“When you're playing a man, you can look tired and horrible and you still look okay. As a woman, if you're tired, it's terrible. It was such a luxury not having to worry about that.” IfsMenLooksStillsWorryTerribleOkayTiredHorribleLuxury Author:Glenn Close
“People have only two or three adjectives to describe people in the public eye. And that's okay. As long as those adjectives aren't train wreck, mess, terrible.” PeopleLongTwoEyeThreeTerribleOkayTrainMessWrecksAdjectivesPublic EyeTrain Wrecks Author:Taylor Swift
“When I do plays in New York and do eight shows a week, you have the same feeling. Three of them are terrible, four of them are okay and one is really good. It's hard to say what accounts for the really good one or for the terrible ones, but you end up trying to remanufacture whatever worked for the good one, like eating a tomato. I ate a tomato and the show was good, but that of course is not how it works.” TryingEndsHardPlayShowsFeelingsThreeCoursesFourWeekNew YorkTerribleEatingOkayAccountsEightTomatoes Author:Richard Ayoade
“I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race.” IdeasRaceTerribleRacismConcernedOkayMurderDarwinism Author:Ben Stein
“I knew at the time my haircut was pretty damn god-awful, so I was just hoping that I wasn't one of the joke ones. And they put me through to Hollywood and I thought, "Well okay, maybe I'm still one of the joke ones but at least I'm not terrible?"” WellsStillsTerribleJokesOkayHollywoodAwfulDamnHaircuts Author:David Cook
“I think I started out okay but with AIDS came a great deal of silence about gayness and this period of lose and morning, but at the same time a kind of feeling like you wanted to get back into the closet because being gay was such a terrible thing at that point.” ThinkingKindFeelingsWantedLosesDealsSilenceMorningLike YouPeriodsTerribleGayOkayAidsGet BackClosetsTerrible ThingsBeing GayGayness Author:Margaret Cho
“I think there's a danger that some people look at the success of my first movie as a fluke. So I want to make sure that my second film is an even bigger success. Then if I direct my third movie and it's terrible, it'll be okay.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantFirstsLooksFilmDangerTerribleDirectOkayThirdsBiggerFlukes Author:Paul Reubens
“In order to get past disagreements, you just can't have one person with power decide. In other words, so just because I'm a boss, it would be terrible if I then said, "Okay, we're gonna go do this." That's why, after that thoughtful disagreement, there has to be a process of an idea meritocracy. That means okay, now you have to vote, not that the decision resides with power. And then you vote and move beyond it.” IfsMeanPersonsSaidIdeasWould BePastMovingOrderProcessDecisionTerribleOkayVoteThoughtfulBossDisagreementMeritocracy Author:Ray Dalio
“One of the things I noticed about the Trump supporters was a lot of projected fear. I can't tell you how many times a conversation went like this: "We've got to stop these immigrants, because it's terrible." I'd say, "Okay, what personally have you observed about this?" And there would be basically nothing in that box. And I'd say, "Where'd you get your information?" thinking they were going to say Fox. But they would always say, "Well, I get my information from all kinds of sources." Fox is kind of center-left to a lot of people now.” PeopleThinkingWellsKindI CanWould BeLeftInformationSourceTrumpTerribleConversationOkayBoxesAll KindsImmigrantsFoxesSupporter Author:George Saunders
“Like Summer Sisters comforted me just because I was like, okay things I've seen with my own eyes are not so terrible, and even though I knew adult gay people and had absolutely no issue with it. And I just couldn't articulate what made me so uncomfortable about the space that I shared with my friends becoming a sexual space. And it was very healing for me to read that, and feel like it was a part of other friendships, even fictional friendships I admire.” PeopleFeelsMadeEyeMy OwnSpaceHealingIssuesBecomingTerribleGaySummerMy FriendsAdultsOkayAdmireUncomfortableGay People Author:Lena Dunham
“If you have certain problems with your brain but are raised in a good home, you might turn out okay. If your brain is fine and your home is terrible, you might still turn out fine. But if you have mild brain damage and end up with a bad home life, you're tossing the dice for a very unlucky synergy.” IfsStillsEndsProblemHomeMightCertainTurnsBrainFineTerribleOkayRaisedDamageDiceUnluckySynergyHome Life Author:David Eagleman
“You don't get a lot of life milestones in show business. It's really difficult to make things, and a lot of times you don't know you're at the end of something. With Mr. Show, I was only a writer and we knew we were going into the movie, and we thought, "Okay, like Monty Python, we're going to make five movies." And we didn't know it was the end. So it ended up being a bummer and such a terrible ending for Mr. Show. We never got to feel like, "Wow, we did it! We did something."” DifficultTerribleOkayShow BusinessMilestoneMonty Author:Scott Aukerman
“It's such a funny thing. Hollywood is terrible unless you happen to be a celebrity who's a Republican. So Ronald Reagan can be a Hollywood celebrity, and he's a Republican, and then he can become the president, and that's okay. Fred Thomson, well, that's okay. But the rest we need to demonize. There's no consistency.” PresidentTerribleRepublicanOkayConsistency Author:Barry Levinson
“So much wanting and longing, clutching, desiring, passion and hatred and terrible need. Here, death was suitable, there was room for it, the grip of life's relentless urges slackened, replaced by this icy simplicity. This wasnt her death. It was his. That was the sad and honest truth. Though it would stay with her, it would be more like a black onyx heart on a silver chain, worn privately, under her clothes, close to her body, all her life. The guilt, the beauty, everything. It wasnt over, it had only begun. Well ok then, Okay.” NeedsWellsHeartBodyWould BePassionBlackRoomsHonestTerribleClothesHatredOkayLongingGuiltSimplicityChainsSilverUrgesOver ItWornReplacedRelentlessSuitableIcyHonest Truth Author:Janet Fitch
“Zach found himself remembering something he'd heard Soledad and Leo saying the previous night, about healing. That it was mysterious. That it took time. And that Lucy was just at the beginning. That a terrible thing had happened - two terrible things, really - but they were now over. And that Lucy would be okay, in the end.” TwoEndsWould BeRememberNightFoundHealingHappenedHeardTerribleOkayMysteriousTerrible ThingsLucy Author:Nancy Werlin
“I wanted more of those sweltering kisses. I felt terrible about that. But the warm sunny fragrance of him...he smelled better than any human being I'd ever met. "Okay" I said unsteadily, "forget what I said about not exchanging names. Who are you?" "For you, honey...I'm trouble." -Haven & Hardy” HumansSaidWantedNamesFeltHuman BeingsForgetTroubleHavensTerribleMetsKissingOkayWarmHoneyFragranceSunnyHardyExchanging Book:The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy Source: The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy
“Okay. Then...I can talk. Ask me something." "Okay." He laughs shakily in my ear. "Why is your heart racing Tris?" I cringe and say, "Well, I...I barely know you. I barely know you and I'm crammed up against you in a box, Four, what do you think?"... "Maybe you were cut out for Candor," he says, "because you're a terrible liar.” ThinkingKnowsWellsHeartI CanAsksLaughingFourCuttingTerribleOkayEarsBoxesAsk MeLiarsRacingCandorCringeTrisTris PriorBeatrice PriorHeart Racing Author:Veronica Roth