“Every year, in the deep midwinter, there descends upon this world a terrible fortnight. ... every shop is a choked mass of humanity ... nerves are jangled and frayed, purses emptied to no purposes, all amusements and all occupations suspended in favor of frightful businesses with brown paper, string, letters, cards, stamps, and crammed post offices. This period is doubtless a foretaste of whatever purgatory lies in store for human creatures.” WorldYearsHumansLyingPurposeHumanityThis WorldPeriodsTerribleCreaturesOfficePaperMassLettersStoresFavorsChristmasCardsPostsShopsBrownStringsNervesOccupationStampsAmusementPursesSuspendedPurgatoryPost OfficeFortnightMidwinter Author:Rose Macaulay
“All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is like breathing.” WritingPeriodsTerriblePainfulBreathing Book:Conversations with Audre Lorde Source: Conversations with Audre Lorde
“I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don't believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view.” BelieveI CanCan DoViewsPeriodsTerribleEvidenceDon't BelieveContraryI Can Do ItLack Of Confidence Author:Douglas Adams
“Over a period of 11 months I was constantly afraid that Youth Care would lock me up. It was all a frightening and traumatic experience. So often these terrible memories come to me. I can't ignore them.” CareMemoriesYouthMonthsPeriodsTerribleFrighteningLocksCantTraumatic Experiences Author:Laura Dekker
“It [the Civil War] was a heroic struggle; and, as is inevitable with all such struggles, it had also a dark and terrible side. Very much was done of good, and much also of evil; and, as was inevitable in such a period of revolution, often the same man did both good and evil. For our great good fortune as a nation, we, the people of the United States as a whole, can now afford to forget the evil, or, at least, to remember it without bitterness, and to fix our eyes with pride only on the good that was accomplished.” PeopleMenWarStatesDoneWholeEyeRememberEvilNationsSidesDarkForgetUnitedUnited StatesStruggleRevolutionPridePeriodsTerribleFortuneInevitableCivil WarAccomplishedGood And EvilBitternessHeroicGood Fortune Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“The filmmaker should make it, and then the critic should interpret it, period. If the director goes in there and starts telling you exactly what to think, you have just completely slapped the audience in the face and not given them the opportunity to interest it, and that's terrible.” IfsThinkingShouldFacesOpportunityGivenInterestAudiencePeriodsTerribleDirectorsCriticsFilmmaker Author:Joseph M. Kahn
“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'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.” BookParentSoundWifeWrittenHappenedPeriodsTerribleOceanSuicideCommittedMy WifeFinishedThings HappenTerrible ThingsShatteredSingle Parent Author:David Toop
“I'd also talk about the period and of course all the different gender things that people might feel that they are. I'd be a terrible teacher because of what I don't know about that.” PeopleKnowsFeelsDifferentMightCoursesTeacherPeriodsTerribleGender Author:Jen Kirkman