Terrible Quotes

I think with any songwriter the first 1,000 songs are always terrible.

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course.

It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation.

'Authoring tools' are terrible; there is almost no software that can create closed captions for media players. And of course there is no training. TV captioning is bad enough, and this stuff is generally worse.

Unraveling the euro is a terrible thing. This is a 50-year endeavor to get this continent together and that's a wonderful endeavor.

My feelings about myself have been terrible.

All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

My skin may have wrinkles but it's because I'm smiling so much. That might sound like some terrible American greetings card, but I feel it's immoral for me to castigate my body for getting older, when it does everything I ask of it.

Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.

I think it's a shame that we have 'Bild' like you have the 'Sun'. Now serious newspapers like 'FAZ' and 'Spiegel' use a bit of the tone of 'Bild.' This is terrible.

I lost my moral compass and I have done terrible things that I very much regret.

Glorifying violence is terrible. Simulating sex is nothing - it's something so impersonal really.

Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed.

The most terrible things end, at last.

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.

Every loss of life is terrible.

Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.

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.

The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.

I used to do some terrible things in the marshalling area to upset my rivals.

The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.

I'm actually part of a number of minorities. I grew up being a horribly awkward kid. A terrible student. And now I find myself as a filmmaker, and you feel kind of alone in the world because you're separate from everyone else.

I'd make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list.