Terrific Quotes - Page 2

• Justin Timberlake is terrific in this film. I told him it's time to stop singing.

  Bruce Willis

  Singing, Film, Justin

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• Don't give up. Keep going. there is always a chance that you stumble onto something terrific. I have never heard of anyone stumbling over anything while he was sitting down

  Ann Landers

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Giving Up

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• Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Perspective, Fancy, Hell

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (Illustrated)”, p.398, Delphi Classics

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• Every piece of entertainment is made with the idea that 'This is going to be terrific' and 'This is the best thing I've ever done' and then it hits the public and then the public tells you whether it's good or bad.

  William Shatner

  Ideas, Done, Pieces

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• What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

  J. D. Salinger

  Book, Reading, Memorable

  Catcher in the Rye (1951) ch. 3

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• She was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think they have to keep moving their hand all the time, as if they were afraid they'd bore you or something. Jane was different. We'd get into a goddam movie or something, and right away we'd start holding hands, and we wouldn't quit till the movie was over. And without changing the position or making a big deal out of it. You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Moving, Thinking

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• In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.

  Nate Silver

  Baseball, Data, Creative

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• The principal feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things — war and hunger and date rape — liberals testify to their own terrific goodness. More important, they promote themselves to membership in a self-selecting elite of those who care deeply about such things.... It's a kind of natural aristocracy, and the wonderful thing about this aristocracy is that you don't have to be brave, smart, strong or even lucky to join it, you just have to be liberal.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Strong, War, Smart

  "Give War a Chance". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1992.

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• Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.

  Stephen King

  Real, Writing, Differences

  "Stephen King says ‘Twilight’ author ‘can't write’". www.today.com. February 4, 2009.

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• That sounds terrific, thought Cary, just you, your comatose wife your shell-shocked son, and your daughter who hates your guts. Not to mention that your two kids may be in love with each other. Yeah, that sounds like a perfect family reunion.

  Cassandra Clare

  Funny, Daughter, Hate

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• We have traveled through space and time. We have been many places. Visited many worlds. And there is good news: the acoustics everywhere are terrific.

  Libba Bray

  Space, News, World

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• You're terrific as far as I am concerned.

  E. B. White

  Concerned

  "Fictional character: Charlotte". "Charlotte's Web", www.imdb.com. 1973.

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• Mrs. Murdo, walkind even more briskly to keep her spirits up, was crossing Harken Square when something fell to the pavement just in front of her with a terrific thump. How extraordinary, she thought, bending to pick it up. It was sort of a bundle. She began to untie it.

  Jeanne DuPrau

  Squares, Bending, Pavement

  Jeanne DuPrau (2016). “The City of Ember Complete Series”, p.198, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• A terrific sadness swept over Jerry. As if somebody had died. The way he felt standing in the cemetry that day they buried his mother. And nothing you could do about it.

  Robert Cormier

  Mother, Sadness, Way

  Robert Cormier (2013). “The Chocolate War”, p.172, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• That’s not a father. That’s a sperm donor. Forget him. He’s a mess. Concentrate on me. I’m terrific. (Linc Blaise)

  Jennifer Crusie

  Father, Forget, Donors

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• Oh, terrific," Dan muttered. "Just what we need. Another code! Why can't people just say what they mean? Why can't they say THE MAP IS IN THE DESK?

  Judy Blundell

  Mean, People, Needs

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• During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.

  Jonathan Kozol

  School, Black And White, Achievement

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• Abby: I could be a slave to your darkest desires. I can do things. Anything you want. Tommy: Well, that's terrific, because we have a lot of laundry piled up and the apartment is a wreck. Abby: Anything you desire, my lord. I can do laundry, clean, bring you small creatures to quench your thirst until I am worthy.

  Christopher Moore

  Desire, Wrecks, Want

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• They had behind them, to my mind, the terrific suggestiveness of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares.

  Joseph Conrad

  Dream, Darkness, Mind

  Joseph Conrad “Heart of Darkness”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Don't confine yourself to a select group of friends, often known as a clique. Cliques by definition leave people out. Lock yourself into one, and you'll never know how many terrific friendships you may be missing.

  Jerry Spinelli

  People, Missing, Groups

  Jerry Spinelli, Eileen Spinelli (2014). “Today I Will”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I'm not denying that he's a terrific guy, but I'm not sure he's terrific for me.

  Lauren Weisberger

  Guy, Not Sure

  Lauren Weisberger (2009). “Chasing Harry Winston: A Novel”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• It's like being a little kid again, parading around in a nightgown tucked into your underpants, believing it looks terrific.

  Tina Fey

  Believe, Kids, Looks

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• Any idea of a United India could never have worked and in my judgment it would have led us to terrific disaster.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Ideas, India And Pakistan, India Pakistan

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• The sentence im reading is terrific.

  J. D. Salinger

  Reading, Sentences

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• I'd swear to God, if I were a piano player or an actor or something and all those dopes thought I was terrific, I'd hate it. I wouldn't even want them to clap for me. People always clap for the wrong things. If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.

  J. D. Salinger

  Hate, Player, Dope

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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