Top 100 Quotes About Awful
#1. I learned by reading an awful lot and by writing a half a million words of stuff nobody would do anything with except wrap old fish.
Harry Turtledove
#2. An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Microsoft started with programming tools, but came out with an operating system. Oracle started doing contracts for the CIA. AOL started out as an online video gaming network.
Marc Andreessen
#3. I'm really very lucky. I get to do an awful lot. I've been able to make an incredibly wide range of movies and work with an incredible array of people.
James Mangold
#4. The world is awful but also the world is beautiful. Human beings are awful, but ultimately human beings are tremendous.
Desmond Tutu
#5. Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.
Hans Rosling
#6. The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry
John Jensen
#7. You'll need an awful lot of pixie dust to move 2.5 mil in forty-eight hours, Better let Tinker Bell know you'll need backup.
Matt Leatherwood Jr.
#8. Who hath seen the Phantom Ship,
Her lordly rise and lowly dip,
Careering o'er the lonesome main,
No port shall know her keel again ...
Ah, woe is in the awful sight,
The sailor finds there eternal night,
'Neath the waters he shall ever sleep,
And Ocean will the secret keep
Albert Pinkham Ryder
#9. I touched the small sacred images. I shook my head and bit my lip, as if to say, How awful that he should have stolen these! But I also found it very funny. And further proof that God had no power over me.
Anne Rice
#10. Aeschylus writes, In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grade of God.
Madeleine L'Engle
#11. One of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no 'them' out there. It's just an awful lot of 'us.'
Douglas Adams
#12. There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
Anton Chekhov
#13. My childhood was bad. No father. Mother was greedy and brought me up awful - never made me breakfast once. I don't want to get started. One story is worse than another.
Rodney Dangerfield
#14. Rome's riches are in too immediate juxtaposition. Under the lid of awful August heat, one moves dizzily from church to palace to fountain to ruin, a single fly at a banquet, not knowing where to light.
Shana Alexander
#15. Someone's going to put the clothes on you, and part of being an actor is wearing costumes. Costumes tell you an awful lot about who you are, so you just, it's nothing.
Morgan Freeman
#16. A little bit if listening with a passable ear will get an awful lot of messages anywhere.
John Hendricks
#17. I've spoken seriously, and I am very serious, but you know an awful lot of the work is meant to twist things to the point of almost absurdity. I don't want to celebrate absurdity, but I do mean to challenge a lot of premises.
Douglas Huebler
#18. It was Lisa, aged five, whose mother asked her to thank my wife for the peas we had sent them from our garden. 'I thought the peas were awful, I wish you and Mrs. Thurber were dead, and I hate trees,' said Lisa.
James Thurber
#19. She said writting novels was like childbirth: if you truly remembered how awful it got, you'd never do it again.
Sarah Dessen
#20. And yet, in the end, did Klara Hitler's sickly son ever fire a gun? One hollow, hateful little an. One last awful thought: all the harm he ever did was done for him by others.
Mary Doria Russell
#22. I don't know how anyone gets anything done in cities. How can you live somewhere like London or New York, when there are 81 things to do every night? Awful. Give me solitude and space any time.
Douglas Coupland
#23. On a sunny Tuesday - for it seems so many awful things happen on a Tuesday - six astronauts and one schoolteacher attempted to pierce the sky. Instead they touched the stars.
Neal Shusterman
#24. This is why there is something awful about human freedom. This power to make a choice which will never cease to reverberate.
Jerome A. Miller
#25. Not all the problems must be solved! Stick to this philosophy and you will save awful a lot of time! Stick to this philosophy!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#26. I didn't believe in a guardian angel when I was young. I was brought up in the Protestant faith, and the one thing you had over your Catholic friends was that you didn't have those awful saints chivvying you around.
Jennifer Johnston
#28. ... even one centimetre can make an awful lot of difference when you don't have many to spare.
Eoin Colfer
#29. The awful, ironic, glorious fix for the writing doldrums is to write the next page.
Kay Kenyon
#30. Before I knocked the antidepressant back, I had a little word with it. Work, I urged. Take away this awful, awful feeling.
Marian Keyes
#31. Of all the movies I've done in my life, the one where I play a crazy awful psycho woman finds me my husband.
Bridgette Wilson
#32. Dating is horrible, it's awful. I don't get it. It's like you're standing there: 'Hi. Do you want to have sex and later wish you hadn't?' It's horrible. And it's awkward at 42 because I don't have the body or the drive. I just sit in the car and hope somebody gets in.
Louis C.K.
#33. When you come to L.A. as a kid with your mom, you're lured into doing things that you think are cool and fun and a good idea, but they're cheesy and awful. And recording a pop single was one of them.
