#terrific

If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world. ↗

— Gene Tunney

#depended #human #human lives #judged #lives

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

#away #blown #brad #brad pitt #days

It's a terrific... you can't put it down. So I phoned him back and I said I'd love to do it. I went over to Paris for a meeting, and we just talked very generally about the approach. ↗

— Ronald Harwood

#approach #back #down #generally #him

I think A Midsummer Night's Dream would be terrific because of the transformations that occur. Or The Tempest, things like that. Extraordinary larger than life or supernatural element. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#dream #element #extraordinary #i #i think

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

#composer #having #idea #night #nighttime

Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated. ↗

— Tom Chapin

#american #appreciated #beatles #bob #bob dylan

I think that they had afforded me many opportunities to do good work there, and I think I did. It was a wonderful four years. I really worked with some great people, terrific producers, terrific editors. ↗

— Connie Chung

#did #editors #four #good #good work

One of the terrific aspects of MIT in those days was the enormous variety of experimental work that either took place there or was talked about in seminars by outside speakers aggressively recruited by the faculty. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#aggressively #aspects #days #either #enormous

I was fortunate to be part of a very successful show on CBS in 1986. I switched to NBC for eight years and through these experiences have gotten terrific insight into television; it's a fascinating medium. ↗

— Will McDonough

#eight #experiences #fascinating #fortunate #gotten

Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave? ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#beyond #fancy #grave #hell #our