Terrible Quotes

• The illustrators work so much harder on the books than the writers do. I mean, that's so much work doing what they do, and it's terrible for them.

  

  Michael Ian Black
  • Book
  • Mean
  • Harder

• Don't do anyone else's version of a hit song - it's gonna sound terrible. You just have to do what you do well and crank it up to 11.

  

  Ricky Reed
  • Terrible
  • Anyone
  • Version

• B looked down the shaft, at a metal ladder and darkness beyond. "Me first?" Of course. You're the apprentice, so you always go first into the unknown. If anyone's going to be eaten by a grue, it should be you." Tough job. But at least the hours are terrible.

  

  Tim Pratt
  • Darkness
  • Hours
  • Tough

• There are terrible things that never get easier, and there are things even more terrible that get easier with time and repetition.

  

  Nell Zink
  • Terrible
  • Easier
  • Repetition

• A corrupt society is terrible for humanity and great for business.

  

  Farhan Akhtar
  • Business
  • Terrible
  • Corrupt

• I get terrible reviews everywhere I go.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Terrible
  • Reviews

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

  

  Steve Buscemi
  • Terrible
  • Dialogue
  • Structure

• Now, Social Security through the years, for many many people, has been a terrible investment. It's really a tax, that's all it is. Social Security is a tax.

  

  Todd Akin
  • Taxes
  • Investment
  • Social Security

• Monopoly is a terrible thing, till you have it.

  

  Rupert Murdoch
  • Terrible
  • Monopoly

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

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Alive
  • Terrible
  • Endless

• He saw a picture in his mind of a terrible piling up of the dead. It came from his contemplation of the church, but it had its own clarity: the row on row, the deep rotting earth hollowed out to hold them, while the efforts of the living, with all their works and wars and great buildings, were no more than the beat of a wing against the weight of time.

  

  Sebastian Faulks
  • Mind
  • War
  • Earth

• - and how time flies! What, has it already been twenty years, already forty years that we are together? Why, how terrible! We haven't yet said all we wanted to say to each other... May we have a little respite, or else may we be allowed to begin all over again!

  

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  • Time
  • Terrible
  • Respite

• I can't stand those people, speakers in a room, they say this all the time, "If I can just help one person in this room, I've done my job." You have an audience of 500 people and your standard of success is one person? That's terrible. If you help one person in the room, you're an abject failure. You have to change something.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Audience
  • Helping
  • Persons

• I am terrible with examples. I can never think of them when anybody asks for an example.

  

  Shonda Rhimes
  • Terrible
  • Example
  • Asks

• My God! How terrible these money questions are for an artist!

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Money
  • Artist
  • Terrible

• We have this terrible struggle to try to explain things to people who have no reason to want to know.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • People
  • Trying
  • Reason

• Especially from my experience as a quant in a hedge fund - I naively went in there thinking that I would be making the market more efficient and then was like, oh my God, I'm part of this terrible system that is blowing up the world's economy, and I don't want to be a part of that.

  

  Cathy O'Neil
  • World
  • Economy
  • Fund

• Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.

  

  Ernest Becker
  • Freedom
  • Responsibility
  • Terrible

• The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Idea
  • Terrible
  • Persistence

• There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • Sorrow
  • Terrible

• I know the most terrible thing that can happen to a woman. That is the gang-up. Men put you to sleep with their drops and one man after another goes in and takes you.

  

  Ethel Waters
  • Men
  • Sleep
  • Happens

• I have been in situations where actors are treated like robots: say the lines, say it like this, we don't have time for conversations. That is a terrible position to be in as an artist. You feel used.

  

  Nia Long
  • Artist
  • Actors
  • Situation

• Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Waiting
  • Terrible
  • Occupation

• It's much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Film
  • Acting
  • Difficult

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