I didn't grow up imagining myself as an opera composer. Only once in my entire adolescence did I attend an opera. I… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The stillness of the calm is awful. His voice begins to grow strange and portentous. He feels it in him like something… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
It is an awful, an appalling thought, that we may be, this moment and every moment, in the presence of malignant spirits. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Calvin: Somewhere in Communist Russia I'll bet there's a little boy who has never known anything but censorship and oppression. But maybe… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Gimmicks come and go; the cop show seems one genre that will never leave - not as long as people like to… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
An awful lot of older women do have love affairs or wish they were having love affairs. — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
It wasn't awful to be dead. The stillness would almost be a relief. She wouldn't want pain, she wouldn't want to be… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
I think, so often, female cofounders are positioned in this competitive, catty way. It's just awful. It's not reality. — Jennifer Hyman Copy Share Image
"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 Copy Share Image
I've done an awful lot of trying to make everybody else okay and happy. I have learned, now it would really be… — Sharon Stone Copy Share Image
We face up to awful things because we can't go around them, or forget them. The sooner you get it over with,… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Microsoft started… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
I went to prom with my boyfriend, but after the dance he left me at a party all by myself. It was… — Crystal Reed Copy Share Image
The battle going on over gay marriage in America reveals an awful lot. The Bible belt - people hate gay people. Because… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
When I was thirteen, I had a nervous breakdown, and I was put into this grown-up mental hospital with all these 50-,… — Duncan Roy Copy Share Image
I was really awful at auditions. There's something about sitting down and saying into the camera: 'I'm Nina and this is the… — Nina Conti Copy Share Image
I can't imagine deer hunting. I used to think I couldn't imagine deer hunting because killing a deer seemed so awful. But… — Joel Stein Copy Share Image
Someone must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen to me to… — William Wells Brown Copy Share Image
