Famous Quotes & Sayings

Is there apathy? At times, maybe. I think an awful lot of it comes down to priority of time, ... We're not talking about parents who don't care but parents who make a living so kids can have basic needs.

Paul Reubens

I spent an awful long time 12 years ago thinking to myself, you know, this can't be my final thing. I'm a big believer in the happy ending. I want a Pee-Wee movie to have a happy ending. Pee-Wee gets his bicycle back. I don't know what the ending is to my story. But I think it's going to be a happy one.

I spend way too much time watching television, going to sports games, going to movies. It struck me that there's an awful lot of data in the public domain for these sectors. The movie industry publishes weekly sales numbers - not many industries do.

Peter Thiel

I spend an awful lot of time just thinking about what is going on in the world and talking to people about that. It's probably one of my default social activities, just getting dinners with friends.

James Nesbitt

I spend an awful lot of time by myself and enjoy that.

We worked awful hard the last five weeks and the effort paid off tonight.

What they did was they failed to produce information pertinent to the subject matter of the lawsuit, and they failed to do so repeatedly. It cost us a lot of time and an awful lot of money.

We spend more time opposing bad bills now than we did in the past. The Legislature is awful compared to what it used to be.

We spend an awful lot of money training people and developing them in these underperforming schools, but at the end of the year, these teachers are taking the training and experience and moving on to better districts.

Sam Miller

This is the price of living in Florida during this awful and incredible cycle we're in. We've had eight hurricanes in two years.

They're an excellent team and they have an awful lot of potential. They have an opportunity to be right back here.

Christopher Dodd

they're going to pay an awful price politically and it hurts the country terribly in my view.

I know I'll be here at least through then. And there's an awful lot of shows that we booked for this season that I really want to see. As long as I'm here, I'm going to be coming to see shows.

Curtis Strange

I hit some awful shots. I still hit some awful shots. But at least they're a little better. The first week, the Golf Channel was all over me. I said, 'God, just leave me alone. Let me drown by myself.'

Denis Law

In the long run, after knowing him for a long time, it's the best thing that could have happened because he would have been slightly like a vegetable and he wouldn't have liked that. It's awful to say it sometimes but it was a blessing.

If you're somebody who rents an awful lot of movies, this is potentially attractive.

James Nesbitt

I get an awful lot of people coming up and saying they went to school with me. There must have been 80,000 pupils at that school!

Kevin Bacon

I had done 'Mystic River' and 'The Woodsman' and they were both internalized characters, characters who could hold an awful lot inside, and I thought it might be cool to go back and do something kind of external and showy, ... I also have rarely played an entertainer, and certainly have rarely played a celebrity, so to tap into those two parts of my own personality, I thought, seemed like it might be kind of interesting.

John Hancock

If the July jobs report was bad news, at least it wasn't awful news,

Scott Skiles

It has happened to us so many times this season. We didn't make our free throws, and there were an awful lot of odd plays that were right in our hands near the basket but couldn't come up with them. Those will cost you in a close game like this.

Scott Skiles

I had 20 or something and guys have gotten into the 20s, so there's reason to think that at some point somebody is going to do it. But the opponent had an awful lot to do with that, and no one plays like that anymore.

Ian Woosnam

I had an awful start and when I missed from two feet on the first I had to go immediately over to cross-handed with my putting,

If you raise interest rates in the face of what you know will be some pretty awful economic numbers, you must have a lot of confidence about the economy's ultimate recovery and a lot of concern about inflation.

Dave Wannstedt

If you turn the football over, you turn them over for touchdowns or turn them over in the red zone, you're not going to beat anyone, ... Tyler is our leader. He's one of the best players we have on this team. He's won an awful lot of games around here and he'll continue to win an awful lot of games.

I don't know how to describe it except to say that what was once the beautiful and thriving city of New Orleans now looks more like a third world country, ... The living conditions for the injured, the sick and the survivors of Hurricane Katrina are disgusting. The stench is awful and the conditions are terrible, yet people hang on to life -- some ever so slight -- but they hang on.

Bob Brown

He?s shown us an awful lot. We?re excited he had a chance to wrestle here. He?s right there.

He's putting a marker down that an awful lot of his colleagues have been unwilling to do.

Donald Rumsfeld

I don't think that I would characterize what's going on in Iran as a democratic system, ... I don't think I would say that it fits the principles that I've just indicated. I think there are an awful lot of people in Iran who feel that that small group of clerics that determine what takes place in that country is not their idea of how they want to live their lives.

Matthew Goode

I don't think I know enough about acting to direct. You need to be a slight megalomaniac, not where you want to take over the world, but where you want to make every single decision and the buck stops with you. It's an awful lot of stress.

Douglas Coupland

I don't think I see the world in terms of stupid or clever, but in terms of being able to get irony. There's some awful statistic about only 20 per cent of Americans being able to understand irony.

I don't react to criticism from outside the camp, I react to a pretty awful performance.

Chuck D.

I have not seen any remorsefulness on his part. All I have seen is viscous and awful stuff.

Robert Crais

I'll bet you $10 right now that there are an awful lot of literary writers who started a long time ago and now they find themselves in this place where secretly they feel trapped. And you know what they really read for fun? They read crime fiction.