Awful Quotes - Page 14

• Making the big shot wouldn't feel so good if missing it didn't feel so awful

  Paul Pierce

  Missing, Bigs, Shots

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• What would be awful would be to die and look back miserably - seeing only the bad things, the opportunities missed, or what could have been.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Opportunity, Would Be, Looks

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• Failure is not fun. It can be awful. But living so cautiously that you never fail is worse.

  J. K. Rowling

  Fun, Failing

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• Broken people say awful things and do incredibly absurd things.

  Kevin Costner

  People, Broken, Absurd

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• From Eden is spoken from the Devil's point of view. I always loved in blues music how the Devil can be a character who walks and talks. So awful is your state that it seems to be a presence around you. I don't really spend time thinking about the nature of God but I'm interested in what people say about God, how it is used to control people and change policies in the physical realm.

  Hozier

  Character, Thinking, Eden

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• 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'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.

  Iain Glen

  People, Actors, Not Sure

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• We encountered an awful lot of problems from the drastic leap we took with Wind Waker. I think we will be a bit more careful in the future, but if we find a new approach that not just the developers, but also the users would enjoy then I think we will want to break new ground again. But we haven’t found such an approach yet.

  Eiji Aonuma

  Thinking, Wind, Want

  "Nintendo Will Be "More Careful" Choosing Zelda Art Styles" By Lucy O'Brien, www.ign.com. November 4, 2013.

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• I've never done so much bloody crying in my life. I was always moaning about how hard it was when we were shooting, how awful I felt.

  Julie Walters

  Done, Shooting, Cry

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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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• No, I'm a horrible singer, I'm awful.

  Charisma Carpenter

  Singers, Horrible

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

  Nan Kempner

  Looks, Want, Surprise

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• The world isn't awful. People aren't awful. They want to be good. Something makes them bad. Something breaks them down, makes them snap.

  Camille

  People, World, Want

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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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• Because of GLHR's crusades... we're beginning to learn the awful truth about workers around the world who are slaving away their lives in sweatshops, who are denied the right to join or form a union in order to fight back and provide a better life for their families.

  John Sweeney

  Fighting, Impact, Order

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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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• What makes these creatures so awful is the feeling that they can use us in ways too horrible to imagine-and yet, we DO imagine them, which makes it worse than seeing it.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Feelings, Vision, Use

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• In this quiet, peaceful time of twilight there is, in this great circle of life, an awful lot of hunting and fishing and catching and killing and dying and eating going on all around me. As the old fisherman said, 'That's the way with life. Sometimes you eat well; sometimes you are well-eaten.'

  Paul G. Quinnett

  Twilight, Hunting, Fishing

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