Famous Quotes & Sayings

Awful as the consideration of eternity is, it is a source of great consolation to the righteous.

Helen George

I love having my cards read - if you go to a proper place, they wouldn't dream of telling you anything awful that is going to happen.

Louis C. K.

It's just a big excuse to say awful things.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

Erik Paulsen

The medical device tax repeal is the only proposal that had the most bipartisan votes coming out of the House and has the opportunity in the Senate to gain tractions, and it fixes a part of ObamaCare in terms of repealing an awful tax. And it's got bipartisan support.

I first moved to Denver to work with a group called YWAM, 'Youth With a Mission.' I was a kid - I was 18 - and did some work with homeless people. Really, trying to convert people is sort of an awful position to find yourself in, so I quickly, on my own, grew out of religious ideas.

Nicholas Haslam

I have a thirst - it's an awful word, but I'm thirsty for knowledge. I like knowing things, the odder the better, the more obtuse the better.

Niall Ferguson

Civilisation is partly about restraining the male of the species from engaging in the violence of the hunter-gatherer period. But it doesn't take an awful lot to unleash it.

Michael Feldman

When I was a kid, I hated being talked to as a kid. I don't know if all kids feel that way, but I seem to remember awful things in the crib, something like people doing baby talk in the crib and sticking their big, fat faces in there and scaring me. So I always talk to kids as if they were a person.

Larry Coker

We'll be awful good on defense. We'll have a good offensive team. How good? It depends on how some guys come through for us in some key areas. Our biggest concern is our depth on offense.

Mike Miller

We'll be a lot different (next season). A lot of things went through Darin last year and this year, and I hope we'll get some of those things collectively. It's going to be an awful good sectional (next season) but it'll be nice not to have to deal with a guy (in Oden) that's going to be playing in the NBA.

What's more, an awful lot of people come into this city to work,

James Augustine

We're going to look awful on the film. You feel like you played well during the game and then you go watch the film. It's about an hour long, and Coach is stopping it every 10 seconds.

We're fighting for a playoff spot. We're fighting to keep a winning season. We've had seven consecutive years of .500 or better. I remember in 2000 that was our third straight winning season. That was the first time that's happened at Charles Henderson since 1981 or '82. Plus, we are playing Stanhope Elmore. I've told our guys if we win this game they can say something that an awful lot of good Charles Henderson football players can't say - they've beaten Stanhope Elmore. So this is a big game for us.

Bruce Bochy

We're awful right now. And we know it. This has gone on far too long.

We're awful glad to have Bryan. We needed another left-handed pitcher, and he's been a little inconsistent, but he's had some good outings ... We're just trying to get him more consistent. But he's a great kid, and a good student.

We're awful glad that the taxpayers and the voters will have an opportunity to vote on this. I think they'll grab it just like a drowning man would grab a flotation ring.

Nina Conti

So many actors are lively-minded, creative people who just tread water in this awful way, waiting for the phone to ring and doing their hair for auditions. It feels like a bit of a dreamer's life - as opposed to a sensible ventriloquist's life.

Steve Howe

Yes has been sleeping in this kind of awful mode that I think is slightly disrespectful to our beautiful fans. It's all ... political is not the right word, but it's all contrary to different people's opinions of what's right and what's wrong. I think that's really a shame.

We know an awful lot about the history of water on Mars,

We started playing on Marty's kid's stuff. God, it was an awful noise!

We're in a society where an awful lot of the institutions we have were built for a different era, an era where we had 16 workers for every retiree.

We're talking about an awful lot of money here to get the mansion in shape. It is up to you to decide what you want to do.

Woven through these galleries are some of the most deliriously awful canvases of the 19th century high-finance porn of the ripest sort.

Jim Calhoun

We've got an awful lot of stuff to cram in.

We've got an awful lot going on next week.

Samuel Hoffenstein

What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise, can you imagine what awful screeching?

Andrea Riseborough

I am a Graham Greene fan - I'm just a ferocious reader. I read an awful lot when I get the time.

We've been off the gold standard for an awful long time in this country. We want to see NAFTA respected,

The government pumped an awful lot of liquidity into an industry that was already suffering, ... We should have just taken the hit then and gotten it over with.

Alan Hovhaness

There were periods when I sometimes made fires in a large, open fireplace that lasted about two weeks, which was how long it took to burn my compositions. So there has been an awful lot that I have destroyed.

Jimmy Durante

Be a awful nice to 'em goin' up, because you're gonna meet 'em all comin' down

Mark Johnson

That's an awful lot of money. It would take seven or eight years to make that much money delivering beer.