Awful Quotes · Page 12

Before Birdseye, hardly anybody ate frozen food because it was awful.

— Mark Kurlansky

I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations.

— Jane Pauley

How long a book tends to illustrate depends on the book. 'The Awful Aunty' took me 10 days.

— Tony Ross

“Somewhere in the pain there is pleasure, and that is the most awful part, perhaps. (170)”

— Robert Goolrick

How awful that the artist has become nothing but the after-dinner mint of society,

— Samuel Barber

I hope I never need to believe in God. It would be an awful confession of failure.

— Kenneth Tynan

I bite my nails so bad. They're awful! My nails are so ugly. I need to stop biting them.

— Elle Fanning

Teenagers come to things fresh and can really teach us an awful lot.

— Jane Goldman

The legs that I have made are far more perfect than the ones nature would have given me - my mother's side…

— Aimee Mullins

“There is a pleasure in being with them,' he says. 'Taking what we want, indulging in every terrible thought. There's safety in…

— Holly Black

"Softly, softly, catchee monkey," is the West African rendering of a very valuable precept. An awful lot of men fail through lack…

— Robert Baden-Powell

Well, killing a man isn't clean and quick and simple. It's bloody and awful. And maybe if enough people come to realize…

— Sam Peckinpah

To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future…

— George Ripley

Truly, I'm not joking when I thank my lucky stars for the awful operation I had, since it has made me young…

— Henri Matisse

It's like that scene from The Player when they talk about merging Star Wars and Kramer vs. Kramer, or whatever. You could…

— Jonny Greenwood

I would not be allowed to be in the web series without playing 'Halo.' I'm awful, by the way. I'm much better…

— Anna Popplewell

I had always imagined myself hitching up on to my elbows on the delivery table after it was all over - dead…

— Sylvia Plath

I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

I did not love cold harmony and perfect regularity of organization; what I sought was variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the awful.…

— Russell Kirk

America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the…

— Billy Graham

An awful lot of actors who are considered very good actors are not very good actors. There are people who just strike…

— Martin Landau

I mean, it's not just one day you get up, bang, and you got Osama bin Laden. It's the kind of thing…

— Dick Cheney

It's awful to have a depression, but it's a great thing to have a depression mentality because it means that we are…

— Seth Klarman

Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign…

— John Podhoretz

Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.

— Tom Perrotta

..it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel.

— John Steinbeck

I don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.

— Bradford Cox

Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face.

— Tavi Gevinson

This is awful. I don't know what's going to happen to me or to anyone else in the world.

— Raymond Carver

You can't become what you aren't, or you will start feeling awful about yourself.

— Rumer Willis

On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful.

— Steven Weinberg

Cold water in the face brings you back to this awful place.

— The Clash

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

Iago's soliloquy - the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity - how awful it is!

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

We didn't say anything because there was such an awful lot to say, and no language to say it in.

— William Saroyan

Our down time at home consists of hikes and video games and trying to cook - because we are awful at it.

— Lights

I did a diet once and it was awful and made me miserable - I would never do it again.

— Rochelle Humes

I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.

— David Bowie

“Everything seemed good, but I knew it had potential to be awful. Much much more painful than the others.”

— jay asher

“And I belive I am too, and if you think that is awful, then you dont understand a thing.”

— Lee Smith