I get claustrophobic in a harness. I’d be a terrible superhero.
I am terrible at video games and I am really competitive. And if I am not the best at something, I go absolutely crazy!
I did a terrible job of composing myself. I was a spoiled brat from Long Island who benefitted from the energy of New York.
I ask myself what is a dictator? I don’t understand. It is some kind of terrible person, a bad person. But I am not frightening. I am not a bad person at all.
It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God’s mercy and Christ’s merits; but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away; and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband’s arms, and to lie down with Him.
If I had a partner who asked when I was going to the gym or commented that I was eating too much or asked if I really needed an extra potato, that would make me feel awful. It would be terrible.
I now know my right from my left and my up from my down. Unluckily, my terrible sense of direction remains. For me, to live in New York City is to never be able to meet someone on the northeast corner. It is to never ever make a smooth entrance, always to get caught looking lost on the street.
All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story… They are terrible people.
This is the most terrible thing that can happen in a friendly country if Thai people have to escape from the backdoor of an embassy.
In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics.
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
That’s the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.
I can fake decent penmanship, but generally, it’s really just terrible. And, unfortunately for me, maybe fortunately for the reader, it’s very often illegible. If I get an idea, and if I do remember to write it down, which is rare, I write in such a way that I can’t read a letter.
One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
Losing a parent is always a terrible thing for anybody. It’s no more or no less for me.
For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
Just after writing those we were called up to defend a new position on the left, where the terrible storming of the bridge over the Antietam took place.
Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
If you take going to the bench as a demotion or something that’s terrible, you start with a bad attitude.
Are you kidding? I’m a terrible cook, but John is a really great one. Literally, I never cook. The whole time we were dating, I prepared two officially romantic meals. Both of them were such disasters that he begs me never to go into the kitchen again.
My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, ‘OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what it’s like.’ I sang a folk song about donkeys on this West End stage with this big director, and there was a queue of 200 girls all singing ‘Memory.’ I was terrible. Terrible.
I was writing short films and I was going through this really, really, really terrible end of a relationship that I didn’t want to be going through. It was too much for me to process and all of a sudden I had this idea for my first feature film and I knew right away I had to start writing it.
That terrible mood of depression of whether it’s any good or not is what is known as The Artist’s Reward.
Any sort of bullying is a terrible thing, but I think online bullying is so much worse because it’s psychological bullying.
One of the central memories of my childhood is of hunting – not well; I am a terrible shot – quail and dove and grouse on a farm on the Tennessee River.
Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it’s not jokes that are funny, it’s characters that are funny. And isn’t that true! That’s why I always kill jokes. I’m terrible at them, because I get the joke right, but I can’t get the character right, and it just goes down like a lead balloon.
Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.
With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it’s not just a trick of the devil.
My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances; we’ve become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.
Fortunately, this is not something that we see a lot of. Very rarely do you see a dog in this terrible shape from starvation. People just aren’t that cruel.
I’m terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.
It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.
To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
I said I’m going to vote for Hillary. But my philosophy is that everything’s workable. If Trump is president, I’ll work with that guy. I don’t know if he’s terrible or what. He’s refreshing in that he doesn’t speak in that political way. I don’t quite understand why everybody hates Hillary so much.
Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation.
I am really terrible when it comes to guys. Inside, I just see myself as this overweight tomboy with funny-coloured hair and bad skin.
To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.
We imagine ‘the end’ as a world-devastating event, but every time there’s a terrible earthquake, a tsunami, an outbreak of disease – that’s apocalyptic, on a micro-scale.
People think it’s a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer’s. But in my mother’s case, it’s different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she’s happy.
I was a terrible student. Still, I managed to get into college, but my daydreaming threatened to sabotage me. I used behavior modification to break the cycle. I started by setting an arbitrary time limit on studying: for every 15 minutes of study, I’d allow myself an hour of daydreaming. I set the alarm.
I’m terrible in high heels. I’m so bad.
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
I can hide, and my husband’s just terrible at finding me. I do like to jump out from behind doors and scare him.
Why do we work so hard to feel so terrible.
Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people.
Divorce, splitting up a family, is a terrible thing.
I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
Oh, I’m terrible at travel.
I experienced the California Northridge Earthquake of 1994 and the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, and I have thus seen firsthand how terrible and awesomely devastating a force of nature can be.
I don’t even date; I’m terrible with women.
I don’t want to return to the past. I don’t yearn for when I was 18 years old. I was in high school then. I had acne. I had a terrible hairdo. I’m sure I was sporting polyester pants.
I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything.
It was in San Diego and I was onstage and couldn’t remember how to play the guitar properly. I was in terrible pain and my nervous system was just going wild, like somebody had just run a car over me.
With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.
So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it’s terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they’re very upset because you didn’t like it. I went through that for seven years.
