Awful Quotes · Page 18

Is it just me, or are the 49ers doing an awful lot of ass-patting today?

— Dennis Miller

I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it.

— Mickey Spillane

There was a lot really awful about that time [in fifties] if you were gay.

— Kevin Sessums

I worked in a watercress bed, picking weeds out of watercress when I was at school. It was awful.

— Russell Howard

My mom loved my Christmas music, so I did an awful lot of it!

— Johnny Mathis

“Everything was wonderful and then everything was awful.”

— Huntley Fitzpatrick

There is an awful warmth about my heart like a load of immortality.

— John Keats

Okay, I'm lazy. But being lazy is a talent. Sometimes it takes an awful lot of work.

— M.C. Beaton

I opened the door and Lend smiled. 'They look better on you.' 'Wow, they must look just awful on you then.' I…

— Kiersten White

I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my…

— Anonymous

On a sunny Tuesday - for it seems so many awful things happen on a Tuesday - six astronauts and one schoolteacher…

— Neal Shusterman

I think I'm getting there, but it's very hard to perform at my absolute peak when an awful lot of people come…

— George Michael

Here I am, a product of something really vicious, product of the Atlantic slave trade. And yet, I give nary a thought…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful…

— William S. Burroughs

The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I…

— Robert Creeley

For whatever reason, I decided: 'I'm 18, I'm a man, I'm going to grow a moustache' - and it was pathetic for…

— Chris Hadfield

I don't think I know enough about acting to direct. You need to be a slight megalomaniac, not where you want to…

— Anonymous

The founders of the United Nations sought to replace a world at war with a world of civilized order. They hoped that…

— Ronald Reagan

The stillness of the calm is awful. His voice begins to grow strange and portentous. He feels it in him like something…

— Herman Melville

What cities, as great as this, have . . . promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The…

— Oliver Goldsmith

How long have you been sitting in the darkness? You forget. You know you're getting hard to be with and you're crying…

— Joan Osborne

I have tried to write soundtracks, and the main problem with those was that the directors often had in their minds a…

— Zach Condon

If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point. I'm trying to think if there's sunny…

— Edward Gorey

Leaning her silly, beautiful, drunken head on my shoulder, she said, "Oh, Esther, I don't want to be a feminist. I don't…

— Joanna Russ

This stuff tastes awful; I could have made a fortune selling it in my health-food store.

— Woody Allen

Of Consciousness, her awful Mate. The Soul cannot be rid - as easy the secreting her behind the Eyes of God.

— Emily Dickinson

I don't read an awful lot of fiction and when I do, it tends to be lightweight stuff.

— Terry Pratchett

If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.

— Orla Brady

Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful.

— Kurt Vonnegut

A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it.

— Charles Dudley Warner

The terrible importance of this life is that it determines eternity.

— William Barclay

An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.

— Ada Louise Huxtable

That invisible hand of Adam Smith seems to offer an extended middle finger to an awful lot of people.

— George Carlin

I get a lot of rashes on my face from the wind - that's pretty horrible. Rashes on your face are pretty…

— Spencer Pratt

My clothes are an extension of my personality. I'd look awful in ladylike dresses.

— Carol Channing

Failure is not fun. It can be awful. But living so cautiously that you never fail is worse.

— J. K. Rowling

Not to this extent but from day one I had an awful lot of confidence when I got started.

— George Thorogood

Oh I've never liked candy corn, I think it's just awful - I think candy corn's awful.

— Mike Leach

“The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful”

— Susan Sontag

It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.

— Colum McCann