Quotes of: Terrible-thing Keyword

He’s such an extraordinarily brilliant person that it would be terrible if he let himself do nothing in the end.

Various

I've got a terrible memory; it's probably because I'm always concentrating on what I'm doing now.

Vivienne Westwood

Drug discovery is terribly expensive, just to find out how one drug could or could not work and all its side effects.

Henry Markram

When I turn down work, I feel guilty, I feel terrible; I don't know where the next job is going to come from.

Joan Rivers

Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.

Nick Cave

Marilyn was terrible to work with. I was fond of her, she was a nice girl, but she was a damaged girl. She was very difficult. You couldn't get her on the set; she didn't know the words.

Richard Widmark

You don't stop thinking about women just because your wife dies. It's terrible, but you know. I just want the hugs, the kisses. A kiss!

Ian McLagan

It's kind of a terrible irony, in a way, that the solution to America's problems was World War II.

William O'Neill

The only problem with the Angels' new image was that the outlaws themselves didn't understand it. It puzzled them to be treated as symbolic heroes by people with whom they had almost nothing in common. Yet they were gaining access to a whole reservoi...

Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga

Georgie, I've got it," she said. "I've guessed what it means." Now though Georgie was devoted to his Lucia, he was just as devoted to inductive reasoning, and Daisy Quantock was, with the exception of himself, far the most powerful logician in the pl...

Lucia in London

Astral Weeks,” insofar as it can be pinned down, is a record about people stunned by life, completely overwhelmed, stalled in their skins, their ages and selves, paralyzed by the enormity of what in one moment of vision they can comprehend. It is a...

Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung

Maybe at the very bottom of it... I really don't like God. You know, it's silly to say I don't like God because I don't believe in God, but in the same sense that I don't like Iago, or the Reverend Slope or any of the other villains of literature, th...

Steven Weinberg

Why did I allow the abuse to continue? Even as a teenager? I didn’t. Something that had been plaguing me for years now made sense. It was like the answer to a terrible secret. The thing is, it wasn’t me in my bed, it was Shirley who lay the wonde...

Today I'm Alice: Nine Personalities, One Tortured Mind

Weeping is terrible for the complexion,' said Leonie, holding Shayndel close, 'but it is very good for the heart.

Day After Night

No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero

Dune

... science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, whether we like it or not.

Existence

He [Jesus] had a terrible temper, you know, undoubtedly inherited from His Father.

Fifth Business

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.

Foucault's Pendulum

...How terrible, those dreams before sleep were—the worse kind, mixing hope with despair...

A Familiar Rain

So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age.

Grendel

The world is full of terrible suffering, compared to which the small inconveniences of my childhood are as a drop of rain in the sea.

A Hole in the World: An American Boyhood