Best 491 quotes in «awful quotes» category

You don't want to buy a surprise, because then the surprise is how awful it looks on you.

You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, like, 'Why didn't I choose something else?' But overall I'm pretty satisfied that I made the right choice when I decided to be an actor.

You go to someone and you think, 'I'll tell him this.' But why? The impulse is that the telling is going to relieve you. And that's why you feel awful later--you've relieved yourself, and if it truly is tragic and awful, it's not better, it's worse---the exhibitionism inherent to a confession has only made the misery worse.

You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.

Young entrepreneurs should spend an awful lot of time thinking about what they want to go into.

You're right, Halt,' she said, and he nodded acklowledgement of her backing down. 'Nice to hear someone else saying that for a change,' Will said cheerfully. 'Seems like I've said those words an awful lot in my time.' Halt turned a bleak gaze on him. 'And you've always been right.

fleas are like a bad habit—awfully hard to get rid of once you get them

Ah! listen the song of storm from my disturbed soul;and it scatters flower buds into its lonely halls;like every pain needs a dirge,with wreaths that awful the world framed one for me,and gives the time it calls.

But I have, I suppose, become through the power of love, awful, relentless.

You sit and you read that, and you have to imagine turning it into a film that people are going to sit and watch. And you have an awful lot of input from a lot of other people. That's the way I work.

Everything just sounds awful to me.

I can't tell you—oh I can't tell you—how awful—how sort of unlivable—everything is now—like a great black wall in front of me—Something's got to smash.

It was confusing and awful and made her want to break things.

If you’re waiting for a path to emerge magically before you actively start building your dream, you’re going to be waiting for an awfully long time.

It would be awful. It would be brilliant.

Majority wins, but majority is not necessarily right and sometimes majority is awfully wrong.

Times goes by your choice, if you make your days wonderful the days will go fast... and interesting and memorable.... If you do it in boring way they will go like watching a film which doesn't have something to make you get interested without games, crimes, horror, thriller, romance and every single other genre which you think without it the film is awful... but not only genre, but genres!

Now I am playing this game of being nice… UGHH it's awful.

There's work to do.

Though I knew I had the potential to do this locked in me like a poisonous pet snake, I knew I didn't have the part of a person you must have to turn that potential kinetic, to be the kind of person who can let their awful plow.

Nobody here wants to be awful," he said. He hopped a little as he zipped up. "It's just nobody here knows all the rules yet, and that makes a rocky time.

No matter how awful something is, you can always sell tickets.

Oh my life is so awful, it's just so awful to be me, you don't know what it's like waking every morning and finding the whole horror of being yourself still there.

Some dark Presence watching by my bed, The awful image of a nameless dread ―

The maddened four men followed frantically, for it is better to be in the presence of the awful than only within hearing. ("The Black Dog")

The thick baffling blades of false world customs rip off my views and ideas,like breaking every string of my aesthetic thoughts in disdain and jealousy;pain pain enough your tigrine roars before I die.

To have been possessed by something so awful and so alien, and then the next morning wake up from it, remember what happened, and realize what I had done, with a clear mind and all my essential moral and ethical feelings intact at that moment, [I was] absolutely horrified that I was capable of doing something like that.

To break free from this vexatious and awful never-ending cycle, this flood of outrageous thoughts, and to long for nothing more than simply to sleep--how clean, how pure, the mere thought of it is exhilarating.

Abba's last tour was a success but awful for me.

Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.

You remember that saying, 'Today is the first day of the rest of your life?' There's something awful about that saying.

Abortion is an act of desperation. It's an awful solution to a situation that God can work out for good through adoption.

Acting on a blue screen is awful.

A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.

Actresses are such very dull people off the stage. We are only delightful and brilliant when we are doing what we are told to do. Off stage we are awful chumps.

A friend of mine said, 'Leukemia hasn't met Susan Butcher yet,' and I agree with her. It's going to have to fight awful hard if it wants to take me.

An awful lot of storytelling isn't really about making people understand - it's about making people care.

All I know is just what I read in the Congressional Record. They have had some awful funny articles in there lately. As our government deteriorates, our humor increases.

All was black, gloomy and awful. There was no light at the end of the tunnel - or if there was, it was an oncoming train.

An awful lot of actors who are considered very good actors are not very good actors. There are people who just strike gold, they have intrinsic talent, but the point is that if they did train, it would not inhibit them. If they were with a good teacher, it would only broaden them more.

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.

All the untidyactivity continues, awful but cheerful.

An awful lot has been written about my temper.

An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.

And Thou, vast Ocean! on whole awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin trace.

Anna was saying to herself: why do I always have this awful need to make other people see things as I do? It's childish, why should they? What it amounts to is that I'm scared of being alone in what I feel.

Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.

Another funny thing about having friends was that they expected things of you. they made you want to not be a terrible, awful, execrable person. They made you feel worse when you were one. It was a lot easier not to have any friends.

As the gloom and shadow thickened behind him, in that place where it had been gathering so darkly, it took, by slow degrees, - or out of it there came, by some unreal, unsubstantial process - not to be traced by any human sense, - an awful likeness of himself!

As much as it's awful to learn about all the greedy and selfish decisions that some people make, I know there are many more people who have good intentions.