Awfully Quotes

#1. A fellow's a fool when he marries who don't go to work deliberately to study and understand his wife. Women are awfully understandable if you only go at it right.

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

#2. You simply never know about people,' thought Elizabeth. 'You think because they're timid they'll always be timid, or because they're mean they'll always be mean. But they can change awfully quickly if they are treated right.

Enid Blyton

#3. I'm awfully sorry for people who are taken in by all of today's dietary mumbo jumbo. They are not getting any enjoyment out of their food.

Julia Child

#4. And the world suddenly appeared to me as such an awfully large place, with I so totally alone in it that I could have cried from the bottom of my heart.

Joseph Von Eichendorff

#5. Lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.

Gabrielle Zevin

#6. Africa is not a country, but it is a continent like none other. It has that which is elegantly vast or awfully little.

Douglas Wilder

#7. I would say that it's an awfully overrated aspirin and very similar to the old people's Disneyland.

Don Van Vliet

#8. Happiness is so awfully complicated, but freedom isn't. You're either tied down or you're not.

Paula McLain

#9. I don't know how many years it's been since I last slept with my husband. I was faithful, stupid and so awfully lonely that I'll gobble you up if you're nice to me. Or kill you because I can't bear it.

Nina George

#10. I was clever enough to know that John Donne was offering something that was awfully enjoyable. I just wasn't clever enough to actually enjoy it.

Wallace Shawn

#11. It's not worth getting too excited about thinking about the larger picture. The larger picture doesn't come into focus for an awfully long time.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#12. Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

William James

#13. The truth can seem awfully small and insignificant when compared to a mountain of lies.

Terry Goodkind

#14. Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide ... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.

Ernest Hemingway,

#15. You have nothing to be embarrassed about. Life would be awfully dull if we could look back without regretting at least one affair.

J.D. Robb

#16. I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.

Ted Lindsay

#17. I want you now so awfully, No longer jealous-green, I bring myself as offering Up to the guillotine.

Osip Mandelstam

#18. Well, my view is that the insurance companies have done awfully well and spent a lot of money on a lot of things that don't have anything to do with health care.

Russ Feingold

#19. I'd done my time in corporate America, from McDonald's making shakes to Morgan Stanley making deals and, yet, I felt awfully constrained by the uniform - not just my clothes, but how I felt I needed to conform - that a traditional job required me to wear.

Chip Conley

#20. In one scene, when I was supposed to say, "In a pig's eye you are," what came out was, "In a pig's ass you are." Old habits die awfully hard.

Ava Gardner

#21. We can't really make a living doing comic books, despite the fact that would be an awfully fun way to make a living.

Erich Hoeber

#22. I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully ...

Louisa May Alcott

#23. Jon Stewart kills me. I love him. And Bill Maher. He does an hour on HBO. But entirely political. It is awfully rough, but he does make me laugh.

Dick Van Dyke

#24. Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

David Duchovny

#25. Women made such swell friends. Awfully swell. In the first place, you had to be in love with a woman to have a basis of friendship.

Ernest Hemingway,

#26. He was awfully good at being aristocratic. Alexia, on the other hand, was only good at being autocratic. Not quite the same thing.

Gail Carriger

#27. It takes an awfully good man ... to beat no man at all. - Tillie

Tamera Alexander

#28. I suppose she only wanted what she couldn't have. Well, people were that way. To hell with people. The Catholic Church had an awfully good way of handling all that. Good advice, anyways. Not to think about it. Oh, it was swell advice. Try and take it sometime. Try and take it.

Ernest Hemingway,

#29. I've been writing music since I was 9. I took harmony and counterpoint classes when I was studying the clarinet. So, I've been writing for an awfully long time. It just became part of everyday life.

Howard Shore

#30. And all of a sudden I saw that if life seems awfully petty most of the time, every now and then there is something noble and beautiful and almost pure that lifts us suddenly out of the pettiness and lets us share in it a little.

Laurence Yep

#31. Autobiography is awfully seductive; it's wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass - the slave narrative - speaking in the first-person singular, talking about the first-person plural, always saying 'I,' meaning 'we.'

Maya Angelou

#32. Damn, her voice was awfully sexy for being a tree. Coop wasn't sure he was comfortable with that thought. Probably a good time to head out, before he started trying to hump a knothole or something.

Cindy Spencer Pape

#33. To die, thought the lost boy in place of the Captain, will be an awfully big adventure.

