Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lauren Willig

Like everyone else, I grew up loving the Anne books, but L.M. Montgomery is so much more. Like Jane Austen, she has an eye for the absurd and a gift for the 'mot juste.'

Horace

Mountains will be in labour, and the birth will be an absurd little mouse.

Sergei Yastrzhembsky

One can hardly imagine a more ridiculous and absurd interpretation.

Dirceu Ferreira

Neither Beckett, nor Ionesco, not even Arrabal: the biggest responsible for the absurd in entertainment is the guy who calculates the tickets' prices.

John Major

The sight of allegedly sophisticated politicians parroting complete tripe trivialises and demeans government and it has to be stopped. It's played a significant part in public disillusionment with politics and has led to the absurd situation where more people vote for 'Strictly Come Dancing' than voted in the general election.

T. J. Miller

Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

Kurt Braunohler

I think we get stuck in routines so easily that when an absurd moment in life seems to be there for no reason, it wakes you up out of your everyday pattern. You pull back and look at life a little bit wider because of that one weird thing you weren't expecting.

Kurt Braunohler

I was writing this really long joke about the smell of poop, and I was like, 'What am I doing with my life?' I started to think about why I was a comedian, and then I came up with a reason for existence, which is: inserting absurdity or stupidity into strangers' lives in order to make the world a better place.

Sorin Cerin

Only then man will raise his eyes to the sun that caressed with its rays so many millennia of frustration and anguish, of absurd and uncertainty, of lack of power and suffering. He will hail the sun and the stars and everything that surrounds him knowing they are all vanity of vanities. Vanity of vanities that will give man a meaning! This vanity of vanities will tell the man that he truly dreams his own Illusion of Life, that he finally found the meaning!

Gary Blair

Learning is about more than simply acquiring new knowledge and insights; it is also crucial to unlearn old knowledge that has outlived its relevance. Thus, forgetting is probably at least as important as learning.

Richard Greenfield

Mitigating the price increases of ESPN is not something Comcast has to do by acquiring Disney now. It's now something that's just happening,

Bob Sommer

Mr. Kushner had a very productive discussion today with Nets ownership and with the investment bankers, and he continues to aggressively pursue acquiring the team with the purpose of keeping them in New Jersey.

Scott Kessler

MSN was the one that may have been a logical acquiring company but they are clearly building as opposed to buying,

Yajur Veda

May our mind be inclined towards virtuous deeds, acquiring strength and long-life! May we continue to see the glorious sight of Rising Sun for eternity!

Robert Harris

One gains a double benefit in writing about the past, conjuring up how things might have been, and at the same time acquiring a different perspective on the present.

Jeff Bower

Getting a player of (Mason's) quality in addition to acquiring a first-round pick . . . has tremendous value, ... We feel this gives us a player we want and a player to add for our future.

Jeff Bower

Getting a player of his quality in addition to acquiring an unprotected first-round pick that we'll be able to use immediately in this upcoming draft is a package that we feel really has tremendous value,

Sam Veda

Only those people, who have wealth can dream of acquiring gems and precious stones.

Albert Schweitzer

A good example has twice the value of good advice

Henri Frederic Amiel

Life is short. Be swift to love! Make haste to be kind!

Tom Stoppard

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it

Sathya Baba

Life is a challenge, meet it! Life is a dream, realize it! Life is a game, play it! Life is Love, enjoy it!

Luigi Pirandello

Life is full of infinite absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true

Josh Hufford

Let's just keeping on flying until the world explodes!

Samuel Daniel

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using

William Shakespeare

Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee;Corruption wins not more than honesty.

Bill Sutherland

So, good advice is, if you're thinking about booking, use a credit card. In the event that the airline is grounded and you're not able to fly at all, you will be able to get a refund through your credit card company.

Robert Osborne

When Orson Welles was acting in 'Compulsion,' the director Richard Fleischer let him just take over and direct the courtroom scenes. To be able to see Welles - who knew more about directing than anyone - direct himself and the other actors, it was unbelievable and unforgettable.

Kevin Mitnick

I don't condone anyone causing damage in my name, or doing anything malicious in support of my plight. There are more productive ways to help me. As a hacker myself, I never intentionally damaged anything.

Marco Brambilla

A lot of very popular mainstream artists are products of record companies and marketing companies, and any time anyone can stand outside of that, that's interesting.

