Top 100 Quotes About Terrible
#1. This terrible smallness of men was bigger than him, bigger than anything.
Dennis Lehane
#2. There are some directors, lesser in confidence or skill, who make the actor feel very uncomfortable because you feel you're auditioning for them, every day, and that's a terrible feeling on the set.
Ben Kingsley
#3. It is a horrible, terrible thing, the worst thing, to watch somebody you love die right in front of you and not be able to do nothing about it.
Kate DiCamillo
#4. You don't want to continue to do one thing and only one thing. You want to keep challenging yourself and if you do well at it, great, if you fall on your face, you tried. Like, she's really terrible at comedy! Who knew? But if you didn't try and put yourself out there you'd never know.
Lucy Liu
#5. You'll see, you'll come to understand. These big things, these terrible things, are not the important ones. If they were, how could one go on living? No, it is the small, little things that make up a day, that bring fullness and happiness to a life.
Benedict Freedman
#6. In the terrible years of the Yezhov terror I spent seventeen months waiting in line outside the prison in Leningrad. One day somebody in the crowd identified me ... and asked me in a whisper ... "Can you describe this?" And I said: "I can."
Anna Akhmatova
#7. Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!
Fay Wray
#8. The two-minute disparity prematurely aged Adam Parrish. He liked it when people knew how to do their jobs.
"Say something," Gansey said.
"That bell."
"Everything is terrible," agreed Gansey.
Maggie Stiefvater
#9. Anyone who has a choice and doesn't choose to write is a fool. The work is hard, the perks are few, the pay is terrible, and the product, when it's finally finished, is pure joy.
Mary Lee Settle
#10. You write so beautifully
the inside of your mind must be a terrible place
Unknown
#11. I am a sucker for romance and I love girls and that is a terrible combination, because romance has the ability to overwhelm your perspective.
Joshua Harris
#12. It's terrible for the culture of music. Like anything that is purely economic, it ignores the most important component.
Tom Waits
#13. Then I realized that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before we ask someone to love us. It is a kind of undressing.
Miranda July
#14. If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it's all about time compression and making the globe smaller. It's had positive effects, all the ones that we know. So we're much less likely to have the kind of terrible misunderstandings that led to World War I, for example.
Eric Schmidt
#15. I like golf because you can be really terrible at it, and still not look much dorkier than anybody else.
Dave Barry
#16. Someday an opportunity will come. Think about Harry Potter. His life is terrible, but then a letter arrives, he gets on a train, and everything is different for him afterward. Better. Magical."
"That's just a story."
"So are we- we're stories too.
Matthew Quick
#17. I couldn't make ends meet. I tried Red Lobster. I tried Wal-Mart. I tried all these places and I couldn't make it. I couldn't. So, I tried this gentlemen's club, and, you know, I worked there, and it was just awful in those places. It was terrible.
Anna Nicole Smith
#18. Jessie Wallace was the first time I erupted. She was late, she was young. She's not like that any more. I lost my temper. It was silly and I burst into tears and ran up to the producer. I said I had been terrible and amateur.
Barbara Windsor
#19. If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.
Tana French
#20. People can be, or can pose as, the enemies of God, but God will never be the enemy of any person. It is the terrible advantage children sometimes have over their fathers (and mothers).
Raniero Cantalamessa
#21. To be a mother, after all, was to know the most perfect fullness on earth followed by the most terrible emptiness.
Tiffany Baker
#22. I was 14 years old when I started rapping and I was terrible. I fell in love with it though and when that happens with me I become super passionate and go all the way with it.
G-Eazy
#23. The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.
Greg Iles
#24. Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible things you eliminate from your life, but by the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
Neale Donald Walsch
#25. My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree.
Franz Kafka
#26. The real world is simply too terrible to admit.
it tells man that he is a small trembling animal who will someday decay and die.
Culture changes all of this,makes man seem important,vital to the universe.
immortal in some ways
Ernest Becker
#27. When you've lost a loved one, you realise how grateful you are for any help in those moments, and any scheme that tries to help families during that terrible time gets my backing.
Stephen Mangan
#28. Can it be that what provides for us is the very thing that poisons us? Who hasn't considered this terrible possibility?
Richard Russo
#29. It was beautiful - in a terrible sort of way, of course. But still, the arrangement was perfect, compelling, beautifully bloodless.
Jeff Lindsay
#30. Cool thing about Fidel Castro is that the CIA and the mafia - which are both terrible organizations that tried to murder him again and again - haven't succeeded.
Ian Svenonius
#31. At six o'clok the young King's terrible sufferings finally ended. After his eyes had closed for the last time, the tempeste raged on. Later, superstitious folk claimed that Henry himself had sent it, and had risen from his grave in anger at the subversion of his will.
