Terribly Quotes

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.

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 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.

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.

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

It's interesting to fantasize having a man sink his teeth into your neck for sustenance, knowing that it isn't going to be terribly painful but rather very exciting.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop.

I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.

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.

It wasn't like a Maths test where I have to strain to get it right. I feel very close to Luna so acting her was just natural. And if I had got too nervous I'd have done terribly.

Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.

I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.

The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case.

People know something has gone terribly wrong with our government and it has gotten so far off track. But people also know that there is nothing wrong in America that a good old-fashioned election can't fix.