It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.

How terrible would it be to just wait there pathetically alone for him never to show up?”Eudoxia’s expression grew more serious. “That’s what you’re doing anyway, my dear.

I’m a terrible cook.

I’m just terrible. At talking. With words.

I’m a terrible cook. I am not allowed to go in the kitchen anymore after I almost burned down the apartment in New York.

In primary school I was terrible. I don’t think I was particularly well behaved in high school, but I started to apply myself.

No shame in it. Some of us needs an edge on things make us feel right, else we ain’t like feeling at all, aye?

Oh, man, pop singers are terrible actors. We’re all bad.

Mood disorders are terribly painful illnesses, and they are isolating illnesses. And they make people feel terrible about themselves when, in fact, they can be treated.

Reality TV, although I’m a part of it, I think reality TV is a terrible thing.

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

I’m not sure I’d hire myself in anything. I certainly couldn’t be an actor. That would be terrible. For everyone.

There are three terrible ages of childhood – 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

There’s a lot of terrible things goin’ on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end.

He must have stood there for a long time, making a list of all the terrible things he had done—almost killinng me was one of those thingss—and another list of all the good, heroic, brave...

I was a terrible actor. The analytical part of my mind never quite let go.

…How terrible, those dreams before sleep were—the worse kind, mixing hope with despair…

Nothing like being in a dream, then waking up to a nightmare.

A mother’s life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

Perhaps everything terrible is, in its deepest being, something that needs our love.

I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that.

There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.

Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible beauty. And Harry felt, as he had felt about phoenix song before, that...

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?

I said of the world around us.”Is it not terrible?

Sometimes novels are considered ‘important’ in the way medicine is – they taste terrible and are difficult to get down your throat, but are good for you.

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.