“I had a terrible motorcycle accident (in the 1970s), in San Francisco as matter of fact. Doing a picture called... oh, this is terrible. It's a very well-known film and I can't remember the name. That's what happens when you get older... I fell off a bridge in San Francisco and was laid up for two years.” YearsWellsI CanTwoMatterFactsHappensRememberFilmNamesKnownTerribleAccidentsBridgesTwo YearsWell KnownSan FranciscoMotorcycleMatter Of Fact Author:William Lucking
“I am the god of being messy - I'm trying to get better. I was terrible in my 20s. My kids are much tidier than I am, I don't know where they get it from, maybe their mother.” KnowsTryingKidsMotherTerribleGet BetterMessyBeing Me Author:Kevin McKidd
“My hands look terrible but I can do anything I want to do, so, you know, I just think I'm playing all around with more good taste and not dashing up and down the piano.” ThinkingKnowsWantLooksI CanHandsCan DoTerribleTastePianoUp And DownGood TasteDashing Author:Marian McPartland
“A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.” YearsLastsLostDyingTerribleTenSevenEightClosestGetting OldTerrible Things Author:Norman MacCaig
“I've gone up for loads of jobs in the past that I knew were going to be terrible, and I've done my best, and I still haven't got them. So I think I've been lucky in who's decided I'd be worthy of their time.” ThinkingStillsDoneJobsPastGoneHavensTerribleLuckyDecidedWorthyLoad Author:Chris O'Dowd
“I was in school, but I wasn't into school. I wasn't doing what I wanted to be doing in school, which was film studies. That was what I intended on doing, but I didn't go away to a university because I wanted to stay in L.A. and audition while I took classes, so I elected to go to a community college and just take G.E. courses. It was terrible.” WantedSchoolFilmCoursesCommunityClassStudyCollegeTerribleUniversityGoing AwayAuditionsCommunity College Author:Dylan O'Brien
“My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind - like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.” MindWholeSpeakAcceptancePrideAmountTerribleQuietSmartGrandfatherMy Grandfather Author:Frank Ocean
“I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.” PersonsWould BeSleepTerribleTheater Author:Haley Joel Osment
“Fulfill - you can far more than fulfill - the brightest anticipations of those who, in the name of human freedom, and in the face of threats that have ripened into terrible realities since, fought that battle which placed you where you now stand.” HumansRealityFacesNamesTerribleBattleThreatAnticipationHuman Freedom Author:Robert Dale Owen
“I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music.” ThinkingWholeCultureTerribleMarketingGenreDivision Author:Tom Waits
“I felt like if any two people had any kind of sexual affinity for each other they had to sleep with each other immediately, otherwise it was a terrible betrayal and waste...Fortunately, I'm relieved of those obsessions now. It's really wonderful. It's really wonderful not feeling you have to sleep with everybody.” PeopleIfsLoveKindTwoFeelingsFeltSleepWonderfulTerribleWasteBetrayalObsessionRelievedAffinity Author:Leonard Cohen
“I was constantly, always and forever, trying to perform the musical 'Annie' for anyone who would listen, and I have a terrible singing voice. It was the first thing that made me think I wanted to be an actress.” ThinkingTryingFirstsMadeWantedVoiceForeverTerribleSingingMusicalActressesAnnieAlways And Forever Author:Sarah Paulson
“I can have my goals, and I can have my dreams. My goal is to make the finals and improve my position. I want to run all decent races. I don't want to look back and say I ran a terrible race.” WantLooksI CanDreamRunningGoalRacePositionTerribleFinalsRanDecent Author:Oscar Pistorius
“I think with any songwriter the first 1,000 songs are always terrible.” ThinkingFirstsSongTerribleSongwriters Author:Graham Russell
“I was very shy when I was younger. But I did have a terrible temperament. I would get angry very quickly, but the rest of the time I was this big goofball, playing the drums in a band and making out with girls.” BigsGirlTerribleBandAngryShyTemperament Author:Jeremy Renner
“Europe was a horrible place. There was nothing on TV. The food was terrible. And they don't even have ice. Who doesn't have ice?” TvsTerribleEuropeHorribleIce Author:Johnny Ramone
“I love chocolate. Black chocolate with marshmallow inside, caramel inside. If I could only have two foods, I'd take some fantastic chocolate. And some terrible chocolate. I love the Clark Bar.” IfsTwoBlackTerribleBarsFantasticIf I CouldChocolateMarshmallowCaramelLove Chocolates Author:Sonia Rykiel
