Awful Quotes - Page 22

• The original vocals had an awful lot of work put into them at the time, and I wasn't really sure that I could better them - I don't know if I have bettered them.

  Kate Bush

  Knows, Originals, Vocal

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. May 16, 2011.

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• I play golf - even though I'm awful at it.

  Clare Balding

  Golf, Play

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• Something awful happens to a person who grows up as a creative kid and suddenly finds no creative outlet as an adult.

  Judy Blume

  Growing Up, Kids, Opportunity

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• I never drink alcohol. I do not like to blunt my senses.’ ‘Goodness,’ I babbled, ‘but how awful for you. Not drinking, I mean. I mean, imagine getting up in the morning knowing that you’re not going to feel any better all day.

  Kyril Bonfiglioli

  Morning, Drinking, Mean

  Kyril Bonfiglioli (2004). “Don't Point that Thing at Me”, p.61, The Overlook Press

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• One of the Christian's biggest fears is appearing 'too Christian'. God forbid, because that's often characterized as god-awful! We want to be one, but without being 'one of them'.

  Criss Jami

  Christian, Want, Biggest Fear

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.2, Criss Jami

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• How awful to be a perfect beauty! How confusing! God. Can you imagine?

  Erin O'Connor

  Perfect, Confusing, Imagine

  "Muse flash" by Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2003.

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• There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Common, Great Depression, Superficial

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2017). “Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went”, p.212, Princeton University Press

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• Writing is a long and lonesome business; back of the problems in thought and composition hover always the awful questions: Is this the page that shows the empty shell? Is it here and now that they find me out?

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Writing, Long, Shells

  JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH (1962). “THE GREAT CRASH 1929”

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• You have one of two choices. Either you can panic and start making frantic attempts to reform under the glare of these awful critical eyes, or you can just say, "The hell with you! I know what I'm doing. If you don't yet, it's because you haven't given me an attentive reading.

  Saul Bellow

  Reading, Eye, Two

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• The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen among us; visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer winds that creep from flower to flower; Like moonbeams that behind some piny mountain shower, It visits with inconstant glance Each human heart and countenance; Like hues and harmonies of evening, Like clouds in starlight widely spread, Like memory of music fled, Like aught that for its grace may be Dear, and yet dearer for its mystery.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Summer, Memories, Flower

  'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty' (1816)

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• I really enjoy work to a purpose. Maybe that makes me kind of strange. In some ways - and this is going to sound awful - it could be that writing is the worst job that I've ever had. Because it's so much more important to me and there's so much more opportunity for failure and I have so many people depending on me. In some ways it's the most satisfying, the most gratifying, and the most rewarding job I've ever had. But I actually would say it's probably the worst job I've ever had too.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Jobs, Writing, Opportunity

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Most people are really fighting to not be adults. And, when it happens, it's a big transition. And a lot of that is just awful. It's awful to have to get a job and really be responsible for other people. And it is funny, too. Like, we're all kind of little idiot kids trying to act like we know what we are doing.

  Judd Apatow

  Jobs, Kids, Fighting

  Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 25, 2010.

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• Los Angeles, the sun shines a lot, and it's blue, and there's palm trees; it's a bit like Sydney, I guess, but the underbelly is a vicious, mean, cruel, awful place.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Mean, Blue, Shining

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• So research is a terribly imperfect science, and you learn an awful lot more after you've published a book, because people keep writing to you and saying, 'Oh, gosh, I was related to such and such a character and I have a letter in my possession.'

  Simon Winchester

  Book, Writing, Character

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• People who have lived through a war know that as it approaches, an at first secret, unacknowledged, elation begins, as if an almost inaudible drum is beating ... an awful, illicit, violent excitement is abroad. Then the elation becomes too strong to be ignored or overlooked: then everyone is possessed by it.

  Doris Lessing

  Strong, War, People

  Doris Lessing (2013). “Prisons We Choose to Live Inside”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• We will make a great and awful mistake if we fail to settle Hebron, neighbor and predecessor of Jerusalem, with a large Jewish settlement, constantly growing and expanding, very soon. This will also be a blessing to the Arab neighbors. Hebron is worthy to be Jerusalem's sister.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Mistake, Blessing, Growing

  "Hebron Is Jerusalem's Sister" by Sdeh Boker, Hebron.com, January 25, 1970.

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• My friend Mercedes Pena made me get in touch with my emotions just before I had a breast cut off. Just as I suspected, they were awful. "How do you Latinas do this all the time in touch with your emotions?" I asked her. "That's why we take siestas," she replied.

  Molly Ivins

  Cutting, Emotion, Latina

  "Who Needs Breasts, Anyway?". content.time.com. February 18, 2002.

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• Immortals is without doubt the best-looking awful movie you will ever see. Eiko Ishioka's costume designs alone deserve an Oscar nomination. "They weren't at all historically accurate," grumbled a woman in the elevator after the sneak preview, as if lots of documentation exists about the wardrobes of the gods. She added: "I guess that's what we deserve for using free tickets we got at a Blackhawks game.

  Roger Ebert

  Games, Design, Doubt

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.276, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• It is that the Spirit is the outbreathing of God, His inmost life going forth in a personal form to quicken. When we receive the Holy Spirit, we receive the inmost life of God Himself to dwell in a personal way in us. When we really grasp this thought, it is overwhelming in its solemnity. Just stop and think what it means to have the inmost life of that infinite and eternal Being whom we call God, dwelling in a personal way in you. How solemn and how awful and yet unspeakably glorious life becomes when we realize this.

  R. A. Torrey

  Mean, Thinking, Glorious Life

  R.A TORREY, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “THE PERSON AND WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT”, Lulu.com

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• I've never gone anywhere where the men have come up to my infantile expectations. I always have gone through life constantly being surprised by the extreme, marvelous qualities of a small minority of men. But I can't see the rest of them. They seem awful rubbish.

  Rebecca West

  Men, Expectations, Quality

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• The most awful thing about power is not that it corrupts absolutely but that it makes people so utterly boring, so predictable.

  Chinua Achebe

  People, Boring, Predictable

  Chinua Achebe (1988). “Anthills of the Savannah”, p.56, Heinemann

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• I don't think she [Marilyn Monroe] saw herself as victimized and a sex object. She knew how to contend with it. I'm sure she was no fool about it. On the one hand, it was very flattering and great; on the other hand, it was probably awful and could be very lascivious and very terrible. But I think a lot of women just wanted to be like her. And that's still true today.

  Gail Levin

  Sex, Thinking, Hands

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If I was to see any of my films now I would feel, oh god you know it's awful I could do that so much better now. Look at all the terrible things I did and all the mistakes and all the compromises and all the blunders I made, and it would be such a terrible experience for me to see them. So it's better that I put it out and move on to the next thing and make it history as quickly as possible.

  Woody Allen

  Mistake, Moving, Would Be

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

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• I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

  Edith Sitwell

  Death, Nuisance

  "The Last Years of a Rebel : A Memoir of Edith Sitwell". Book by Elizabeth Salter, 1967.

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• When Israel, of the Lord belov'd, Out of the land of bondage came, Her fathers' God before her mov'd, An awful guide in smoke and flame.

  Walter Scott

  Father, Israel, Flames

  Walter Scott (1862). “Ivanhoe: A Romance”, p.326

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