Terrible Quotes - Page 23

• When you said you were a terrible singer, I thought you were being humble. But you weren't.

  Paul McCartney

  Music, Humble, Singers

  "Steve Martin - a man with two reigns" by Andrew Purcell, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2011.

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• It all made sense - terrible sense. The panic she had experienced in the warehouse district because of not knowing what had happened had been superseded at the newsstand by the even greater panic of partial knowledge. And now the torment of partly knowing had yielded to the infinitely greater terror of knowing precisely

  Flora Rheta Schreiber

  Knowing, Panic, Mental Health

  Flora Rheta Schreiber (1975). “Sybil”

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• A terrible depression yesterday. Visions of my life petering out into a kind of soft-brained stupor from lack of use.

  Sylvia Plath

  Depression, Yesterday, Vision

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.314, Anchor

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• She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it was insane. Civilized society is insane. Money and so-called love are its two great manias; money a long way first. The individual asserts himself in his disconnected insanity in these two modes: money and love.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Depression, Two, Long

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3771, Delphi Classics

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• It's a terrible thing to be lonesome, especially in the middle of a crowd.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Crowds, Mental Health, Middle

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• The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature -were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Nature, Men, Law

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.452

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• We're talking about really vital services to people who are already in a terrible situation and really in need of emergency services - and there aren't alternatives.

  Kim Gandy

  Talking, People, Emergencies

  "Congress Helps Air Travelers, Ignores Victims of Rape and Domestic Violence" by Tim Murphy, www.motherjones.com. May 6, 2013.

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• Do I midnight snack? Not a lot, but sometimes. And it's usually Doritos Cooler Ranch. I know that's terrible, especially for a pro athlete, but they're just so good.

  Clint Mathis

  Athlete, Snacks, Midnight

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• I don’t know why terrible things happen to us sometimes.  But I have to believe that something good is going to come of this.

  Carrie Underwood

  Believe, Sometimes, Surfer

  "Fictional character: Sarah Hill". "Soul Surfer", www.imdb.com. 2011.

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• I sort of ended up in Los Angeles by accident. And it was sort of terrible to be jostled into this position of a fame-hungry starlet. Which is so honestly not me! In fact, I could use a bit more of that because I am such a hermit! So I allowed myself to get really bothered.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Use, Facts, Los Angeles

  The Allure magazine, March 2008.

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• I am heartbroken by the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in my home state. Like so many Americans I am watching the news reports with great sadness. But it's at times like these that each of us must work together to provide lifesaving aid to those in terrible need.

  Tim McGraw

  Heartbroken, Home, Sadness

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• Sometimes people tell me I'm a good guy.
  Thank God, I'd probably be a terrible woman

  Cameron Monaghan

  People, Guy, Thank God

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• I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.

  Winona Ryder

  Exhausted

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• There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Mean, Tolls, Roles

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• When I was in kindergarten, it took me like three months to learn how to spell my own name. But that's also not saying much considering I'm a terrible speller.

  Matt Czuchry

  Names, Three, Months

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People say I'm a nice girl saying terrible things. I tend to say the opposite of what I think. You hope that the absolute power of that transcends, and reaches the audience.

  Sarah Silverman

  Girl, Nice, Thinking

  "Quiet Depravity" by Dana Goodyear, www.newyorker.com. October 24, 2005.

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• I got what I have now through knowing the right time to tell terrible people when to go to hell.

  Leslie Caron

  Knowing, People, Hell

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• I eat cupcakes and I don't work out! But if you ask me in 10 years, I'm going to regret answering that way now. I don't even drink water, I'm terrible! I'm 24 now, so I guess I've been very, very lucky that it doesn't show that I like to eat. I should probably start working out I guess.

  Blake Lively

  Regret, Cupcakes, Years

  "Celebrities Who Say They Don’t Diet Or Exercise", www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2013.

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• I don't know if this classifies as a video game, but I have a terrible obsession with Angry Birds.

  Yvonne Strahovski

  Games, Bird, Video

  "Exclusive: Yvonne Strahovski Talks KILLER ELITE, the Final Season of CHUCK & Working With Streisand and Rogen in MY MOTHER’S CURSE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. September 19, 2011.

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• 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.

  Lauren Bacall

  Girl, Thinking, Hair

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• A terrible thing happened to me last night again—nothing.

  Phyllis Diller

  Sex, Night, Lasts

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• Great acting can be almost a psychotic mix of self-consciousness and unself-consciousness. And thats the terrible conflict. You have to be free to jump off into that volcano and you have to be pathologically self-conscious.

  Alec Baldwin

  Volcanoes, Self, Acting

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• There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.

  Barry Humphries

  Taken, Fate, Comedian

  "My Life as Me: A Memoir". Book by Barry Humphries, 2002.

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• You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame

  Aimee Mann

  Sweet, Bird, Cages

  Song: That's How I Knew This Story Would Break My Heart, Album: The Forgotten Arm, 2005

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• Well, I've cleaned bathrooms in a warehouse. That was pretty terrible. But I can't complain because I'm sure other people have done worse.

  Cee Lo Green

  People, Complaining, Done

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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