Awful Quotes
1118 quotes by 920 authors
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The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
— William Barclay
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Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful…
— Lynda Barry
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Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between…
— Hilaire Belloc
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He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own…
— Aeschylus
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America is built around this premise that you can do it, and there are an awful lot of people who are unlikely to have done…
— Michael Bloomberg
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Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.
— Bono
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Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war.
— John O. Brennan
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I have this weird obsession with kids and old people falling. Like, funny falls. It is awful, but it's the thing that makes me laugh…
— Malin Akerman
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An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows... We're…
— Bill Bryson
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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next.…
— Pearl S. Buck
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Always, always powder your T-zone and the lines going from your nose down around your mouth so you don't look like a bulldog. When those…
— Gisele Bundchen
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I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.
— Richard Burton
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I had an awful lot of my soul invested in Atari culture.
— Nolan Bushnell
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I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot…
— Kate Bush
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The pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. To my knowledge, they didn't wait around for a return trip to Europe. You settle some…
— Buzz Aldrin
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I actually love writing for teens best. I had such an awful time in my own teen years - I love having the chance to…
— Meg Cabot
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I mean, it's not just one day you get up, bang, and you got Osama bin Laden. It's the kind of thing where an awful…
— Dick Cheney
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I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person…
— Isabel Allende
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