Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Alan Ball

You know what I find interesting? If you lose a spouse, you're called a widow, or a widower. If you're a child and you lose your parents, then you're an orphan. But what's the word to describe a parent who loses a child? I guess that's just too f**king awful to even have a name.

We generate an awful lot of economic impact we don't get to share in.

Peter Mullan

The Vatican is like a huge kind of magician's club. The more you look into it the more awful it becomes. And they're laughing at us. That's when I get angry.

We have an awful lot to be proud of. We came out strong to finish the season. At one point it didn't look like it was in the cards for us.

Roy Blunt

We have an awful lot of work to do on both sides of the aisle,

Pierce Brosnan

The word 'star' doesn't mean an awful lot to me. 'Good actor' and having the respect of one's peers means more.

Mary Wesley

It was pretty awful for us children because we never really knew the local children. Mother was keen for us to learn languages, so our travels took us to France and Italy, as well as the West Country.

We were getting an awful lot of phone calls; I must have had 15 calls myself. Some reports gave names of specific players, including big stars.

Wanda Jackson

We had to work five back-to-back shows, forty-five minutes on, fifteen minutes off. That's just an awful lot of singing.

Natalie Gulbis

We've got some pretty long players and I actually don't think length will make all that much difference. I think our team is full of great ball strikers and we make an awful lot of birdies. That's what counts.

We're working awful hard. We had gotten kind of complacent. No more going half speed.

We've developed a nice rivalry with Rutgers Prep. It's two good teams, a lot of the kids know each other, and this game means an awful lot to them.

Ryan Holmes

Working with lots of old media clients, I've had a front-row seat on the ascension of new social players and the decline of traditional news outlets. And it's clear to me that old media has an awful lot to learn from social media, in particular in five key areas: relevance, distribution, velocity, monetization, and user experience.

Polly Bergen

You look at the road you could have taken, you know, I just think that's interesting... I've been on a lot of roads and I had to hitchhike on a couple of 'em... I have to be very honest: There's not an awful lot of regret in my life. I think that, you know, you learn from everything, and then, sometimes, you don't.

Patricia Schroeder

One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.

Patrick Macnee

But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.

Lindy Ruff

We dug ourselves a hole, and we tried to dig ourselves out of it. We kept it close until late, but they didn't give up a lot. Our passing was awful and our shooting was worse.

You just keep thinking it's going to happen. We had opportunities, we just had the ball bounce around an awful lot. There must have been more rebounds than any game I've seen in a long time.

You can block anything in the world, in certain environments. But the whole idea of supervision, the cop on the beat, the parents on the beat, really is overrated by an awful lot of folks, we found.

Winning has done an awful lot. People now recognize you as a state champion. They know this a good place to come play.

Martin Campbell

The 3D thing has been abused slightly, I think. There is no question about that. 'Avatar' did it magnificently, and then, of course, there was the old 'leaping on the bandwagon' thing where there have been one or two films which, let's face it, all know look bloody awful with the 3D.

That would go an awful long way to restoring confidence,

Larry Parrish

That was an awful big play for us. It came at the right time for us.

Jamal Crawford

I was awful down the stretch. I missed two free throws, a 3-pointer and threw the ball away. That was uncharacteristic of me.

Alice Walker

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

Unfortunately, that's what happens with this awful disease. You feel good, you're responding and then the downturn.

We were just right there in some of it. We were awful close.

We feel for the young man. It's an awful thing when a player of great promise has such a run of bad luck from one injury.

We played him before and we did a very good job. We just didn't execute. We had an awful first half.

We played good enough to win in the first quarter. We just played awful after that.