(661 quotes found)
“This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.”
Oscar Wilde
“The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents.”
Orson Welles
“While nobles are crying in their nights' chains, the squires sing. The terrible politics of the Grail can never touch them. Song is the magic cape.”
Thomas Pynchon
“There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless”
Wilson Mizner
“It is a terrible thought, that nothing is ever forgotten; that not an oath is ever uttered that does not continue to vibrate through all times, in the wide spreading current of sound; that not a prayer is lisped, that its record is not to be found st”
William Cowper
“It's terrible. We're starting to look like Hong Kong, or Singapore at worst. Pretty soon you won't be able to throw a piece of gum on the street.”
Chris Noth
“You may have your suspicions, your fears, you may even believe there is something, somewhere, terribly, drastically wrong, but because someone else is in charge, because there is a part of the system above you which you don't know, you don't question it, you even distrust your own doubts.”
Graham Swift
“Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.”
Thomas Carlyle
“There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.”
Winston Churchill
“Dante is terrible, but he has disgusted nobody with Hades because he has placed in it all those who have loved”
Houssaye
