Best Terrible Times Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.”

Poetry Poet Terrible Praise Merit Priests Terrible Times

Author:Jose Marti

“We are very lucky to be men because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult.”

Men Difficult Terrible Lucky Getting Old Getting Older Terrible Times

Author:Ian Mckellen

“I have a terrible time during elections. I am way too politically involved. I absolutely never argue politics with anyone, as it makes me crazy and full of judgment and hostility. I have two very conservative friends, whom I cherish and would entrust my life to; we avoid politics like the plague. So in a certain way, it limits how completely we let ourselves know each other, but this is just the way it is and it is the best we can do. And I am secretly convinced that God is a progressive Democrat.”

Knows Way Two Certain Can Do Crazy Involved Terrible Limits Judgment Election Democrat Conservative Convinced Arguing Cherish Progressive Plague Hostility Terrible Times

Author:Anne Lamott

“Honesty, I went through terrible, terrible times where I just took myself over the coals. I thought I must be the most impure person in the world ... but because that is reverse egotism, I thought I must be the second most impure person in the world.”

World Persons Honesty Terrible Reverse Coal Egotism Rama Terrible Times

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I want to play a man in uniform. I've got tremendous respect for that life that they lead. We know so little about it. It's never discussed or talked about, when they come back from battle. I want to examine the choices that have to be made in those terrible times. [...] I'll get to wear a uniform.”

Knows Men Want Littles Made Play Choices Terrible Battle Uniforms Terrible Times

Author:Ben Kingsley

“A woman who feels ugly can go to the best party and have a terrible time, but a woman who likes the way she looks can go to a funeral and have a marvellous time.”

Way Feels Looks Party Terrible Ugly Likes Funeral Marvellous Terrible Times Best Party

Author:Britney Spears

“Winter is a terrible time for thin people - terrible! Why should it hound them down, fasten on them, worry them so? Why not, for a change, take a nip, take a snap at the fat ones who wouldn't notice? But no! It is sleek, warm, cat-like summer that makes the fat one's life a misery. Winter is all for bones.”

People Should Worry Terrible Summer Cat Misery Winter Warm Bones Fats Why Not Snaps Hounds Terrible Times

Book:The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

Source: The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

“Trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times. If you get lost and you just end up eating just anywhere, you know, you see a bunch of Venetians sitting around smoking cigarettes, eating something unrecognizable in a dark alley somewhere, chances are it's interesting.”

“I think that even in a drama, we all want to smile, and laugh because what a horrible life if we're just like "I'm in a drama." And so I think in everything you're trying to look for the humor, even if it's a dark scene, because most people want to have fun in life, as opposed to have a boring time, a terrible time.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Trying Looks Fun Dark Laughing Terrible Drama Scene Boring Horrible Having Fun Smile And Laugh Terrible Times Horrible Life

Author:David Koechner

“I've been so mistreated by male authority in my life that I had a terrible time in my marriage trying to be a submissive wife. I wanted to rule the roost in everything. And it wasn't even really that I was rebellious; I was afraid of being hurt. And I think that a lot of people that choose these alternative lifestyles, I think it's because they've been hurt somewhere along the line very badly.”

People Thinking Trying Wanted Hurt Lines Wife Terrible Authority Males Lifestyle Alternatives Rebellious Submissive Being Hurt Been Hurt Mistreated Terrible Times Roost Afraid Of Being Hurt

Author:Joyce Meyer

“As far as I know, Vera Miles had a terrible time with Hitchcock, and she wanted to get out of the contract. He didn't let her. She did 'Psycho,' and I believe, if you look at 'Psycho,' there isn't one close up of Vera, not one. After that, she would never even speak about him to anyone.”

Ifs Knows Believe Looks Wanted Speak I Believe Terrible Miles Contracts Psycho Hitchcock Terrible Times

Author:Tippi Hedren

“Some nights you might go through an entire performance and not feel a thing, and the audience may have a much better time, 'cause if you're enjoying yourself on stage too much, they're having a terrible time because they can't hear you. And if you're a woman your mascara's running.”

