I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don't feel in tune with British politics.

Everyone wants to demagogue everyone else. That may be good politics but it's awful policy.

I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.

I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.

Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.

I started playing poker in 2003 during my pregnancy to distract myself from my awful morning sickness. For months all I did was cry and play Texas Hold'em.

I open with a clock striking to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time which is four o clock in the morning and saves a description of the rising sun and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.

I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.

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.

I made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes.

Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress when I get tired of one I spend the night with the other.

Love feels no burden thinks nothing of trouble attempts what is above its strength pleads no excuse of impossibility for it thinks all things lawful for itself and all things possible.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

Nixon was an awful president in many ways including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him.