#terri

In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#atomic bomb #bomb #damage #desolation #eden

It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#assumptions #communism #during #era #evolved

I came to Los Angeles and did auditions for television. I made a terrible mess of most of them and I was quite intimidated. I felt very embarrassed and went back to London. I got British television jobs intermittently between the ages of 23 and 27, but it was very patchy. ↗

— Michael Fassbender

#angeles #auditions #back #between #british

I write of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a terrifying concept. ↗

— James M. Cain

#concept #i #i write #reason #some

Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

#ancient times #been #consideration #divided #division

If you do one good thing, that doesn't define you either. Being around the kids in the juvenile center, they were engaging, they made us laugh but they were there for doing something terrible. ↗

— Ryan Gosling

#being #center #define #doing #either

I don't consider myself a survivor; that's someone who has gone through something terrible. ↗

— Geraldine Ferraro

#gone #i #myself #someone #something

Nowadays I'd describe myself as earnest, terribly earnest. I'm the person who wants everybody in the room to feel important and happy. ↗

— America Ferrera

#earnest #everybody #feel #happy #i

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. ↗

— Dominic Chianese

#because #character #funny #great #great character

What happened with Hurricane Katrina was the American electorate was forced to look at what lay behind the veneer of chest-beating. We all saw the consequences of having terrible government leadership. ↗

— Susan Faludi

#behind #consequences #electorate #forced #government