Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Chappelle

I would go to work on the show and I felt awful every day, that's not the way it was. ... I felt like some kind of prostitute or something. If I feel so bad, why keep on showing up to this place? I'm going to Africa. The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.

We started playing on Marty's kid's stuff. God, it was an awful noise!

We're in a society where an awful lot of the institutions we have were built for a different era, an era where we had 16 workers for every retiree.

We're talking about an awful lot of money here to get the mansion in shape. It is up to you to decide what you want to do.

Helen George

I love having my cards read - if you go to a proper place, they wouldn't dream of telling you anything awful that is going to happen.

Louis C. K.

It's just a big excuse to say awful things.

We were awful in the second quarter. We didn't start that bad. We'd execute for a few plays, but we couldn't keep things going. We challenged them at halftime.

John Calipari

We were awful for a while. In that first half, oh my gosh. I'm looking at it, thinking, 'Can we be this bad?' Yeah. And it was a little bit of being gun-shy from that loss. That happens when you lose.

Mark McGrath

We were always open to all sides and experimented an awful lot. That way we had a lot of mellow songs and a lot of noisy, loud songs.

Awful as the consideration of eternity is, it is a source of great consolation to the righteous.

I first moved to Denver to work with a group called YWAM, 'Youth With a Mission.' I was a kid - I was 18 - and did some work with homeless people. Really, trying to convert people is sort of an awful position to find yourself in, so I quickly, on my own, grew out of religious ideas.

Nicholas Haslam

I have a thirst - it's an awful word, but I'm thirsty for knowledge. I like knowing things, the odder the better, the more obtuse the better.

Niall Ferguson

Civilisation is partly about restraining the male of the species from engaging in the violence of the hunter-gatherer period. But it doesn't take an awful lot to unleash it.

Michael Feldman

When I was a kid, I hated being talked to as a kid. I don't know if all kids feel that way, but I seem to remember awful things in the crib, something like people doing baby talk in the crib and sticking their big, fat faces in there and scaring me. So I always talk to kids as if they were a person.

Samuel Hoffenstein

What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise, can you imagine what awful screeching?

What's more, an awful lot of people come into this city to work,

James Augustine

We're going to look awful on the film. You feel like you played well during the game and then you go watch the film. It's about an hour long, and Coach is stopping it every 10 seconds.

We're fighting for a playoff spot. We're fighting to keep a winning season. We've had seven consecutive years of .500 or better. I remember in 2000 that was our third straight winning season. That was the first time that's happened at Charles Henderson since 1981 or '82. Plus, we are playing Stanhope Elmore. I've told our guys if we win this game they can say something that an awful lot of good Charles Henderson football players can't say - they've beaten Stanhope Elmore. So this is a big game for us.

Bruce Bochy

We're awful right now. And we know it. This has gone on far too long.

We're awful glad to have Bryan. We needed another left-handed pitcher, and he's been a little inconsistent, but he's had some good outings ... We're just trying to get him more consistent. But he's a great kid, and a good student.

We're awful glad that the taxpayers and the voters will have an opportunity to vote on this. I think they'll grab it just like a drowning man would grab a flotation ring.

Nina Conti

So many actors are lively-minded, creative people who just tread water in this awful way, waiting for the phone to ring and doing their hair for auditions. It feels like a bit of a dreamer's life - as opposed to a sensible ventriloquist's life.

Steve Howe

Yes has been sleeping in this kind of awful mode that I think is slightly disrespectful to our beautiful fans. It's all ... political is not the right word, but it's all contrary to different people's opinions of what's right and what's wrong. I think that's really a shame.

We know an awful lot about the history of water on Mars,

John Otto

When the snares don't hit together, it's just the most awful thing to hear.

Ron Wilson

We made an awful play up the ice. It was a bad pass. You know they have four guys on the ice, we have five. You should be able to find someone open and execute a good pass, and we didn't.

Robert Casey

Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.

Rick Perlstein

I believe politics is a team sport. That, for awful and unfortunate reasons beyond any of our control, the American system only allows, effectively, for two teams.

Jeff Bell

Luke's always been very mature and responsible. This was an awful lot for a kid to handle, but he did it well.

Brian Eno

I'm bloody awful at multi-tasking.

Brian Henson

There's an awful lot of scenes where we don't know what the scene's going to be about, we ask the audience, pick a place that the scene is happening, pick the relationship, tell us who they are, things like that.

Elliott Erwitt

The most awful museums are in China. They have magnificent stuff on display and just the worst way of displaying it. They just don't spend money on lighting and installation.

Keeley Hawes

I happen to know there is nothing sexy or romantic about love scenes. They are just awful to do.