Terrible Quotes

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

Are you kidding? I'm a terrible cook, but John is a really great one. Literally, I never cook. The whole time we were dating, I prepared two officially romantic meals. Both of them were such disasters that he begs me never to go into the kitchen again.

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

I went and took golf lessons so Dad would let me play with him. I was just terrible... but I was able to have a wonderful time just walking around with Dad. I can see the real pleasure of that game.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

The people who do not get jobs are often the most vulnerable in our society, and joblessness is a terrible plight for anyone who suffers from it.

Anything that harms the integrity of the game is terrible. We always thought we were immune to drugs in baseball, but we know that's not true anymore.

If you want to know how I feel, I'll summarize it in one word - terrible.

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.

When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.

I smoke, isn't that terrible?

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.

Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather than by his agent or promoter.

Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.

Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could.

In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I'd make one a week and finally I'd pull a bad one about once a month. Now, I'm trying to keep it down to one a season.

I never Google myself. Only if I want to feel really terrible about myself would I do that.

There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.

I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are or you aren't - and if you are you'll HAVE to make your way to some kind of sickly light, no matter how terrible the soil you were seeded in your nature will out somehow.

I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together.

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.

Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Acting? No, it is not for me. I would be terrible.

The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps.