Awful Quotes

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

The poor homosexuals -- they have declared war upon nature, and now nature is extracting an awful retribution (AIDS).

There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.

America is built around this premise that you can do it, and there are an awful lot of people who are unlikely to have done it who did.

It is awful hard to get people interested in corruption unless they can get some of it.

People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

Great God! This is an awful place.

You say something bad about Newsies and you have an awful lot of people to answer to.

I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book. But the awful truth is that I... probably can't!

LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.

There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing.

There are still an awful lot of intelligent, clever constructive Americans and they are still doing clever constructive things.

I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible.

There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful - many more.

You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost.

The original vocals had an awful lot of work put into them at the time, and I wasn't really sure that I could better them - I don't know if I have bettered them.

I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common.

If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.

It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.

Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.

I know vegetarians don't like to hear this, but God made an awful lot of land that's good for nothing but grazing.

God is an essence that we know nothing of. Until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in the world.

It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be.

An awful lot of storytelling isn't really about making people understand - it's about making people care.

I'm fascinated by the awful, awful things that human beings do to each other.

I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.

I think that human beings are the most awful monster we have ever seen.

There's comfort to an awful old dressing-gown a pretty peignoir is powerless to provide, and aging bra elastic, is, I suspect, as near to liberation as most women ever get.

Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things.

I'm glad I've given up drugs and alcohol. It would be awful to be like Keith Richards. He's pathetic. It's like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go onstage and look young.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

The terrible importance of this life is that it determines eternity.

We wouldn't want to be like the Swiss, would we? That would be awful! We'd be rich!

Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don't mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it.

Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.

I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.

To a right-winger, unions are awful. Why do right-wingers hate unions? Because collective bargaining is the power that a worker has against the corporation. Right-wingers hate that.

When I was on acid, I would see things like beams of light and I would hear sounds that sounded an awful lot like car horns.

I went to prom with my boyfriend, but after the dance he left me at a party all by myself. It was awful!

I came across awful characters when I got some kind of status and came to Hollywood. Then you have directors trying to sleep with you, assuming that you will do things because of the way you dress.

Some of my earliest political feelings were based on the anti-Japanese bubblegum cards I got. There were also Spanish Civil War bubblegum cards. Awful.

The 'Hemingway curse' was such a huge, awful thing for me to have to deal with. . . . The reality is, because there are genetic tendencies toward mental illness, you need to be aware of them.

The machine has several virtues... One may lean back in his chair and work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around.

As weird and awful and terrible as it may seem to be yourself sometimes, it will always reward you.

When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.

The press has made up so much...God...awful, horrifying stories...it has made me realize the more often you hear a lie, I mean, you begin to believe it.

Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.

If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste.

I'm very direct. I don't have tantrums. I don't yell or shout. I do expect an awful lot from my staff, but no more than I expect of myself.