Brianna Shrum

#34. I am a big Vespa enthusiast, and I enjoy the state park aspect of California. It's awfully nice to ride my little scooter through the mountains and then wind up at the ocean.

Deirdre Lovejoy

#35. A double bed can seem awfully small if your'e sharing it with someone you don't love. (Misia)

Chris Greenhalgh

#36. All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.

Edmund Burke

#37. It's awfully hard to convey a sense of credibility to allies when you [the Congress] voted for the war and then you declared: Wrong war, wrong place, wrong time.

Dick Cheney

#38. Blue was awfully fond of her father, considering she'd never met him.

Maggie Stiefvater

#39. I'm about being funny. If I can make a joke using profanity, I will. But for the most part, that can get awfully old and boring.

Howard Stern

#40. Democrats are awfully sensitive to losing power for a few years. I report, you decide.

Kevin Drum

#41. It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon

Oscar Wilde

#42. I'm not mean to everybody. I'm only mean to people whose intellectual level is awfully lower than mine.

Alexandra Engellmann

#43. I'm a total ignoramus about the technical aspects but I have to say that it's awfully purty now.

Kevin Moffett

#44. What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get around by public transportation or by bike.

Serge Schmemann

#45. There may be something to the suggestion about the pace of technological change intimidating writers, though - it's been awfully hard to keep ahead of real developments.

Stanley Schmidt

#46. I think this is interesting, us human creatures are capable of love, and it's a very powerful emotion. It also can go awfully wrong.

Jane Campion

#47. You mustn't get me used to too many luxuries. One doesn't miss what one has never had; but it's awfully hard going without things after one has commenced thinking they are his.

Jean Webster

#48. She was god-awfully hideous. I swear she looked like a bad-tempered mutant tomato, and she was making a sound like a cat being fed into a printer

Sarah Rees Brennan

#49. It makes me almost hope I'm not a genius; they must be very wearying to have about - and awfully destructive to the furniture.

Jean Webster

#50. I guess I could say that I pursue questions that interest me in ways that interest me on the page, but that's awfully vague.

Eula Biss

#51. My Emmy competition is awfully good. My stomach is already in knots. The problem is that I don't drink, so I can't calm myself that way. I wish I could be better at pretending I don't care.

Jim Parsons

#52. For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.

Patricia Marx

#53. Rather than freedom from traditional constraints, then, girls were free to "choose" them. Yet, the line between "get to" and "have to" blurs awfully fast.

Peggy Orenstein

#54. You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember, was only true as long as everybody agreed to it.

Christopher Hitchens

#55. Really, if I'm gonna eat a meat, I'd rather eat venison than anything and I do like it a little on the rare side. That's probably my favorite meat and I've had some awfully good venison in some of the great restaurants.

Mike Ditka

#56. You're awfully dark, brother," he said. "You don't know how dark.

Ernest Hemingway,

#57. I don't like diabolism so I stay away from things like Clockwork Orange. I think diabolism is awfully childish. I don't even want to see The Godfather. I couldn't stand seeing that horse's head cut off. I wouldn't mind if it were Marlon Brando's.

Anita Loos

#58. The Catholic Church had an awfully good way of handling all

Ernest Hemingway,

#59. Film work can be very interesting, but it also can be awfully boring because who creates the film? The actors? No. It is the director. It's his piece of work.

Max Von Sydow

#60. How many writers in history have ever been as famous as Stephen King? He casts an awfully long shadow.

Christopher Golden

#61. Forget them, Wendy. Forget them all. Come with me where you'll never, never have to worry about grown up things again.
Never is an awfully long time.

J.M. Barrie

#62. To live would be an awfully big adventure.

J.M. Barrie

#63. I've been awfully busy, and I haven't gone to many movies.

Jeffrey Jones

#64. Why didn't you escape?"
"Because," she panted, releasing the boy's arm, "no one tells me what to do, not even you. And besides, if you didn't catch it before, I 'm awfully fond of you.

Joe DeRouen

#65. We had an awfully good ball club that was capable of beating anybody. They were that good.

John Oldham

#66. I wouldn't never bathe with him or pass water when he were near. He got suspicious quick. Seems real boys are awfully eager to parade their bits around.

A.C. Gaughen

#67. I don't know," I said. "There isn't always an explanation for everything."
"Oh, isn't there? I was brought up to think there was."
"That's awfully nice.

