Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew I could do.
Anna Neagle

Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.
Ben Shahn

One either has to believe in a God who's terribly prejudiced, or disbelieve the teachings of such exclusionary theologies. Religions have taught us that 'we are better than they.'
Neale Donald Walsch

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Bertrand Russell

People know something has gone terribly wrong with our government and it has gotten so far off track. But people also know that there is nothing wrong in America that a good old-fashioned election can't fix.
Sarah Palin

Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.
Robert Penn Warren

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.
Milton Berle

Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.
Jacques Lacan

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question "How?" but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question "Why?"
Erwin Chargaff

Season number seven! It's been so exciting for us. When we first began, we were like the little train that could... and we did! We're terribly excited! It will be an interesting season for us, I think.
Roma Downey

Sometimes I have given my husband a manuscript to read that has turned out to have fantastic rave reviews and he'll tell me it is no good. Well, if I didn't know him as well as I know him I would be terribly depressed.
Katherine Dunham

That business of relaxation, which is so terribly modern today, is all good and well, but my work interests me so much, and is so varied, that many times it seems relaxing when I go from one aspect to another.
Arne Jacobsen

The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it.
Robert Sheckley

The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case.
Howard Nemerov

The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.
Aldrich Ames

The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.
John Templeton

There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.
Wilson Mizner

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
Oscar Wilde

There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.
George Steiner

These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.
Lou Reed