Penn Badgley
#34. I mean, there's no sun and no hot guys. What is this awful place, Calvin?"
"It's my apartment.
David Pratt
#36. The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.
Aaron Allston
#37. The 3D thing has been abused slightly, I think. There is no question about that. 'Avatar' did it magnificently, and then, of course, there was the old 'leaping on the bandwagon' thing where there have been one or two films which, let's face it, all know look bloody awful with the 3D.
Martin Campbell
#38. I think there's an awful lot of me in Big Bird, but Oscar is pretty much - I think I know how he thinks because he thinks exactly the opposite of what I think is a good way to be.
Caroll Spinney
#39. He takes the guilt and responsibility that others can't. John takes the punches. I just take the hunger, and most times it feels like awful little.
A.C. Gaughen
#40. And forget all about the fact that my father is human and makes awful choices like the rest of us
Colleen Hoover
#41. Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't you think?
L. Frank Baum
#42. 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.
Jonny Greenwood
#43. When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly - constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence.
Evan Dando
#44. There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.
John Keats
#45. The music teacher came twice a week to bridge the awful gap between Dorothy and Chopin.
George Ade
#46. Today's word was interminable, meaning never-ending. Like his loneliness. Like the love he felt for Kate. Like the awful hurt that wouldn't go away.
Margaret Brownley
#47. I love you. I've loved you from the first moment we met. I love you deeper every time I see you. And, I know the timing is awful, but there's never a perfect time. So, no matter what happens, I needed you to know how I feel.
Alison G. Bailey
#48. His hate wasn't professional; it was an obsession, a fixation, as if unrequited love had grown awful, twisted into something ugly.
Tom Rob Smith
#49. I had an awful first quarter but I picked it up. To all you single guys out there, it's not how you start the date, it's how you finish it sir. A lot of people can, you know, start the date with flowers and candy, but if you don't finish the date - you know what I mean?
Shaquille O'Neal
#50. Cable boxes are, almost without exception, awful. They're under-powered computers running very badly designed software. Their channel guides are slow, poorly laid out, and usually riddled with ads.
Alex Pareene
#51. Everyone wants to demagogue everyone else. That may be good politics, but it's awful policy.
Chris Christie
#52. With all the god-awful suffering in this war, I suppose somebody ought to be enjoying it.
Henry V. O'Neil
#53. The battle going on over gay marriage in America reveals an awful lot. The Bible belt - people hate gay people. Because the Bible tells them? No, the Bible tells them an awful lot of things that they ignore.
Ian McKellen
#54. You're a fool, a damn fool, an awful fool, an idiot, an awful idiot, a damn idiot, and a fool, a damn fool
Ray Bradbury
#55. I watch an awful lot of television, and I get a little tired of what I see ... We have about six television sets in our house, and it's less expensive for me to do a television series than it is for me to throw them all out.
Bill Cosby
#56. I do want to make a special appeal to women movie stars to, I think, have a special responsibility these days to stop smoking, not to do it up on screen because the example that's being set is really an awful example.
Joe Eszterhas
#57. I can't imagine deer hunting. I used to think I couldn't imagine deer hunting because killing a deer seemed so awful. But now I think about just sitting in a tree and doing nothing all day and probably not even seeing a deer. Not moving and sitting in a tree? That seems rough.
Joel Stein
#58. I didn't grow up imagining myself as an opera composer. Only once in my entire adolescence did I attend an opera. I went and saw Aida at the old Met, didn't understand a thing about it, and thought it was pretty awful. But I think I had it in my genes without even realising it.
John Adams
#59. Social scientists sometimes talk about the concept of "identity". It is the idea that you have a particular vision of the kind of person you are, and you feel awful when you do things that are out of line with that vision.
Steven D. Levitt
#60. Behind us hung a Correggio St. Sebastian with the habitual Buchmanite expression on his face. "Awful tripe," said Uncle Matthew. "Fella wouldn't be grinning, he'd be dead with all those arrows in him.
Nancy Mitford
#61. For God's sake bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country.
Reginald Maudling
#62. But the tour did remind me that my life had been bigger than just that one moment. One girl. One set of words on paper. That I had gone through other things before-good and terrible, funny and awful-and I had survived.
Kimberly McCreight
#64. The NBA's been around how long? A hundred years? Fifty years? So to change it now, whoever that person is needs his college degree revoked ... Whoever did that needs to be fired. It was terrible, a terrible decision. Awful. I might get fined for saying that, but so what?
Shaquille O'Neal
#65. My deepest apologies to all of our friends, fans and people who have worked on and supported us being a part of this festival, we are sorry for these awful circumstances and you can be certain this will not defeat us.
