Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robin McLeavy

When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is no opinion so absurd that some philosopher will not express it

T. J. Miller

I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

Michael Leunig

Einstein was a great advocate of the notion that good ideas look absurd at the beginning. Camus expressed a similar view.

Dennis Hastert

unless the federal government adopts New Orleans as its ward and pays all its bills for the next 20 years--an unlikely to absurd proposition--the place won't be rebuilt.

Stephan Pastis

It seems so absurd to get really mad with a cartoonist over a comic strip. It's sort of like getting in a fight with a circus clown outside your house. It's not going to end well.

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.

Antonin Scalia

This is so absurd that it has, to my knowledge, never been contemplated.

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.

Christina Lee

We have completed the assessment, rectification and upgrade of our critical systems and equipment as of June 30, 1999.

Glenn Reyer

We have completed some major work already. We have installed a new elevator, new restrooms, new kitchen, and replaced the heating system. We have a new entrance and a second exit stairway from the second floor, but much remains to be done.

Twis Lizasuain

Very challenging days, but the deputies and the personnel have held up exceptionally well and right now our job is to complete these investigations and put them to closure.

Chad Adams

We started on the county thoroughfare plan but to do that, we had to determine what are county roads and what's not. This plan will be completed in March and we'll continue to prepare for a future growth.

Mike Albring

We started a little slow, but then we had a big third quarter. This was a big win for us. I guess we were all hopeful, but we are a little surprised (to be 6-0). We also know there's a lot of season left and we have to complete the second half.

Liane Balaban

I think one of the greatest skills a person can have is to complete a task they start. To take something from beginning, to middle, to end. In life, if you have that skill, I think you can go very far.

Kevin Connors

We want to provide as complete a solution as possible to photographers.

Andy Pettitte

What the starters have done over there, with all those complete games, it's amazing. I've pitched in so many games and I don't think I've ever had a complete game. It's going to be a great series, some great pitching, low scoring games. It's going to be a lot of fun.

Jeremy Shockey

There is no person on this team that deserves it more than Amani Toomer. He's been a complete team player and an outstanding teammate to play with. He made great plays all through the game and really won the game for us.

Brent Neiser

The perception is that it is more generous than it is. Grants are generally only for those that are completely wiped out or uninsured.

Leander Paes

If I have a reason to do something, and I have enough passion, I generally succeed.

Rick Glancey

When you think of the military that's generally what you think of, green style uniforms and green style armory.

Henry Samueli

The owner's job is to hire the general manager. The general manager's job is to run the hockey team.

Rick Adelman

We're not going to sit back and let this continue. We're not happy about what's going on, and I know Mr. Geoff Petrie (the general manager) is not happy either. We have too much talent for this.

Ron Gettelfinger

We've got a pretty unique situation involving General Motors . That's why I'm optimistic.

Marcel Proust

The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity.

Phil Garner

We're going to leave that to our general manager. Sure, I'd like to have Clemens back.

Richard Armitage

Yes, and it's generally on. And I won't tell you what it's on,

Charles W. Pickering

The CARE bill is an important piece of patient-care legislation. It will improve the quality of radiologic procedures performed throughout the United States as well as assist in reducing the cost incurred by the Federal government for these procedures.

Charles Edward Merriam

It is denied that any limit can be set to governmental activity.

Charles Edison

Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.

Charles Edison

My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government.

Charles de Gaulle

These people really aim very badly.

Alan Moore

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Alan Green

In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government.

Alan Greenspan

In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.

Alan Greenspan

The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.

Bobby Lamb

We've all been at Furman for so long. Being at Furman so long has led to loyalty. The transitions are so smooth.

Doug Bleadorn

West led us and we rode the third period to victory.

Harmony Korine

When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.

Steve Martarano

There doesn't seem to be anything that really led to the attack.

Selman Waksman

The discovery of streptomycin as a product of a rather obscure group of microorganisms, the actinomycetes, led to the study of these organisms as potential producers of other chemotherapeutic substances.

Elliott Abrams

Legislation for the Caribbean basin has led to more jobs in the Dominican Republic.

Laura McElroy

led to the commotion, but they have nothing to do with the charges.

Kenny Mayne

I don't regret it at all. It's led to other things.

Mike Conley

He comes to play in big games, and today was two big games. I think he stepped up and led us to victory.

Charlie Daniels

I can't wait to get off the bus and... go on stage and entertain people. That's my thing, that's what I love. I love doing it... I thank God I can make a living doing it.

Charlie Chaplin

The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.

Charlie Chaplin

The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.

