Being Terrific Quotes

#1. Amongst the many trials to which the human mind is subjected, that of holding intercourse, real or imaginary, with the world of spirits: of finding itself alone with a being terrific and awful, whose nature and power are unknown, has been justly considered the most severe.

Joanna Baillie

#2. A cat is only itself.

Charles Bukowski

#3. 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 lot, but I think he's a terrific actor.

Anthony Hopkins

#4. It's like being a little kid again, parading around in a nightgown tucked into your underpants, believing it looks terrific.

Tina Fey

#5. My sister basically showed me how to be a person for many years of my life. I just didn't really fit anywhere, and my sister was always really comfortable in who she was.

Portia Doubleday

#6. A person who is not convinced, enthusiastic, certain and in love, will convince nobody.

Pope Francis

#7. When you like something, you find time to do it.

Yakov Smirnoff

#8. The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.

Thomas Jefferson

#9. Being a critic is a terrific method for killing your love of art.

David Toop

#10. I had some terrific experiences in the wilderness since I wrote you last - overpowering, overwhelming," he gushed to his friend Cornel Tengel. "But since then I am always being overwhelmed. I require it to sustain life.
Everett Ruess

Jon Krakauer

#11. She needed Cholly's sins desperately. The lower he sank, the wilder and more irresponsible he became, the more splendid she and her task became. In the name of Jesus.

Jim Morrison

#12. Spiritual maturity is not measured by the years that you have spent in church, rather by your attitude before people different from you.

Paul Gitwaza

#13. I wondered if they got to enjoy being normal, to know just how terrific it was, or whether it was just invisible to them like air?

John Barnes

#14. GE's businesses turned in a terrific first quarter. Our products and services are being well received in unusually robust global markets.

Jack Welch

#15. 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 have this sense of being overrated.

Christopher Hitchens

#16. If we were to focus our attention on one particular problem and neglect the others, we would fail to see the true scope of our current global issues. The changes made in that form of thinking are limited and self-contained.

Ian Somerhalder

#17. People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.

Karin Slaughter

#18. 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 it weigh 10 ounces.

James Patterson

#19. Oh, I'm following President Obama on Twitter. I like my black history in 140 characters or less.

Baratunde R. Thurston

#20. When I hear that a project takes place out of town, the material better be terrific, and it has to come at the right time. My kids are getting older, so it's getting easier, but being a mother - it's a difficult thing to juggle.

Nicole Holofcener

#21. The burden of mankind is very heavy: When a cosmic or an earth-based disaster hits us in this chaotic universe, He must not only save the human race but he must also save all other living creatures! He carries the terrific burden of being the Holy Protector of existence!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#22. I decided to write Westerns because there was a terrific market for Westerns in the '50s. There were a lot of pulp magazines, like 'Dime Western' and '10 Story Western' that were still being published. The better ones paid two cents a word. And I thought, 'I like Westerns.'

Elmore Leonard

#23. One should never allow chaos to develop in order to avoid going to war, because one does not avoid a war but instead puts it off to his disadvantage

Niccolo Machiavelli

#24. In some areas, [Getty Images has] more images than the rest of the market put together. But libraries are being built up at a terrific pace. A photographer in a lifetime will produce maybe a million images, and there are about 15,000 professionals at work out there.

Mark Getty

#25. Then, once I have lyrics, being able to shape them around a song is nothing new for me, I've been doing that for 25 years. The soul searching part of it, the spontaneous part of it, that was, and remains, a really terrific process.

Geddy Lee

#26. Life is messy, and God knows that. One of the reasons He gave us the Bible is to equip us to live out our faith in the midst of our messy lives.

Wendy Blight

#27. One dead body required two men either to bury it or to transport it to the rear. A wounded soldier, on the other hand, immobilized five men for an indeterminate amount of time; and who knew whether it was even worth the effort.

Stephane Audeguy

#28. Being a consultant is like flying first-class. The food is terrific, the drinks are cold. But all you can do is walk up to the pilot and say, 'bank left.' If you're in management, you have the controls.

Greg Brenneman

#29. I think the young actor who really wants to act will find a way ... to keep at it and seize every opportunity that comes along.

John Gielgud

#30. I think you can have a whole terrific, smart career as a second and third banana and work more and have much less risk than the lead guy. But I like being the lead guy.

James Brolin

#31. Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these experiences don't tend to last.

Frederick Lenz

#32. The kind of power I want is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do.

Gloria Steinem

#33. Groans that words cannot express are often prayers that God cannot refuse.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#34. Playing for Arsenal at any level is something to be proud of so being in the squad when they won the double and winning the Cup in 1979 was special. The boys were a terrific bunch.

Sammy Nelson