Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.
I'm a winner; I win most of the time. But in order to be a winner, you have to lose some of the time. I'm a terrible loser.
Manhattan, though, was an entirely different ballgame in a whole different kind of world, with a man who was brilliant and at the same time terribly charismatic.
I used to be terribly shy, so I was either shy or over the top, and I always had a difficult time.
It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.
My feeling about the movies is that most of them are terrible. If you don't have a decent script and a decent director, forget it.
He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates.
I was a bit of a coward when I was small. I was terribly frightened of the dark.
Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
The wars of people will be more terrible than those of kings.
Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.
In the country, I stopped being a person who, in the words of Sylvia Boorstein, . I grew calmer, but beneath that calm was a deep well of loneliness I hadn't known was there. ... Anxiety was my fuel. When I stopped, it was all waiting for me: fear, a...
I read and reread and recommended and rarely rejected, became one of those readers who will read trashy stories as long as they're not too terrible--well, even perhaps the truly terrible ones--and will reread something she's already read, even if it'...
It’s a secondhand world we’re born into. What is novel to us is only so because we’re newborn, and what we cannot see, that has come before- what our parents have seen and been and done- are the hand-me-downs we begin to wear as swaddling cloth...
And then heard Detective Ryan’s pleased voice talking about Eli, about killers who’ve gone free: “They have to tell,” he’d said Well, apparently so. But why? What is it that comes from the telling? Some of it must be relief, of course. A se...
When it comes to developing a worldview, we tend to face this false division: Either you are a realist who says the world is terrible, or a naïve optimist who says the world is wonderful and turns a blind eye. [Jack] Gilbert takes this middle way, a...
Reverend Clement Hedges: This was no man. Does a man have teeth the size of axe blades? Or ears like terrible tombstones? By tampering with nature, forcing vegetables to swell far beyond their natural size, we have brought a terrible judgement upon o...
Is it not beautiful?“ I said of the world around us. "Is it not terrible?
