People only tell lies when there is something they are terribly frightened of losing.
I wouldn't call myself an actor or a singer for that matter, just a journeyman. [. . . ] I feel I must have a talent somewhere for doing something but I'm still not terribly sure what it is. I suppose it's a talent for being myself.
Yes. I was looking for Lettie. They were both very kind to me,” Percival said, “Even though they’d never seen me before. And Wizard Howl kept visiting to court Lettie. Lettie didn’t want him, and she asked me to bite him to get rid of him, until Howl suddenly began asking her about you and—“ “what?” he said, “ I know someone called sophie who looks a little like you. . And Lettie said, that’s my sister,’ without thinking,” Percival said. “ And she got terribly worried then, particularly as Howl went on asking about her sister.
I'm wonderfully self-lacerating, probably to my character's detriment. I'm terribly open to critique.
I am terribly shy, but of course no one believes me. Come to think of it, neither would I.
Be On Your Way is one of the favorite songs I've ever written. What a terribly sad song, but what a beautiful melody.
The Nazgul they were; the Ringwraiths, the Enemy's most terribly servants; darkness went with them and they cried with the voices of death.
Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.
Nowadays I'd describe myself as earnest, terribly earnest. I'm the person who wants everybody in the room to feel important and happy.
Social Security is a secure way to find great pleasure in being terribly deceived.
Once we've achieved perfect meditation, we're terribly trapped because that's an illusion. . . any enlightenment that seems ultimate is an illusion.
Been working and working But I still got so terribly far to go.
People stopped calling themselves Freethinkers because it was so specifically German and anything German was terribly unpopular because of the two world wars. My family became Unitarians instead - it's the same sort of thing.
Men always want to be terribly influential, but I see that as somewhat external. Do I imagine myself being influential? No. I want to understand. And if others understand--in the same sense that I have understood--that gives me a sense of satisfaction, like feeling at home.
And she was terribly aware that she was alive. Not just living and breathing, but. . . alive.
You know, I'm not terribly fast at my times tables, because that's not what I think mathematics is about.
I don't take myself terribly seriously. It's why I can be incredibly honest about my life.
As a boy I remember how terribly real the statues of the saints would seem at 7 o'clock Mass-before I'd had breakfast. From that I learned always to conduct hungry.
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.
So research is a terribly imperfect science, and you learn an awful lot more after you've published a book, because people keep writing to you and saying, 'Oh, gosh, I was related to such and such a character and I have a letter in my possession. '