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Awful Quotes:

Quotation Jesse Owens We all have dreams But in order to make dreams Quotes

In that moment it dawned on me that everything has to line up perfectly for something to turn out this awful.

- Abby Sunderland

source: Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.161, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Lines, Awful, Moments

Quotation Aeschylus He who learns must suffer And even in our sleep Quotes

Tomorrows were full of awful things. Today, now, was the essential.

- Ariana Franklin

source: Ariana Franklin (2007). “Mistress of the Art of Death”, p.384, Penguin

topic: Essentials, Awful, Today

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

- Bjarne Stroustrup

source: "Bjarne Stroustrup: The Problem with Programming". Interview with Jason Pontin, www.technologyreview.com. January 01, 2007.

topic: Beautiful, Being Beautiful, Awful

Awful as the consideration of eternity is, it is a source of great consolation to the righteous.

- Charles Buck

source: Charles Buck (1831). “Anecdotes, religious, moral, and entertaining”, p.44

topic: Awful, Eternity, Consideration

It's pretty awful being told you're a racist.

- Chris Lilley

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Racist, Awful

I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.

- Chris Martin

source: "Terry Bradshaw bares all in 'Failure to Launch'". www.today.com. March 9, 2006.

topic: Hair, Care, Awful, Hair Gel

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

- Colum McCann

source: Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.5, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Beautiful, Silence, Awful

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

- Crystal Reed

source: "When I Was 17: Crystal Reed". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. July 8, 2012.

topic: Party, My Boyfriend, Awful, He Left Me

For a straight man, I seem to have to kiss an awful lot of men!

- Dominic West

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Kissing, Men, Awful

We seem to be paying some of our employees an awful lot of money.

- Don Ameche

source: "Fictional character: Mortimer Duke". "Trading Places", 1983.

topic: Money, Awful, Employee

All the untidyactivity continues, awful but cheerful.

- Elizabeth Bishop

source: Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “One Art: Letters”, p.287, Macmillan

topic: Cheerful, Awful

Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.

- Etty Hillesum

source: Etty Hillesum (1985). “An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”

topic: Giving Up, Suffering, Awful

When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly - constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence.

- Evan Dando

source: "I can't completely let go of drugs - and I don't want to" by Mat Snow, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2006.

topic: Behaviour, Ugly, Awful

I think it's very amazing that I do horror films when I had this awful childhood. But maybe that's why I'm good at it.

- Ingrid Pitt

source: "Ingrid Pitt obituary" by Ronald Bergan, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2010.

topic: Thinking, Childhood, Awful

How awful is that hour when con, science stings.

- James Gates Percival

source: James Gates Percival (1823). “Poems”, p.72

topic: Awful, Hours, Conscience

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

- Jean-Michel Basquiat

source: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Civico museo Revoltella (1999). “Basquiat”, Walker Art Center

topic: Mad, Awful, Painting

I had an awful lot to say in what I wore as Romana.

- Lalla Ward

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Fear, Awful

I used to go to the gym regularly and swim an awful lot, but that was when I was unemployed and knew leisure intimately.

- Mark Gatiss

source: "What I see in the mirror: Mark Gatiss" by Mark Gatiss, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2009.

topic: Swim, Awful, Leisure

I took comfort, as a kid, in knowing that things had always been as awful and as wonderful as they were now, that the world was always on the edge of total destruction.

- Michael Chabon

source: Michael Chabon (2011). “Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands”, p.61, Open Road Media

topic: Kids, Knowing, Awful

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

- Nigel Farage

source: "Ukip's Nigel Farage ridicules David Cameron's EU referendum speech" by Esther Addley, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2013.

topic: Would Be, Want, Awful, Swiss

Don't we all have moments we'd rather forget, and thoughts we wished never came to us? We say things too awful to remember.

- Randy Susan Meyers

source: Randy Susan Meyers (2013). “The Comfort of Lies: A Novel”, p.304, Simon and Schuster

topic: Awful, Remember, Forget

I've played an awful lot of repressed people.

- Rebecca Hall

source: "Who, me? Why everyone is talking about Rebecca Hall" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2010.

topic: People, Awful, Repressed

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