Terrific Quotes

The USGA is terrific. I've designed my course in Bedminster to the highest standards of the USGA, and it's a very special course. — Donald Trump

Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy. — Agnes Martin

There have been ups and downs, but it has taught us a lot in life. Going with the team through those ups and downs is a terrific journey. — Sachin Tendulkar

I have a terrific pain in the back of my head. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Any idea of a United India could never have worked and in my judgment it would have led us to terrific disaster. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

That's not a father. That's a sperm donor. Forget him. He's a mess. Concentrate on me. I'm terrific. -(Linc Blaise) — Jennifer Crusie

To borrow from the writings of a spider named Charlotte: 'Silk is terrific!' — Cheryl Hayashi

The meteor flag of England Shall yet terrific burn, Till danger's troubled night depart, And the star of peace return. — Thomas Campbell

New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!' — Elaine Stritch

I think I'm going to end up as one terrific old lady! — Kathryn Harrold

It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it. — Frank Lloyd Wright

I had never read Upton Sinclair. I didn't read 'The Jungle' in high school or anything like that. But it's pretty terrific writing. — Paul Thomas Anderson

I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American writers. — Lisa Scottoline

'Temeraire' is a terrific meld of two genres that I particularly love - fantasy and historical epic. — Peter Jackson

Her breasts were good, her thighs were terrific. When she shook hands with me, I felt something click down back of my solar plexus. — Robert B. Parker

The most stormy ebullitions of passion, from blasphemy to murder, are less terrific than one single act of cool villainy. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Backstage life is terrific training for an actor, seeing shows from the wings. — Alan Alda

Humor is a terrific tool for explaining things, especially when what you're explaining is frightening or dull and complicated. — P. J. O'Rourke

Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific! — Ed Koch

It needs to said that Gerard Brennan's The Point is terrific. Scorchingly funny, black humour at its finest and the most inventive car theft ever! — Arlene Hunt

Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The cost of doing something would be terrific; the cost of doing nothing even greater. — Diane Chamberlain

When you're the best, and you know you're the best, and your contemporaries know you're the best, that's a terrific edge. — Raymond Floyd

I have an old brain but a terrific memory. — Al Lewis

Hey this is terrific!" Zaphod said. "Someone down there is trying to kill us! — Douglas Adams

Christ, it's official. I have a hard-on for a straight guy. That's just terrific. — Ella Frank

I think one of the most important skills of a local organizer of a local economy is an ability to put on a terrific street party. — David Korten

It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life. — Helen Garner

I have a terrific headache. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Any work that is really great hovers between terrific and terrible. — Laurie Simmons

I'm not sure Americans are hesitant to do this again - to fight another war, because it looked to them like a courageous and terrific endeavor. — Ashleigh Banfield

It felt terrific. It felt deeper and richer than laughter. It felt like opening a door and tumbling headfirst into a pile of feathers. — Leslea Tash

The writing is a joy, so seamless you nearly miss the sheer artistry of the style and the terrific, wry humour. — Ken Bruen

Those who have been used of God had to pay a terrific price. — Oswald J. Smith

The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping. — Benjamin Britten

I'm thrilled I have the opportunity to do the 'Spread' show and have the terrific sponsors that we work with like Nikon or Verizon. — Dave Navarro

I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone. — Madhur Bhandarkar

If work is so terrific, how come they have to pay you to do it? — George Carlin

I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific. — Miranda Richardson

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. — Minna Antrim

From their maneuvers and their terrific speed I am certain their flight performance was greater than any aircraft known today. — Frank Herman Schofield

I think Chris Burden is terrific. I really do. — Andy Warhol

I was raised in a really terrific, close family, and I've never needed to escape anything or to really let myself go by dancing on tables. — Blake Lively

Demi Moore is a terrific woman and a hell of an actress. — Mark Goddard

My gift, if I have one, is choosing terrific talent and providing the atmosphere for them to do their best work. — Geraldine Stutz

Terrific. A bisexual dominant vampire with kidnapping expertise. — J.R. Ward

I think the image of golfers is terrific, and rightly so. — Pete Sampras

You can be as beautiful and charming as you'd like, but if you're not terrific at acting, it will mean nothing on the screen. — Steven Moffat

The arc of Ken Griffey Jr.'s swing has gotten bigger than when he hit line drives. Juan Gonzalez is a terrific power hitter, too. — Tony La Russa

Helen Hunt is terrific, and I got to do a couple of guest spots with Helen and Paul Reiser on 'Mad About You.' — Lyle Lovett

Terrific minds focus on tips; average minds go over activities; little minds talk about people today. — Eleanor Roosevelt

I was a terrific liar as a child, and I believe my lies. So it's a natural step into acting. — Anthony Geary

So you're an angel, fine, that's terrific. Now give me back my shadows. (Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel) — Peter S. Beagle

I do enjoy exercise, not because I am an exercise junkie but because it's terrific stress release. — Tony Abbott

