Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marvin Kalb

He's a very accomplished newsman and a very nice man, ... He found himself in a dreadful, dreadful situation.

I was dreading it and he was excellent. It was like he was one of the guys, talking to him.

Sarah Silverman

Even when I'm dreading it, I want to talk about it - it only helps me.

That'll be the last home game for our seniors. As good as this group's been, I'm dreading that night with a passion.

Markie Post

I turned down dates because I dreaded sitting in front of a plateful of food.

Paul Valery

We hope vaguely but dread precisely.

It's a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up. - 'The Hungarian Horntail,' Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

We want them to think of it as their gym. That way, they'll grow up thinking exercise is fun, and not something you dread doing.

John Howe

What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Stewart Cink

A two-foot putt -- is that something to dread and fear?

Mark Waters

The one thing about 'Beautiful Creatures,' 'The Host' and 'The Mortal Instruments,' which are all well-made movies, is that they were all infected with a dreadful sincerity.

Safari is no fun, not for us; it's work. I dread the week. I dread facing the people more than anything. I know they're only down here for a day or two, and they want it fixed right now. They don't want to wait for their vehicle to be in service. But it's physically impossible to do everything everyone wants done.

Greg Austin

It was the worst pain I'd ever felt in my life. I didn't want to go to school. I dreaded going to the training room every day because I knew what was going to happen. It was a lot of pain, but I wanted to come back.

It was an entry form to the dreaded Q School. ''That's how things are going.

One of the reasons I moved to New York was because I thought it would be easier to say no to dreadful scripts. I wouldn't be tempted to fly back and do them. There are some things even I won't do.

Jason Smith

We were dreadful in the third quarter, but to end it like that gave us the momentum going into the fourth.

We got off to a dreadful start with the wicked deflection for their first goal,

Thomas Hardy

There's not a modest maiden elf / But dreads the final Trumpet, / Lest half of her should rise herself, / And half some sturdy strumpet!

Abraham Lincoln

If I am killed, I can die by once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.

Tom Hodgkinson

Travelling fills me with dread.

Lots of women dread the thought of putting on a swimsuit after a long winter. If you haven't been working out, you're probably self-conscious about showing your body. Even when you're in good shape, you feel better about some spots than others.

William Wordsworth

More like a man/ Flying from something that he dreads than one/ Who sought the thing he loved.

Kyle Petty

Maybe this will put the dreaded Intrepid thing to rest. Maybe the Charger is the way we need to go.

Fred Funk

He was dreading every golf swing he had to take.

Jane Austen

Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor

Jane Kaczmarek

Malcolm in the Middle ... I always knew I would need this done because shallow hips run in the family. It was painful and took months to get back on my feet. I dread doing the other hip.

Hugh Grant

I was thinking on the plane yesterday how pathetic it is to be dreading the read-through after 25 films and 18 years of acting. I mean real terror.

It dreads on me the fact that I was on that team.

Ernie Els

I think most amateurs dread playing a 180-plus-yard par 3 even more than a hard par 4. Part of it is psychological: You think you should be getting a breather, distance-wise, and instead, you get hit with a long iron or hybrid shot over trouble.

Tea Leoni

Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link.

William Cowper

Thou god of our idolatry, the press. . . .Thou fountain, at which drink the good and wise;Thou ever-bubbling spring of endless lies;Like Eden's dread probationary tree,Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.