Top 393 Awful Quotes

The pandemic has been such an awful time for so many people around the world, but it has also been a reminder for us about the things that really matter – the people in our lives and the love we have for them.

Most of us have days or weeks or months so awful, we wish we’d never been born.

There’s the famous quote that if you want to understand how animals live, you don’t go to the zoo, you go to the jungle. The Future Lab has really pioneered that within Lego, and it hasn’t been a theoretical exercise. It’s been a real design-thinking approach to innovation, which we’ve learned an awful lot from.

Sometimes I had to room with Tony Kaye and that was awful.

When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven’t experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!

There’s a lovely character in ‘Under Milk Wood’ called Mrs. Ogmore Pritchard and she’s incredibly tidy and clean. She really is unbearably tidy and clean! And I terrorize my husband when he comes in sometimes from shooting and there’s awful dead birds all over the hall that he calls me Mrs. Ogmore Pritchard.

The idea of being a ‘child star’ always sounded awful to people my age, and so I was just very aware that these things are kind of fleeting and that a lot of it didn’t have to do with me: it had to do with my age; it had to do with whatever came to mind when people thought of a young internet sensation.

I have an awful lot of energy.

I happen to know there is nothing sexy or romantic about love scenes. They are just awful to do.

Drugs, sex, booze, all the stuff that we wanted to do. The problem was that we didn’t want to learn the top 40 ’cause most of the music was awful and we had this other idea about what we wanted to do.

The literature of menopause is the saddest, the most awful, and the most medical of all genres. You’re sleepless, you’re anxious, you’re fat, you’re depressed – and the advice is always the same: take more walks, eat some kale, and drink lots of water. It didn’t help.

I developed slight body dysmorphia – when I would break out, I couldn’t look at myself in the mirror for a couple of months at a time. I remember doing my makeup before school in the dark, which is an awful idea, but it’s because I didn’t want to see myself in that bright light.

I wouldn’t want a film to be made on my life, because I suppose I would only want them to show all the good things about me and hide the awful things, and that wouldn’t be a very honest biopic, no?

I’ve never blown my own trumpet over my ability but it took an awful lot to stop me getting on the pitch.

I actually found contracting malaria in the Congo fascinating. Observing your body under attack from this microorganism and seeing how it responds is simultaneously fascinating and awful but maybe that’s just because I’m a former biology teacher.

How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

You hear so much awful stuff before you have a kid, like you’ll never sleep again, we always knew it would be utter garbage. We’re pretty relaxed people, the less stressed you are the more easy you’ll find parenting.

Resilience can go an awful long way.

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

August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one’s endurance, sanity and stamina.

Bill Clinton is just as gross as Donald Trump – so much so that the Clinton campaign can’t really back Trump into a corner on his integrity or mistreatment of women because Bill’s personal history is so damn awful.

I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations.

It doesn’t really change, actually. I think The Rolling Stones have gotten a lot better. An awful lot better, I think. A lot of people don’t, but I think they have, and to me that’s gratifying. It’s worth it.

People don’t know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese – awful, sticky, creamy and rich.

If my father’s business hadn’t gone broke, I’d be exporting nuts, bolts and sugar machinery right now. What an awful thought!

I imagine like most of us that I’d like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives.

Men are both bad and awful. And women are both bad and awful. And they can both be good and wonderful on both sides.

Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It’s awful, and it hurts so many people around you. It’s a terribly selfish thing to do.

If you think my idea is awful, you should say as much. But there is a difference between attacking an idea and attacking the person behind that idea.

The Smothers Brothers have a good show, bul CBS is going to have to spend an awful lot of money to keep it going with top guest stars. A variety show is very expensive.

I sometimes want to make a book of every tattoo I wanted to get before I actually got a tattoo, because there were so many awful ideas and concepts.

I get invited to an awful lot of Jewish functions.

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?

I started buying bits of broken porcelain. I furnished our first flat with pieces of ‘junk.’ Some of that ‘junk’ is now worth an awful lot of money. What I was calling ‘junk’ in the ’60s people wouldn’t call ‘junk’ now.

Some days the competition would beat me and I’d go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you’re working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.

I like playing with light and shade. I like saying awful things in very pretty ways.

I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

There is an awful lot you can accomplish by being a vocal champion for a certain cause.

There’s an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.

I loved September 12th. I loved the way – it’s awful but, boy, did I love that day when we all came together. All the bickering stopped. All the partisan, cheap partisan warfare stopped.

I said that liberals think people who live in the middle of the country are a bunch of jerks, and obviously all liberals don’t think that. But I will tell you what, an awful lot of liberal elites think that.

It’s a strange old thing, but I think an awful lot of ‘Inbetweeners’ fans still don’t realise I’m a stand-up.

Donald Trump has been president for nearly three years. He’s been on Twitter for more than 10. Yet the only thing more surprising than Trump’s increasingly awful, hideously unpresidential, deeply divisive tweets is that we still manage to be surprised by them.

A lot of the girls were awful, very catty. It was a competitive environment that I didn’t like. You have no idea of the anorexia I saw around me.

Oh, I’m not beautiful. I can look beautiful; I can put beauty on. When I’m tired, I look bloody awful. I think I’m turning into the actress from ‘Dynasty,’ Linda Evans.

I feel like plenty of people have normal-seeming families that, as they’re growing up, feel awful. I’d rather have one that looks weird from the outside but felt really normal.

At one point, I even thought, ‘Oh, I’ll take diet pills.’ I tried it for one day, and I thought my heart was going to explode. It’s awful, and I would never, ever recommend it.

I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.

What I learned from 9/11 that is really important, first and foremost, you have to motivate all the workers and understand that they’ve left their families to help clean up a pretty awful situation. Every time you have an emergency management situation, it’s all about teamwork.

I think it’s an awful drink, to be honest with you.

The universe is very big – there’s about 100,000 million galaxies in the universe, so that means an awful lot of stars. And some of them, I’m pretty certain, will have planets where there was life, is life, or maybe will be life. I don’t believe we’re alone.

I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels… a Library of Congress worth of awful literature.

I think that for the United States, Hillary Clinton, as awful as I find her, is a survivable event. I’m not so sure about Donald Trump.