Famous Quotes & Sayings

We were thrilled to death to have an opportunity to get him back. So it worked out well. It's a plus-plus, and we're awful happy.

We knew coming in that they were a team that was similar to us. We have an awful lot of respect for Peabody, but I'm proud of how my guys gave everything they had out there.

We just kind of stumbled into it. We made a couple of things, and people liked them. And they're willing to pay an awful lot of money for some of the stuff, so we thinking maybe we can make more money at that!

Larry Brown

It would have been awful tough losing a 17-point lead and not having anything to show for it.

Ron Wilson

It would have been an awful feeling had we not prevailed in overtime. We got rewarded for our hard work.

It would create an awful mess in Florida, where the labor market is tight by any definition.

Frank Robinson

Things are starting to come together. Like I told you guys, it was very important that we got something going before we dug a deep hole for ourselves. It takes an awful lot to come out of that. Slowly, we're starting to do that.

Richard Kelly

I've seen an awful lot, and I hope I never see it again. You see real suffering from people. It does a number on you.

Mack Brown

I've told them if you get in trouble, you probably won't play. What an awful thing for you to make a 15-second mistake that cost yourself a chance to play or win a national championship.

Jerry Colangelo

I've spent my entire life in the game on different levels, and here was an opportunity on an international stage to represent my country at a time when our basketball program needed an awful lot of work as a result of the World Championships in Indianapolis a few years ago and the Olympics in Athens.

You have two very powerful opposing forces in the market. You have the Fed being very aggressive, lowering interest rates and throwing liquidity back into the market. And you have underlying business trends throughout most of the economy that are awful in many industries and show no signs of improvement. You have to take a side.

William Wordsworth

To humbler functions, awful Power!I call thee: I myself commendUnto thy guidance from this hour;Oh, let my weakness have an end!

You had an awful lot of snow out there. You had it early and you had it long. It's probably going to be difficult (to match) next year.

This year I realized I've got an awful lot on my plate. We are so busy that it's an awful lot to handle and to do a good job. The No. 1 reason I'm not coming back as a coach is because of the time I had to spend away from my wife.

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.

We just put an awful lot of taxes on a gallon of gas in New York.

Carl Reiner

There's some awfully good things done today and some awful terrible things done today,

There's not an awful lot I can do about it,

There's not a lot of opportunities here, and if you ain't mining, you're living somewhere else. A lot of people did just that 20 years ago, but that's changing awful fast.

John Nolan

There's no doubt, if you want to be successful on the Internet, that aligning yourself with the postal service probably isn't a bad idea. We hope to play that trump card an awful lot.

There's one coach we all know cheats, everyone knows it. A few years ago, he made the Final Four. His president heard all the accusations, knew his graduation rate was awful and what did he do? He gave him a $ 1.7 million-a-year contract. What kind of message is that?

There's now an awful lot of development and growth within the industry.

There's nothing I know of in the research world that (says) size itself matters. There's lots of small, awful districts in this country.

The tremendous rise in all these costs has been steep enough and has gone on long enough that it's putting an awful lot of pressure on business costs.

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.

Judith Miller

I started buying bits of broken porcelain. I furnished our first flat with pieces of 'junk.' Some of that 'junk' is now worth an awful lot of money. What I was calling 'junk' in the '60s people wouldn't call 'junk' now.

Craig Venter

I somewhat joke that I know an awful lot because I learn from my mistakes. I just make a lot of mistakes. It's OK to fail in science just as long as you have the successes to go with the failures.