I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick and cliched as Hollywood movies. Poppy Z. Brite
I was a terrible student. Still, I managed to get into college, but my daydreaming threatened to sabotage me. I used behavior modification to break the cycle. I started by setting an arbitrary time limit on studying: for every 15 minutes of study, I'd allow myself an hour of daydreaming. I set the alarm. Sandra Cisneros
I went through a period at boarding school when my coaches wanted me to switch to snowboarding because they thought I was no good at skiing. I was too skinny. I had terrible technique. They were saying I should be a snowboarder, and luckily, I resisted. Bode Miller
I'm a terrible singer. I feel lucky to play baseball. You can't be gifted in everything. Alex Rodriguez
I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books. John Green
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.plato
In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I'd make one a week and finally I'd pull a bad one about once a month. Now, I'm trying to keep it down to one a season. Lou Gehrig
It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. Doris Lessing
It makes me sad that corporations and media and Hollywood conspire to make people feel terrible about their bodies from the second they wake up ,so I sort of try to subversively undercut that. Rob Delaney
It's very disappointing... Anything that harms the integrity of the game is terrible. We always thought we were immune to drugs in baseball, but we know that's not true anymore. Harmon Killebrew
Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers. Alain de Botton
Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible. Karl Malone
My first job was in a nursing home - a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the residents were so lonely. People rarely visited them. I only stayed there a couple of months, but it made a strong impression on me. Kim Edwards
One of life's terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they're doing. Anthony Bourdain
One thing that I discovered about myself is I really don't like traveling. I feel like it's a terrible personal failing, but I was so satisfied to arrive at the conclusion.Joshua Ferris
September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible. Doris Lessing
That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward. Ernest Hemingway