“This is the woman who stopped the Stanford Prison Study. When I said it got out of control, I was the prison superintendent. I didn't know it was out of control. I was totally indifferent. She came down, saw that madhouse and said, "You know what, it's terrible what you're doing to those boys. They're not prisoners, they're not guards, they're boys, and you are responsible." And I ended the study the next day. The good news is I married her the next year.” KnowsYearsSaidNextBoysStudySawsTerribleMarriedNewsResponsiblePrisonPrisonerIndifferentNext DayGood NewsNext YearStanfordMadhousesSuperintendents Author:Philip Zimbardo
“I was terrible in my first play. After that experience, I had to face that I wasnt good enough to play with the big boys. I had to go away and learn, so I worked in regional theater for three years. I even understudied at the Kennedy Center.” YearsFirstsEnoughPlayBigsFacesThreeBoysTerribleTheaterGoing AwayGood EnoughThree Years Author:Kevin Spacey
“Polygamy has an ancient history and is legal in many parts of the world. I find the rules of polygamy to be damaging and it's potentially dangerous to young girls and terrible for "excess" boys. But polyamory is supposed to be a more equal arrangement among agreeing adults.” WorldYoungGirlBoysDangerousTerribleEqualAdultsAncientSupposed To BeExcessArrangementsPolygamyAncient HistoryPolyamory Author:Emily Yoffe
“Reading Don Quixote can be compared to an indefinite visit from your most impossible senior relative, with all his pranks, dirty habits, unstoppable reminiscences, and terrible cronies. When the experience is over, and the old boy checks out at last (on page 846 - the prose wedged tight, with no breaks for dialogue), you will shed tears all right; not tears of relief or regret but tears of pride. You made it, despite all that 'Don Quixote' could do.” MadeLastsReadingBoysBreakImpossibleTearsRegretPrideHabitTerriblePagesChecksDialogueDespiteMade ItDirtyProseReliefRelativeShedSeniorUnstoppablePranksCronies Author:Miguel de Cervantes
“The first thing that jumps out in my mind is David versus Goliath. That's one of the first stories we ever learn as kids. That's one of the most inspirational stories about courage. David stood in the face of terrible odds and defeated the giant. I love reading that story to my boys. Being courageous is doing something isn't easy or fun but you do it because it's the right thing to do.” MindFirstsStoriesKidsFacesReadingFunEasyBoysTerribleThings To DoRight ThingGiantsCourageousOddsDefeatedVersusMy BoysLove Of ReadingGoliath Author:Matt Cullen
“I would suppose I learned how to write when I was very young indeed. When I read a child's book about the Trojan War and decided that the Greeks were really a bunch of frauds with their tricky horses and the terrible things they did, stealing one another's wives, and so on, so at that very early age, I re-wrote the ending of the Iliad so that the Trojans won. And boy, Achilles and Ajax got what they wanted, believe me. And thereafter, at frequent intervals, I would write something. It was really quite extraordinary. Never of very high merit, but the daringness of it was.” WritingBelieveChildrenBookWarAgeWantedYoungBoysWifeTerribleDecidedHorseExtraordinaryStealingBunchGreekMeritFraudBelieve In MeTerrible ThingsTrickyIntervalsChildren's BooksAchillesIliadTrojansAjaxTrojan War Author:James A. Michener
“I'm not a terrible smoker, actually. My major addiction, which is horrible, is straight boys.” BoysTerribleMajorsAddictionHorribleSmokers Author:Rufus Wainwright
“If you saw my musical collection it's absolutely horrendous, I've got everything from Stockhausen to The Beach Boys to Gina G, all sorts of terrible things and other people come here and look at my record collection and go, "Ah, you can't possibly like that - how embarrassing!"” PeopleIfsLooksBoysRecordsSawsTerribleMusicalBeachCollectionsEmbarrassingTerrible ThingsBeach BoysGinaStockhausen Author:Thighpaulsandra
“The pressure to be thin, which causes guilt and obsessiveness around food, is terrible and starts so early. For me, it started at sixteen when I left home and gained weight for the first time and was told by a slightly older boy, out of the blue, that I was "too plump." The shock of that lasted a good long time.” FirstsLongHomeLeftCausesBoysTerribleLong TimeFirst TimeWeightPressureBlueGuiltShockSixteenGood Long Author:Kate Christensen