Top 1200 Terrible Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Little things do matter. Sometimes, little things matter the most. Everybody pays a lot of attention to big things, but nobody seems to understand that big things are almost always made up of little things. When you ignore little things, they often turn into big things that have become a lot harder to handle.

The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.

It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?

When you know for yourselves, 'These things are wholesome; these things are blameless; these things are praised by the wise; these things, if undertaken and practiced, lead to welfare and happiness,' then you should engage in them.

I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue.

I'm terrible at reading fiction. I don't have the attention span - it's awful.

We all like to think that the line between good and evil is impermeable--that people who do terrible things, such as commit murder, treason, or kidnapping, are on the evil side of this line, and the rest of us could never cross it. But the Stanford Prison Experiment and the Milgram studies revealed the permeability of that line. Some people are on the good side only because situations have never coerced or seduced them to cross over.

This is a terrible mistake, because I used up all of my English.

Children of domestic violence, of course, suffer terrible consequences.

I'm just terrible at auditions. I don't know how anyone does it.

Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day: civility, respect, kindness, character.

I used to think that seniority was a terrible thing when I didn't have any.

I had done some acting in high school. I was terrible.

Smoking is related to practically every terrible thing that can happen to you.

I left the band because I developed a terrible fear of flying.

I love Mozart, but I often make a terrible hash of it.

Most terrible memories are a lesson and don't want them to be forgotten.

Oh, man, pop singers are terrible actors. We're all bad.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

I was never sullen. I was a terrible punk - I was still so chatty.

I don't like my wrestling or entertainment in general to be too clean or predictable for me as a fan. When I say clean, I'm not talking about dirty jokes, middle fingers and stuff like that. I'm actually not even a big fan of that. A lot of people talk about the attitude era being so great but a lot of it was terrible crap, sex jokes and over-the-top terrible bad comedy. It was Jerry Springer-like. They made a joke about a woman's breasts. Hilarious, but where's the wrestling? I look back on a lot of stuff now, and I'm like where's the wrestling? It's just a lot of crappy jokes.

I wear sweat pants; I look terrible all the time. I'm so vulnerable.

What you have to remember is that the great feelings come after the terrible ones.

My diet is always terrible, unfortunately. I don't know moderation.

Separate but equal is terrible for education but it's perfect for eyebrows.

In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste.

In her mind's eye she saw it, saw it all at last: the rolling armies and the flames of battle; the graves and pits and dying cries of a hundred million souls; the spreading darkness, like a black wing stretching over the earth; the last, bitter hours of cruelty and sorrow, and the terrible, final flights; death's great dominion over all, and, at the last, empty cities, becalmed by the silence of a hundred years. Already these things were coming to pass.

I'm terrible with money, absolutely awful. I'm always losing it.

If I didn't do this well, I just wouldn't have anything to do... I can't cook, and I'd be a terrible housewife.

Marathon running is a terrible experience: monotonous, heavy, and exhausting.

Something terrible can happen in my life, but I wouldn't put it in my art.

Another way to be prepared is to think negatively. Yes, I'm a great optimist. but, when trying to make a decision, I often think of the worst case scenario. I call it 'the eaten by wolves factor.' If I do something, what's the most terrible thing that could happen? Would I be eaten by wolves? One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist, is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose. There are a lot of things I don't worry about, because I have a plan in place if they do.

I'm terrible. I'm the wrong person to talk to, I really don't know a thing.

Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things. There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation. The thin beaten-out leaf of tremulous gold that chronicles the direction of forces the eye cannot see is in comparison coarse. It is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it, and even then must bleed again, though not in pain.

Fate knows all about you, it knows your fears and your weaknesses and your confidences and strengths, and it can be ready for all of them when it decides that the time is right. It can move you like a pawn in a terrible game of chess, sacrifice you for the good of others, drop you from a building you should never have been inside, give you a disease that no one has ever heard of. Luck and chance are impartial. Fate is active. It picks on people. Almost as if it thinks about things too much.

Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find.

There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common good to laymen, but to those that practise them grievous. Of such arts there is one which the Greeks call medicine. For the medical man sees terrible sights, touches unpleasant things, and the misfortunes of others bring a harvest of sorrows that are peculiarly his; but the sick by means of the art rid themselves of the worst of evils, disease, suffering, pain and death.

I don't actually read that much. I like movies a bit more. That's how I come up with ideas - by seeing things, hearing things, recycling things. Stealing things!

My motto is: When in doubt, just keep lying. Even if you're terrible at it.

If thou art terrible to manyh, then beware of many.

I'm a terrible punster. And I love to rhyme. I just can't help myself.

I'm terrible at basketball. I have really small hands, and I can't control the ball.

No one wants to stay in the tabloids. But it's actually not a terrible place to start.

The Tudors' is terrible history with no point. It's wrong for no purpose.

It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.

I'd be a terrible journalist. I wouldn't want to pry; I just don't have that nature.

In his play depicting the Salem Witch Trials, the author illustrates profound psychological bullying. The ringleader of young girls suspected of unsavory conduct, frightens her friends into silence by warning: Now, look you; All of you. We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam's dead sisters, and that was all. ... Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night, and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you.

The terrible sticky thing about truth is if it exists, it's coming for you.

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

Taking the arts out of schools is a terrible mistake.

The terrible thing about being an actor is that it's not a solo occupation.

It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs.

There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.

It is difficult to realize the true Way just through sword-fencing. Know the smallest things and the biggest things, the shallowest things and the deepest things.

Sometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood, so that at least I'd have an excuse.

The terrible thing about acting is the stops and starts.

The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

I can never remember names. I'm so self-centered and have a terrible memory.