Awful Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about the lack of respect…

— Rita Dove

Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this…

— Leo Tolstoy

For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to…

— Rita Dove

Yes, there was a time when I failed to understand the system. I would go for auditions, but I wouldn't get any parts. I…

— Amit Sadh

During the summer, Screen Gems launched the New Monkees, which miserably failed I understand. I never saw it.

— Davy Jones

I routinely failed to understand that 'simple and straightforward' would have been a much better product strategy for Lotus.

— Mitch Kapor

The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.

— George Edward Moore

Anybody who is not shocked by this subject has failed to understand it. [of quantum mechanics]

— Niels Bohr

Rosemary bubbled with delight at the trunks. Her naivete responded whole-heartedly to the expensive simplicity of the Divers, unaware of its complexity and its…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful…

— Pamela Stephenson

It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you…

— Mark Twain

You've seen the first issue and what happened in the last page. Some pretty awful stuff. I don't know why I seem to be…

— Declan Shalvey