652 Quotes About Awful

  • Author Spencer Abraham
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    Well, the responsibility for maintaining a reliable transmission grid is one that's shared by an awful lot of players who have a role in the grid: Companies that either generate and transmit energy or just play the role of being the transmission systems or monitoring them.

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  • Author Alan Ball
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    You know what I find interesting? If you lose a spouse, you're called a widow, or a widower. If you're a child and you lose your parents, then you're an orphan. But what's the word to describe a parent who loses a child? I guess that's just too f**king awful to even have a name.

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  • Author Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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    COENOBITE, n. A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness; and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples.O Coenobite, O coenobite, Monastical gregarian, You differ from the anchorite, That solitudinarian: With vollied prayers you wound Old Nick; With dropping shots he makes him sick. --Quincy Giles

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  • Author Andrea Barrett
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    I wanted to be a scientist. My undergraduate degree is in biology, and I really did think I might go off and be some kind of a lady Darwin someplace. It turned out that I'm really awful at science and that I have no gift for actually doing science myself. But I'm very interested in others who practice science and in the stories of science.

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  • Author Bernie Bickerstaff
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    I don't want to take anything away from Portland because they did what they had to. But that was an awful performance. We should collectively be embarrassed.

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  • Author Bill Belichick
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    There was no doubt about it out there today, San Diego is the better team. We didn't make any of the plays we needed to in the second half. They made an awful lot, especially in the second half.

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  • Author Bob Bourne
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    There's a whole lot of modern technology, and we have an awful lot of old buses. We just haven't had the opportunity or the resources to get into that whole technological world.

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