Best 491 quotes in «awful quotes» category

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

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.

I started to realise that being impolite saves an awful lot of time and costs you nothing.

I still get a little nervous when talking to girls. Which is awful, and embarrassing, because I feel like I shouldn't.

I still get awful depression. It's who I am.

I suspected my homosexuality, but I'd never acted out on it because I was afraid of sex. It's awful to be afraid of sex.

I take thee... to be my awful wedded husband

I tend not to like an awful lot of what is going out under my name now because it is just all product. Who needs it?

It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt.

I think humans have always been desperate. I think it has always been about doing something awful if it might help, when the only other option is death. Maybe that's what being a parent is supposed to feel like.

It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it’s lonely, because you feel you can’t talk about it.

I think it's pretty ridiculous to sit back and think that we've changed the horse so much, without realizing that they have changed us an awful lot too.

I think she [Eleanor Roosevelt] never was called because she probably didn't know an awful lot. The whole burden of the criticism of her on the subject of Communism is naiveté, not participation. And again, being a public figure and our representative at the UN, there was nothing Communist about her, certainly.

I think the hardest part [is] the priorities. There are an awful lot of things to do [being Secretary of State].

It is an awful thing to say, but if I was a Rover worker I would not be pinning my hopes on a deal by next Monday, I'd be looking for a new job.

It is awful hard to get people interested in corruption unless they can get some of it.

I think it's very amazing that I do horror films when I had this awful childhood. But maybe that's why I'm good at it.

I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the assumption that they're going through life only once. Tomorrow we die. Why not take chances, extend yourself? How awful it is when a person comes to the end of life full of regret.

It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.

It is possible that a scientific discovery will be made that humans will later regret because it has awful consequences. The problem is, we probably would not know in advance and, once the discovery is made, it cannot be undiscovered.

It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.

I tried playing electric for awhile and it just didn't work out. My reflexes are centered on the six string acoustic. I just played the electric too hard and it sounded awful, so I gave it up.

It's an awful thing to grow old by yourself. My wife hasn't had a birthday in seven years.

It's an awful stretcher to believe that a peacock's tail was thus formed but ... most people just don't get it - I must be a very bad explainer

It seems to me, correct me if I'm wrong, that there are an awful lot of people in Manhattan. And it's getting worse.

It's awful bad luck to bring a woman aboard the ship." "It's awful worse luck not to.

it’s awful. No privacy, no secrets. Everything you’re ashamed of, laid out for everyone to see.

It's awful to be afraid of sex, but I'm afraid that's what the '50s did to people. It was just sex is disgusting, it shouldn't be talked about. Nudity is disgusting, we just don't talk about those kinds of things.

It seems to me that the arts are rather flourishing. There's an awful lot of bad art about because of this, but that's true of every great era. I'm sure there was a lot dreadful art in the Renaissance that we fortunately don't see today.

It seems like every time I start to feel good, something really awful happens. It's like... it's really terrible.

It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see…I can only hope that’s correct, because there’s an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others.

It's ideal really. They will come up with a plan. No one will like it. Everyone will feel they have been treated unfairly, but will be happy that their neighbors feel the same. And that is the nature of compromise. Now let's go eat an awful lot.

It's just a big excuse to say awful things.

It's lovely to be told you're wonderful by someone when you're used to being told how awful you are.

It's like that scene from The Player when they talk about merging Star Wars and Kramer vs. Kramer, or whatever. You could do that with music and it would just be awful.

it's no longer socially acceptable to make bigoted statements and racist remarks. Some people are having an awful time with that: 'I didn't know anybody would be offended!' Well, where have you been? I remember when people got away with it and they don't anymore. That's fabulous.

I used to go to the gym regularly and swim an awful lot, but that was when I was unemployed and knew leisure intimately.

It's not a very big one, but at least it's dead and it took an awful lot of killing!

It's really boring to talk about what you ate and have 48,000 fans listen to you. It's awful.

It's pretty awful being told you're a racist.

It takes an awful lot of time to not write a book.

It wasn't awful to be dead. The stillness would almost be a relief. She wouldn't want pain, she wouldn't want to be wounded or mutilated. She could never shoot herself or jump off a building. But being dead wasn't unthinkable.

I used to have to think about awful things to get myself emotionally connected to something.

I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.

I've always been keenly aware of the passing of time. I've always thought that I was old. Even when I was twelve, I thought it was awful to be thirty. I felt that something was lost. At the same time, I was aware of what I could gain, and certain periods of my life have taught me a great deal. But, in spite of everything, I've always been haunted by the passing of time and by the fact that death keeps closing in on us.

I've seen an awful lot of plays that I'd read before they were put into production and been shocked by what's happened to them. In the attempt to make them straightforward and commercially successful, a lot of things go out the window.

I've had three biographies made about my life so people know an awful lot about me.