Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

We lost an awful lot of talent. We knew there would be some uncertainty about us, but it's been a fantastic season. Over time, the players have fit comfortably in their roles. We're playing very well right now and with a lot of confidence.

We missed an awful lot of tackles last year and that's one thing that coach (Marvin) Burke and the defensive staff have spent a lot of time on, helping guys learn how to tackle. Last year, we had kids diving on the ground and trying to dive at people. You've got to play this game on your feet.

Tom Renney

We have to draw some conclusions form this game and how to manage the puck. You can learn an awful lot by looking at a loss. This happens.

We understand that Butch Davis inherited an awful football team with virtually no talent. However, why do you keep defending the man (and his talent evaluation skills) when he clearly had awful drafts for the Browns?

We got some awful good looks. Shots that have been falling for us.

Kirk Douglas

Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things.

He and Faron are on the same page an awful lot in practice.

He brings an awful lot of good, positive things to the table. We are very enthusiastic about him coming here and being the guy.

For the first time, we enter the year with more than 100 international players on the tour. We represent just about every continent and an awful lot of countries. For the first time that I can remember in women's sports, you can be who you are as long as you're good and you can be who you are and still be accepted.

Ernest Hemingway

Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa.

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.

Being involved - even if only through passive ownership - in this steadfast city enhancement, which is relatively risk-free and without the awful baggage of other commercial activities' competitive pressures, is immensely interesting.

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!

Henning Mankell

I love Sherlock Holmes. There's still an awful lot to steal from Conan Doyle. But within a tradition you can work in many different ways.

Christopher Buckley

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

Geno Auriemma

Because of some of the things that we did, the way my players did it, an awful lot of basketball programs decided they wanted to try to be like that. That's probably the thing that I'm most happy about ? the impact that the players at Connecticut had on a lot of players that are playing today.

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.

Colin Powell

But I have seen nothing that makes a direct connection between Saddam Hussein and that awful regime, and what happened on 9/11.

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.

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.

Jean Renoir

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

Sebastian Horsley

But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone