Top 290 Terribly Quotes

I’m the antidote to Lindsay Lohan. I know she misbehaves terribly, but sometimes it just seems like it’s open season on her.

I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it’s raining, it’s terribly cold, I’m wet and I’m being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I’d probably take the latter. It’s warmer and generally more comfortable!

But then Iraq happened after September 2001 and America claimed that Al Qaeda was there, and we all know that was a lie and we now know that our own Prime Minister deceived the country terribly.

Ohio suffered, like a lot of Midwestern states, under the weight of trade deals that really diminished a lot of good-paying manufacturing jobs; a lot of the blue collar workers in the state are suffering, just like many of their counterparts across the country. I’m not terribly surprised that Mr. Trump won Ohio.

When I’m depressed, I definitely comfort eat, but I also eat when I’m happy. The only time I don’t eat is if I am terribly nervous.

Well, on tour I eat terribly, so I balance that by running a lot. And then I started to run with my fans in certain cities. It sounds very nerdy and un-rock n’ roll, but I like it. It’s fun, and it’s better than meeting fans in weird, awkward circumstances. So I take them running with me.

When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994.

I had been an abject fan of Martin and Lewis when I was a kid. I just thought they were terribly funny. None of their movies captured the kind of chemistry they really had.

Drug discovery is terribly expensive, just to find out how one drug could or could not work and all its side effects.

I have felt terribly from the beginning when I saw the problems and recognized that they would be ongoing. We were hired to put back the contours of the greens as closely as possible to George Thomas’s designs and were real proud of what we did. It’s a sad situation now.

Life as a barrister never was terribly real to me, and courtrooms were always a place of fantasy to me. They had nothing to do with discovering the truth, really, of course.

Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew I could do.

There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.

But really I’m not terribly interested in what I eat.

Simon Pegg is terribly talented, very funny, such a delicious sense of humour.

Working away from my husband for long periods is good and bad. It stops us taking each other for granted and gives us space, but I miss him terribly.

I think Dan Brown is a terribly bad writer, but he has cliff-hangers after every chapter which makes you continue reading.

People are always asking me on to quizzes – they think I know all the answers because I burble on so, but I don’t do terribly well.

‘Redneck’ has been terribly abused as a term. Where I come from, a redneck was a farmer who worked the fields all day and got his neck sunburned. People made fun of them.

I just think demons are terribly interesting! In Sumerian times, demons weren’t seen as evil at all, just as incredibly powerful and very different from us: beings made of fire, when humans were made of earth.

I think that if you get too close to the character, if you do too much historical research, you may find yourself defending your view of a character against the author’s view, and I think that’s terribly dangerous.

I’m not terribly technological. I’m awfully backward about iPads and BlackBerries and suchlike; I still have a great fondness for Teletext, and I clung onto my fax machine for as long as I could, but eventually you have to move with the times.

I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn’t is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint.

Judaism, I would argue, does demand love for our fellow human beings, but only to an extent. ‘Hate’ is not always synonymous with the terribly sinful.

All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.

I had to divorce my husband, the prime minister. I found it terribly overwhelming.

I’d probably be one of these terribly over-protective parents whose children become a neurotic wreck because they’ve never been exposed to real life.

I hope that there’s a difference between being childish and childlike and that I’m the latter, if you take my meaning. I often sort of wonder. I don’t think I’m a terribly good grown-up; I don’t take responsibility easily or well in many areas of life. Finance and stuff like that, I’m absolutely appalling.

I have a business manager and a book-keeper who deals with our household bills. My husband and I sit down with her for a weekly report on how much money is going out, but I’m not terribly interested, and I don’t have the patience for it.

I’m mourning with the rest of the world for the talented, gorgeous, funny, intelligent John Forsythe but my heart is broken for the loss of my dear, dear friend and neighbor. I will miss him terribly.

I’m not terribly sentimental.

You have to remember now, I was not being terribly successful at going solo.

The main impetus for being a writer is thinking, ‘I could invent another world. I’m not terribly keen on this one.’

I used to be terribly vain. I’d spend a lot of time pampering myself and applying make-up and hoping that I’d look nice.

A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can’t read. That’s terribly troubling to me.

When I founded Media Matters, there was another model, which would have been to call this the Brock Report. But I was much less interested in my own profile by that point, because I had already done that once, and it was not terribly fulfilling at the end of the day.

I’ve seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I’ve seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit.

I’m terribly nostalgic, but I’m with the Elizabethans who thought nostalgia was a disease. It’s a dangerous place to be because you can get caught up in it.

As much as the banking system may not be terribly popular, it is an essential part of the economy.

If you’re showing people where it’s smooth sailing, where is the joke? If you go back to any movie, even a conventional movie, with any comedians, they’re either not terribly intelligent or they’re not doing something well.

I’ve worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.

Well, when I was a teenager I was terribly bookish. I was very studious.

You banter, and you talk, and you get a sense of the speed of thinking and flexibility… It’s not terribly scientific, but I interview a dozen or two dozen people a week, and I get a certain vibe reasonably fast.

I’m not terribly athletic. And… there’s a lot of things I’m not good at. And if it makes anybody feel better, I was really a pretty bad math student growing up.

I was terribly wounded by my wife’s death.

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity.

The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.

Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not do the same. Oedipus’ psychology was deduced by Aeschylus or Freud, but the character is simply there, fixed in a pure and terribly disquieting state.

I don’t understand people who want to leave a good job. To me, without being terribly judgmental, those are people who haven’t gone through their stint of being out of work for long periods of time.

I was a terribly quiet, shy child. The comedy thing came when I was at university and I started doing stand-up, which I think was a belated compensation for all that time I spent hiding behind the couch.

When I first started auditioning I would stutter a lot because I was so terribly frightened.

I am very shy. When I go to a charity ball, I don’t mind if people look at my sleeves. I mind terribly if I have to say something.

I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn’t feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I didn’t know at all what this great thing would become.

People think it’s terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it’s no sadder, really, than spending any other day alone, is it?

I thought of a lot of people from the same era when I was making a lot of records that had continued making a lot of records. A lot of it didn’t seem terribly inspired.

Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.