Awful Quotes

1118 Awful quotes by 901 unique authors

I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience. — Tyrone Power
"Softly, softly, catchee monkey," is the West African rendering of a very valuable precept. An awful lot of men fail through lack of patient persistence. — Robert Baden-Powell
It's the beginning of your day. You awake and look around you, feeling perhaps a joyful expectation, or perhaps an awful dread. No matter which,… — Marianne Williamson
Our parents were very strict. Not in a brutal or awful way, but there were definite rules, such as after six on a school night… — Caroline Corr
Only a fool takes offense at the truth, Jessamine. They are awful, of that there is no question. But they are also very charming. Purveyors… — Maryrose Wood
Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times! — Robert Southey
Of all the movies I've done in my life, the one where I play a crazy awful psycho woman finds me my husband. — Bridgette Wilson
An awful lot of people think it's easy to lift recipes out. — Elizabeth David
Is it possible that my people live in such awful conditions? I tell you, Mr Wheatley, that if I had to live in conditions like… — George V
I had an awful lot to say in what I wore as Romana. — Lalla Ward
Sometimes I had to room with Tony Kaye and that was awful. — Bill Bruford
There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and… — Steve Lacy
...Environmental groups are too often alarmists. They have an awful track record, so they've lost credibility with the public. — Nicholas D. Kristof
A turkey is more occult and awful than all the angels and archangels. In so far as God has partly revealed to us an angelic… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
One thing about flying that he never got used to was that no matter how awful the weather was on the ground, if you flew… — Tom Clancy
The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of. — Edward de Bono
But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough? — Patrick Rothfuss
I respect the game that goes on of putting this against that, but I don't respect, nor do I enjoy, an awful lot of the… — Roone Arledge
I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this… — Ron Reagan
I can't wait to do the normal things. Like just doing your own groceries. Looking for your own tomatoes. I just can't wait to get… — Celine Dion
Exercise is the most awful illusion. The secret is a lot of aspirin and marrons glaces. — Noel Coward
I'm the type of guy where one thing leads to another and eventually it gets awful. If I put a $5 bet on a roulette… — Artie Lange
I've spent an awful lot of my time in the air. I've had everything happen to me in a plane that could happen. Except a… — Brenda Lee
If we really believed that those who are gone from us were as truly alive as ourselves, we could not invest the subject with such… — Lydia M. Child
Our dead brothers and sisters still live for us and bid us think of life, not death-of life to which in their youth they lent… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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