Something Awful Quotes

#1. will be boys' is what people say to excuse guys when they do something awful.

Aaron Hartzler

#2. Everything good in New York used to be something awful, I guess."
"And everything awful used to be something good.

Brian K. Vaughan

#3. When you're a little fat boy in any kind of school, you're just persecuted something awful.

Raymond Burr

#4. Something awful is always going to happen, Arton. It's Sanctuary. You're a Stepson. Awful is a big part of your job.

Janet Morris

#5. Christmas was almost four months in the rearview mirror, and there was something awful about Christmas music when it was nearly summer. It was like a clown in the rain, with his makeup running.

Joe Hill

#6. Just because something awful happens to someone else, it doesn't mean the issues in your life should take any less importance.

Kiki Archer

#7. We all want to go there something awful, but to stand there takes some grace.

Rich Mullins

#8. Something awful must've happened on the surface, Damy thought. He squeezed his forearm, looking at the animated tattoo there, the mark of the strike teams.

Raeden Zen

#9. New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#10. Her father sagged as relief spread through him. "I thought
something awful was happening."
She frowned. "Something awful was happening. It could have
got stuck in my hair.

Derek Landy

#11. The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.

Horace

#12. When something awful happens, sometimes people get stuck.

Jennifer Echols

#13. I was half-afraid that I would do something awful, like faint or fart right in front of the queen, but all went well.

Oliver Sacks

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

Maggie Stiefvater

#15. I miss you something awful sometimes, but in general I go on living with all the energy I can muster.

Haruki Murakami

#16. Something wonderful is about to happen,
and something awful is about to happen.
You can dwell on either one.
It's your choice.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#17. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more ...

Banana Yoshimoto

#18. Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more
it's sad, but that's the truth.

Banana Yoshimoto

#19. Think of the funniest story from your life. Chances are, it was something awful at the time.

Gina Barreca

#20. When you hate someone you used to love, and you think he's done something awful - he probably has.

E. Lockhart

#21. Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa.

Ernest Hemingway,

#22. I was a girl crying in the middle of a crowd, and nobody noticed. Maybe there was something awful about that, but there was something good, too. I would dry my own tears. I opened my eyes and kept on walking.
~Kit

Judy Blundell

#23. The future has to do with fear. Don't attempt to come up here. Don't attempt to go forward, you were nobody, you are nobody, and you'll always be nothing, so don't even think about coming here because if you do, something awful will happen to you.

Malachy McCourt

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

Garth Risk Hallberg

#25. He seemed as though he were habitually preparing himself for something awful, and this was justified because many awful things had happened to him.

Rick Moody

#26. Nor myrtle
which means chiefly love: and love
Is something awful which one dare not touch
So early o' mornings.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#27. She was busy thinking about the concept of forgiveness. It was such a lovely, generous idea when it wasn't linked to something awful that needed forgiving.

Liane Moriarty

#28. There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence.

Maggie Stiefvater

#29. He could be in something awful and it would never stick to him.

Tina Fey

#30. 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 they're not.

Oliver Sacks

#31. She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#32. Here you are. Would you like some pickles?"
"Pickles gives me the wind something awful."
"In that case - "
"Oh, I wasn't saying no," Mistress Weatherwax said, taking two large pickled cucumbers.

Terry Pratchett

#33. 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.

Lauren DeStefano

#34. I have to remember for every kid saying something awful, there's a kid saying something great.

Halsey

#35. Who's the real you? The person who did something awful, or the one who's horrified by the awful thing you did? Is one part of you allowed to forgive the other?

Rebecca Stead

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat.

John Green

#39. 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

#40. I knew I had done something awful. I had killed love, before I even knew the enormity of what love meant.

Edna O'Brien

#41. What makes a child of four realize that something awful is going to happen? (168)

Robert Goolrick

#42. Something awful happens to a person who grows up as a creative kid and suddenly finds no creative outlet as an adult.

Judy Blume

#43. A part of me didn't want to need anyone, miss anyone, even love anyone, It'd always been me against the world, and I didn't altogether enjoy that I was starting to lose that feeling. It usually meant that something awful was going to happen

Tijan

#44. Delayed gratification hints that something terrible is going to happen, and then delays the resolution.

It's that interval between the promise of something awful and it actually happening, where suspense resides.

Sandy Vaile

#45. How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.

Evans G. Valens

#46. I'm just attracted to playing people who are ostensible unlikable. That's not to say that there's something in there that makes you care. It might be that you just find them so awful that you just can't stop watching, like a car crash.