Ernest Hemingway,

#68. Monsters don't die early; they hang on long. Awfully long. Their vanity's infinite, almost as infinite as their disgust with themselves.

Tennessee Williams

#69. You know what i like about buttons? They're very small things that hold bigger things together. Awfully important, buttons - little but strong.

Trenton Lee Stewart

#70. To die will be an awfully big adventure.

J.M. Barrie

#71. The sun never sets on the British Empire. But it rises every morning. The sky must get awfully crowded.

Steven Wright

#72. Oh, Frances, for somebody so clever you can be awfully dull sometimes. Don't you know the sort of mistake I mean? I was going to have a

Sarah Waters

#73. You've got an awfully kissable mouth.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#74. I got to play a real D-bag lawyer, and comb my hair really awfully and kiss Emma Stone, so it was a really wonderful day on set.

Josh Groban

#75. I was seventeen years old, a married woman without real responsibilities, miserable about my mixed-up emotions, afraid there was something awfully wrong with me because I didn't enjoy being a wife. Worst of all, I didn't have enough to do.

Mary Martin

#76. The memoir industry is, what's the word? Under regulated. I think it needs to be pruned. If there are too many books right now and the market for readers is shrinking, I think we can get rid of many of the memoirs. Another memoir should be awfully well justified before it gets published.

Arthur Phillips

#77. That", I said, "is an awfully lovely woman. I thought I should let you know, kid, in case your inexperience had blinded you to the fact."
"Lying," Ramirez stated, blushing. "Evil.

Jim Butcher

#78. The present system of taking oaths is horrible. It is awfully absurd to make a man invoke God's wrath upon himself, if he speaks false; it is, in my judgment, a sin to do so.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#79. The worst of being a Communist is the parties you may go to are - well - awfully funny and touching but not very gay ... I don't see the point of sad parties, do you? And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.

Nancy Mitford

#80. Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.

Barney Ross

#81. You're awfully small to be so hugely irritating.

Stephenie Meyer

#82. I'd love to do a Western. A real Western like John Ford used to do. There's not too many of them made, so I don't know if I'll ever get to do that. They're awfully hard movies to make.

Dennis Farina

#83. I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

Paul Auster

#84. I was married awfully young and I felt trapped. My wife had been divorced and all the time we were married we were out of the Church. It wasn't until we were divorced that we became good Catholics again.

Don Adams

#85. But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.

Jack Vance

#86. Well, you're not exactly Superman, but you're awfully available.

Vera-Ellen

#87. I've illustrated many children's books and I feel awfully lucky to be able to do something I love so much, and yes, to be able to pay the rent, but there was a yearning to do something more grown up, and something where I didn't have to cater to anyone; I was just waiting for the material.

Sophie Blackall

#88. It's true that all these gods seem to do awfully little work - much like our politicians - and yet keep winning re-election to their golden thrones in heaven year after year.

Aravind Adiga

#89. Actually, I came here because of Skipper." "That was awfully nice! How's he doing? I'm going

Dorothea Benton Frank

#90. For, has not the world come to an awfully sophisticated pass, when, after a certain degree of acquaintance with it, we cannot even put ourselves to death in whole-hearted simplicity?

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#91. Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it is awfully hard to get it back in.

H.R. Haldeman

#92. What are you reading?"
She replied without once taking her eyes off the page. "I am reading the sort of sentimental novel men dismiss as rubbish but could actually stand to learn a thing or two from."
"That's an awfully long title," he remarked dryly.

Maya Rodale

#93. Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled.

John Green

#94. The world is grand, awfully big and astonishingly beautiful, frequently thrilling.

Dorothy Kilgallen

#95. He wants awfully to be inside staring out: anybody with their nose pressed against a glass is liable to look stupid.

Truman Capote

#96. Lately, he'd felt like his bones were God's kindling. That God must be awfully cold to set so many fires.

Cynthia Bond

#97. I don't quite jump for joy, but I am awfully glad to see him.

Anne Bancroft

#98. I'm not a prettier everywoman. I am an everywoman that they clean up awfully well for T.V.

Kelly Ripa

#99. I am the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be a cheerful face on earth. Whether I shall ever be better I cannot tell; I awfully forbode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better.

Sally Brampton

#100. J.M. Barrie was right; it is an awfully big adventure!

Paul James