Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Jane Austen

Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor

We had a wonderful year last year. And ever since it ended we've been worried about that dreaded sophomore slump.

Ian Holm

As an actor, I'm very much a company person. And this also goes through my life: I have a dread of responsibility. I like someone else to be in charge.

Hugh Laurie

I'm reasonably easygoing. Messing up my lines or making a fool of myself is where you find my fears. Like a lot of English people, I'm prey to embarrassment - the dread that everyone's sort of sniggering at you, that you're going to look like an idiot. I think that sort of halts us all.

It's really a problem if people can't function and can't go to work. They're in dreadful pain, their families suffer, and their workplace suffers as well.

The news today would've had to been pretty dreadful to push the stock down further.

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.

Peter Jennings

It was a dreadful mistake, a foolish experiment,

Markie Post

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

Jason Smith

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

Clara Hughes

I have this thing I say to myself that 'tomorrow can be better.' And I remember that period in my life where I never felt like tomorrow could be better. It was always dread for the next day.

Claire Cameron

A lot of people have trouble with their second novel - the dreaded sophomore jinx. I wrote three books in between the two novels, and they just weren't very good.

Cyril Connolly

The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

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.

Stewart Cink

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

Endure, my heart: you once endured something even more dreadful

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

There's no point in trying to up-play the Zimbabwean effort. I thought they were dreadful to be honest,

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!

Kenenisa Bekele

However I can say that Friday's world record goes some way to wiping away the memories of that dreadful tragedy,

Jane Goldman

I really enjoy the company of my kids... I'm not one of those people who goes 'Yeah, my kids are my mates', that's a dreadful kind of mother, but I'm fortunate that there are times that they do want me around, and I feel lucky that they let me into their world.

Jacques Chirac

This dreadful catastrophe plunges all France into mourning,

Helen Garner

Maybe this is pathetic, but I still dread producing a book that doesn't earn back its advance. I hate obligations that are financially foggy.

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

It's a trading bounce. These stocks have been dreadful (performers) for several months.

Tom Hodgkinson

Travelling fills me with dread.

Robin Williams

The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you don't really have it. You've lost the muse or - the worst dread - you never had it at all. I went through all that madness early on.