Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Thomas

I'm horrified. We're all gay! You can say a lot of things about Cafeteria in Miami. I know we've had awful service at times and we're very aware. It's been a huge challenge to keep quality people. But not homophobia.

Jane Goodall

I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don't feel in tune with British politics.

Matt is a very special player. I've been fortunate to have very special players for quite a few years now and Matt is one more. Matt doesn't need much coaching. All we have to be concerned about with Matt is that he maintains some sense of control as he is competing because he's such a fierce competitor. He'll do anything to win, he's just an awful nice kid to coach.

Ruth Rendell

My mother started to suffer from multiple sclerosis, but nobody knew what MS was then. My father didn't - and later he suffered a great deal of guilt over that. It was an awful business and very fraught.

I was in jail nine straight years. I was on the lam two-and-a-half years before it. In that period of time, I seen an awful lot of guys that I thought were stand-up guys go bad, turn and become informants.

Frank Deford

I think really that if they can get back to playing games by the Super Bowl, which is when an awful lot of people turn and look at basketball for the first time, if they can do that, I don't think there will be any damage whatsoever.

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.

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.

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.

We played awful hockey in the second and third periods. We were fortunate it was only 3-1.

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.

Mike Martin

It does surprise me but it is kind of understandable. There are an awful lot of guys who have given a lot to this game.

I think he stuck with it and has continued to work extremely hard, and now we're starting to see some of the results for Jonathan coming on the ice. He's a guy that does an awful lot for us. ... He's really starting to come on and be a dynamic force for us offensively.

Mick McCarthy

I think he has an awful lot to offer - I wouldn't have re-signed him recently on a longer term contract otherwise,

That would go an awful long way to restoring confidence,

Desmond Tutu

Human beings can be awful, but they can also be tremendous.

The convenience of an early-morning departure from John Wayne and an evening return flight makes it possible for travelers to do a full slate of business in the state capital and return to Orange County, all in a day's work. And of course, Aloha's new nonstop to Sacramento gives Orange County residents another reason not to make that awful drive up to LAX.

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.

Wayne Kramer

Drugs, sex, booze, all the stuff that we wanted to do. The problem was that we didn't want to learn the top 40 'cause most of the music was awful and we had this other idea about what we wanted to do.

Timothy Simons

My children, twins who are three years old, they're awful creatures right now.

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.

David Cook

I knew at the time my haircut was pretty damn god-awful, so I was just hoping that I wasn't one of the joke ones. And they put me through to Hollywood and I thought, "Well okay, maybe I'm still one of the joke ones but at least I'm not terrible?"

Anne Tyler

It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.

Anne Frank

It must be awful to feel you're not needed.

Andrei Sakharov

I could not stop something I knew was wrong and terrible. I had an awful sense of powerlessness.