Painfully Quotes

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A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.

- Louise Brooks

(Criticizing the film adaptation of Sin City (2005)): That was so painfully cartoonish I was offended. I don`t know how you enjoy or laugh about a child abduction and molestation. What part of that sentence is funny? I can`t get beyond that. I don`t know if everyone understands the impact of that movie`s message.

- Jodie Foster

I was friends with River Phoenix, you know, and I used to be painfully jealous of him, until a friend pointed out that him doing well doesn`t mean that you`re doing badly. And if he does badly, it doesn`t mean you`re doing better. It`s like that great Gore Vidal line, `Whenever a friend of mine succeeds, a small part of me dies`. Being an adult is really challenging. When you`re young, you can rely for so long on being promising, and then you have to stop being promising. You want to say, `Hey, can`t I be promising any more?`.

- Ethan Hawke

But you see, that`s the gilded prison of fashion. We`re riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.

- Janice Dickinson

If I kind of like a guy, then I`m a fantastic flirt. But with a guy I truly like, I get painfully shy.

- Shannen Doherty

And if you really believe in your heart of hearts that you have the talent, go for it. But you`ve got to make sure you really have the talent. I was watching that TV show, American Idol, and they were showing these auditions. The contestants think in their heart that they`re talented, and the judges would say, `You are appalling. You cannot sing.` And I painfully had to agree. But they really believe that they have something. You need a very objective person to say you`ve got talent.

- Lea Salonga

(speaking in in the 1930s) I`ve never had a single close intimate girlfriend in all my life. I never had a chum to whom I could confide my secrets. I suppose that accounts for the fact that now it is so painfully difficult for me to open my heart and confide in people who are, so often, almost strangers. You have to learn so very young to open your heart.

- Jean Arthur

I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.

- Sugar Ray Leonard

I wanted to make an album that was painfully honest, like (Bruce) Springsteen`s `Tunnel of Love,`

- Darren Hayes

We were painfully aware of the negative impacts of this closing right now. Unfortunately, we are at a critical point in the project construction, and if we didn`t do this closing now, the entire project would more or less have to be stopped until the preferred summertime closure.

- Joe Brown

The do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned.

- William Greider

Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot.

- Simon Schama

Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.

- Patrick White

If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we`re not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious.

- Neale Donald Walsch

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

- Abraham Robinson

My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family.

- Aiesha Harper

My overall message for labor members is... that we understand that the benefits of trade are clear, but the disruption and the dislocation are painfully concentrated and we can`t ignore them.

- Aissatou Ba

Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges.

- Akitsugu Bando

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one`s religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.

- Alan Sandals

I move my lips when I read -- I`m painfully slow -- so I like really good English.

- Art Trinidade

Stop, shadow of my elusive beloved/ Image of enchantment that I most desire/ Beautiful illusion for whom I happily die/ Sweet fiction for whom I painfully live.

- Arthur Jacobus

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

- Isaac Bashevis Singer