Terribly Quotes

No, I'm not at all adventurous. I'm terribly cowardly.

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

A President doesn't have a terribly long time to talk to people who are not really on the agenda.

It's interesting to fantasize having a man sink his teeth into your neck for sustenance, knowing that it isn't going to be terribly painful but rather very exciting.

Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.

If workmen are denied any increase in real wages and they can look forward only to a better standard of living through reduction of prices, progress for them is terribly slow, and they become impatient and dissatisfied.

I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.

But really I'm not terribly interested in what I eat.

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.

You can't have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, they're not going to hear them in America. I believe it's part of their education.

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.

A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me.

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 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.

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.

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.