models for success with reluctant readers, but many school systems and state governments need to set aside their 'not invented here' and…
— James Patterson
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I'm the kind of person you want to kill. I had an incredibly happy childhood. I married a terrific guy when I was 23. I…
— Jodi Picoult
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I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.
— Sidney Poitier
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Chile could work as a double for L.A.; it's very production-friendly and there's terrific talent down there.
— Eli Roth
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'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 straight-up horror. And…
— Eli Roth
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