Awful Quotes · Page 10

Human beings can be awful, but they can also be tremendous.

— Desmond Tutu

We seem to be paying some of our employees an awful lot of money.

— Don Ameche

I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.

— Bette Davis

I still felt like I might hurl, and I thought about how awful that would be in midair.

— James Patterson

Exercise is the most awful illusion. The secret is a lot of aspirin and marrons glaces.

— Noel Coward

When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.

— Minna Antrim

Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts.

— Abraham Lincoln

Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.

— Gioachino Rossini

I think the hardest part [is] the priorities. There are an awful lot of things to do [being Secretary of State].

— Madeleine Albright

It is a huge danger to pretend that awful things do not happen. But you need enough hope to keep going. I…

— Corita Kent

There are so many kinds of awful men One can't avoid them all. She often said She'd never make the same mistake…

— Wendy Cope

I actually love writing for teens best. I had such an awful time in my own teen years - I love having…

— Meg Cabot

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

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

They're [sportsmen] willing to give up a lot of other things that perhaps we all enjoy doing: eating and drinking and playing…

— Jill Douglas

Civilisation is partly about restraining the male of the species from engaging in the violence of the hunter-gatherer period. But it doesn't…

— Niall Ferguson

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

— Andrew Solomon

Most people are really fighting to not be adults. And, when it happens, it's a big transition. And a lot of that…

— Judd Apatow

It takes an awful lot of time for me to write anything. I have endless drafts, one after another; and I try…

— James Dickey

In my mind my obituary is done.It is done and it is right. It tells the truth and as awful as it…

— James Frey

The sky aft was dark as pitch, but the moon still shone brightly ahead of us and lit up the blackness. Beneath…

— H. Rider Haggard

People who have lived through a war know that as it approaches, an at first secret, unacknowledged, elation begins, as if an…

— Doris Lessing

People always think there's this huge hundred-foot-high barrier that separates doing good from doing bad. But there's not. There's nothing. There's not…

— Matt de la Pena

He pulled the Carstairs family ring from his finger and held it out to Will. "Take it." Will let his eyes drift…

— Cassandra Clare

I think if some people know anything about African cinema it's something like the The Gods Must Be Crazy, which is such…

— Elvis Mitchell

Baffling late-life discovery: Golfers wear those awful clothes on purpose.

— Herb Caen

A little bit if listening with a passable ear will get an awful lot of messages anywhere.

— John Hendricks

Anorexia is an awful thing, but you get yourself into it, and only you can get yourself out of it.

— Celia Imrie

I have two kids in diapers and a cat whose litter box I clean out. I deal with an awful lot of…

— George W. Buck

It's an awful thing to grow old by yourself. My wife hasn't had a birthday in seven years.

— Robert Orben

I was only sitting here in my white study with the awful black words pushing me around.

— Anne Sexton

I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.

— Ted Rall

Look to the souls of Your own soldiers, God, who labor in Thine awful cause.

— Janet Morris

I am a Graham Greene fan - I'm just a ferocious reader. I read an awful lot when I get the time.

— Andrea Riseborough

I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to…

— James Cameron

I'm terrible at reading fiction. I don't have the attention span - it's awful.

— Charlie Brooker

When I was a teenager, I experimented a lot with hair colour, and the result was just awful.

— Irina Shayk

“Some choices are awful even when they're the right ones.”

— Sarah Moriarty

People can really have an impact on a campaign and learn an awful lot. It can be an enjoyable experience.

— Steve Chabot

We waste an awful lot of energy as a Nation through inefficient use of energy.

— Chris Van Hollen

Be a awful nice to 'em goin' up, because you're gonna meet 'em all comin' down.

— Jimmy Durante