Terribly Quotes

In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer.

I was terribly gawky, too goofy to become a high-kicking cheerleader, with stringy brown hair and bad posture. Definitely nobody noticeable!

Yes, this is Mango himself. Listen I'm terribly busy and don't have time for a phone interview right now.

You can't have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, they're not going to hear them in America. I believe it's part of their education.

I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.

I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.

A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me.

I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I find it terribly easy. And so, rather than trying to hunt up a text, I just wrote one.

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity.

I felt like a loser. I was unhappy as a child most of the time. We were terribly poor and I hated my size.

I'm incredibly boring; I had a very happy childhood. I never starved, nor did I have a silver spoon in my mouth. I'm one of those terribly middle-of-the-road, British middle class, South London gents.

I shall now proceed to my own experience, which hath truly convinced me, the Lord is awakened as one out of sleep; and the voice of the Lord will shake terribly the earth.

Improvisation is terribly haphazard.

I do a lot of planning and plotting. That's my greatest weakness. If I'm not terribly careful, I'll plan to a point where it could come out cut and dried.

All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over.

Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

I don't think I could be terribly demanding even if I wanted to be.

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question "How?" but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question "Why?"

I realized immediately that this was a terribly important discovery, but I didn't realize how important it would be until we had spent a lot of time in the laboratory studying it.

When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you, that that person is reflective of our community and of our society.

I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.

I'm not terribly fond of soapboxes.

I never felt terribly comfortable in the public eye.

For about the first ten years of my career, I wasn't terribly motivated.

The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.

If workmen are denied any increase in real wages and they can look forward only to a better standard of living through reduction of prices, progress for them is terribly slow, and they become impatient and dissatisfied.

I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.

I had to audition for the part of Jnior, and I wanted the role terribly because I knew it was a great character. This guy is a wonderful, funny, mean old guy.

No, I'm not at all adventurous. I'm terribly cowardly.

A President doesn't have a terribly long time to talk to people who are not really on the agenda.