#terrible

That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it. ↗

— Alberto Giacometti

#finish #impossible #more #picture #terrible

When we write, we complement each other. We wrote six songs, Barry and I, while Robin was ill during the American tour, and they were terrible until Robin came back, and then everything worked out. ↗

— Maurice Gibb

#back #barry #came #complement #during

I grew up in a very small, close-knit, Southern Baptist family, where everything was off-limits. So I couldn't wait to get to college and have some fun. And I did for the first two years. And I regret a lot of it, because my grades were in terrible shape. I never got in serious trouble, except for my grades. ↗

— John Grisham

#because #college #did #everything #except

When the audience is awful you can still have a great night and people will walk out thinking they had a great time even though there was loads of loudmouths and the sound was terrible. ↗

— Leo Kottke

#awful #even #great #great time #had

Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it. Women know where it lives but they can let it alone. ↗

— Russell Hoban

#between #biggest #biggest difference #difference #existence

In Britain you're more used to challenging drama. In America, TV is just boring, and numbing, and bloody terrible. ↗

— Michael Imperioli

#bloody #boring #britain #challenging #drama

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#breaking #destroying #devised #different #down

I'm a terrible interviewer. I'm not a journalist - although I have a Peabody Award - and I'm not really a late-night host. What I am is honest. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#am #award #honest #host #i

The problem is you tend to look back and identify mistakes, and as a consequence of feeling terrible about mistakes you say you bungled this so bad, let's get out of here. ↗

— Bob Kerrey

#back #bad #consequence #feeling #get

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#had #him #i #open #saw