Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

We dreaded high school because now you put peer pressure into the mix.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Douglas Coupland

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

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.

Jason Smith

We were dreadful in the third quarter, but to end it like that gave us the momentum going into the fourth.

It's really a problem if people can't function and can't go to work. They're in dreadful pain, their families suffer, and their workplace suffers as well.

Peter Jennings

It was a dreadful mistake, a foolish experiment,

Markie Post

I turned down dates because I dreaded sitting in front of a plateful of food.

There's no point in trying to up-play the Zimbabwean effort. I thought they were dreadful to be honest,

Thomas Hardy

There's not a modest maiden elf / But dreads the final Trumpet, / Lest half of her should rise herself, / And half some sturdy strumpet!

Jane Goldman

I really enjoy the company of my kids... I'm not one of those people who goes 'Yeah, my kids are my mates', that's a dreadful kind of mother, but I'm fortunate that there are times that they do want me around, and I feel lucky that they let me into their world.

Endure, my heart: you once endured something even more dreadful

Greg Austin

It was the worst pain I'd ever felt in my life. I didn't want to go to school. I dreaded going to the training room every day because I knew what was going to happen. It was a lot of pain, but I wanted to come back.

It was an entry form to the dreaded Q School. ''That's how things are going.

We got off to a dreadful start with the wicked deflection for their first goal,

The news today would've had to been pretty dreadful to push the stock down further.

Sarah Silverman

Even when I'm dreading it, I want to talk about it - it only helps me.

It's a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up. - 'The Hungarian Horntail,' Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

It's a trading bounce. These stocks have been dreadful (performers) for several months.

That'll be the last home game for our seniors. As good as this group's been, I'm dreading that night with a passion.

Stewart Cink

A two-foot putt -- is that something to dread and fear?

Safari is no fun, not for us; it's work. I dread the week. I dread facing the people more than anything. I know they're only down here for a day or two, and they want it fixed right now. They don't want to wait for their vehicle to be in service. But it's physically impossible to do everything everyone wants done.

Mark Waters

The one thing about 'Beautiful Creatures,' 'The Host' and 'The Mortal Instruments,' which are all well-made movies, is that they were all infected with a dreadful sincerity.

Jacques Chirac

This dreadful catastrophe plunges all France into mourning,

Kenenisa Bekele

However I can say that Friday's world record goes some way to wiping away the memories of that dreadful tragedy,

Robin Williams

The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you don't really have it. You've lost the muse or - the worst dread - you never had it at all. I went through all that madness early on.

Paul Valery

We hope vaguely but dread precisely.