Best 491 quotes in «awful quotes» category

I listened, vaguely knowing now that I had committed some awful wrong that I could not undo, that I had uttered words I could not recall even though I ached to nullify them, kill them, turn back time to the moment before I had talked so that I could have another chance to save myself.

I looked at myself in the mirror. I looked awful, but I always look awful in the mirror. I keep myself going with the firm belief that my real face is much better looking.

I love Sherlock Holmes. There's still an awful lot to steal from Conan Doyle. But within a tradition you can work in many different ways.

I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.

I'm actually embarrassed to tell people I'm Russian these days, because it's become such an awful place.

I made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

I'm a horrible control freak. It's awful! I'm nice, but if someone is folding some sheets while I am playing the guitar, I keep one eye on the way that they are folding the sheets.

I'm astonished how little fright I have of my own imagination. It really does baffle me that I don't get more scared because I'm capable of thinking up things that are so awful. On any given day I can imagine the worst.

I'm amazed that movies ever get finished at all - much less come out good once in a while. It's an awful lot of work and it can go wrong a thousand different ways.

I'm a terrible dancer! Oh, I'm an awful dancer!

I'm awful with directions, and I'm not very handy around the house.

I'm a very binary person in a bad way where it's like everything is either totally great or totally awful.

I'm awful dull, but I hope I've beat out something nigh the rights of this at last. And so GOD bless you, dear old Pip, old chap, GOD bless you!

I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common.

I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but 'Cabin In The Woods' cranks it up a few notches and becomes outrageous and totally bizarre.

I'm bloody awful at multi-tasking.

I'm fascinated by the awful, awful things that human beings do to each other.

I'm not a good time-off person. I'm awful on holiday. It comes from having that period when I didn't work. That really was the worst bit.

I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.

I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.

I'm not personally connected to the Internet, although nearly everyone that I know is, and many of them have a great time and no problems with it. And on the surface you can see that the Internet could go an awful long way to educating, enlightening, informing and connecting the world.

I'm quite sure more people fake an awful lot of everyday human contact. I just fake all of it." --Dexter

I must remember to forgive myself. Because there's an awful lot of gray to work with. No one can live in the light all the time."-A Great and Terrible Beauty

I'm terrible at reading fiction. I don't have the attention span - it's awful.

I'm really very lucky. I get to do an awful lot. I've been able to make an incredibly wide range of movies and work with an incredible array of people.

I'm terrible with money, absolutely awful. I'm always losing it.

I'm very direct. I don't have tantrums. I don't yell or shout. I do expect an awful lot from my staff, but no more than I expect of myself.

In film, a lot of the time you're not as engaged, it is all being given to you, and you're accepting it as it comes in, but in comics, as a reader, you are going to have to work, your imagination needs to do an awful lot.

In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.

In America we're in this awful situation, and you know, I hardly get any royalties anymore because music is just stolen from the internet.

In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.

In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a sign of something awful happening to the brain, whereas in most cases theyre not.

In fact, an awful lot of N.F.L. club owners have practically no influence on their players at all, simply because they're not full-time working owners.

In my mind my obituary is done.It is done and it is right. It tells the truth and as awful as it can be, the truth is what matters. It is what I should be remembered by, if I'm remembered at all. Remember the truth. that is all that matters

Instant-doomsday hyperbole caused the world's attention to focus on the hypothetical threat of global warming to the exclusion of environmental menaces that are real, palpable, and awful right now.

In that moment it dawned on me that everything has to line up perfectly for something to turn out this awful.

I really romanticized being pregnant. Then I realized, this is awful!

In this business actors who have Botox or surgery make you very aware of age. It's awful.

I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem.

I play golf - even though I'm awful at it.

I opened the door and Lend smiled. 'They look better on you.' 'Wow, they must look just awful on you then.' I smiled back.

I remember when TiVO first came out I was all about TiVo. I came home and that thing was frozen, and I thought 'This is awful. This is the end of the world'. Then I unplugged it, and I plugged it back in, and still frozen. It was paralyzing. I called them. They said, 'Just unplug it longer.' Fixed. But it also taught me I'm an addict.

Is it just me, or are the 49ers doing an awful lot of ass-patting today?

I saw the lightnings gleaming rod. Reach forth and write upon the sky The awful autograph of God.

I saw an awful lot of actresses, and some of them, you thought should be hospitalized. [They] should certainly eat a hamburger, for godsake.

I sometimes think I prefer suitors in books rather than right in front of me. How awful, backward, cowardly, and mentally warped that will be if it turns out to be true.

I sort of play golf because a lot of my friends are into it, but I'm awful - my handicap is about six or seven thousand.

I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations.

I spent an awful lot of time with Hemingway. And Hemingway had a remarkable ability to reach very noble goals through sometimes ignoble means.