#terri

One of the central memories of my childhood is of hunting - not well; I am a terrible shot - quail and dove and grouse on a farm on the Tennessee River. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#central #childhood #dove #farm #hunting

I have a really terrible sense of direction. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#i #really #sense #terrible

This is the absolute truth: and on this truth our tactics must be based. All tactics that are not based on this are false, and lead the proletariat to terrible defeat. ↗

— Herman Gorter

#absolute truth #based #defeat #false #lead

The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

#find #quest #terrible #terrible thing #thing

I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all. ↗

— Catherine the Great

#business #gentle #i #i am #kindly

I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#because #disability #fingers #handwriting #hit

I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books. ↗

— John Green

#books #i #living #lot #read

There is a lot of talk in publishing these days that we need to become more like the Internet: We need to make books for short attention spans with bells and whistles - books, in short, that are as much like 'Angry Birds' as possible. But I think that's a terrible idea. ↗

— John Green

#attention #attention spans #become #bells #bells and whistles

I get terrible butterflies. Before I go onstage, I'll have to freak out for five minutes. I scream. It seems to help! ↗

— Josh Groban

#butterflies #five #freak #get #go

Beauty, grace, and charm my foot. It's a school for sadists with good tea-serving skills. ↗

— Libba Bray

#boarding-schools #gemma-doyle #humor #libba-bray #beauty