Terrible Things Quotes - Page 17

• It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.

  Louis C. K.

  People, Laughing, Terrible

  "That's Not Funny, That's C.K." by Joel Lovell, www.gq.com. August 2, 2011.

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• I certainly direct with confidence even if I'm not confident. I learned early on as an actor that confidence can be faked, and it's not always a terrible thing to do. A lot of times if people feel you're confident, then they're confident.

  George Clooney

  People, Actors, Terrible

  "George Clooney on Fame, Failure & Success, Cuaron’s ‘Gravity’ and ‘Monuments Men’" by Sophia Savage, www.indiewire.com. November 23, 2012.

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• I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything.

  Julia Child

  Thinking, Doctors, Eggs

  Interview with Polly Frost, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2009.

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• Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things.

  Kirk Douglas

  Awful, Terrible

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• A film is a terrible thing to waste.

  Roger Ebert

  Waste, Film, Terrible

  Roger Ebert's review of "A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III", www.rogerebert.com. February 12, 2013.

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• What a terrible thing it would be to be the Pope! What unthinkable responsibilities to fall on your shoulders at an advanced age! No privacy. No seclusion. No sin.

  Roger Ebert

  Fall, Responsibility, Age

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.657, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.

  Brian Eno

  Enough, Terrible, Agree

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• The terrible thing in England is if you interview a thousand people, five hundred of them will talk like they're going into a Guy Ritchie movie and the other five hundred will be Mr. Darcy. So we had to find cool, working class kids with no profile who could be John Travolta and James Dean and people like that.

  Ricky Gervais

  Kids, Class, People

  "Ricky Gervais Calls CEMETERY JUNCTION His SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER. Plus Info on His New HBO Animated Series". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. September 16, 2009.

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• The terrible thing is that one cannot be a Communist and not let oneself in for the shameful act of recantation. One cannot be a Communist and preserve an iota of one's personal integrity.

  Milovan ?ilas

  Integrity, Socialism, Communism

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• In our culture, we grow up thinking that failure is a terrible thing, that it's a setback, or worse, the end. Often it turns out to be the beginning of something better.

  Katherine Schwarzenegger

  Motivational, Growing Up, Thinking

  Katherine Schwarzenegger (2014). “I Just Graduated ... Now What?: Honest Answers from Those Who Have Been There”, p.46, Crown Archetype

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• I could do terrible things to people who dump unwanted animals by the roadside.

  James Herriot

  Animal, People, Dump

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• Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God?

  Dylan Thomas

  Life, Thank God, Garters

  'Under Milk Wood' (1954) p. 30

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• If you cannot endure to be thought in the wrong, you will begin to do terrible things to make the wrong appear right.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Acceptance, Endure, Terrible

  Sydney J. Harris (1964). “Leaving the Surface”

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• It's going to be so wonderful you're going to forget about all your troubles in the past! It's going to be so wonderful you're going to forget about all these things that happened before, those terrible things you've been through! Hallelujah? It will be worth it all when we see Jesus! Life's trials will seem so small, when we see Christ! One glimpse of His dear face, all sorrow will erase! So bravely run the race, 'til we see Christ!

  David Berg

  Running, Jesus, Past

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• The most terrible things end, at last.

  James Theodore Bent

  Lasts, Ends, Terrible

  James Theodore Bent (1885). “The Cyclades: Or, Life Among the Insular Greeks”, London, Longmans

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• You can never be truly happy in a life unless you have known a sorrow. All terrible things we have gone through in life have created spaces inside us where happiness can live Not to mention love.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Space, Sorrow, Gone

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• My first tattoo is a full-on Sailor Jerry situation on my hip - it's a swallow with big spread wings. When I got it I was 20 on St. Mark's Place in New York; I just walked in in a frenzy. It's still there 17 years later and it's not a terrible thing to look at.

  Maria Dahvana Headley

  Tattoo, New York, Years

  Source: www.mtv.com

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