Famous Quotes & Sayings

We want them to think of it as their gym. That way, they'll grow up thinking exercise is fun, and not something you dread doing.

Douglas Coupland

We are a dreadful species indeed, and deserve whatever it is our techno-baubles do to us.

There is no question that Villanova is the team we most dread to play. I am so grateful to get that game over.

There is no question that Villanova is the team that we most dread to play. I'm glad we were able to be victorious, because they really wear you out.

John Howe

What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

We had a wonderful year last year. And ever since it ended we've been worried about that dreaded sophomore slump.

Lots of women dread the thought of putting on a swimsuit after a long winter. If you haven't been working out, you're probably self-conscious about showing your body. Even when you're in good shape, you feel better about some spots than others.

Jane Austen

Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor

Kind of a punch to the stomach. It was something that many of them might come and they dreaded it.

Leonardo DiCaprio

I was dreading winning. I didn't even plan a speech-I was worried that I would slip up or do something horrible. I was shaking in my seat, putting on a posed smile. Inside I was petrified.

I was dreading it and he was excellent. It was like he was one of the guys, talking to him.

We are exponentially better than we were on that dreadful September morning.

Thomas Ken

Teach me to live, that I may dread / The grave as little as my bed.

Prince Charles

Our hearts go out to you today as they did on that dreadful today.

Jane Kaczmarek

Malcolm in the Middle ... I always knew I would need this done because shallow hips run in the family. It was painful and took months to get back on my feet. I dread doing the other hip.

Ruth Reichl

My mother really would make these dreadful concoctions. She really prided herself on something called 'Everything Stew,' where she would take everything in the refrigerator, all the leftovers, and put them all together.

Hugh Grant

I was thinking on the plane yesterday how pathetic it is to be dreading the read-through after 25 films and 18 years of acting. I mean real terror.

It dreads on me the fact that I was on that team.

Ernie Els

I think most amateurs dread playing a 180-plus-yard par 3 even more than a hard par 4. Part of it is psychological: You think you should be getting a breather, distance-wise, and instead, you get hit with a long iron or hybrid shot over trouble.

Tony Blair

I would like to express our sympathy and condolences to the people of Nepal following the dreadful tragedy there in respect of the royal family,

Marvin Kalb

He's a very accomplished newsman and a very nice man. He found himself in a dreadful, dreadful situation.

Marvin Kalb

He's a very accomplished newsman and a very nice man, ... He found himself in a dreadful, dreadful situation.

Far more than dreading ending up in a care home myself, I dread having to put my husband in one.

One of the reasons I moved to New York was because I thought it would be easier to say no to dreadful scripts. I wouldn't be tempted to fly back and do them. There are some things even I won't do.

William Wordsworth

More like a man/ Flying from something that he dreads than one/ Who sought the thing he loved.

Kyle Petty

Maybe this will put the dreaded Intrepid thing to rest. Maybe the Charger is the way we need to go.

Abraham Lincoln

If I am killed, I can die by once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.

Laura Linney

I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it.

Yanni

I dread naming pieces of music because being instrumental, most of the time the songs that I write are instrumental, I want the listener to make up their own story as to what it is and get the emotion pure without using logic.

Gabriel Mann

I play Father Francis in 'The Exorcist Prequel.' It's fantastic. We are shooting in Morrocco and Rome. Paul Schrader is directing; Stellan Skarsgard plays the younger Max Von Sydow character. It's just a fantastic script. It's a very eerie, very scary script. It encomposes a growing dread that I think is really appropriate for the film.

Tea Leoni

Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link.

Sophocles

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.

Octavio Paz

We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act.