Alison Weir
#32. For Astrid, no matter what challenges they go through, they are going to face each other. It's hard for a daughter to accept that her mother is that selfish and that terrible.
Alison Lohman
#33. A woman can only satisfy and fulfil herself, I understood, when she establishes her own authority, and see beyond equality, realising how terrible and damaging her own power - if unleashed - might be.
Ronald Frame
#34. Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
Oscar Wilde
#35. Sudden falls can come to societies that know too little history or that have furnished their minds with easy one-note propaganda in place of the true complexity and terrible beauty of the storied past.
Dean Koontz
#36. All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.
Cleopatra
#37. People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance, including totally absurd policies like air travel.
Daniel Kahneman
#38. Terrible beautiful combination of happiness and pain.
Kristin Hannah
#39. By denying its musical and artistic merit, hip hop's critics get to have it both ways: they can deny the legitimate artistic standing of rap while seizing on its pervasive influence as an art form to prove what a terrible effect it has on youth.
Michael Eric Dyson
#40. I'm terrible at collaborating with people; nothing ever ends up coming out good.
Mac DeMarco
#41. For some the most terrible aspect of it was the deportations, while for others it was the leveling bombings or the mass deaths by starvation and cold.
Jean-Marie Le Pen
#42. Just consider how terrible the day of your death will be
Others will go on speaking and you will not be able to argue back
Ram Mohan Roy
#43. I have a real worker-bee mentality. Just show up, just do it. Even if you feel like s
t and you think you're terrible and you'll never get better and it will never go anywhere, just show up and do it. And, eventually, something happens.
Rosanne Cash
#44. She starts to cry. 'It's just so terrible,' she says.
'Which part?,' I ask.
'Being human.
A.M. Homes
#45. I got brilliant stories from people who'd never set foot in an MFA program and had published very little, and terrible stories from people who'd published a lot and had all the credentials. It was all over the map and that was part of the fun.
Ben Fountain
#46. You can't be serious," Eve said. "Guys. People get eaten in places like this. At the very least, we get locked in a room and terrible, evil things get done to us and put on the Internet. I've seen the movies."
"Eve," Michael said. "Horror movies are not documentaries.
Rachel Caine
#47. I've been married too many times. How terrible to change children's affiliations, their affections - to give them the insecurity of placing their trust in someone when maybe that someone won't be there next year.
Elizabeth Taylor
#48. I am heartbroken by the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in my home state. Like so many Americans I am watching the news reports with great sadness. But it's at times like these that each of us must work together to provide lifesaving aid to those in terrible need.
Tim McGraw
#49. I'm not a terrible smoker, actually. My major addiction, which is horrible, is straight boys.
Rufus Wainwright
#50. But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer,
Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep
In the affliction of these terrible dreams
That shake us nightly.
William Shakespeare
#51. I have a terrible habit of shopping after I go to the gym or hitting eBay.
Edie Campbell
#52. Investigating Koreiko's case might take a long time," said Ostap. "God only knows how long. And since there is no God, nobody knows. We are in a terrible bind.
Ilya Ilf
#53. I was a terrible painter - my portraits looked like the evil chimera love-children of Picasso's demoiselles and the BBC test card clown.
Sarah Hall
#54. William James once said: "Progress is a terrible thing." It is more than that: it is also a highly ambiguous notion. For who knowsbut that a little further on the way a bridge may not have collapsed or a crevice split the earth?
Johan Huizinga
#55. To abandon language is to stop/creating a place other than your own life/in which to live. It is to enter/the terrible certainty of the flesh. Even god/is only possible through language.
Jude Nutter
#56. All good ideas are terrible ...
Until people realize they are obvious. If you're not willing to live through the terrible stage, you'll never get to the obvious part.
Seth Godin
#57. I don't think there's ever been a moment in history where that, as an artistic message, has played very well, because people in their hearts know that's terrible and a lie.
Adam McKay
#58. he's got a terrible marriage and doesn't want to go home, and don't ask how I know that, everyone knows when you've got a terrible marriage, it's like having bad breath, you get close enough to a person and it's obvious.
Emily St. John Mandel
#59. This is terrible wine, no?' I agreed. It was a carbonated sweet wine, acceptable only because of its alcohol content.
Graeme Simsion
#60. McDonalds in Tokyo is a terrible revenge for Pearl Harbor.
S.I. Hayakawa
#61. The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible.
George Washington
#62. I don't believe you! Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons ...
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#63. I don't go out to parties because I'd look terrible in pictures. My escape is television - it's like meditation to me.
Alber Elbaz
#64. I'm livin' high on the hog, and let me tell you, hogs make a terrible foundation.
