Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Gates Percival

How awful is that hour when con, science stings.

Jean Renoir

The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons.

Christopher Isherwood

Sometimes awful things have their own beauty.

Christopher Buckley

How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?

George R. R. Martin

I'm honest. It's the world that's awful.

Jeremy Clarkson

I started to realise that being impolite saves an awful lot of time and costs you nothing.

Bobby Cox

He threw an awful lot of strikes - he really had everything working. That's one of his best games ever.

Fred Frith

There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert.

W. S. Gilbert

Everything in our program starts in the weight room. If you don't lift weights, it's awful hard to get on the field on Friday night. Our kids turn out and they work pretty hard.

Even though it's improving, there's still an awful lot of people who dropped out of work force and are waiting to be pulled back in.

Pattie Boyd

Everybody got an awful lot from that trip, and it was a wonderful trip,

John Banville

Someone said the best gift a man can give his son is to die young. When you think about it, it's true. I was in my early 30s and I did feel freed by it, awful as it is to confess.

Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking.

South Carolina will test us physically. They change defenses an awful lot and try to keep you out of rhythm.

Ruth Rendell

I used to get an awful lot of letters, and they have almost all gone. I used to answer nearly all of them.

Trip Hawkins

Sorry to say it, but an awful lot of us are not happy, and we're not sure why. We're bored and lonely. Too often we're popping Prozac. We want to interact and be entertained constantly.

Jane Goldman

Teenagers come to things fresh and can really teach us an awful lot.

Matt Hill

I've pitched for teams where there's been awful defense. It's good to have those guys back there, especially Dylan Frank behind the plate because there were four or five strikeouts that were foul tips that he caught, and that was big.

It would take a perfect game to beat them. It would take an awful good game.

John Kitzhaber

It would take an awful lot to make me believe that I could do more good for the world Logan (his 7-year-old son) will inherit with another four years as governor rather than with what I'm doing privately.

It was very unsettling, of little comfort really to the family to see their son-in-law, someone who they loved and trusted, being charged with such an awful crime.

It was tough for the kids. We were glad to play the second half. There's an awful lot of work that goes into a season opener.

It was an excellent ,thought-provoking exercise. I think we all learned a great deal and we have an awful lot to learn.

Ellen Burstyn

It was about this school teacher who went to Jerusalem and started bleeding from the palms. It just didn't make an awful lot of sense to me.

Vince McMahon

The smoke coming out, you can't get within 20, 30 feet of the building. The heat was awful intense. It went up as fast as I've ever seen.

The spectrum runs from the completely debauched, awful kind of stuff, to the most high quality, high tone stuff.

The cable and satellite companies pay an awful lot of money for content,

The Bush Justice Department better be able to back these awful charges.

Awful things happen to good people, and my daughter was an exceptional person.

Billy Donovan

Auburn is a very difficult team to play against, because they take so many threes. When they make them like they did - and I thought they made some awful difficult shots - they're going to hang around and play with anybody.

That's got to be our target. The big challenge is top six. There are a number of big names who weren't in it last year who have spent an awful lot of money and recruited very well to get themselves back to the standard that we set last year. I know it's an old cliche but it will be far tougher in 2006 than it was in 2005.

We have accomplished an awful lot, but we are getting to the dangerous part of the mission.

We had to build a new barn and new fencing and be ready to house and feed guests who eat an awful lot and are coming to stay.