Terrible Quotes
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I can’t see through clothes or anything. Just glamour skin. Except I can see through all of you, since your clothes aren’t real.” I stopped, horrified. “I mean, I don’t look—It’s hard to see you, and I like looking at your real face, but I don’t try to see anything, because—Oh gosh, this sounds terrible.” He had a funny look on his face, like he wasn’t sure what to think. “Huh. That’s never been an issue before. Maybe next time you could bring me some shorts.
Kiersten White
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I have done a terrible thing, I have postulated a particle that cannot be detected.
Wolfgang Pauli
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
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What's terrible is that there's nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.
Ivan Turgenev
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I would love to work on Broadway, but I don't know that it would manifest itself in musical theater.... I have terrible stage fright that I'd have to get over.
Scarlett Johansson
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There's some things I can't write about, just terrible personal tragedies.
Harry Connick, Jr.
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I don't think she [Marilyn Monroe] saw herself as victimized and a sex object. She knew how to contend with it. I'm sure she was no fool about it. On the one hand, it was very flattering and great; on the other hand, it was probably awful and could be very lascivious and very terrible. But I think a lot of women just wanted to be like her. And that's still true today.
Gail Levin
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Terrible or not, difficult or not, the only thing that is beautiful, noble, religious, and mystical is to be happy.
Arnaud Desjardins
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I'd just written the book Ocean Of Sound, and this terrible thing happened in my life: my wife committed suicide. I was a single parent because of that; I was completely shattered. I had a book that I'd just finished that had been produced through a really, really terrible period, but I had managed to finish it.
David Toop
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Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.
Mikhail Bulgakov
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A mind is a terrible thing. All this evolution nonsense is making me feel like a complete APE!
Berkeley Breathed
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I stopped doing romantic comedies. I just stopped. They're terrible. They're bad. They're not funny and so they shouldn't be a romantic comedy because most of the time they're not romantic. They shouldn't be called romantic comedy.
Sandra Bullock
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Listen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence.
Catherine Doherty
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It must be terrible to have to live among people and not like human nature.
William Feather
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Just reading that - just reading that a person can be black and still perform in blackface, making fun of black people for a living, and at the same time be a genius and be an incredible entertainer and at the same time be extremely conflicted and feel like - just feel terrible for doing that, essentially, which is what Bert Williams felt, from what I gather, from what I read - all of that just made - was so incredible to me.
Cecile McLorin Salvant
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Wouldn't it be terrible if you'd spent all your life doing everything you were supposed to do, didn't drink, didn't smoke, didn't eat things, took lots of exercise, all the things you didn't want to do, and suddenly one day you were run over by a big red bus, and as the wheels were crunching into you you'd say 'Oh my god, I could have got so drunk last night!' That's the way you should live your life, as if tomorrow you'll be run over by a big red bus.
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
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But I will wear white - the whitest white! - purest most pristine white! - through the dark terrible days of winter - as no man of our time will ever dare.
will.i.am
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I'm not happy with the way we played late in the game. The last quarter, we were terrible.
Chris Kaman
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There was a lot of terrible, terrible comedy in the seventies along with 'Fawlty Towers.' It's easy to forget.
Robert Webb
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People have forgotten what the human touch is, what it is to smile, for somebody to smile at them, somebody to recognize them, somebody to wish them well. The terrible thing is to be unwanted.
Mother Teresa
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It's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong.
Sophocles
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Usually the German translators do something terrible, especially with Tom Wolfe, which is that they make it local. So if the characters are from Harlem, the translators put all this Berlin slang into their mouths, and that's just terrible. You cringe when you read that. But there really is no good solution to the problem, except learning English.
Daniel Kehlmann
