There were periods when I sometimes made fires in a large, open fireplace that lasted about two weeks, which was how long it took to burn my compositions. So there has been an awful lot that I have destroyed.
Alan Hovhaness

There's a lot of lying and these are people who are incredibly flawed, and not in very sort of empathetic ways, either. Some of the things they do are pretty awful and some of the things they do to each other are pretty awful.
Will Arnett

There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert.
Fred Frith

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

There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing.
David McCullough

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

They came and bound me up and I had awful stretch marks. I hated my breasts after that.
Christine Keeler

They say it figures MTV would do such a vulgar, awful, horrible show and they completely miss that it's satirizing the people who watch MTV.
Mike Judge

They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn't get any of it. But they sure do love spending money.
Adam Garcia

Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God.
Silvia Cartwright

To be hungry must be awful.
Dick Van Patten

To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.
Bess Myerson

To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future good, all our powers, talents, and attainments are devoted.
George Ripley

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
Dr. Seuss

Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.
Gioachino Rossini

Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours.
Gioachino Rossini

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
Jesse Owens

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

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

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
Pearl S. Buck