#terri

I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit. ↗

— Jung Chang

#awarded #began #china #died #first

Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated. ↗

— Tom Chapin

#american #appreciated #beatles #bob #bob dylan

But here's the thing: I had this great job, and I would still feel terribly depressed. I would just be like, 'This isn't the sweet spot. I thought this would be it, and I don't feel happy.' ↗

— Anna Chlumsky

#feel #great #great job #had #happy

September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy. ↗

— Vernon Jordan

#september #stands #terrible #terrible tragedy #tragedy

I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear and we'll leave no trace. ↗

— Daniel Clowes

#die #disappear #i #i think #just

It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#borne #engine #excellent #fire #formidable

It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#laugh #make #people #positive #positive thing

Did you ever see the customers in health - food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half - dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#customers #dead #did #dying #ever

It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease. ↗

— Imogen Cunningham

#disease #keep #people #silly #terrible

Maybe philosophy - I love talking about ideas. Or maybe art history. I was thinking about psychology, then I got really afraid because everybody says it's terribly boring. ↗

— Claire Danes

#afraid #art #art history #because #boring