Blake Judd
#66. Shit happens and its awful but its okay. We deal with it because we havet to.
Megan McCafferty
#67. Prohibition is an awful flop. We like it. It can't stop what it's meant to stop. We like it. It's left a trail of graft and slime It don't prohibit worth a dime It's filled our land with vice and crime, Nevertheless, we're for it.
Franklin P. Adams
#68. There's been an awful lot of silence in make culture about this ongoing tragedy of men's violence against women and children ... we need to break that silence, and we need more men to do that.
Jackson Katz
#69. I was trapped in an awful spiral of insecure narcissism
Amy Poehler
#70. Thus the time we are given is not brief, but we make it so. We do not lack time; on the contrary, there is so much of it that we waste an awful lot.
Seneca.
#73. It's the fun part 'cause you don't have any of the real heavy-lifting to do. You just come in and shout and chew scenery, and just be awful and say a few jokes, and you don't have to carry the romantic storyline or the quest part of the story. You just pop up, every now and again.
Justin Theroux
#74. Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war.
John O. Brennan
#75. Well, killing a man isn't clean and quick and simple. It's bloody and awful. And maybe if enough people come to realize that shooting somebody isn't just fun and games, maybe we'll get somewhere.
Sam Peckinpah
#76. Jamming is really the most awful, excruciating experience for me; I really don't enjoy it.
The Edge
#77. Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment.
George Edward Woodberry
#78. It doesn't really change, actually. I think The Rolling Stones have gotten a lot better. An awful lot better, I think. A lot of people don't, but I think they have, and to me that's gratifying. It's worth it.
Charlie Watts
#79. The Beatles are not merely awful. I would consider it sacrilegious to say anything less than that they are godawful.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#80. My ideas are a curse.
They spring from a radical discontent
with the awful order of things.
I play clown. I play carpenter. I play nurse.
I play witch.
Anne Sexton
#81. You can accept that things are awful and still have a sense of humor about it.
Daniel Tosh
#82. Existence and life break people in all kinds of awful fucking ways all the time.
David Foster Wallace
#83. Lies are just another kind of storytelling, but with the very distinct and enlivening motive of desperation. Since writers are by nature desperate creatures, they usually do a pretty good (or pretty awful, but always interesting) job of lying.
John Hodgman
#84. I bite my nails so bad. They're awful! My nails are so ugly. I need to stop biting them.
Elle Fanning
#85. Each of the actors need to have their justification for saying something awful. You want everyone to have a positive and negative thing. Even a positive thing needs to have darkness in it. It needs to have depth.
M. Night Shyamalan
#87. I went through a stage of wearing quite lairy trainers. I had all these trainers in gold or pink or silver. I look at them now in the cupboard - what was I thinking? Such an awful idea.
James Corden
#88. You ask in awful lot of questions."
"When I grow up, I want to be a detective just like you."
He looked over and saw her grinning. He laughed. "I suppose you do share my penchant for raising Cain.
Derek Landy
#89. Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
Karen Salmansohn
#90. Oh, September. My best girl. I shall tell you an awful, wonderful, unhappy, joyful secret: It is like that for everyone. One day you wake up and you are grown. And on the inside, you are no older than the last time you thought Wouldn't it be lovely to be all Grown-Up right this second?
Catherynne M Valente
#91. On a grim and dismal day that shattered my last ounce of confidence, I broke down and whimpered, "I'm awful and hideous and incompetent and boring and utterly useless." And then you grinned at me and said, "That's okay.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#92. You just listen to the ball and bat come together. They make an awful noise.
Darrell Johnson
#93. I don't want The Cure to fizzle out doing 45-minute shows of greatest hits. That would be awful for our legacy.
Robert Smith
#94. Most of the characters I write with don't think an awful lot about their faith. They're not always questioning the church or feeling confined by the church or rebelling against the church.
Alice McDermott
#96. Okay, I'm lazy. But being lazy is a talent. Sometimes it takes an awful lot of work.
M.C. Beaton
#97. I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - I'll devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is 'Sunset Boulevard' starring Gloria Swanson.
Amanda Donohoe
#98. Life is hard and unfair. It is cruel and heartless, painful, trying, disappointing, unapologetic, and frequently downright awful. But that's not important. What's important is that through it all you learn how much you need your Heavenly Father and how much your friends need you.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#99. In 'Cavalry,' I had one scene where I was playing a pretty awful character.
Domhnall Gleeson
#100. Stringham said: 'If you're not careful you will suffer the awful fate of the man who always knows the right clothes to wear and the right shop to buy them at.
Anthony Powell
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