There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
I really don’t know what I’m doing… I don’t. It’s terrible. I go in there and I learn how to be like the character and do the best I can, and that’s all I really do.
One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.
I don’t have a terrible singing voice, but I also wouldn’t call it ‘good.’ I can carry a tune.
There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers’ battle with the heavens that cover them.
Borders had lousy management and made bad corporate decisions, so its fate is less like a terrible accident than a slow-motion slide into a ditch, but it’s hard to be happy about a bookseller’s demise.
I think interviews can be fine. It’s just there’s this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context.
He’s not the finest character that ever lived. But he’s a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.
John Hurt was pretty bad. I know it’s pretty terrible to besmirch the memory of a dead man, but he was really rude to me.
One thing that annoys me is when you see women in these terrible and incredible situations with perfectly glossed lips. You’re not going to look good in the apocalypse.
There’s some things I can’t write about, just terrible personal tragedies.
Terre Haute. They used to call it ‘Terrible Hut’ because it was so wide open. Gambling, red light district, speak-easies. I entertained for all the gangsters. Can’t name a gangster that didn’t come into the place where I worked.
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn’t. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.
It must be a terrible pressure to have to go to the office.
The problem is you tend to look back and identify mistakes, and as a consequence of feeling terrible about mistakes you say you bungled this so bad, let’s get out of here.
Why do other first world countries give children so many fewer vaccines than we do? Vaccines save lives, but might be harming some children. Is moderation such a terrible idea?
The other day, I was taking part in an audience Q&A when I was roundly scolded by a woman for ‘allowing the BBC to ruin the English language.’ Naturally I felt terrible, as I had no idea either that it was happening or that I was responsible.
Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.
I was born with a terrible temper, but this is the way of expressing myself. I flare up, but it goes quickly, and I don’t remember it long.
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.
Not understanding anything is terrible, because I communicate very much in my real life.
It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
I’m a libertarian. It’s a terrible word.
I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women’s movement didn’t realise how much easier it was to reach people by making them laugh than by shaking a fist and saying, ‘Don’t you see how oppressed you are?’
Peas are terrible and a joke food.
It’s very expensive to be me. It’s terrible the things I have to do to be me.
I’m a terrible patient, and I find that doctors can be very condescending.
The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
Nothing spooky or terrible happened on set, but we were told to say it had. We were giving a press conference and the writers were going on about these terrible things that supposedly happened while we were filming.
It’s a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else’s tragedy.
The slaveholders are terrible for promising to give you this or that, or such and such a privilege, if you will do thus and so, and when the time of fulfillment comes, and one claims the promise, they, forsooth, recollect nothing of the kind; and you are, like as not, taunted with being a liar.
Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don’t have any.
I get terrible reviews, but there are people who like to see me in the movies, I guess.
Double-digit inflation is a terrible thing – and it got up to 14 or 15 percent on a monthly basis for a while, shortly after I became chairman of the Fed.
I can’t even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It’s a nightmare.
When the war ends, it will be found that there was an equal amount of ‘thuggery’ practiced on both sides, that terrible things were done to force the final victory.
Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it is rare to see one by himself; the little woman and the kiddies are usually close at hand.
I remember an interview so terrible with CNN’s Jon Klein, I nearly blurted out, ‘Forget it, I am a loser!’ But I didn’t need to say it. My face and posture did.
I think it’s a shame that we have ‘Bild’ like you have the ‘Sun’. Now serious newspapers like ‘FAZ’ and ‘Spiegel’ use a bit of the tone of ‘Bild.’ This is terrible.
How terrible a thing time is.
It may sound terrible, but I often say that the military saved me from a conventional life in the United States and I’ve never really thanked them for it, because I haven’t exactly been pro-military in my work.
We are governed by consumerism and it’s terrible when that is all that life is geared to.
I find that after every win, there is a new surge in motivation because it feels so good. I am addicted to winning. That sounds terrible, but it is true you are addicted to that feeling.
A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.
You are part of that horrid expression, the best and the brightest. It can be a terrible burden if you let it be, but it is the great challenge of your time. And being a warrior in that challenge should be wondrous.
It was a horrible, terrible, atrocious, offensive football game.
When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.
There is something great and terrible about suicide.
I am the god of being messy – I’m trying to get better. I was terrible in my 20s. My kids are much tidier than I am, I don’t know where they get it from, maybe their mother.
I learned a long time ago that trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times.
I’ve become very, very liberal as far as war is concerned. It’s just too terrible. I’ve been to wars and I’ve seen what happens. I know what it is to be hurt, and it’s nothing compared to these guys. To be blind for the rest of your life. To have prosthetic limbs.
The Israelis have suffered a great deal, we must condemn suicide bombers, and we must never say that the plight of the Palestinians justifies this terrible thing.
Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.
I would try to sing and act, and I was a terrible actress, but I love attention obviously.
I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.
I have a terrible temper. I have absolutely no problem with getting shouty or a bit physical. It’s not something I’m pleased about and it doesn’t happen very often, but it’s very much there.
We are, in many respects, in a moral and spiritual free-fall in our country, and we are paying a terrible price.
I learned a great deal doing Brooklyn Bridge. I was able to take a giant step into the terrible reality that was then. We saw the cattle cars that took folks away. Just knowing it was real, it would be impossible not to feel.
I was a terrible student. I didn’t graduate magna cum laude: I graduated ‘Thank you, Lawdy!’
I suppose we all loved those kind of sci-fi movies where terrible things came out of swamps and came to Mars. And there’s usually some poor girl. All the guys are trying to desperately handle levers and saying, go to something or other.
I have a terrible memory.
To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree.
Stereotypes, they’re sensual, cultural weapons. That’s the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing.
What’s terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don’t need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you’re capable of better.