“I've dyed my hair a million times and it looks terrible, always. It just looks fake. And it doesn't make me look that much younger.” LooksMillionsHairTerribleFake Author:John Slattery
“I prefer for things to happen serendipitously, but honestly, I also love terrible pickup lines.” HappensLinesTerribleHonestlyPickupsPickup Line Author:Angela Sarafyan
“What you really remember at the beginning was that you have to throw a budget together. We made some terrible mistakes at the beginning in my own budget that took us at least a year to catch up on.” YearsMadeTogetherRememberMy OwnMistakeTerribleBudgets Author:Donna Shalala
“Never think too much of yourself. Realize you are only an instrument of eternity. Do not get stuck in that terrible trap. You can lose everything.” ThinkingRealizingLosesToo MuchBuddhismBalanceTerribleEternityInstrumentsStuckTraps Author:Frederick Lenz
“Usually people have gone through years of in vitro, just trying. The dilemma that faces infertile couples right now in America, there's so many of them. That's why - you know that's why I started talking about it, so that they didn't hear just the terrible stories.” PeopleKnowsTryingYearsStoriesAmericaFacesTalkingGoneCoupleTerribleRight NowDilemmaThrough The Years Author:Joan Lunden
“I don't want to return to the past. I don't yearn for when I was 18 years old. I was in high school then. I had acne. I had a terrible hairdo. I'm sure I was sporting polyester pants.” WantYearsSchoolPastReturnTerribleHigh SchoolPantsAcneHairdos Author:Joe Scarborough
“Tomorrow you might get a phone call about something wonderful and you might get a phone call about something terrible.” MightWonderfulTomorrowTerriblePhonesPhone Calls Author:Regina Spektor
“I'm a terrible person for carrying things around. I carry everything around with me, it's like my home.” PersonsHomeTerrible Author:Sarah Sutton
“I'm terrible as I never take my make-up off at night, which I know is really dreadful. Whenever I'm out partying I just can't be bothered and now I am on 'Loose Women' that tends to be all the time. I hope next year holds even more parties for me.” KnowsYearsNightNextPartyTerribleNext YearBotheredLoose Women Author:Carol Vorderman
“One day Mum saved up for this exciting new thing - a frozen chicken. She cooked it on the Sunday and we all sat around waiting for it, but there was a terrible smell from the kitchen. She didn't realise that the giblets were in a plastic bag inside it. We just ate vegetables and she cried and cried.” WaitingTerribleOne DayExcitingSmellSavedSatKitchenBagsSundayChickensRealisingVegetablesPlasticNew ThingsCriedMumFrozenPlastic Bags Author:Carol Vorderman
“I think I wish I had never spanked my children, but I have. And they remember every instance like they tattooed it on their palms. I think it's a terrible lesson, to use physical punishment to make a point about not behaving, not being kind to their siblings, to other people. I mean that's just absurd. But I've lost it, I understand it.” PeopleThinkingKindMeanChildrenUseRememberLostWishTerribleLessonsPunishmentAbsurdInstanceMy ChildrenBe KindPalmsSiblingTattooed Author:Ayelet Waldman
“And that movie was underrated - Nuts - because it deals with a terrible subject, but It's very well done.” WellsDoneDealsSubjectsTerribleNutsWell DoneUnderrated Author:Eli Wallach
“I used to get made fun of a lot for being a male dancer, especially growing up in Boston. Kids are terrible, they don't realize how heavy words can be.” MadeKidsUsedFunRealizingGrowing UpGrowingTerribleMalesHeavyDancerBoston Author:Kenny Wormald
“I am terrible at memorizing things. Hence, ad-libbing.” TerribleAdsMemorizing Author:Michael Weatherly
“If you're hit with a lawsuit that's untrue and the reasons you're hit with it aren't clear to you, there's a very big inclination on people's part to want to take responsibility for it - that this must be happening because I'm a terrible person, I did something, and I'm getting repaid for it.” PeopleIfsWantPersonsReasonBigsResponsibilityClearTerribleHappeningsTaking ResponsibilityInclinationUntrueLawsuit Author:Sean Young
“I was a terrible high school student outside of the fact that I did well in physics, but there's a big difference between being good at physics and being a physicist, so I jettisoned that very quickly.” WellsFactsBigsSchoolDifferencesStudentsTerribleHigh SchoolBe GoodPhysicsPhysicistHigh School Students Author:Timothy Simons