Carl Jacobs

We're not catching anyone off guard this year. We're the hunted and everyone is looking forward to knocking us off.

Cynthia Price

We're not calling anyone a suspect. At this time, the Richmond Police Department has not identified a suspect, but we have several persons of interest. We've interviewed several people extensively.

Jo Koy

Man, I don't know how it was for other comics, but that one appearance has changed my life. Everyone knows 'The Tonight Show,' no matter young or old. You don't have to beg anyone to watch ... they just turn it on.

Leonard Johnson

Like anyone would do, I said you take his leg, you take whatever you can to save his life.

John Andrews

Like all alcoholics, I would start New Year's Eve promising to control how much I drank. In the morning, I'd wake up hoping to God I hadn't hurt anyone on the drive home. It's the hardest time of year for recovering substance abusers because you're surrounded by overindulgence -- it's impossible to escape, and there's little empathy for those who have struggled with addiction.

Keith Rogers

Luckily I had somebody to help me in the street that kept calling and calling and calling that's the only way I got out. If you don't have anyone to help you, you're just lost in the system.

Robert Rainy

For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.

Koko Taylor

I was so glad to get out of the cotton patch and stop pickin' cotton, I wouldn't of cared who come by and said, 'I'll take you to Chicago.'

Albert Schweitzer

To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Steven Brill

We're not dealing with kidnappers here. When you see the way they continued to raise him and take care of him, you're dealing with parents that love their kid and would do anything they could to keep him.

George H. W. Bush

Mandatory evacuations have been ordered for New Orleans and Galveston. I urge the citizens to listen carefully to the instructions provided by state and the local authorities. And follow them,

Joan Lingard

Like children, adolescents need a framework. Otherwise they can't cope. When someone has unlimited freedom, it means there's nobody who cares what they're doing.

Brenda Valdes

Life is ... you work, you support yourself, take care of yourself, but you also have to take care of your community.

Jason Varitek

Like I always say, we handle things in here. In no way, shape or form are we going to play a media game with our teammates. I think that people look to pick on things on Manny because he's Manny Ramirez. We'll take care of things and we take care of things in here.

Lou Lamoriello

Let's be careful how far we go with that.

Kumail Nanjiani

You can get stuck in the trap of reading your YouTube comments all the time. Sometimes I regret it. Not everyone is going to love you. And for some reason, stand-up has this thing where everyone thinks they can do it. So everyone thinks they're an expert.

Jenna Morasca

Let's be honest: we all watch the show at home and play 'armchair' 'Survivor,' inserting our opinions, comments and yelling at the TV screen.

Ralph Kauffman

Many members' comments expressed concern about the continuing rise in oil and gas prices.

Peter Cardillo

Mr. Greenspan's comments support equity gains, ... And investors may have turned around their view of Intel.

Peter Cardillo

Mr. Greenspan didn't say anything new but his comments were one of the reasons we saw this early spurt take the market up and wane in the afternoon. But when it's all said and done, what the market is really grasping for here is some really good earnings in technology stocks.

Greg Bensel

Mr. Benson did write a message Sunday night to the commissioner expressing his concern about the incident that occurred following the game. It was an emotional and distressing situation and very unfortunate for him and his family. His comments to the commissioner relayed his frustration and at this time he has not yet made a decision on his plans for this weekend's game.

Trent Duffy

Mr. Aristide has resigned his office and has left the country. And now the Haitian people are involved with grasping democracy and moving forward on an interim government. And that's where the focus should be right now. And any comments that would stir up more division are not helpful, as the Haitian people move toward a greater democracy.

Don Briel

Of all the people that have tried the machines, we could count the negative comments on one hand.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

No one said anything to my face, but I constantly heard comments denigrating Jews.

Robert Forney

Several ships have (the outbreaks), but it's not a cruise ship problem. It's a people problem.

Jonny Lee Miller

I don't think any actor has the luxury of knowing exactly what scripts are going to turn out well and what ones aren't. It would be wonderful to have that particular skill, and maybe people like Tom Cruise have it more than most, but you go into each project hoping that a good, if not great, film will come out the other end.

Sandra Dials

I was scheduled to go on a cruise in January.

Jim Larson

If we don't dredge every year, the cruise ships won't be able to tie up.

