I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.
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.
A terrible thing happened to me last night again—nothing.
An income means life to wretched mortals, but it is a terrible fate to die among the waves.
I'm a terrible long-term planner.
Intensely vivid characters, terrible crimes, and a brutal deep-frozen landscape all prove beyond a reasonable doubt that cold nurtures good and evil as readily as heat. . . and that Giles Blunt is a really tremendous crime novelist.
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
Tereza had gone back to sleep; he could not. He pictured her death. She was dead and having terrible nightmares; but because she was dead, he was unable to wake her from them. Yes, that is death: Tereza asleep, having terrible nightmares, and he unable to wake her.
I'm a terrible dancer. The worst.
I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.
What a terrible thing, I thought, to let a moment go.
O Space and Time and stars at strife, How dreadful your infinity! Shrined by your termless trinity, How strange, how terrible, is life! (“The Testimony of the Suns”)
There’s been terrible things we seen, en’t there? And more a coming, more’n likely. So I think I’d rather not know what’s in the future. I’ll stick to the present.
Prostitution is the supreme triumph of capitalism. When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women, for the moral tarring and feathering they give indigenous women who have had the bad luck to live in what they make their humping ground.
Chess is a terrible game. If you have no center, your opponent has a freer position. If you do have a center, then you really have something to worry about!
I hated it. I hated this. I hated feeling so terrible because of someone else.
There's a terrible delight in watching a rival sink without a trace
To work on the actual location I think is great. This thing of going to Canada and pretending you're in New York, it's terrible.
I was 20 years old. I had moved to Los Angeles from Columbus, Ohio. I was working as a piano salesman - a terrible piano salesman. I couldn't sell them. I could demonstrate them, but people wouldn't buy them from me.
It's terrible. How can we tell the world who the real Michael Jackson is?