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.

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

Something I always admire, especially in female comedians, is that they’re willing to make themselves look terrible.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

Oh, I’m terrible at travel.

Going to any loud place is terrible for me. I’m bad at loud restaurants.

One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.

Every time I see something terrible, it’s like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.

Would it be such a terrible thing for us to fall in love?” he asked. …”Ask me again in the morning.

IE6 was a bad experience for consumers, but it was a terrible for developers. Not only it was technically bad, but it was closed, and you couldn’t do much with it.

I’m really terrible with small children; they’re small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.

How terrible this darkness was, how bewildering, and yet mysteriously beautiful!

It’s not that there is a terrible morality in Hollywood. I think there isn’t any. There isn’t any, by and large.

Henry,’ at last said one, again dipping the spoon into the flaming spirit, ‘hast thou read Hoffman?”I should think so,’ said Henry.’What think you of him?”Why, that he writes admirably; and, moreover, what is more...

Not understanding anything is terrible, because I communicate very much in my real life.