Awful Quotes

I care a lot about privacy. I also care an awful lot about public safety. There continues to be a huge collision between those two things we care about.

Whatever had happened to him [Newt] out there — maybe even related to his lingering ankle injury — had been truly awful.

How awful is that hour when con, science stings.

I'm really very lucky. I get to do an awful lot. I've been able to make an incredibly wide range of movies and work with an incredible array of people.

I still felt like I might hurl, and I thought about how awful that would be in midair.

Other than my hundreds of arrests I really don't have that much experience with the law. While the majority of people aren't corrupt, there certainly is an awful lot of corruption in this country.

The awful thing is we don't respect each other.

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.

I was so grateful to be independent of the academic establishment. I thought, how awful it would be to have my future hinge on such people and such decisions.

I was 17, and all I wanted to do was to get away from England and the awful, boring boarding schools I'd been going to there. The last one was taught by monks, and I couldn't wait to get out.

Everything seemed good, but I knew it had the potential to be awful.

As much as it's awful to learn about all the greedy and selfish decisions that some people make, I know there are many more people who have good intentions.

Mom could say that in hindsight, but it seemed to me that when you were in the middle of something, it was awful hard to figure out what part of it was God's will and what wasn't.

At one point, I even thought, "Oh, I'll take diet pills." I tried it for one day, and I thought my heart was going to explode. It's awful, and I would never, ever recommend it.

I hate watching me. I hate watching me. It just makes me feel awful. I think, 'I look stupid from that angle. I wish I didn't let them put that shirt on me.'

Someday you will look back on all the awful stuff that's happening to you, and fondly smile. Doesn't say much about the future, does it?

They're [sportsmen] willing to give up a lot of other things that perhaps we all enjoy doing: eating and drinking and playing or whatever. They give up an awful lot to perform at the highest level.

If the costumes are wrong, you feel awful in them and it lessens your acting.

I can't pretend that I did one really awful thing - I took a bite out of the apple but now I'm never going to sin again.

I think for the foreseeable future, the truth is going to be awful and funny all at the same time.

There is an awful warmth about my heart like a load of immortality.

There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks.

There's an awful lot of biblical ignorance, and the church perpetuates that ignorance.

There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.

Happy 60th Birthday, good buddy. How are you dealing with your awful debility, lessened utility and loss of mobility?

It's awful bad luck to bring a woman aboard the ship." "It's awful worse luck not to.

It is an awful lot harder, Tony told me, to convince people you're sane than it is to convince them you're crazy.

I read an awful lot in college - a lot of Dickens, a lot of 19th century American stuff, a lot of old mysteries. Maybe it's helped me attain a certain fluidity with my style.

I always wished to be a better planner. It seems more elegant, while my trial and error process is more akin to someone scratching an awful case of poison oak.

How do you get rid of the trash? It's out there in society, it's going on every day. You can educate children an awful lot easier than you can get rid of the trash.

I'm a horrible control freak. It's awful! I'm nice, but if someone is folding some sheets while I am playing the guitar, I keep one eye on the way that they are folding the sheets.

I've never done so much bloody crying in my life. I was always moaning about how hard it was when we were shooting, how awful I felt.

The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he hadnt expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because hed thought surely the first must have been a mistake.

[On Nancy Reagan:] At one photo op press conference, she toured a crack house and decried how awful it was, yet one suspected that for our Drug Czarina it had something to do with a plaid couch.

A lot of the girls were awful, very catty. It was a competitive environment that I didn't like. You have no idea of the anorexia I saw around me.

I'm a very binary person in a bad way where it's like everything is either totally great or totally awful.

It seems like at some point you'd run out of awful.

I wash my hands, wonder how an awful day could turn even worse. It seems like at some point you'd just run out of awful.

People talk about grief as if it's kind of an unremittingly awful thing, and it is. It is painful, but it's a very, very interesting sort of thing to go through and it really helps you out.

It takes our government an awful lot of time to do most things competently, and that's part of the problem here.

I opened the door and Lend smiled. 'They look better on you.' 'Wow, they must look just awful on you then.' I smiled back.

Teens like a lot of the same things adults do: smart people doing amazing things against awful odds.

The first video I ever made, announcing 'Crash the Super Bowl,' I did about fifty takes and I wanted to die. It was awful.

Figure skaters have awful perceptions of hockey players.

I seem to like playing with form, and the superhero genre has an awful lot of formula to it. It has a lot of formula to it that I don't think it should be limited to.

Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself.

Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of the awful truth.

Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful.

. . . but the Universe is an awfully big place. There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree.

She stabbed him in the armpit, deep, and he dropped his sword. And died. So that's what is feels like, she thought as her boldness gave away to trembling. It feels awful.