Ifs Feels May Might Running Night Causes Enjoy Audience Too Much Stage Terrible Performances Mascara Terrible Times

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“Certainly I had a really terrible time with 'Emotionally Weird.' When I finished it, I thought, 'I can't write any more.”

Writing I Can Terrible Finished Terrible Times

Author:Kate Atkinson

“I think ultimately the film 'Room' is a kind of hymn to motherhood and to the everyday heroism of parents who find their smiles in terrible times.”

Thinking Kind Film Parent Rooms Terrible Everyday Motherhood Heroism Hymns Terrible Times

Author:Emma Donoghue

“I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.”

People May Long Wish Process Poor Cases Dying Terrible Cancer Awful Certainty Statistics Realistic Wish You Resigned Wagers Terrible Times

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“A travel book is a book that puts you in the shoes of the traveler, and it's usually a book about having a very bad time, having a miserable time, even better. You don't want to read a book about someone having a great time in the South of France, eating and drinking and falling in love. What you want to read is a book about a guy going through the jungle, going through the arctic snow, having a terrible time trying to cross the Sahara, and solving problems as they go.”

“The fact is that the two years or so after 9/11 were a terrible time in America – a time of political exploitation and intimidation, culminating in the deliberate misleading of the nation into the invasion of Iraq. It’s probably worth pointing out that I’m not saying anything now that I wasn’t saying in real time back then, when Bush had a sky-high approval rating and any criticism was denounced as treason. And there’s nothing I’ve done in my life of which I’m more proud.”

“The end of the '60s was a terrible time. I was in Los Angeles then, and I remember the night someone ran into the studio and told us about the Manson murders. Then suddenly something happened, the '60s disappeared. The '70s were completely different.”

Different Ends Remember Night Happened Terrible Murder Studios Ran Los Angeles Manson Terrible Times

Author:Claes Oldenburg

“I try to be realistic and pragmatic. I have a lot of hope for humanity as a species, but obviously as individuals we can be extremely flawed. We may have to go through some very terrible times in the near future, even if we ultimately survive as Homo sapiens.”

Ifs Trying May Humanity Individual Terrible Species Realistic Flawed Homo Sapiens Pragmatic Terrible Times Hope For Humanity

Author:Annalee Newitz

“And if you look at pictures of Eleanor between 1918 and 1921, she becomes anorexic. She really loses a tremendous amount of weight. That's when her teeth really go bad. It's a terrible, terrible time for her. And she has five children, ranging in age from three to 10. It's an emotionally terrible ordeal.”

Ifs Looks Children Age Three Loses Five Amount Terrible Weight Teeth Eleanor Ordeals Anorexics Terrible Times

Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook

“I was really nervous about people booing, because my mother had gone for a film 20 years earlier and had a terrible time with people booing, whistling, so I knew that in Cannes people can get aggressive.”

People Years Film Mother Gone Terrible Nervous Aggressive Whistling Cannes Terrible Times Booing

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“I couldn't really be a part of high school, because I have a terrible time doing things that I don't want to do. I'm not good at it. It's not even like, I'm a rebel. I'm just bad at it, you know?”

Knows Want School Terrible High School Rebel Terrible Times

Author:El-P

“I admire President Obama. He inherited the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. That was a terrible time for America.”

America President Worst Terrible Crisis Financial Admire President Obama Great Depression Financial Crisis Terrible Times

Author:Hillary Clinton

“I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.”

Thinking Terrible Feminist Hated Seventies Terrible Times

Author:David Bailey

“This is a terrible time to be young, I think. It's really hard.”

Thinking Hard Young Terrible Be Young Terrible Times

Author:Cleve Jones

“I get along really well with [my father] now, but I had a terrible time with him in my teenage years. All we did was scream at each other, and when we weren't screaming at each other, we just wouldn't talk to each other.”

Years Wells Father Terrible Scream Teenage Teenage Years Terrible Times

Author:George Michael

“After my husband died, I could not write much - I could not concentrate. I was too exhausted most of the time even to contemplate writing. But I did take notes - not for fiction, but for a journal, or diary, of this terrible time. I did not think that I would ever survive this interlude.”