Steve Coogan

#47. Non-Masons stay pretty much in the dark about What Goes On, though now and then something jumps out, exposes itself, jumps giggling back again, leaving you with few details but a lot of Awful Suspicions. Some

Thomas Pynchon

#48. Maybe the word forgive points in the wrong direction, since it's something you mostly give yourself, not anyone else: you put down the ugly weight of old suffering, untie yourself from the awful, and walk away from it.

Rebecca Solnit

#49. You discover something so awful, so life-changing, the only way you can cope is to jump straight into denial.

Jane Green

#50. People in general romanticize nature, and they make it out to be something that it isn't because humans are so awful. And yes, we are absolutely screwing up this planet, but that is only because we have the capabilities to do so. Animals are not better than us. They are not nicer than us.

Elise Andrew

#51. There's a funny thing I've noticed about life. When you really dread something, it turns out not to be so bad. It's the unexpected awful things that get you down.

Elizabeth Laird

#52. Sometimes I try to remember things my mother told me about the awful way he was raised. But why does he have to keep on going? Why would you take something bad out of your mouth and hand it to another, saying, Here, eat this?

Elizabeth Berg

#53. Q: How is it possible that humans invented something as amazing as an airplane and something as awful as a nuclear bomb? A: Human beings are mysterious and paradoxical.

Nicola Yoon

#54. There's a miracle there, but there's something so awful about it too, bringing someone into all this now, this world where a girl can't even trust a drink that passes her lips. I can't figure out the kind of heart it takes to do something like that.

Courtney Summers

#55. There is something more awful in happiness than in sorrow
the latter being earthly and finite, the former composed of the substance and texture of eternity, so that spirits still embodied may well tremble at it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#56. I could not stop something I knew was wrong and terrible. I had an awful sense of powerlessness.

Andrei Sakharov

#57. There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can never tell, till you see it, just how big a liar History is.

Will Rogers

#58. I wasn't able to be that person for you, and I did a terrible thing. I feel awful about it. But there was something wrong between us from the start, as if we'd done the buttons up wrong.

Haruki Murakami

#59. It frightens me that when I'm writing I seem to have some awful second sight, or something like it, an intuition of some kind; a kind of intelligence is at work that is much too painful to use in ordinary life; one couldn't live at all if one used it for living.

Doris Lessing

#60. I have an awful memory, and I have a great memory. Meaning that, if I'm trying to remember something, I can't remember it. But my recall is fantastic.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#61. I felt this awful obligation to be charming or at least have something to say, and the pressure of having to be charming (or merely verbal) incapacitates me.

Peter Cameron

#62. I've been asked to endorse lots of different pieces of equipment. It's not necessarily that it's an awful thing to be asked to endorse something, because it's inherently a compliment to your skills, your abilities, on a level. But sometimes it's just not the right fit.

Wylie Dufresne

#63. I am a bull. I am Taurus. My will is awful. If I like something, there is nothing else. I was a pain in the neck. I still am a pain in the neck.

Elsa Peretti

#64. I always see something for sure one time and then I make myself see it a second time. The second time is like, 'Okay, I'm not that bad. I'm not that horrible.' But the first time I just think I'm god-awful.

Eva Mendes

#65. An awful sense of her deadness, of her soul-blighting selfishness, began to dawn upon her as something monstrous out of dim, gray obscurity.

Zane Grey

#66. You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful ... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost.

Mary Lou Retton

#67. Was this what it felt like to do something unselfish? The sensation was weird. Uncomfortable, yet ... not awful. Like liquor that tasted like shit but went down smooth.

Larissa Ione

#68. She's an awful woman," said Hermione in a small voice. "Awful. You know, I was just saying to Ron when you came in . . . we've got to do something about her." "I suggested poison," said Ron grimly.

J.K. Rowling

#69. It is an awful knowledge. Even if what you are coming up out of is a nightmare, waking is hard. When you were deep inside the dream, all was decided for you. Out in the morning is something else altogether. Something you have to choose for yourself.

Anna Smaill

#70. She'd thought she'd left this behind. This crushing awful feeling of something unfulfilled, something she kept reaching for only to be dragged away and mired in others' needs and expectations and the cloying sick grasping of their love.

Cole McCade

#71. You get into moods - like, if somebody does something to you, then you're angry for maybe 30 seconds, or maybe 30 years. I was always interested in capturing those awful, unflattering things that everybody goes through - those hot moments, captured in ice.