Tony Hawk

If I can stand up when I'm 80, I'll be happy to cruise around on a skateboard. If I feel like my skills are fading, I just won't do it publicly.

Jim Kubinski

With the field coming, we got a lot of good teams playing there. I think you're going to have to shoot some good numbers, you're not going to be able to just kind of put it in cruise control. We're going to have to play hard, and we're going to have to play well.

Michelle Monaghan

You know I think it's hard in any film when you're kissing someone who you don't really have genuine feelings for... but at the same time it's our job so... there are worse things I could be doing on that particular day than kissing Tom Cruise I suppose... i'm not going to complain.

Brad Dean

We grew because we offered more for your money. Today, everyone offers that, from cruise lines to casinos. ... Everybody is selling value for the money and packaging it with convenience. It's got to be more than simply price.

Richard Hendrix

We felt like even though we were down, the game was still ours. Even down to the last shot, we thought we'd cruise into the next round. Unfortunately, things didn't work out that way.

Alexandra Fuller

I had the constitution of a missionary.

Albert Schweitzer

The witch doctor succeeds for the same reason all the rest of us succeed. Each patient carries his or her own doctor inside him or her. They come to us not knowing that truth. We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.

Albert Schweitzer

Every patient carries his or her own doctor inside.

Bryan Smith

Last year, we only had a 1 percent increase in our health insurance premium.

Stanislaw Dziwisz

Many journalists who in the past have written about the pope's health are already in heaven.

Jim Edmonds

Scott's healthy and it looks like he's nice and strong. That is going to be a huge plus for us.

Elyssa Rosen

Self-regulation is not enough to protect the health of our communities.

Gillian Anderson

Motherhood has been enormously healthy for her. She's more secure.

Mike Keane

Obviously, we want Jason in the lineup but his health is the No. 1 concern.

Vincent Jackson

Man, hopefully I'll be playing me, on offense, working with the offense,

Shawn Chacon

Man, he is in a zone. You hope he stays that way for a long time.

Don Daniels

Let's look for a year like last year and hope it doesn't happen. That's all we can do.

Johnny Damon

Let's hope so. We've still got to play well.

Andy Robinson

Lewis is distraught and disappointed and we hope it can all be sorted out.

Boris Said

Lowe's is my nemesis. I didn't qualify for the Memorial Day race there, but we have tested at the track since and hopefully it will be a different scenario this time around. After today, I just can't wait to get back on those ovals.

Boris Said

Lowe's is my nemesis, ... I didn't qualify for the Memorial Day race there, but we have tested at the track since and hopefully it will be a different scenario this time around. After today, I just can't wait to get back on those ovals.

Tony Bush

lot of lives to be lifted up, lot of hope to be restored.

Wade Duty

Louisiana is undergoing a moment of revision and hopefully reconstruction, and by Friday, we will know what the shape of things will be.

Alexandra Adornetto

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click-you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.

Italo Calvino

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

Roger von Oech

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.

Kurt Andersen

I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.

Marcy Kaptur

I view myself as someone who is always trying to make life better in practical ways and putting the pieces together to do that.

Malorie Blackman

A film of my life would never happen!

Mamata Banerjee

I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.

Albert Schweitzer

Late upon the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset . . . there flashed upon my mind, unforseen and unsought, the phrase 'Reverence for Life'.

Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . . . the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many. . . . It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.

Eric Topol

Of course, the medical profession doesn't like D.I.Y. anything.

Monica Crowley

For years, Suzanne Somers has been a pioneer when it comes to alternative medical treatments.

Marty Bahamonde

Sir, I know that you know the situation is past critical. The sooner we can get the medical patients out, the sooner we can get them out.

John Olerud

I didn't need seven years of medical school to know what was next.

Donald Trump

We can't let people down when they can't get any medical care, when they're sick and don't have money to go to a doctor. You help them.

Dick Cheney

I got sick, hospitalized, had no insurance. And the money I had saved for our honeymoon went to pay medical bills. So I had been in the position of not having insurance when I needed health care.

Jim Bowden

We could not prove medically that they weren't able to play.

Michael Chertoff

Truckloads of water, ice, meals, medical supplies, generators, tents and tarpaulins

Mike Birbiglia

You can't go to medical school and come out and be like, 'I'm going to be a dog catcher.' That would be so pointless.

