Best 491 quotes in «awful quotes» category

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

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

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

Acting on a blue screen is awful.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

All the untidyactivity continues, awful but cheerful.

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

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.

As security or firewall administrators, we've got basically the same concerns [as plumbers]: the size of the pipe, the contents of the pipe, making sure the correct traffic is in the correct pipes, and keeping the pipes from splitting and leaking all over the place. Of course, like plumbers, when the pipes do leak, we're the ones responsible for cleaning up the mess, and we're the ones who come up smelling awful.

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!

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.

At first, being a female role model really terrified me. But it hasn't turned out to be an awful burden. I get a lot of letters from women who tell me that, after watching Xena, they have bought the Harley-Davidson they always wanted or left an abusive relationship.

At one point, I even thought, "Oh, I'll take diet pills." I tried it for one day, and I thought my heart was going to explode. It's awful, and I would never, ever recommend it.

August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina.

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.

Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side.

Body odour (known also as scent of the immortals) is a disgusting condition with an awful, nauseating smell.

Being homeless is awful, but if you've ever tried to wrestle a duvet cover back onto a comforter you realise it's not without it's benefits.

Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.

Bread without butter or coffee without milk is an awful calamity, as if everything before being put in our mouth must first be held under a cow.

Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine - that is, activity - which could solve it, is seen as odious.

But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone

Bulletproof is about the fact that I was shot in the face and survived. Nah I'm joking that'd be grisly and awful.

But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough?

But, Tarantino has seen all of my movies. He's seen my good stuff, he's seen my bad stuff, he's seen the ones I directed, he's read my autobiography. There's an awful lot of things he knows about me, all of which I think had something to do with his casting.

But now we've finally taken full possession of what is rightfully ours, because everyone must feel their own pain--and as awful as that is, it's also wonderful.

Count Olaf sounds like an awful person. I hope he is torn apart by wild animals someday. Wouldn't that be satisfying?

Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself.

Divorce is just the most awful thing in the world.

Donald Trump is an awful loser.

Do you ever get the feeling that something awful might happen?' James asked me. . . I sat up. 'I'm the awful thing that happens.

Even by rock star standards, I was pretty awful.

Even if people end up doing awful things, you can empathize with their motives when you know them. When you get to know the person, you can understand why they make those choices, even if they're bad. And oftentimes people do have good drives that are sympathetic and can even be seen as selfless and good-hearted.

Even now I can't trust life. It did too many awful things to me as a kid.

Awful as the consideration of eternity is, it is a source of great consolation to the righteous.

. . . but the Universe is an awfully big place. There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree.

But the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece o time we call today.

Can you imagine how terrible it is when you've got everything and you're still desperately lonely? That is awful beyond words.

Every day is amazing, even when it's awful, because everything is for a reason. I know that this horrible thing that's happening today is going to bring something so amazing.