#terrific

My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty. ↗

— Ian Hislop

#done #force #funny #gone #hadn

I don't have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I've been too lucky and that I'm over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#been #being #i #i do #issues

Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#admire #always #because #being #course

I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.' ↗

— Woody Allen

#asked #contraception #girl #i #me

I think A Midsummer Night's Dream would be terrific because of the transformations that occur. Or The Tempest, things like that. Extraordinary larger than life or supernatural element. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#dream #element #extraordinary #i #i think

The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping. ↗

— Benjamin Britten

#composer #having #idea #night #nighttime

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

I think that they had afforded me many opportunities to do good work there, and I think I did. It was a wonderful four years. I really worked with some great people, terrific producers, terrific editors. ↗

— Connie Chung

#did #editors #four #good #good work

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

I have an old brain but a terrific memory. ↗

— Al Lewis

#i #memory #old #terrific