Usually terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all but just terrible things.

I think it's a terrible thing to write and not enjoy it. It's a sad thing. But of course a lot of people do work because they need to eat. And we all need to eat but that's not the only reason to work. You couldn't have paid me not to write.

Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really really really sad and horrible and terrible and really really really beautiful and funny.

The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs the final battleground of the American dream where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.

The only thing I would unequivocally say is that I have never had any interest in romantic comedy I just couldn't do it. I think I'd be terrible.

The Arab League tells us to go in and take out Qaddafi. We've spent billions of dollars already with respect to the Arab League. Billions of dollars because they told us to do it. Why aren't they paying for it? They don't like Qaddafi Qaddafi's been a terrible thorn in their side.

The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.

For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.

Eradicating a religion of kindness is I think a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.

I was writing short films and I was going through this really really really terrible end of a relationship that I didn't want to be going through. It was too much for me to process and all of a sudden I had this idea for my first feature film and I knew right away I had to start writing it.

I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.

I'm not a terrible person I know that but sometimes in a relationship I can be crappy.

Oh the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.

When a relationship doesn't work anymore it's terrible to stay with someone that you don't love.

It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.

When I was a kid no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.

Amnesty is a terrible policy and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law.

If a politician murders his mother the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.

All the modern verse plays they're terrible they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.

For me to propose a division of Jerusalem was really terrible. I did it because I reached a conclusion that without which there will not be peace.

Competition in armament both land and naval is not only a terrible burden upon the people but I believe it to be one of the greatest menaces to the peace of the world.

Yes peace can and must be won to save the world from the terrible destruction of World War III.

Our science has become terrible our research dangerous our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.

I'm terrible with patience.