Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me ... that sex is the most…

It must be that I am dreaming, and that I shall awaken in a moment to see that awful knife descending toward my heart-…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

I spent two years in Palo Alto - what an awful, suffocating place for those of us who don't care about yoga, yogurts and…

— Evgeny Morozov

Layla brought her arms around herself, no doubt because she was remembering the feel of another, stronger set. "I have wanted to, but he…

— J.R. Ward

You've seen the first issue and what happened in the last page. Some pretty awful stuff. I don't know why I seem to be…

— Declan Shalvey

It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you…

— Mark Twain

There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful…

— Pamela Stephenson

On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful.

— Steven Weinberg

When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful…

— Kenneth Koch

Fascism: awful stench of saw and axe.

— Michel Leiris

No one with a bad tie is getting my vote. Some Lib Dems wear the most shockingly awful ties.

— Freddie Fox

“Here she was back in the brightly lit world she had been avoiding for twenty years, and it was exactly as awful as she…

— Robert Charles Wilson

I'm pretty indiscriminating, and I have awful taste, generally.

— Nellie McKay

The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institution may be…

— George Washington

“I am awful. I am heartless. I am scared that these things are actually true.”

— John Green

Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have.

— Winston Churchill