Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Nelson

We've spent an awful lot of money, but we decided that the number one need was interoperability,

Shelley Duvall

When I'd finished, everybody said they wanted me for this movie. At first I thought they meant a nudie flick since an awful lot of nudies are made in Houston.

Frank Luntz

When I started in this business, everybody said the Democrats were the better communicators because they sounded like social workers, and Republicans were awful because they sounded like morticians. In some cases. they actually dressed like morticians.

Chris Van Hollen

We waste an awful lot of energy as a Nation through inefficient use of energy.

Paul Bloom

If evil is empathy erosion, and empathy erosion is a form of illness, then evil turns out to be nothing more than a particularly awful psychological disorder.

Brian Cox

There are characters that have made me uncomfortable. I did a film called 'Rob Roy,' and I played Killearn, who was this sort of greasy fallen-angel character who was voyeuristic and sleazy and really unpleasant. It was a great role, but I didn't especially enjoy living with this awful man for the length of time it took to make the movie.

Andrea Barrett

I wanted to be a scientist. My undergraduate degree is in biology, and I really did think I might go off and be some kind of a lady Darwin someplace. It turned out that I'm really awful at science and that I have no gift for actually doing science myself. But I'm very interested in others who practice science and in the stories of science.

We sense that the sell-off is behind us and the market has the preconditions in place for a pretty good year-end rally, ... It's not going to be fabulous because we've already done an awful lot since Sept. 11.

We actually return seven starters or part-time starters. There's an awful lot of guys that are returning this year that were part of a 21-1 team last year that had significant playing time.

We are just starting to see the impact of Katrina. We are going to see awful inflation numbers, awful employment numbers and awful industrial production numbers for a few months.

We recognize we could be dead wrong. But when we look at the fundamentals of supply and demand, we see an awful lot that points to the supply side.

Wallace Shawn

Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.

Wayne Kramer

Drugs, sex, booze, all the stuff that we wanted to do. The problem was that we didn't want to learn the top 40 'cause most of the music was awful and we had this other idea about what we wanted to do.

Timothy Simons

My children, twins who are three years old, they're awful creatures right now.

Martin Havlat

We gave them the game. We just gave it to them by making a lot of mistakes and that's what hurts the most. That was just awful to lose that way.

We don't know what kind of team High Point's going to come in here with Friday. I thought they were a good team when we played 'em. We played them the game that kind of started our mid-season skid. We played awful and lost by six at their place.

We worked awful hard the last five weeks and the effort paid off tonight.

Henry Hyde

There is information that should be released. We can redact transcripts of the taped material and release those. That, so far, seems to be the best way, ... But there is an awful lot there that shouldn't go out.

Walter Pater

With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.

B. F. Skinner

I have to tell people that they are not responsible for their behavior. They're not creating it; they're not initiating anything. It's all found somewhere else. That's an awful lot to relinquish.

William Kingdon Clifford

Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live.

Western still has to be the favorite to win the conference. They have the two best kids in the conference with Kelly and Porter-Talbert, and they can get on top of you awful quick.

Ernest Istook

I think it's awful that the state of Oklahoma a couple of years ago passed this law to give the same tuition to illegals as they do to people who are residents of Oklahoma. I think it's wrong.

Everybody hates to edit my film. Back in the day, we called it film - now, my digital cards. But I shoot an awful lot of pictures. I don't want to hesitate, because I believe the moment is everything in a picture. So, I take the pictures.

Alan Ball

You know what I find interesting? If you lose a spouse, you're called a widow, or a widower. If you're a child and you lose your parents, then you're an orphan. But what's the word to describe a parent who loses a child? I guess that's just too f**king awful to even have a name.

Our hearts are with them. It's an awful thing to go through. Rape survivors often have to live with a lifetime of trauma and trouble, and we hope they will be OK.

Norv Turner

Over the last few games we've been playing an awful lot of young players. For them, it's a chance to play and get better. In this situation, we're playing a good team that's going to the playoffs and trying to win their division. Hopefully, that should get our guys excited and bring out the best in them.

Parents and staff need time to find alternative plans for September. He has a great spirit, and his letter says an awful lot about St. Cyril's.

Some of the best performers for the bear market had an awful quarter and some of the worst performers during the bear market had a good quarter.

That doesn't mean it's bad business -- if you look at the big (casinos), there's an awful lot of money spent on things that don't generate money at all, ... The large Nevada properties want to be all things to all people and provide this service to their gamblers.

Simon Schama

My mother was an awful cook, an exceptionally awful kosher cook, but I stayed kosher until I got to college, even though I'd long stopped believing in God.

Malik Rose

My mom always told me character is doing the right thing when people aren't looking. We've been awful this year and I'm sure people aren't watching us anymore. So if we do the right thing, it would be a great measure of character.

It is a pretty awful way of going about things and it has no place in a commercial dispute. What it shows is that the RFU have a weak legal case and they know it. We have no wish to go to court but, if they seriously want to reach a settlement before February 27, they should go about it properly.