Peter Frank

Obviously, our prayers are with (Robinson) regardless of all the other issues.

Charles Spurgeon

We cannot all ARGUE, but we can all PRAY; We cannot all be LEADERS, but we can all be PLEADERS; We cannot all be mighty in RHETORIC, but we can all be prevalent in PRAYER.

Charles Spurgeon

God will hear His people at the beginning of their prayers if the condition of their heart is ready for it.

Charles Spurgeon

Prayer must not be our chance work but our daily business, our habit and vocation.

Charles Spurgeon

Intercessory prayer is exceedingly prevalent. What wonders it has wrought! The Word of God teems with its marvelous deeds. Believer, thou hast a mighty engine in thy hand, use it well, use it constantly, use it with faith, and thou shalt surely be a benefactor to thy brethren.

Charles Spurgeon

The goal of prayer is the ear of God.

Charles Spurgeon

Oh, for five hundred Elijahs, each one upon his Carmel , crying unto God, and we should soon have the clouds bursting into showers. Oh, for more prayer, more constant, incessant prayer! Then the blessing would rain upon us.

Charles Spurgeon

If He has said much about prayer, it is because He knows we have much need of it.

Charles Spurgeon

I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.

Judy Cornett

She worked backstage, and she was so precious to all of us. This is my first show without Pat.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Unless you have a real sense of precious things under threat, there would be nothing sad about time being limited.

David Duval

Confidence is such a fragile and precious thing.

Denis Waitley

Time is the most precious element of human existence.

Arthur Golden

Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light.

John Gotti

I ain't seen her in seven years, but she's a doll, a precious little kid.

Lord of

My Precious - Gollum and the One Ring

John Lemme

Live each day as if it's a precious Gift, because it is.

Todd Rundgren

On occasion, I hear a rearrangement of a song that really makes me reevaluate it in a way.

L. Heroux

Make sure what you risk is yours to lose.

Shannon LaRocque

Scripps is important to the county, but at what risk to taxpayers?

Colleen Hartman

We had a very gut-wrenching decision. We thought at the time that there was too much risk to go forward.

Denis Diderot

You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.

Edward Abbey

To be alive is to take risks; to be always safe and secure is death.

Joe Girardi

I wouldn't do that. You don't want to risk him getting hurt. The only way I would do that is if it's something like the 19th inning and we're out of people.

Jason Giambi

I would give it a try, but they said don't even try. It's not worth risking it. I'm walking a little better. It's not so tight.

S.K.R. Amarasekara

I'm a little more worried now. The risk is higher.

Kevin Harvick

I'm all for taking chances. But you have to make sure you don't get caught. You have to know if the risk is worth the penalty.

Jerramy Stevens

No one is going to give us anything. We haven't done anything in the past. But we've been out here taking it (respect) this year, that's for sure.

Slobodan Milosevic

More time has been wasted by taking away my right to self-defense.

David Jacobson

I feel like this is part of something big he is doing, ... Like taking over the world.

Joe Crawford

I feel like I'm getting better every game, more comfortable, just being aggressive, taking my opportunities.

Andrea Mitchell

I feel terribly guilty. I'm not used to taking off time at all.

Ed Collins

If we do use that for (the ballpark), we are taking away from ourselves, not the state.

Doug Follis

If we're there at the end of the year, that's when it will matter. Right now, we're taking it game-by-game.

Steve Smith

I have a one-track mind. I was not taking the hitch. I wanted to go for the goal.

Diane Tuller

She's only going to get better. I don't like taking her off the court.

Lindy Ruff

No, no. We haven't talked about that. Until you're in, you're not in.

Richard Flanagan

My father, unusually for a PoW, talked about his experiences, but he talked about them in a very limited way.

David Akers

I can't say we haven't talked about that,'' Reid said,

Jenn Giel

She talked more around him, responded more to him.

Davey Johnson

I don't know anything about it. Nobody's talked to me.

Pat Howard

I don't know what he's doing. We have talked to him and he is going to have a look at all his options.

Mark Ford

We never had a plan. We just walked around and talked about it, and he did it.

Mike Maroth

We got together and talked some things out.

Tony Gwynn

Nobody talked about my defense or that I used to steal bases, too.