Famous Quotes & Sayings

You don't want to call it a blessing, but it is a chance. You need hope and a sense of place. These ideas have provided that. They seem to be resonating with an awful lot of people out here.

James Gates Percival

How awful is that hour when con, science stings.

Ian Hislop

There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.

Ernest Hemingway

Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa.

Henning Mankell

I love Sherlock Holmes. There's still an awful lot to steal from Conan Doyle. But within a tradition you can work in many different ways.

Christopher Isherwood

Sometimes awful things have their own beauty.

Christopher Buckley

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

Jean Renoir

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

Jeremy Clarkson

I started to realise that being impolite saves an awful lot of time and costs you nothing.

George R. R. Martin

I'm honest. It's the world that's awful.

If he's true to that perspective, I think we're going to find that monetary policy looks an awful lot like it did under Greenspan for the next several years.

I felt sick to my stomach actually. It kinda makes you feel awful bad that to think somebody could actually do it. To drive it off the wharf.

I am not prepared to go shuttling back and forth, ... I think that in contrast to other periods of American history, there are an awful lot of other issues that need tending.

I am ok. He is just such an awful awful pathetic person. I just (expletive) hate him, his I am the king attitude, his value system (or lack thereof), his anger, his meanness. I JUST HATE HIM!!!!

Erik is an awful important part to our hockey team. He's going to remain an important part. He just won't be on the ice with us.

W. S. Gilbert

Everything in our program starts in the weight room. If you don't lift weights, it's awful hard to get on the field on Friday night. Our kids turn out and they work pretty hard.

Even though it's improving, there's still an awful lot of people who dropped out of work force and are waiting to be pulled back in.

Pattie Boyd

Everybody got an awful lot from that trip, and it was a wonderful trip,

As tragic as this is, I'm proud ... of my six guys that wrestled this weekend, because they were able to overcome this awful tragedy and wrestle the way I think Caleb would have wanted us to wrestle. To have the guts and the courage to move on is astounding.

Stuart Pearce

We think it was a wise investment. He's still got an awful lot to learn but he was a real handful for them.

We did a lot of good things tonight. We've improved an awful lot since the first game of the season. We've got a long way to go still, but we made strides tonight and we've made strides the last three or four weeks.

We had some awful good looks at the basket, but they just didn't go in. And, we didn't shoot free throws very well, either.

Is there apathy? At times, maybe. I think an awful lot of it comes down to priority of time, ... We're not talking about parents who don't care but parents who make a living so kids can have basic needs.

Paul Reubens

I spent an awful long time 12 years ago thinking to myself, you know, this can't be my final thing. I'm a big believer in the happy ending. I want a Pee-Wee movie to have a happy ending. Pee-Wee gets his bicycle back. I don't know what the ending is to my story. But I think it's going to be a happy one.

I spend way too much time watching television, going to sports games, going to movies. It struck me that there's an awful lot of data in the public domain for these sectors. The movie industry publishes weekly sales numbers - not many industries do.

Peter Thiel

I spend an awful lot of time just thinking about what is going on in the world and talking to people about that. It's probably one of my default social activities, just getting dinners with friends.

James Nesbitt

I spend an awful lot of time by myself and enjoy that.

Judith Miller

I started buying bits of broken porcelain. I furnished our first flat with pieces of 'junk.' Some of that 'junk' is now worth an awful lot of money. What I was calling 'junk' in the '60s people wouldn't call 'junk' now.

Craig Venter

I somewhat joke that I know an awful lot because I learn from my mistakes. I just make a lot of mistakes. It's OK to fail in science just as long as you have the successes to go with the failures.

I sincerely hope you have also learned from this awful experience. There is no room for vengeance in my life.

I simply think she is one of the greatest figures in British music over the last 30 years. There are an awful lot of people in the business wandering around claiming to be artists, but she is one of the few who can genuinely make that claim,

I share a lot of the concerns that I hear and I've read about. In a very short period of time, there's been an awful lot of progress made.

E. B. White

I've been coaching an awful long time. I've always wanted to be a head football coach, and I've been looking for an opportunity.