Terrific Quotes - Page 3

• I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling.

  Hugh Jackman

  Love, Fall, Men

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• The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and tortuous.

  Anna Quindlen

  Family, Mom, Daughter

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.113, Ballantine Books

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• In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again: and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life; toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God.

  James Agee

  Life, Peace, Children

  James Agee, Walker Evans (2001). “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families”, p.255, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read. Fought against it for a minute. Then looked out the window at the rain. And gave over. Put myself entirely in the keep of this rainy morning. Would I live my life over again? Make the same unforgivable mistakes? Yes, given half a chance. Yes.

  Raymond Carver

  Morning, Mistake, Lying

  Raymond Carver (2015). “All of Us: The Collected Poems”, p.135, Vintage

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• Just for the record, how I feel right now is very terrific.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Records, Feels Right, Right Now

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

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• The sentence im reading is terrific.

  J. D. Salinger

  Reading, Sentences

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• Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy.

  Agnes Martin

  Art, Thinking, Worry

  "Perfection Is in the Mind". Interview with Joan Simon, August 21, 1995.

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• The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Jan 13, 2014

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• Hey, this is terrific!" he said. "Someone down there is trying to kill us!" "Terrific," said Arthur. "But don't you see what this means?" "Yes. We are going to die." "Yes, but apart from that." "Apart from that?!" "It means we must be on to something!" "How soon can we get off it?

  Douglas Adams

  Mean, Trying, Hey

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.87, Pan Macmillan

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• You say, "But He has not answered." He has, He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet, but presently you will.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Silence, Answers

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer”, p.47, Discovery House

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• It's funny what happens when you become a grandparent. You start to act all goofy and do things you never thought you'd do. It's terrific.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Grandpa, Goofy, Happens

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• The Republican Party is terrific at determining how a program will impact the federal budget, but we're not nearly as good as the Democrats in explaining to people how our agenda will directly benefit them and their families.

  J. C. Watts

  Party, Impact, People

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• Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea, God Bless, keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and paid forward for the next kid who comes along.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Kids, Ideas, Looks

  Elizabeth Warren (2014). “A Fighting Chance”, p.215, Metropolitan Books

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• There are people who are able to plan their career, their future, but I've never had any talent for that. I just do things and hope for the best. Say yes, take a chance, and sometimes it's terrific and sometimes it's not.

  Christopher Walken

  Careers, People, Able

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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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• 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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• I've had two terrific relationships, but both ended in marriage.

  Jane Seymour

  Two

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• The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Christian, Character, Religion

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• 'Cabin Fever' was very much inspired by 'The Thing.' It's really a perfect guy's horror movie: There's no love story, it's just straight-up horror. And it's so well-done. It moves at a slow pace, but it's really terrific.

  Eli Roth

  Moving, Perfect Guy, Cabins

  "24 Hours Of Horror With Eli Roth". Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. October 24, 2007.

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• Chile could work as a double for L.A.; it's very production-friendly and there's terrific talent down there.

  Eli Roth

  Friendly, Talent, Chile

  Interview with Elisa Osegueda, www.fandango.com. May 8, 2013.

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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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• I am definitely a Type A personality, always rushing around, trying to do too much, not good at just lying on the beach. But I'm so thankful for everything I have: wonderfully supportive parents and sisters, the best husband in the world, terrific students I love teaching and hanging out with, and above all, my two amazing daughters.

  Amy Chua

  Daughter, Mother, Beach

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• I do think the Roman Catholic religion is a disease of the mind which has a particular epidemiology similar to that of a virus... Religion is a terrific meme. That's right. But that doesn't make it true and I care about what's true. Smallpox virus is a terrific virus. It does its job magnificently well. That doesn't mean that it's a good thing. It doesn't mean that I don't want to see it stamped out.

  Richard Dawkins

  Jobs, Mean, Thinking

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• Some people try to get out of jury duty by lying. You don't have to lie. Tell the judge the truth. Tell him you'd make a terrific juror because you can spot guilty people.

  George Carlin

  Lying, People, Judging

  "George Carlin: What Am I Doing in New Jersey?". TV Special, www.imdb.com. June 12, 1988.

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• Gee, what a terrific party. Later on we'll get some fluid and embalm each other.

  Neil Simon

  Funny, Sarcastic, Party

  Neil Simon (1979). “The collected plays of Neil Simon”, Plume Books

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