Awful Quotes

• I’m not good-looking. I used to be, but not anymore. Not like Robert Taylor. What I have got is I have character in my face. It’s taken an awful lot of late nights and drinking to put it there. When I go to work in a picture, I say, ‘Don’t take the lines out of my face. Leave them there.’

  

  Humphrey Bogart
  • Character
  • Night
  • Taken

• War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Possible
  • Intense
  • Awful

• It's really awful, the rhetoric that's becoming part of the national discourse, but when it has such an ugly headline - that's what activated a group of people that was otherwise complacent to go, "Hey, I'm going down to the airport, and I'm going to hold hands in solidarity around Muslims in the arrival section of the airport." That's why I've made a choice to be so public about my position.

  

  Hasan Minhaj
  • Muslims
  • Rhetoric
  • National discourse

• I have an awful lot to learn. My dream is to get better and better as I get older.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Dream
  • Awful

• I hit some awful shots. I still hit some awful shots. But at least they're a little better. The first week, the Golf Channel was all over me. I said, 'God, just leave me alone. Let me drown by myself.'

  

  Curtis Strange
  • Hit
  • Shots
  • Golf Channel

• When I was sectioned for six months, that was one of the worst experiences of my life, not being able to go out and have freedom. Having experienced it, it's almost inexplicably awful.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Able
  • Worst
  • Illness

• If we're so awful and we're so bad, you ought to check out the nightlife in Leningrad.

  

  Glenn Frey The Eagles
  • Bad
  • Politics
  • Checks

• Call you up in the middle of the night. It's awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Up
  • Long
  • Trying

• I dropped a guy getting a hot dog. A few holes later, he was OK. But it was awful.

  

  Chris Berman
  • Awful
  • Holes
  • Dropped

• I personally never thought that 'Dallas' would resurrect itself because I didn't think anybody knew how to do it. And it was proven to me on the few attempts that were made. The movie that was going to be done, I read that script, it was atrocious. It was just awful. And I just didn't think anybody understood it anymore.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Movie
  • Understood
  • Script

• It seems to me, correct me if I'm wrong, that there are an awful lot of people in Manhattan. And it's getting worse.

  

  Cynthia Heimel
  • People
  • Seems
  • Manhattan

• It's so, so awful for my entire body and my spine and my hands, and I have a perfectly good desk to write at, but I don't care. I love writing in bed.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Good
  • Body
  • Write

• Hello, Minister!" bellowed Percy, sending a neat jinx straight at Thicknesse, who dropped his wand and clawed at the front of his robes, apparently in awful discomfort. "Did I mention I'm resigning?

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Awful
  • Hello
  • Jinx

• The idea of what it is like to lose everything is awful.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Ideas
  • Loses
  • Awful

• People are getting attention for doing nothing, for behaving poorly, for abusing themselves in public and being abused, exploiting themselves. I find it vulgar and I find it awful.

  

  Sarah Jessica Parker
  • People
  • Attention
  • Vulgar

• Bulletproof is about the fact that I was shot in the face and survived. Nah I'm joking that'd be grisly and awful.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Facts
  • Faces
  • Shots

• The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons.

  

  Jean Renoir
  • Life
  • Reason
  • Awful

• The Beatles are not merely awful. They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Art
  • Magic
  • Horrible

• We had to work five back-to-back shows, forty-five minutes on, fifteen minutes off. That's just an awful lot of singing.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Work
  • Singing
  • Shows

• I really romanticized being pregnant. Then I realized, this is awful!

  

  Marcia Cross
  • Awful
  • Pregnant
  • Romanticized

• Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more--it's sad, but that's the truth.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • Life
  • Good
  • Truth

• Turks continued their previous policy. They would not stop committing massive and most awful massacres that even Leng Timur would not dare to do.

  

  Valery Bryusov
  • Stop
  • Genocide
  • Massacres

• You don't want to buy a surprise, because then the surprise is how awful it looks on you.

  

  Nan Kempner
  • Want
  • Looks
  • Awful

• It's really boring to talk about what you ate and have 48,000 fans listen to you. It's awful.

  

  Alex Scally Beach House
  • Fans
  • Boring
  • Awful

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