Top 1200 Terrible Thing Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

The terrible thing about having New York go stale on you is that there's nowhere else. It's the top of the world.

I don't like the ocean. I'm not a natural swimmer, even though I come from Australia. That' a terrible thing to say.

I have done so many stupid commercials and terrible other little projects that never went anywhere and just ended up being terrible.

Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.

Maybe I shall never achieve happiness, but one thing I have had - the terrible wisdom of love.

The worst mistake you can make is underrating your enemy. Assuming that they're evil - I think it's a terrible thing to do.

Oh, I've had terrible, terrible relationships! The fact that I ever got happily married to a great, normal man is kind of a miracle.

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.

It is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing.

I never felt an obligation to say every single terrible thing that happened to me.

The way you talk to yourself sometimes is terrible! I hear myself, and I go, 'I can't believe you're talking to my friend Allison like that!' It's really terrible, the things we say to ourselves.

The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead. For what we are trying to do is to remain what we call "ourselves," to keep personal happiness as our great aim in life, and yet at the same time be "good.

I've never had a real job in my life. I didn't learn anything, I was terrible at school. It was just this thing. Music was all I wanted to do.

A mind is a terrible thing. All this evolution nonsense is making me feel like a complete APE!

We have such a terrible, terrible misconception of science. We think it involves the definite, the precise, the known; it is a horrid series of gates to an unknown as vast of the universe; which means endless.

I really wanted to make the worst thing: the thing that even people who liked bad, terrible music wouldn't like - the stuff that people would ignore, always. Something really, really stupid. Something that is destined for failure.

The terrible, cold, cruel part is Wall Street. Rivers of gold flow there from all over the earth, and death comes with it. There, as nowhere else, you feel a total absence of the spirit: herds of men who cannot count past three, herds more who cannot get past six, scorn for pure science and demoniacal respect for the present. And the terrible thing is that the crowd that fills the street believes that the world will always be the same and that it is their duty to keep that huge machine running, day and night, forever.

I'm no good at anything but comedy, which I think I'm good at. I'm absolutely no good at networking; I'm terrible at acting; I'm terrible at dealing with executives; I'm terrible at collaborating. And I say whatever I want to say. But I think I'm good enough at comedy that I can survive. And I don't really have an ambition for money.

Aging doesn't scare me at all. You can handle the bumps each year. They're traumatic when you're younger, and they're hurtful, and you go through some terrible times, and you feel terrible.

What a terrible thing it would be to be the Pope! What unthinkable responsibilities to fall on your shoulders at an advanced age! No privacy. No seclusion. No sin.

It's a terrible thing for a man when his woman gangs up on him wi' a toad

I'm really terrible at sort of figuring out the thing that's going to make the money, I guess.

Some people have a terrible stretch between family and work. It is a difficult thing to achieve.

I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.

This is my one and only life and it's a great and terrible and short and endless thing and none of us come out of it alive.

He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized.

I'm not a racist. I made a terrible, terrible mistake.

It's so mental how I looked in the '90s. The fact that I thought my ponytail was a good thing - it was just terrible. Cutting it off was so monumental.

Rent Control is not a terrible movie, certainly not for the budget they had. And, again, it's such an '80s kind of thing.

Pocketknives are kind of drifting out of our cultural consciousness, which I think is a terrible thing.

I don't want to be myself, ever. I'm terrible at a snapshot. Terrible. I blink all the time. I've got facial Tourette's. Unless I'm working and in that zone, I'm not very good at pictures, really.

It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we all share.

Life... It's a great and terrible and short and endless thing. None of us come out of it alive.

Most men somewhere in their psyche are still dragging women around by their hair. It's terrible. I have two daughters, but even before my kids were born I always thought that it was terrible.

To work on the actual location I think is great. This thing of going to Canada and pretending you're in New York, it's terrible.

If Hillary Clinton had won and if my people went out and protested, everybody would say, "Oh, that's a terrible thing."

When life is unhappy it is hard to endure, when it is happy it is terrible to think of it ending. Both amount to the same thing in the end.

It is the adage of any creative thing; it looks terrible, it is an ugly baby, until the very last second.

I think it's a terrible thing to write and not enjoy it. It's a sad thing. But of course a lot of people do work because they need to eat. And we all need to eat, but that's not the only reason to work. You couldn't have paid me not to write.

Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be -- to me in all events -- a terrible thing without books.

When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.

A dry stretch of commentary in the middle of an 'Anchorman' movie would have been a terrible thing.

Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

This freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth.

Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a feeble nonentity.

I'm a terrible actor. I'm still learning. When I first started, I wish I knew then to trust myself more, really. I was in a terrible panic in the early part of my career.

When you've been afraid of something for long enough and it comes to pass, the terrible thing is a release. For in the belly of the badness there is no more fear.

I've been taught that love is beautiful and kind, but it isn't like that at all. It is beautiful, but it's a terrible beauty, a ruthless one, and you fall-you fall, and the thing is- The thing is you want to. You don't care what's coming you just want who your heart beats for.

It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all.

I think 3D can be an incredible thing on a movie and a terrible thing for a movie, depending on what kind of movie it is. And I've seen movies where I thought the 3D really enhanced the experience, and sometimes where I thought it just detracted from it.

Sometimes you just have to write some days off, and I know that's a terrible thing to say, but it's the truth.

This is the most terrible thing that can happen in a friendly country if Thai people have to escape from the backdoor of an embassy.

This gulf war syndrome thing is truly unfortunate, and I've met some of the vets who have this. These are my guys, and I feel terrible about it.

Such a strange thing. What was terrible for a healthy fetus has been wonderful at defeating the cancer cells.

To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.

I had a period in my life, maybe a decade or so, in which I was involved in that kind of thing, associating with the elite of various segments of society. It always made me extremely uncomfortable. I couldn't wait to get out of there and change my clothes. The good part about that was getting home and changing into my regular clothes. Taking off the suit and the tie, taking off the tight shoes, and just relaxing. Being away from that stuff. It was stimulating, but I never liked it. I always felt it was a terrible, terrible burden.

Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing.

It's a terrible thing being a patriarch. I don't even have a gray beard. But people keep calling me up for advice.