Awful Quotes - Page 17

• Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.

  Amity Shlaes

  War, Hands, Forever

  "The Great Refrainer: The Legacy of Calvin Coolidge". www.cfr.org. May 15, 2013.

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• I think that people who don't like kids are awful people.

  Maya Rudolph

  Kids, Thinking, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What's awful about being famous and being an actress is when people come up to you and touch you. That's scary, and they just seem to think it's okay to do it, like you're public property.

  Winona Ryder

  Thinking, People, Scary

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The idea of enemies is awful it makes one stop remembering eternity and the fear of death. That is what enemies are. Possessions are the same as enemies only less so, they too make one
  forget eternity and the fear of death.

  Gertrude Stein

  Ideas, Enemy, Remember

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.42, Random House

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• The sitting around on the set is awful. But I always figure that’s what they pay me for. The acting I do for free.

  Edward G. Robinson

  Acting, Sitting, Pay

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You can't be a great mum and work the whole time necessarily; those two things aren't ideal. We have an awful lot to work on and to debate about in relation to our working lives, because it isn't working for a lot of people, particularly for a lot of women.

  Emma Thompson

  Two, People, Debate

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• There are lots of actors who are awful people, but nobody talks about them being awful because they've made billions.

  Val Kilmer

  People, Actors, Made

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• How awful for them [Hitler's victims] to see those swastikas, the SS men and the SA - people we'd never thought of as criminals.

  Leni Riefenstahl

  Men, People, Criminals

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• It won't happen yet, Ellen mused, mashing cooked carrots for Jill's lunch. Breakups seldom do. It will unfold slowly, one little tell-tale symptom after another like some awful, hellish flower.

  Sylvia Plath

  Sad, Breakup, Flower

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• Therefore, until the day I die, I am going to do what I can, regardless of the cost to me, to try to stop this awful corruption that is destroying our beloved democracy.

  John Jay Hooker

  Democracy, Trying, Cost

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• We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held.

  W. Averell Harriman

  War, Leader, Brutality

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• Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.

  Michael Novak

  Character, Years, Gdp

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• I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ trio record I would make sure I'd buy one that did not have a guitar player on it. The sound was awful!

  Tom Verlaine

  Player, Guitar, Sound

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• Not to this extent but from day one I had an awful lot of confidence when I got started.

  George Thorogood

  Confidence

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• I haven't seen a player in this game, as long as I've been in it, that can't be pitched to... Barry is an outstanding ballplayer. I respect him an awful lot. I also have confidence in my pitchers that they can pitch to Barry Bonds and get him out.

  Frank Robinson

  Sports, Confidence, Player

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• The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats, tho' unseen, amongst us.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Power, Shadow, Unseen

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2012). “The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.73, JHU Press

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• I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of it. However, this is the first attempt I have ever made & yet I perceive I shall soon & easily acquire a fine facility in its use. ... The machine has several virtues. I believe it will print faster than I can write. One may lean back in his chair & work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around. Of course it saves paper.

  Mark Twain

  Believe, Writing, Typewriters

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• We bow our heads before Thee, and we laud, And magnify thy name Almighty God! But man is thy most awful instrument, In working out a pure intent.

  William Wordsworth

  God, Men, Names

  William Wordsworth (1849). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.252

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• I'm a vegetarian who doesn't like eggplant parmesan. Isn't that awful? I'm also sick of portobello mushrooms. People are like,"A vegetarian's coming to dinner," so they serve those.

  Candy Crowley

  Eggplant, Mushrooms, People

  Interview with Rachael Ray, www.rachaelraymag.com. November 1, 2005.

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• You know, I don't want to be offensive. But 'Infinite Jest' [regarded by many as Wallace's masterpiece] is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it. He can't think, he can't write. There's no discernible talent.

  Harold Bloom

  Writing, Thinking, Want

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• The music teacher came twice a week to bridge the awful gap between Dorothy and Chopin.

  George Ade

  Teacher, Art, Bridges

  "Ade's Fables". Book by George Ade, 1914.

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• Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Lightning

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2012). “Browning: Poems”, p.163, Everyman's Library

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• Taking a look back, one big reqret is, I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world.  The appalling disparities of health and wealth and opportunity that condemned millions of people to the lives of despair.  I learned a lot here at Harvard about new ideas and economics, and politics.  I got great exposure to the advances being made in the sciences.  But humanities greatest advances are not in its discoveries, but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.

  Bill Gates

  Real, Opportunity, Ideas

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• Love is a dangerous thing, it can be great and it can be awful. It might make or break your life. It could even change you as a person.

  Shannon Leto

  Love Is, Make Or Break, Might

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• About 2500 years ago Aeschylus, the Greek playwright, wrote, He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. These remarkable photos and the stories that accompany them should be on billboards from sea to shining sea, so the pain and suffering they represent might fall drop by drop upon the American psyche and against our will, by the awful grace of God, wisdom might come to these United States and her foreign policy.

  Gioconda Belli

  Pain, Fall, Sleep

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