Thinking Writing Fiction Terrible Husband Died Notes My Husband Contemplating Journal Exhausted Diaries Terrible Times

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“I learned a long time ago that trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times.”

Trying Long Perfect Terrible Long Time Disaster Vacation Long Time Ago Terrible Times

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“In the cruel and terrible time in which our generation has been condemned to live on this earth, we must never make peace with evil. We must never become indifferent to others or undemanding of ourselves.”

Has Beens Earth Evil Generations Terrible Indifferent Making Peace Our Generation Terrible Times

Author:Vasily Grossman

“I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in haste,in fear, and had brought about their own destruction”

People Past Terrible Destruction Destroyed Giver Haste Terrible Times

Book:The Giver Quartet Omnibus

Source: The Giver Quartet Omnibus

“I feel certain that I'm going mad again, I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices”

Feels Certain Voice Terrible Suicide Mad Suicide Note Terrible Times

Author:Virginia Woolf

“You can't learn to act unless you're criticized. If you tie that criticism to your childhood insecurities you'll have a terrible time. Instead, you must take criticism objectively, pertaining it only to the work being done.”

Ifs Done Acting Childhood Terrible Criticism Theatre Your Children Ties Insecurity Being Done Terrible Times

Author:Sanford Meisner

“Smoking is very bad for you and should only be done because it looks so good. People who don't smoke have a terrible time finding something polite to do with their lips.”

People Should Looks Done Terrible Findings Lips Smoke Smoking Good People Polite Tobacco Terrible Times

Book:Modern manners

Source: Modern manners

“I have a feeling I shall go mad. I cannot go on longer in these terrible times. I shan't recover this time. I hear voices and cannot concentrate on my work. I have fought against it but cannot fight any longer.”

Feelings Fighting Voice Goes On Terrible Mad Last Words Terrible Times

Author:Virginia Woolf

“Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. They only think of stardom. If you photograph well, that's enough. I have a terrible time distinguishing one from another. Girls wear their hair the same, and are much too anorexic-looking.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Enough Today Girl Actors Acting Tvs Hair Terrible Photograph Other Girl Stardom Anorexics Terrible Times Another Girl

Author:Lauren Bacall

“I think these are terrible times to be anything in.”

Thinking Terrible Terrible Times

Author:Swoosie Kurtz

“I have a friend — or had a friend, now dead — Abdus Salam, a very devout Muslim, who was trying to bring science into the universities in the Gulf states and he told me that he had a terrible time because, although they were very receptive to technology, they felt that science would be a corrosive to religious belief, and they were worried about it… and damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive of religious belief, and it’s a good thing too.”

Thinking Trying States Would Be Belief Felt Religious Technology Terrible Good Things University Worried Damn Religious Belief Receptive Terrible Times

Author:Steven Weinberg

“I have a terrible time remembering exactly when my birthday is. Age is totally boring.”

Age Remember Terrible Boring My Birthday Terrible Times

Book:D.V.

Source: D.V.

“The 21st century is a really terrible time to be a control freak.”

Century Terrible Freak 21st Century Control Freak Terrible Times

Author:Jared Cohen

“I was living in a terrible time when people were being accused of being communists, and they attacked the movie industry, especially the writers. People couldn't work if they were on the blacklist. The studios banned them. It was the most onerous period in movie history. I don't think we have ever had a period so dark as that.”

People Ifs Thinking Dark Industry Periods Terrible Studios Communist Accused Banned Movie Industry Terrible Times Being Accused

Author:Kirk Douglas

“Interviewer: [What do you get up to] In real time? Brian Molko: I go on Placebo sites and have a terrible time trying to convince fans it's actually me. No one ever believes it. I've spent about four hours, giving away intimate details about myself that I'd never tell a journalist, in an effort to prove that it's me.”

Giving Trying Believe Real Hours Effort Four Fans Goes On Terrible Prove Details Get Up Journalist Intimate Convince Site Brian Interviewers Placebo Terrible Times

Author:Brian Molko

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