Famous Quotes & Sayings

You can get awful famous in this country in seven days.

Willard Scott

I still start to get panicky each morning before I go on television. I'll say, 'I'm in awful shape, something is wrong,' and if I start to look like I'm going off the deep end, Jimmy Straka, the stage manager, will say, 'You're all right. Calm down.' Then Bryant Gumbel will grab me by the leg or something.

Bonnie Tyler

I suppose I don't have to work, but I do love working. I class myself as a working-class girl, and I've never stopped working. When I'm offered shows here, there and the other, I do an awful lot because I feel other people would love to be offered what I'm offered; who am I to say no? I'm definitely working class, and I always will be.

Christine Keeler

They came and bound me up and I had awful stretch marks. I hated my breasts after that.

Bill Cosby

I watch an awful lot of television, and I get a little tired of what I see... We have about six television sets in our house, and it's less expensive for me to do a television series than it is for me to throw them all out.

Carl Rogers

It's an awful risky thing to live

Martin Campbell

The 3D thing has been abused slightly, I think. There is no question about that. 'Avatar' did it magnificently, and then, of course, there was the old 'leaping on the bandwagon' thing where there have been one or two films which, let's face it, all know look bloody awful with the 3D.

That would go an awful long way to restoring confidence,

We have an awful lot to be proud of. We came out strong to finish the season. At one point it didn't look like it was in the cards for us.

Roy Blunt

We have an awful lot of work to do on both sides of the aisle,

Pierce Brosnan

The word 'star' doesn't mean an awful lot to me. 'Good actor' and having the respect of one's peers means more.

Mary Wesley

It was pretty awful for us children because we never really knew the local children. Mother was keen for us to learn languages, so our travels took us to France and Italy, as well as the West Country.

We were getting an awful lot of phone calls; I must have had 15 calls myself. Some reports gave names of specific players, including big stars.

Natalie Gulbis

We've got some pretty long players and I actually don't think length will make all that much difference. I think our team is full of great ball strikers and we make an awful lot of birdies. That's what counts.

We're working awful hard. We had gotten kind of complacent. No more going half speed.

We've developed a nice rivalry with Rutgers Prep. It's two good teams, a lot of the kids know each other, and this game means an awful lot to them.

Ryan Holmes

Working with lots of old media clients, I've had a front-row seat on the ascension of new social players and the decline of traditional news outlets. And it's clear to me that old media has an awful lot to learn from social media, in particular in five key areas: relevance, distribution, velocity, monetization, and user experience.

Polly Bergen

You look at the road you could have taken, you know, I just think that's interesting... I've been on a lot of roads and I had to hitchhike on a couple of 'em... I have to be very honest: There's not an awful lot of regret in my life. I think that, you know, you learn from everything, and then, sometimes, you don't.

Patricia Schroeder

One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.

Patrick Macnee

But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.

Peter Mullan

The Vatican is like a huge kind of magician's club. The more you look into it the more awful it becomes. And they're laughing at us. That's when I get angry.

You just keep thinking it's going to happen. We had opportunities, we just had the ball bounce around an awful lot. There must have been more rebounds than any game I've seen in a long time.

You can block anything in the world, in certain environments. But the whole idea of supervision, the cop on the beat, the parents on the beat, really is overrated by an awful lot of folks, we found.

Winning has done an awful lot. People now recognize you as a state champion. They know this a good place to come play.

We feel for the young man. It's an awful thing when a player of great promise has such a run of bad luck from one injury.

Goldie Hawn

I thought he was awful cute, but he was too young. So ... two husbands later, children later ... and (I'm auditioning) guys for 'Swing Shift' ... and in walks Kurt Russell.

Mark Thomas

I'm horrified. We're all gay! You can say a lot of things about Cafeteria in Miami. I know we've had awful service at times and we're very aware. It's been a huge challenge to keep quality people. But not homophobia.

Jane Goodall

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.

We generate an awful lot of economic impact we don't get to share in.

Alice Walker

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

Ruth Rendell

My mother started to suffer from multiple sclerosis, but nobody knew what MS was then. My father didn't - and later he suffered a great deal of guilt over that. It was an awful business and very fraught.

I was in jail nine straight years. I was on the lam two-and-a-half years before it. In that period of time, I seen an awful lot of guys that I thought were stand-up guys go bad, turn and become informants.

Frank Deford

I think really that if they can get back to playing games by the Super Bowl, which is when an awful lot of people turn and look at basketball for the first time, if they can do that, I don't think there will be any damage whatsoever.