Awful Quotes - Page 28

• There is no doubt that the reason for my awful oversight was over-confidence that sapped my sense of danger. So that is where to look for the cause of bad blunders - in the exulting feeling of self-congratulation.

  Alexander Kotov

  Mistake, Congratulations, Self

  8 Copy quote

• I was playing this horrible part. I didn't didn't want to play it because the character was an awful racist. But I'm glad I did it because I met Sidney Poitier.

  Richard Widmark

  Character, Play, Racist

  7 Copy quote

• My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager.

  Robbie Coltraine

  Dad, Teenager, Past

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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Anna was saying to herself: why do I always have this awful need to make other people see things as I do? It's childish, why should they? What it amounts to is that I'm scared of being alone in what I feel.

  Doris Lessing

  People, Perspective, Needs

  Doris Lessing (2012). “The Golden Notebook”, p.31, HarperCollins UK

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you look out the other way toward the stars you realize it's an awful long way to the next watering hole.

  Loren Acton

  Stars, Long, Way

  4 Copy quote

• We lost three very young, very talented drivers in a really short time and that had a lot of influence, too. Certainly Dale's death was a huge smack in the face to everybody, but all those deaths in such a short period of time was awful. It forced people to look at it and say, 'Hey, this isn't a coincidence. There's something going on'.

  Jeff Burton

  People, Three, Looks

  5 Copy quote

• There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Simple, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.6, Courier Corporation

  90 Copy quote

  Show source

• They say it figures MTV would do such a vulgar, awful, horrible show and they completely miss that it's satirizing the people who watch MTV.

  Mike Judge

  Mtv, People, Missing

  7 Copy quote

• I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.

  Tyrone Power

  Patience, Fear, Done

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

  47 Copy quote

  Show source

• "Softly, softly, catchee monkey," is the West African rendering of a very valuable precept. An awful lot of men fail through lack of patient persistence.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Persistence, Men, Monkeys

  Robert Baden-Powell (2013). “Playing the Game: A Baden-Powell Compendium”, p.271, Pan Macmillan

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's the beginning of your day. You awake and look around you, feeling perhaps a joyful expectation, or perhaps an awful dread. No matter which, remember this: God loves you with an infinite love.

  Marianne Williamson

  God, Love You, Expectations

  Marianne Williamson (2004). “Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles”, p.59, Penguin

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our parents were very strict. Not in a brutal or awful way, but there were definite rules, such as after six on a school night you didn't go out, and at weekends you had to be home by a certain time. It wasn't particularly sheltered, but we were well brought-up.

  Caroline Corr

  Home, School, Night

  Buography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Only a fool takes offense at the truth, Jessamine. They are awful, of that there is no question. But they are also very charming. Purveyors of unspeakable suffering and indescribable delights. Performers of murders and miracles! You might grow to like them, if you got to know them as I do. But why has your beloved Crabgrass ventured into this garden of horrors, I wonder?

  Maryrose Wood

  Garden, Miracle, Suffering

  4 Copy quote

• Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times!

  Robert Southey

  Memories, Light, Left

  Robert Southey (1829). “The poetical works of Robert Southey: complete in one volume”, p.696

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Of all the movies I've done in my life, the one where I play a crazy awful psycho woman finds me my husband.

  Bridgette Wilson

  Movie, Husband, Crazy

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

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• An awful lot of people think it's easy to lift recipes out.

  Elizabeth David

  Fear, Thinking, People

  4 Copy quote

• Is it possible that my people live in such awful conditions? I tell you, Mr Wheatley, that if I had to live in conditions like that I would be a revolutionary myself.

  George V

  Fear, People, Would Be

  29 Copy quote

• I had an awful lot to say in what I wore as Romana.

  Lalla Ward

  Fear

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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language.

  Steve Lacy

  Fear, Real, Sharks

  54 Copy quote

• ...Environmental groups are too often alarmists. They have an awful track record, so they've lost credibility with the public.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Track, Environmental, Groups

  8 Copy quote

• The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.

  Edward de Bono

  Awareness

  5 Copy quote

• But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough?

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Life, Enough, Hollowness

  4 Copy quote

• One thing about flying that he never got used to was that no matter how awful the weather was on the ground, if you flew high enough you could always find the sun.

  Tom Clancy

  Life, Weather, Flying

  Tom Clancy (1992). “The Hunt for Red October”, p.136, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I respect the game that goes on of putting this against that, but I don't respect, nor do I enjoy, an awful lot of the actual programs that go on the air.

  Roone Arledge

  Air, Games, Goes On

  4 Copy quote

• I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a shower, you know?

  Ron Reagan

  Mean, Iraq, Floating

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 23, 2004.

  86 Copy quote

  Show source