Terrible famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time.
-- A. Lee Martinez -
Being human is the most terrible loneliness in the universe.
-- A.A. Attanasio -
War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
You can do terrible things when you don't know who you are...
-- Adam Rex -
Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.
-- Alan Ball -
That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
-- Alberto Giacometti -
There is nobody more terrible than the desperate.
-- Alexander Suvorov -
Music was our food... When we can play, it can't be so terrible. The music, the music!
-- Alice Herz-Sommer -
Complaining doesn't change people... All that complain, this is terrible... It's not so terrible.
-- Alice Herz-Sommer -
Believe me, a grain is a terrible thing to waste.
-- Alton Brown -
The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
-- Andre Malraux -
To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible.
-- Andrew Wyeth -
Class Day is a terrible name for a day when you don't have to go to any class.
-- Andy Samberg -
I prefer for things to happen serendipitously, but honestly, I also love terrible pickup lines.
-- Angela Sarafyan -
What you have to remember is that the great feelings come after the terrible ones.
-- Anjelica Huston -
As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future -- a terrible festival of dead leaves.
-- Anna Akhmatova -
It's very expensive to be me. It's terrible the things I have to do to be me.
-- Anna Nicole Smith -
I'm terrible at practical jokes. I do them too well, so they're not funny. I end up saying, “Oh, no, I'm joking, I'm joking .
-- Anna Torv -
I'm a terrible Christian and meditating is very hard for me, and I do it. I do it badly, like I do a lot of things. I believe in doing things badly.
-- Anne Lamott -
I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.
-- Annie Baker -
Most actors nowadays are models turned actors. That's why a lot of young actors are terrible. You have to learn how to act. It is not something that you can just do.
-- Ansel Elgort -
One of life's terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they're doing.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
I'm terrible at posting regularly; I don't deserve the blog success!
-- Ashley Madekwe -
Things about yourself are never too terrible to say. It's only the things about the ones you love.
-- Babs Deal -
It's terrible to lose somebody, but it's also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that's got to be so much worse.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.
-- Barbara Pym -
There's a terrible delight in watching a rival sink without a trace
-- Bernard Hinault -
Whatever good religion has done, it has come at a terrible price.
-- Bill Maher -
My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin
-- Bill Watterson -
Glorifying violence is terrible. Simulating sex is nothing - it's something so impersonal really.
-- Bo Derek -
I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible.
-- Bob Dylan -
I'm a terrible dancer! Oh, I'm an awful dancer!
-- Bobby Orr -
To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.
-- Carl Jung -
I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.
-- Carly Simon -
Listen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence.
-- Catherine Doherty -
I'm a terrible cook. I am not allowed to go in the kitchen anymore after I almost burned down the apartment in New York.
-- Catherine Zeta-Jones -
Life... It's a great and terrible and short and endless thing. None of us come out of it alive.
-- Cecelia Ahern -
I was fine with everything except Maths. I was terrible at Maths.
-- Charlie Simpson -
I learned you could suffer a terrible tragedy and still be happy again.
-- Chuck Close -
Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
When you look at what people consider success in the music industry, it's just terrible music.
-- Conor Oberst -
The most terrible thing of all is happy love, for then there is fear in everything.
-- Cosima Wagner -
I have a terrible attention span, so if something can keep my attention, I know that that's at least a great start.
-- Courteney Cox -
That is a terrible plan." "Hiccup's plans are always t-terrible." "Hey! You're still here, aren't you?
-- Cressida Cowell -
To remain alone did not seem to me a terrible fate, no worse than being falsely joined to another person.
-- Curtis Sittenfeld -
Having to know the answers puts in terrible positions from which to learn.
-- Daniel Dae Kim -
How can someone so wonderful do something so terrible?
-- Daniel Handler -
What a terrible thing, I thought, to let a moment go.
-- Danny Wallace -
I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.
-- David Bailey -
Always expect the unexpected. The oil and gas industry is terrible at predicting anything. Always have a back-up plan.
-- David Dixon -
I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.
-- David Knopfler -
I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia.
-- David O. Selznick -
Because that’s how it works after something terrible has happened. You know this is true if something terrible has ever happened to you. A thousand objects take on new meaning. Everything is a reminder of something else.
-- Deb Caletti -
If thou art terrible to manyh, then beware of many.
-- Decimius Magnus Ausonius -
We're terrible at realising what goes on in other people's heads because we are trapped inside our own.
-- Derren Brown -
I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead
-- Diana Vreeland -
It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
-- Doris Lessing -
I'm a terrible punster. And I love to rhyme. I just can't help myself.
-- Duane Michals -
Suppose you should fail. Is that so terrible? Not to have tried is a worse failure.
-- E. Stanley Jones -
It's terrible to realize that you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die; and, then it's too late.
-- Edna Ferber -
The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares.
-- Edward Abbey -
For me to propose a division of Jerusalem was really terrible. I did it because I reached a conclusion that without which there will not be peace.
-- Ehud Olmert -
Do not believe your thoughts, neither when they tell you that you are terrible, nor when they tell you that you are a saint.
-- Elder Paisios of Mount Athos -
And that movie was underrated - Nuts - because it deals with a terrible subject, but It's very well done.
-- Eli Wallach -
The Church is a terrible engine of oppression, especially as concerns woman
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
Ah, gratitude, that's a terrible thing, a dangerous thing.
-- Elizabeth Ferrars -
I am a terrible mixture of being organized, controlling, but chaotic. My desk is monstrous.
-- Elizabeth Hurley -
It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.
-- Elizabeth Kostova -
There is a terrible loneliness in the spring ...
-- Ellen Glasgow -
One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
-- Emile Zola -
I saw a headshot with the name 'Emilio Sheen' printed under it and it looked terrible.
-- Emilio Estevez -
Pity is exhaustible. What a terrible discovery!
-- Enid Bagnold -
It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
-- Erich Maria Remarque -
I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.
-- Eugenio Montale -
When something is too beautiful or too terrible or even too funny for words, then it is time for poetry.
-- Eve Merriam -
A corrupt society is terrible for humanity and great for business.
-- Farhan Akhtar -
Humiliation, by the way, is a truly terrible emotion. It's at the bottom of the pile.
-- Francine Pascal -
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
-- Frank Moore Colby -
I think I was a terrible husband, I think I'm a terrible boyfriend.
-- Fred Armisen -
If I didn't do this well, I just wouldn't have anything to do... I can't cook, and I'd be a terrible housewife.
-- Freddie Mercury -
but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
Really, Channing,†remonstrated Alexia, “did you have to eat the man’s dog? I am convinced you will experience terrible indigestion.
-- Gail Carriger -
I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.
-- Gary Oldman -
I ended up doing a local AmDram musical when I was nine or so. We had to sing and dance and act. It was probably terrible, but I loved it.
-- Gemma Chan -
Life is bearable even when it's unbearable: that is what's so terrible, that is the unbearable thing about it.
-- Geoff Dyer -
On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers.
-- George Pataki -
I don't consider myself a survivor; that's someone who has gone through something terrible.
-- Geraldine Ferraro -
Most of the things that make you angry are of very small consequence. And what a terrible price you are paying for your anger.
-- Gordon B. Hinckley -
time is a terrible thing because it erases joys and pains at the same time.
-- Gosho Aoyama
