One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was awful. Late into the night I would lie awake tossing and wondering what he was going to do to me. Usually he did nothing. A quiet, impressive 'talking to' was all I got.
I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a sense that the great outcomes were but randomly connected to our endeavors, that life was beyond mending, that love was loss, that nothing worth saying was sayable, that dullness was general, that disintegration was irresistible.
They understand what their market is and who they should be selling records to, and most importantly, they know the kind of artist that they want to be, but they have to do it themselves. You don't want a 13-year-old singing some awful song from a musical.
Ive read an awful lot of books, Ive read alot of awful books
I think the hardest part [is] the priorities. There are an awful lot of things to do [being Secretary of State].
Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?
It takes an awful lot of time to not write a book.
I think she [Eleanor Roosevelt] never was called because she probably didn't know an awful lot. The whole burden of the criticism of her on the subject of Communism is naiveté, not participation. And again, being a public figure and our representative at the UN, there was nothing Communist about her, certainly.
I always thought that if I got no love at all early in my standup career, or I was god awful, I thought I'd get into psychology.
I'll see something awful on the street and I'll come home and say to my boyfriend, "I just saw the funniest thing on the street. " It's a stance. It's the way I was born, or the way I was damaged.
When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.
The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them.
If the costumes are wrong, you feel awful in them and it lessens your acting.
There are an awful lot of readers who won't pick up a book if they think it's got anything horrific in it, or paranormal or whatever.
The insistence on complete certainty about the full details of global warming-the most serious threat we have ever faced-is actually an effort to avoid facing the awful, uncomfortable truth: that we must act boldly, decisively, comprehensively, and quickly, even before we know every last detail about the crisis. Those who continue to argue that the appropriate response is merely additional research are simply seeking to camouflage timidity or protect their vested interest in the status quo.
The Universe is a pretty big place. . . And the one thing I know about nature is it hates to waste anything. So I guess I'd say if it is just us, an awful lot of space is going to waste. The earth is not alone, it is not like a single apple on a tree; there are many apples on the tree, and there are many trees in the orchard.
Failure is not fun. It can be awful. But living so cautiously that you never fail is worse.
It seems like every time I start to feel good, something really awful happens. It's like. . . it's really terrible.
How awful to be a perfect beauty! How confusing! God. Can you imagine?
The boys and girls in the clique. The awful names that they stick. You're never gonna fit in much kid, but it you're troubled and hurt, what you've got under your shirt will make them pay for the things that they did!