Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Pater

With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.

Hannibal Buress

I'm in awful shape. I'm trying to get in better shape. My girlfriend, she's in good shape. She gives me health tips sometimes, like, 'Hannibal, you're going to die.' Stuff like that.

You can get awful famous in this country in seven days.

Willard Scott

I still start to get panicky each morning before I go on television. I'll say, 'I'm in awful shape, something is wrong,' and if I start to look like I'm going off the deep end, Jimmy Straka, the stage manager, will say, 'You're all right. Calm down.' Then Bryant Gumbel will grab me by the leg or something.

Western still has to be the favorite to win the conference. They have the two best kids in the conference with Kelly and Porter-Talbert, and they can get on top of you awful quick.

Martin Havlat

We gave them the game. We just gave it to them by making a lot of mistakes and that's what hurts the most. That was just awful to lose that way.

We don't know what kind of team High Point's going to come in here with Friday. I thought they were a good team when we played 'em. We played them the game that kind of started our mid-season skid. We played awful and lost by six at their place.

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

William Kingdon Clifford

Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live.

Phillip is just a hard-nosed player. He's more of a defensive player. We're hoping Kyle Masson works out. He has very good speed. Speed can do an awful lot.

(Perry) has made an awful mess of things. He's proven he can't lead a silent prayer.

Perry has made an awful mess of things and has proven he can't even lead a silent prayer. If we're going to find solutions, we have to elect a governor who has the courage of his convictions.

Brian Williams

Perhaps we are guilty of settling in to too comfortable a journalistic pattern, and perhaps this tragedy did serve as a reminder that this is what we do. I think too many people had forgotten that. There is a reason we show up after awful events. We really were the viewers' advocates on this.

On the first day God made Thai asses, and on the seventh day he was awful tired, and that's when he made U.S. asses.

Geno Auriemma

One of the dangers that you run into when you have success so early, people tend to forget. It?s better to have success late then early because an awful lot of people may end up remembering whatever happened last year or whatever is going to happen this year.

Jack Straw

Mr. Wiesenthal has been untiring in his service to the Jewish communities in the U.K. and elsewhere by helping to right at least some of the awful wrongs of the Holocaust, ... If there is one name which symbolizes this vital coming to terms with the past, it is Simon Wiesenthal's.

Nobody expects it to take real long, but it takes a while to build a program anywhere. In addition, we expanded this league. The good news is we're getting better. The bad news is, so is everybody else in this league. We've lost an awful lot of close games, but we're very, very close.

One of the things about the spread is there's an awful lot of built-in misdirection that it creates. It slows defenses down, so certainly we're going to do that.

Martin Campbell

Of course, it'll probably be north of $100 million, as they tend to be, because these days, ironically enough, there's an awful lot of films that are costing that, but beyond that, I can't tell you.

I always had an awful lot going on in my head, always telling myself stories, very vivid imagination.

Christiane Amanpour

But think how much more of a contribution we could make to this great society if we weren't so dependent on what I call those hocus-focus-pocus awful groups who tell us what people are not interested in.

Billy Connolly

But still, I kept thinking, if I'm still troubled by this, if I'm still carrying it around like a big rucksack full of bricks and my father's dead, I need someone to tell me how to get rid of this great weight. . . . The most awful thing was that it was kind of pleasant physically, you know. That's why nobody tells.

Chris had one of the best fall seasons I've ever seen. He definitely picked up where he left off this week. He's playing with an awful lot of confidence right now. His back nine today was incredible.

Paula Creamer

Obviously, the first win is very important, but just the strength of the field here, the Evian Masters, I think the whole ensemble of everything is huge, ... This is one of the biggest purses tournaments and purses that we have. I think that means an awful lot and is very exciting.

Millicent Fenwick

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

Lesley Nicol

For years, I've felt that there's an inner cook in me just waiting to be unleashed. But I have to confess I'm having an awful lot of trouble finding her in real life.

Deborah Kerr

Fred Zinnemann, on From Here To Eternity and The Sundowners really brings out of me, in a completely different way, an awful lot that perhaps I'd never have the courage to lay bare, to open up. He just knows how to get you to do it, to bring out some inner quality

For right now, we are operating under the correct principles. We hear an awful lot of exceptional cases. This is a big system and there are many ways through it.

Ben Howland

I expect it would take an awful lot to keep him out of the game (against Louisiana State) tomorrow.

Bill Self

I don't think panic's set in by any means. But in fans' minds, they're thinking it's awful early to be struggling this much.

David Ervine

I have a feeling of awful foreboding that there are people out there so determined to damage me that they will take an innocent life.

I have an awful lot of girls on my two teams, and there used to be a paradigm that girls cannot do math. But all these kids are honors students, and you have to constantly keep challenging them. Otherwise they'll get lazy, roll over and do the minimum to get an A.

I have mixed emotions. We were right there and it's an awful feeling to lose and not get that next step. You just try to tell these young players that everything that happened before what we feel right now is what this team is.