Terribly Quotes

I was a bit of a coward when I was small. I was terribly frightened of the dark.

It wasn't like a Maths test where I have to strain to get it right. I feel very close to Luna so acting her was just natural. And if I had got too nervous I'd have done terribly.

Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.

I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.

The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case.

American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.

But here's the thing: I had this great job, and I would still feel terribly depressed. I would just be like, 'This isn't the sweet spot. I thought this would be it, and I don't feel happy.'

I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.

These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected.

My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.

I'm not terribly sentimental.

I'm terribly sad about Farrah's passing. She was incredibly brave, and God will be welcoming her with open arms.

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old I distinctly remember my Aunt Fanny saying to me, etc.

I don't take myself terribly seriously. It's why I can be incredibly honest about my life.

Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.

That business of relaxation, which is so terribly modern today, is all good and well, but my work interests me so much, and is so varied, that many times it seems relaxing when I go from one aspect to another.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

If each of your time steps is one week long, you are not modeling the stock price terribly well over a one-week time period, because you are saying that there are only two possible outcomes.

I don't know if I was a desirable person, not just physically but emotionally and mentally and intellectually. I still have a long way go and a lot to learn, but I'm on my way, I don't think I'm terribly attractive, but I'm comfortable with my looks.

The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

Be good to yourself. Listen to your body, to your heart. We're very hard on ourselves, and we're always feeling like we're not doing enough. It's a terribly hard job.

Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.

It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.

I'm not happy on vacation. In those rare times when I have three hours with no work I have to do, I'm terribly uncomfortable.

Nowadays I'd describe myself as earnest, terribly earnest. I'm the person who wants everybody in the room to feel important and happy.

I trained as a designer, so I'm always terribly keen about what I'm going to look like.

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.