Famous Quotes & Sayings

Time driveth onward fast,/ And in a little while our lips are dumb./ Let us alone. What is it that will last?/ All things are taken from us, and become/ Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past.

William Cowper

Thou god of our idolatry, the press. . . .Thou fountain, at which drink the good and wise;Thou ever-bubbling spring of endless lies;Like Eden's dread probationary tree,Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.

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

Fred Funk

He was dreading every golf swing he had to take.

Jason Smith

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

Helen Garner

Maybe this is pathetic, but I still dread producing a book that doesn't earn back its advance. I hate obligations that are financially foggy.

Ian Holm

As an actor, I'm very much a company person. And this also goes through my life: I have a dread of responsibility. I like someone else to be in charge.

Hugh Laurie

I'm reasonably easygoing. Messing up my lines or making a fool of myself is where you find my fears. Like a lot of English people, I'm prey to embarrassment - the dread that everyone's sort of sniggering at you, that you're going to look like an idiot. I think that sort of halts us all.

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

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

Sarah Silverman

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

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.

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

Cyril Connolly

The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Stewart Cink

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

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,

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

Clara Hughes

I have this thing I say to myself that 'tomorrow can be better.' And I remember that period in my life where I never felt like tomorrow could be better. It was always dread for the next day.

Claire Cameron

A lot of people have trouble with their second novel - the dreaded sophomore jinx. I wrote three books in between the two novels, and they just weren't very good.

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

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

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.