Stephen Colbert
#65. Neither could speak. It was the day that a silence settled on the pair of them, and they were bound close by it. Will felt, in that moment, too small to face such misery, but she knew that she would have to expand now, with a terrible rush, to fill the empty space.
Katherine Rundell
#66. The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and sympathy are also stronger than ever before.
Theodore Roosevelt
#67. The terrible duty is that of going all the way to the end. And without relying on anyone. To live oneself.
Clarice Lispector
#68. I think it's a shame when you come across young actors and musicians who haven't had the time to learn their craft. It doesn't matter if it's acting or music; you really have to learn how to do it from the bottom up because unless you have a great work ethic ... fame is a terrible thing to have.
Denis Leary
#69. I am a very radical person - as radical now as I was when I was younger. So my books all have in common my search for understanding of the terrible world we are living in and ways to change it.
Henning Mankell
#70. The news media is so quick to pick up tragic stories of imperiled children that it seems like there are more terrible events today than ever before - when in fact it's quite the opposite. It is, in all manners possible to calculate, the safest time in the history of civilization to be a kid.
Gever Tulley
#71. There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control.
Edward Zwick
#72. At the back of my mind I had a sense of us sitting about waiting for some terrible event, and then I would remember that it had already happened.
Ian McEwan
#73. I am here through an error - not in this prison, specifically - but in this whole terrible, striped world;
Vladimir Nabokov
#74. I was seriously considering giving both Ellie and Braden a lump of coal for their Christmas present this year as a thank-you for turning Joss into a normal person who annoyed her friends with her terrible matchmaking skills.
Samantha Young
#75. the austringer, the solitary trainer of goshawks and sparrowhawks, has had a pretty terrible press.
Helen Macdonald
#76. We're going to have a big frickin' problem when he starts feeling those shots", and I decide that Jane is right, and anyway, Ashland Avenue is terrible, so we need to leave the Hideout posthate.
John Green
#77. We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never would have made more than one movie.
Ismail Merchant
#78. 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
#79. Not that life should end is so terrible in itself, but that it should end with so many disappointments in the essential.
Saul Bellow
#81. What is terrible when you seek the truth is that you find it..
Victor Serge
#82. It's not terrible, people telling you you're great; what's terrible is when you start believing it.
Woody Harrelson
#83. Brain surgery is a terrible profession. If I did not feel it will become different in my lifetime, I should hate it.
Wilder Penfield
#84. I thought, how would I feel if my son gave one of those [underprivileged] kids chicken pox? For him it's not a terrible thing. We have good insurance and easy access to health care. It's a different situation for another family. I didn't want to make the decision for them.
Eula Biss
#85. Ivy Hisselpenny was the unfortunate victim of circumstances that dictated she be only-just-pretty, only-just-wealthy, and possessed of a terrible propensity for wearing extremely silly hats.
Gail Carriger
#86. Without promotion, something terrible happens ... nothing!
P.T. Barnum
#87. America has a terrible educational problem in the sense that we have too many youngsters not finishing school. A third of our kids don't finish high school, 50 percent of minorities don't finish high school.
Colin Powell
#88. It's a terrible and tragic and counterproductive policy to avoid communicating with people who disagree with us.
Jimmy Carter
#89. I don't know if this classifies as a video game, but I have a terrible obsession with Angry Birds.
Yvonne Strahovski
#90. The human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life's sorrows.
Agnes Sligh Turnbull
#91. You always say you're fine, because in reality you remain quite distant from each other, and you can't just say, Things are terrible. If you only knew how bad I feel today.
Barbara Honigmann
#92. It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.
William Shakespeare
#93. The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.
Katharine Hepburn
#94. The terrible attack in Manhattan has given place to a burst of patriotism in the United States.
Mick Jagger
#96. I love you," Kenneth said, with terrible dispassion, "but I would not burn the Library of Alexandria for you"; and Anita, drily sobbing, cried, "You son of a bitch.
Jincy Willett
#97. The bankruptcy wars changed me forever. Even before this grinding battle, I had begun to understand the terrible squeeze on the middle class. But it was this fight that showed me how badly the playing field was tilted and taught me that the squeeze wasn't accidental.
Elizabeth Warren
#98. I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother.
Virginia Postrel
#99. Nothing which did not understand the wonderfulness of what was happening to them
the immense, tender, terrible, heart-breaking beauty and solemnity of Eggs ... if an Egg were to be taken away or hurt the whole world would whirl round and crash through space and come to an end ...
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#100. I'm going to be pulling my pants up all day, and I'm just going to have a terrible day. Because if your clothes don't fit, just like bras or anything, it's not a good day.
Ashley Graham
