A state that suppresses all freedom of speech and which by imposing the most terrible punishments treats each and every attempt at criticism however morally justified and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.

It makes sense that we came up with our public school system during the Industrial Revolution because it's like everybody is a factory worker eating their terrible food and going back to the room where you're silent and listening to an idiot. That's an epitomizing idea getting called 'Nothing' for your whole high school experience.

The food here is terrible and the portions are too small.

I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context.

Most people come to fear not death itself but the many terrible ways of dying.

I'd make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list.

I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs say or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything.

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.

My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances we've become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.

There's the famous thing that the A&R man from the record company is supposed to do: He's supposed to come into the studio and listen to the songs you've been recording and then say 'Guys I don't hear any singles.' And then everybody falls into a terrible depression because you have to write one.

Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it is rare to see one by himself the little woman and the kiddies are usually close at hand.

Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail the whole world knows about it.

It evolved from my experience in the fifties growing up during the McCarthy era and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.

Writing a novel is a terrible experience during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.