Bill Callahan

#72. The desperate things seem to require attention, the lovely things seem to elicit celebration. If I had to choose, I would go to the awful in the hope that doing something could yield a happier result.

Jenny Holzer

#73. As soon as someone finds out something you're insecure about or that bothers you, they will use that against you, which is awful.

Maisie Williams

#74. I think slavery was an awful, awful period in our history, but when I look at what's become of black culture since emancipation, I think you have to admit, maybe the Confederacy was on to something

Zach Braff

#75. I want to direct but I think I'd be bloody awful and I don't want to produce but I think I'd be a very good producer because if I believed in something I'd be able to protect it.

Christopher Eccleston

#76. Something wrong?" Will asked.
"This," Gabriel said. He held up a broadsheet newspaper called the Star. "It's awful."
"I agree," Will said. "Those halfpenny rags are terrible. But you seem to be more upset about them than is appropriate.

Cassandra Clare

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

Abby Sunderland

#78. Sometimes I think that an awful lot of technology is just busy work, something we've created to help hide the fact that the human situation, the things that touch us and frighten us and move us haven't changed.

Betty Younis

#79. I've long considered becoming a writer to be the death of nightmares. For me at least, since I started writing I hadn't had any. Something really terrible or awful happens in a dream and you wake up and think, awesome, and reach for a pen and paper.

Logan Kain

#80. You know, eating's much more important than most people think. There comes a time in your life when you've just got to have something super-delicious. And when you're standing at that crossroads your whole life can change, depending on which one you go into - the good restaurant or the awful one.

Haruki Murakami

#81. It's so awful when you need something from someone else, even though you're not sure what it is, and then you don't get it.

Terra Elan McVoy

#82. There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#83. I do everything I watch, whether it's like a big comic book film that I've done or something very serious and raw.I do have that initial feeling like I'm the worst, this is awful, my work is - I've let everybody down. I definitely have that.

Eva Mendes

#84. You say something bad about Newsies and you have an awful lot of people to answer to.

Christian Bale

#85. One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.

Patricia Schroeder

#86. I never liked the term mystic as applied to someone or a way of thought. It covers something very profound and an awful lot of nonsense passes as profound thought.

Louis L'Amour

#87. I hate it [driving] more than anything in the whole world. I'm just an awful, awful driver. I get lost, I hit things (parked cars, one moving car, a pole in my parking garage). Just when I think I got everything under control, I'll miss seeing something out of the corner of my mirror.

Rachael Leigh Cook

#88. There is something in us that keeps us where we find ourselves. I think this is the most awful thing of all.

P.D. Ouspensky

#89. I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book. But the awful truth is that I ... probably can't!

Hugh Grant

#90. We are born in the world because we have to learn something through whatever we're born into. Although it might be awful. That's why it's an illusion to think that we really run our lives. We don't.

Betty Parsons

#91. [On Nancy Reagan:] At one photo op press conference, she toured a crack house and decried how awful it was, yet one suspected that for our Drug Czarina it had something to do with a plaid couch.

Kate Clinton

#92. Doing ventures is great - I'm talking economics now - if you've got a rising market. It's wonderful. If I hadn't got HKT, I would have been just as happy. Because there's a price for everything. And to overpay for something is awful.

Richard Li

#93. I think there is pressure on people to turn every negative into a positive, but we should be allowed to say, 'I went through something really strange and awful and it has altered me forever.'

Marian Keyes

#94. Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school.

Craig Thompson

#95. When I was a kid, I hated being talked to as a kid. I don't know if all kids feel that way, but I seem to remember awful things in the crib, something like people doing baby talk in the crib and sticking their big, fat faces in there and scaring me. So I always talk to kids as if they were a person.

Michael Feldman

#96. I'm an awful driver. I'm not going to lie about it. I'm not a good driver. I tried for a long time to pretend that I was. There's a lot of road rage and a lot of times it's directed at something I've done on the road.

Kristen Bell

#97. We jumped for joy. After the awful events of yesterday, finally something good happens and brings us ... hope! Hope for an end to the war, hope for peace.

Anne Frank

#98. It doesn't feel right to love the world and see such brightness when something so awful has happened.

Cecelia Ahern

#99. Not one thought was to be given either to the past or the future. The first was a page so heavenly sweet - so deadly sad - that to read one line of it would dissolve any courage and break down my energy. The last was an awful blank: something like the world when the deluge was gone by.

Charlotte Bronte

#100. 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.

Gene Hackman