What impresses me is the young actors with terrific talent arriving on the scene. They'd have blown us all away in the old days. Guys like Brad Pitt. — Robert Wagner

I loved the fact that Obama is multi-racial. I thought that was terrific, as my wife is the same racial make-up. — Clint Eastwood

I'm not denying that he's a terrific guy, but I'm not sure he's terrific for me. — Lauren Weisberger

If someone says to you, 'Go to an old-folks' home,' that's kind of ridiculous, because a lot of old people are doing terrific things for society. — Myron Scholes

Reality is a terrific drug. — Jason Gurley

Whenever I mention Greg Kinnear's name to anyone, they always say, "Oh, love him!" He's a really terrific actor, and very funny. — Miranda Otto

Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war. — William Lyon Mackenzie King

My wife and I would be very comfortable having a baby at home or using one of the terrific nurse-midwives at the hospital. — Chris Bohjalian

Men read either the novels it is possible to respect, or detective stories. But their consumption of detective stories is terrific. — George Orwell

I think that fanaticism is terrific. As long as you don't have to live with it. Oh, yes, nobody should marry a writer. — Cynthia Ozick

Try writing an entire story with only a thousand words at your disposal. It's a terrific lesson in economy and precession. — Darynda Jones

I want our pie to grow all the people, but if some other guy's pie is growing a little faster, that's terrific. — Howard Warren Buffett

What are you doing here?" [ndr prison]
Selling Girl Scout cookies," I said. "Want some? The Samoas are terrific."
(Max II to Max) — James Patterson

I used to have a terrific flat stomach but now it's kind of blown out after two giant babies used it as a short-term apartment. — Amy Poehler

It's been a terrific life. — Ernie Harwell

I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific. — Jeff Bridges

Mahendra Singh Dhoni is a terrific match winner in any Condition — Sourav Ganguly

Naturally, I never told him I thought he was a terrific whistler. I mean you don't just go up to somebody and say, 'You're a terrific whistler. — J.D. Salinger

There is an abundance of data available in the digital world and if it's harnessed effectively and correctly it can provide terrific insights. — Gian Fulgoni

Simply adored Timothy Schaffert's The Coffins of Little Hope: the voice of Essie, the narrator, is terrific & the last line blew me away. — Nancy Pearl

Wilbur blushed. "But I'm not terrific, Charlotte. I'm just about average for a pig." "You're — E.B. White

Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences. — Edith Wharton

Oh, terrific," Dan muttered. "Just what we need. Another code! Why can't people just say what they mean? Why can't they say THE MAP IS IN THE DESK? — Jude Watson

It's funny what happens when you become a grandparent. You start to act all goofy and do things you never thought you'd do. It's terrific. — Mike Krzyzewski

She decided it was perhaps a little like marriage itself: a good idea that, like all ideas, lived awkwardly on earth. -Terrific Mother — Lorrie Moore

I think it would be terrific if everybody was alike. — Andy Warhol

Hills are terrific for running. — Bill Rodgers

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

We have traveled through space and time. We have been many places. Visited many worlds. And there is good news: the acoustics everywhere are terrific. — Libba Bray

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living. — Arnold Bennett

Writers would be warm, loyal, and otherwise terrific people-if only they'd stop writing. — Laura Miller

I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No. — Woody Allen

You're terrific as far as I am concerned. — E.B. White

A woman's body is like a violin and all, and that it takes a terrific musician to play it right — J.D. Salinger

Terrific. Now to win a larceny trial all we have to do is prove how the universe ends. — Adam Schiff

If you're willing to go along for this farcical ride, you'll find 'Dead Snow 2' to be one terrific zombie movie. — Leonard Maltin

The thought of getting pregnant again is terrific birth control. — Bethany Lopez

Cindy is a terrific writer and has both a studied - and an intuitive - understanding of the best practices of no-hype, high results copywriting. — Steve Slaunwhite

If someone wants to give me the lead in anyone of those films, and deal with those other complications, terrific, Im ready for them. — Joe Morton

I think e-books are terrific in their own right. I love being able to get on a plane and basically carry around seven books and it weigh 10 ounces. — James Patterson

I am very fond of Jeb Bush. He's a friend; he was a terrific governor of Florida. I worked with him on some immigration and education issues. — Condoleezza Rice

Whatever terrific events may inform our lives, it always comes to that in the end; we just want to lie down. — Brian W. Aldiss

Hot air balloons are terrific to shoot from, although they have become very expensive, as has most lodging and food in the Napa Valley. — Peter Menzel

I think Pat Robertson is a terrific fellow. — Billy Graham

I gave a Collings dreadnought to a young guitar player in the Valley where I live because he didn't have a good acoustic, and he's a terrific player. — David Crosby

The kind of young woman who can be a terrific torchbearer has high standards all the time, not just in her prom dress, but every, ordinary day. — Margaret D. Nadauld