Charlie Chaplin

I am for people. I can't help it.

Charlie Chaplin

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Charlie Chaplin

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone

Charles Wagner

If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich

Charles W. Pickering

The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.

Charles Sumner

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

Hal Mumme

We've already done that. The two quarterbacks we have, Vincent hasn't played before and Gill played JC. We've taken out as much as we can.

Mike Pomerenke

We stopped doing all the little things that we did earlier. We reverted back to some of our old ways and played with not a lot of intensity.

Dave Odom

We stood up to the challenge. We played very well. We did not play well enough to win.

Scooter Dunn

We started a little slow, but we hadn't played any.

John Stockton

We've got a pretty young team with a lot of sophomores and some new freshmen, but they've played together a lot,

Indy Uhlenhopp

We were a whole different team since the first time we played them.

Steve Kohn

There is no question that race and racial prejudice played a part in the interplay between these individuals.

Neal McDonough

'Justified' is one of the greatest teams I've ever played for. It's just awesome.

Jeff Halpern

When we weren't in the box, I thought we played pretty well.

Charles de Gaulle

I'm not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.

Alan Bradley

Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.

Billy Joel

I'm a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.

Dean Acheson

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

David Ricardo

Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.

David Hume

Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.

Dennis Miller

I went to the UN and even the guidebook was spineless.

Dennis Miller

Al Gore couldn't be more phony if he were a professional Al Gore impersonator

Dennis Miller

If Clinton had only attacked terrorism as much as he attacks George Bush we wouldn't be in this problem.

Alan Mollohan

I have never, not once, violated my public trust.

S. Hughes

Where there is muck to be raked, it must be raked,and the public must know of it, that it may mete out justice....

David Duchovny

If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.

Carl Andre

Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

Bill Goldberg

Aside from doing publicity for this film [The Longest Yard], I have Auto Maniac coming on the History Channel and since I got married recently, we are going to get to that Honeymoon we had to put off.

Bill Gates

It's hard to improve public education - that's clear.

Bob Schieffer

Good policy always trumps bad public relations. And the best PR can't trump bad policy.

Benjamin Disraeli

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

Cameron Mackintosh

I've never had a very great public life.

Charles de Lint

Even, she thought, even without the gift of witchsight, there was more beauty to be found in the world than could ever be snared in language or music. And with the sight...

Charles de Lint

The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.

Charles Dickens

When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like glimpses of another shore with towers and buildings.

Alan Jackson

Did you stand there in shock at the sight of that black smoke rising against that blue sky? Did you shout out in anger, in fear of your neighbor, or did you just sit down and cry?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith is a re-directing of our sight, a getting out of the focus of our own vision and getting God into focus.

Dave Barry

What I want to know is: Why is it important to have visible stomach muscles? I grew up in an era (the Paleolithic) when people kept their stomach muscles discreetly out of sight.

Bryan Stevenson

But simply punishing the broken--walking away from them or hiding them from sight--only ensures that they remain broken and we do, too. There is no wholeness outside of our reciprocal humanity.

Cesare Pavese

Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other's sight, but in their own.

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

Advertising prods people into wanting more and better things. Of course advertising makes people dissatisfied with what they have - makes them raise their sights. Mighty good thing it does. Nothing could be worse for the United States than 200,000,000 satisfied Americans.

Gary Williams

We're in a tough situation right now. We'll find out what we're made of.

Herman Edwards

We're in a situation where time is of the essence,

Dennis Kavelman

We're in a situation now where you have to play it out and fortunately we have very strong contingency plans.

Deborah Norville

There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.

Ronnie Brewer

We've got a sense of urgency because we're in a situation where we need to get wins on the road. We need to play well.

Beth Moore

Forgiveness doesn't make the situation OK, it makes you OK.

Hassan Bazzaz

We are all going to be surprised. This situation is so complicated.

Gary Hoffman

We got to this situation not overnight. We're not going to turn it around overnight.

Lakhdar Brahimi

There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.

Nate Silver

Well, you know, you're not going to have 86 percent of Congress voted out of office.

Ahmed Ali

We voted for the one who can make a change,

Paul Lowe

This is where I voted from, this is where I live, this is it.

Michelle Anderson

I voted to recall. The things she's done can't be justified.

Bob Crowder

I voted the way I thought we had to.

Nelson Mandela

I voted for myself. Even if I go to my grave, I will wake up and come and vote.

M. Hopper

I voted for Bush, and I don't have anything to disapprove of.

Hon Ip

It will be like 'Survivor.' We'll see which ones get voted off the island.