Awful Quotes

Our sin reached its full horror and found its most awful expression in the cross.

Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.

I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.

Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.

Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.

The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons.

The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they've been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.

There was an awful suspicion in my mind that I'd finally gone over the hump, and the worst thing about it was that I didn't feel tragic at all, but only weary, and sort of comfortably detached.

The sitting around on the set is awful. But I always figure that’s what they pay me for. The acting I do for free.

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

We didn't say anything because there was such an awful lot to say, and no language to say it in.

I have come to believe there is nothing in the lives of human beings more terrifying than war and nothing more important than for those of us who have experienced it to share its awful truth.

War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors.

And we need things in life that are exciting and inspiring. It can't just be about solving some awful problem. There have to be reasons to get up in the morning.

Life has been good to me. It's not like I missed an awful lot. I had a pretty good lick here. Every moment gets a little more important.

Just imagine, a cow on the balcony of the nation, what an awful thing, what a shitty country.

Even now I can't trust life. It did too many awful things to me as a kid.

I may have had a tough break, but I have an awful lot to live for.

Love was a terrible thing. You poisoned it and stabbed at it and knocked it down into the mud - well down - and it got up and staggered on, bleeding and muddy and awful. Like - like Rasputin.

The fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the wind, and join in the general Dance.

It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.

An awful lot of good movies have gone unrecognized, and an awful lot of bad movies have had tremendous recognition. As long as you keep that in mind, you are never really disappointed.

It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.

All this talkin' about eatin' is makin' me awful hungry. I'll have two chili burgers with an order of fries, onion rings and a chocolate milk shake. And a Strawberry Ice Cream Sundae-with pickles.

What about Tom Jones? He's made a million and he's a bloody awful singer.

How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!

There is something in us that keeps us where we find ourselves. I think this is the most awful thing of all.

Making the big shot wouldn't feel so good if missing it didn't feel so awful

I never accept lengthy film roles nowadays, because I am always so afraid I will die in the middle of shooting and cause such awful problems.

I get an awful lot of fan mail, and I read all that I can.

How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?

It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.

On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful.

Love can make even nice people do awful things.

The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.

I do not know the man so bold He dare in lonely Place That awful stranger Consciousness Deliberately face-.

"Softly, softly, catchee monkey," is the West African rendering of a very valuable precept. An awful lot of men fail through lack of patient persistence.

And Thou, vast Ocean! on whole awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin trace.

I got a job as soon as I graduated from school. I always wanted to bartend because I love listening to people and how awful their lives are.

There is a way of looking at an awful place from a certain angle that allows it to take on a beauty because it is what it is.

The Beatles are not merely awful. They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music.

Young entrepreneurs should spend an awful lot of time thinking about what they want to go into.

Therefore, until the day I die, I am going to do what I can, regardless of the cost to me, to try to stop this awful corruption that is destroying our beloved democracy.

History is important. More than any other topic, it is about us. Whether one deems our present society wondrous or awful or both, history reveals how we got to this point.

It is easy to love people when they smell good, but sometimes they slip into the manure of life and smell awful. You must love them just as much when they smell foul.

I'm the type of guy where one thing leads to another and eventually it gets awful. If I put a $5 bet on a roulette table tonight at 10 o'clock, by tomorrow at noon I would be running guns to Cuba.

New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.

For me personally it is because I get an awful amount of success and I don't think I deserve it and then I want to sabotage it.

O beautiful, awful summer day, what hast thou given, what taken away?

Living, it's awful for me.