“Reason is a terrible trap because you will be satisfied with answers. And if you are satisfied with answers, you'll never come to know what life really is.” IfsKnowsInspirationalReasonAnswersBuddhismTerribleSatisfiedMysticismTraps Author:Frederick Lenz
“Success and failure are terrible traps.” InspirationalBuddhismTerribleTrapsSuccess And Failure Author:Frederick Lenz
“What Sri Krishna is saying, is that it's a terrible mistake to believe that this life we lead is real. Obviously it's real, but it doesn't last very long in its realness. It's very ephemeral and to mistaken the forms of life, the shapes that life takes, for reality, is not wise.” BelieveLongRealRealityLastsFormMistakeWiseTerribleShapesThis LifeHinduismMistakenKrishnaEphemeralRealness Author:Frederick Lenz
“Trying to use the power of yoga to improve your life, this is a terrible mistake. Because all you are doing is binding yourself more. You're putting more of your attention into the transient world.” WorldTryingUseAttentionMistakeTerribleYogaHinduismTransientBindingImprove Your Life Author:Frederick Lenz
“It is better to go near the truth and be imprisoned than to stay with the wrong and roam about freely, master Galilei. In fact, getting attached to falsity is terrible slavery, and real freedom is only next to the right.” RealFactsTruthScienceNextFreedomMastersTerribleSlaveryFalsityReal Freedom Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“It may sound terrible, but I often say that the military saved me from a conventional life in the United States and I've never really thanked them for it, because I haven't exactly been pro-military in my work.” MayStatesSoundUnitedUnited StatesMilitaryHavensTerribleSavedConventionalConventional Life Author:Robert Jay Lifton
“Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit of a lab for bad behavior. You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect.” HomeMotivationBitsClearTerribleBehaviorConsequenceTestsHarderMotivatedBuriedLabsBad BehaviorControl Ourselves Author:Ben Marcus
“Expanding Medicaid without fixing Medicaid is a terrible idea.” IdeasTerribleExpandingFixingMedicaid Author:Bob McDonnell
“Marilyn was terrible to work with. I was fond of her, she was a nice girl, but she was a damaged girl. She was very difficult. You couldn't get her on the set; she didn't know the words.” KnowsGirlDifficultNiceTerribleNice Girl Author:Richard Widmark
“There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control.” PeopleMenTryingHas BeensStoriesPoliticalNumbersEventsCircumstancesTerribleOrdinaryUniversalCaughtThemeMidstCaught UpOrdinary PeopleSierraSierra Leone Author:Edward Zwick
“I like to tell students, 'I didn't burst on to the literary scene.' I'm never good at things at the beginning. I was terrible at the start. I need to work and work.” NeedsStudentsTerribleScene Author:Markus Zusak
“After reading The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander's stunning work of scholarship, one gains the terrible realization that, for people of color, the American criminal justice system resembles the Soviet Union's gulag—the latter punished ideas, the former punishes a condition.” PeopleIdeasReadingJusticeConditionsColorTerribleGainsUnionsCriminalsRealizationFormerLatterSovietSoviet UnionScholarshipCrowJustice SystemStunningCriminal JusticeJim CrowCriminal Justice SystemGulags Author:David Levering Lewis
“I couldn't do my show without spending 12 years on the streets of Humboldt Park. It made me a better interrogator. Still, if they had taken me out of my squad car and gave me a show, I would've been terrible. But on 'Springer,' the spotlight was on Jerry and I got to grow up within the show.” IfsYearsMadeStillsShowsGrowsGrowing UpTakenStreetsCarTerribleSpendingParksJerrySpotlightSquad Author:Steve Wilkos
“When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell a story: the plausible disappears at the same time as the friends. You let events flow by too: you suddenly see people appear who speak and then go away; you plunge into stories of which you can't make head or tail: you'd make a terrible witness.” PeopleKnowsStoriesSpeakEventsTerribleFlowDisappearWitnessGoing AwayTailsPlungePlausibleHeads Or Tails Author:Jean-Paul Sartre
“I don't want to be myself, ever. I'm terrible at a snapshot. Terrible. I blink all the time. I've got facial Tourette's. Unless I'm working and in that zone, I'm not very good at pictures, really.” WantTerribleVery GoodZoneBlinkFacialSnapshotsTourettes Author:Kate Moss