Best 491 quotes in «awful quotes» category

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

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 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 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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 time with Hemingway. And Hemingway had a remarkable ability to reach very noble goals through sometimes ignoble means.

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 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.

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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].

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 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.

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

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.

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

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 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 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.