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Quotes About Awful

The idea of having Australians upset at me is just awful.
~ Craig Ferguson
The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life.
~ Oscar Wilde
That's an awful thing,a womans memory
~ Oscar Wilde
That awful thing, a woman's memory!
~ Oscar Wilde
That awful thing, a woman's memory!
~ Oscar Wilde
I'm going to remember this, I told myself sternly. I'm going to remember how awful they made me feel today. So when I'm scared and alone and whatever else is going to happen to me starts to happen, I'm going to remember that nothing could be as bad as being stuck here. Nothing.
~ P.c. Cast E Kristin Cast
Maybe it was always that way and everyone has always been forever waking in a flustered confusion deep at night trying to believe that the awful sound they think woke them was nothing, or was the nervous bark of a dog, not the sound of violence or of a child weeping in the kind of desolation or terror that demands intervention
~ China Mieville
It's hard to describe how bloody awful music was, how desperately bad it was, how our 1960s heroes had become boring and useless. Not only were they bad - they were badly dressed.
~ Tony Wilson
I absolutely consider fashion a form of art. Of course, there is some fashion that is not art at all - it's utilitarian, made for the purpose of covering up. And there are a lot of people out there who put a lot of effort into looking awful. But there are also people putting the same amount of energy into making bad art.
~ Iris Apfel
I try to be outraged by things that other people are just very accepting of, as though they're normal and can't be changed. A lot of what I write about is, 'Hey, you know, this stuff is really awful, and it doesn't need to be, and that's why it's so offensive.' Things should be better.
~ Matt Taibbi
It'd be awful if the world exploded, it's so wonderfully splendid
~ Tove Jansson
Winter was not surprised to discover that the rainforest was horrifying and awful.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
I don't see any point in trying to equate one evil with another, or to assign some stupid scale of values. They're both awful! Would
~ William Styron
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside which is like the cold of space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
~ Hilaire Belloc
This is absurd. This is awful. This isn't how people show loyalty. This is epic, epic bullshit.
~ Holly Black
Why am I the way I am?" His tone makes it clear he's proposing something I might suggest he ask, not really wondering about it. "There are no real answers, Jude. Why was I cruel to Folk? Why was I awful to you? Because I could be. Because I liked it. Because, for a moment, when I was at my worst, I felt powerful, and most of the time, I felt powerless, despite being a prince and the son of the High King of Faerie.
~ Holly Black
There is a pleasure in being with them," he says. "Taking what we wish, indulging in every terrible thought. There's safety in being awful.
~ Holly Black
But for a moment it felt good to be awful, like looking down on the world from some great height.
~ Holly Black
There is a pleasure in being with them,' he says. 'Taking what we want, indulging in every terrible thought. There's safety in being awful.
~ Holly Black
if his cruelty had the sharp edge of despair, if slights and taunts were all that fell from his tongue now, what did it matter? He had always been awful. Now he was just worse.
~ Holly Black
He's handsome, but that makes his horribleness worse, somehow. As though he's taken something nice and made it awful. Being the single focus of his attention made me feel like a bug that a child was going to burn with a magnifying glass.
~ Holly Black
You're awful.' He said it as though he was delighted. 'And the worst part is that you believe otherwise.
~ Holly Black
Stick creatures, enormous and terrible, huge spiders made of brambles and branches. Monstrous things with gaping mouths, their bodies of burned and blackened bark, their teeth of stone and ice. Mortal body parts visibly part of them, as though someone took apart people like they were dolls and glued them back together in awful shapes.
~ Holly Black
Why was I cruel to Folk? Why was I awful to you? Because I could be. Because I liked it. Because, for a moment, I was at may worst, I felt powerful, animist of the time, I felt powerless, despite being a prince and the son of the High King of Faerie.
~ Holly Black