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!

Tom Woodruff

We're not being productive with runners on base. That's the bottom line. When we get runners on base, no one is stepping up and making the big hit for us. That's what you've got to do in close games.

Bob Kirby

Madison looked very comfortable shooting. The bottom line is that if we can get that third wheel in the scorebook each week, we could be tough down the stretch.

Adan Dualle

Let the Government get to the bottom of the matter and leave no stone unturned.

David Yost

Look, these people are not street-level dealers. This is not the bottom of the food chain.

Steven Camarota

Millions of people are going to keep coming every decade unless we restrict it. That's the bottom line.

Skip Rimer

Much of the Midwest is at the bottom of the rankings because the Midwest is heavy in manufacturing, and that sector simply hasn't done well over the years. Manufacturing is seeing some growth but isn't creating jobs like other sectors.

Anonymous Toast

May the ships at sea never be bottoms up

Al Horford

Maybe we don't look like we're tough guys, but the bottom line is we get the job done. I know, Villanova was tough. They were city kids. But we're going to play our game no matter who the other team has.

Tom Kettman

(Media) comparing us to this team and that team, we're not looking into any of that comparison stuff. The bottom line is, we've got to stay focused, keep wrestling the way we've been wrestling all season.

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.

Mike Enzi

Mandated hikes in the minimum wage do not cure poverty and they clearly do not create jobs.

Richard McGinn

Lucent is focused on the fastest growing markets in communications networking, and professional services and support is clearly one of them,

Susan Brown

Madonna and Guy are clearly very much in love.

Mitchel McLaughlin

liberating impact. ... It may take some little time but clearly the way is now clear for people who wish to see politics replace conflict on our streets to take up their responsibilities.

Larry Sabato

Lott has clearly recovered from the incident that lost him the leadership.

Helen Hudson

Looks are so deceptive that people should be done up like food packages with the ingredients clearly labeled

Adrian Edwards

Security remains a paramount concern for the elections. It is very clearly difficult for any government to deliver the services it needs in an environment where security is a problem.

Eric Benhamou

So far we seem to be off to a very good start. Clearly the two companies have different cultures but these cultures are proving to be compatible.

Michael Wilson

Softwood lumber is clearly at the top of the heap. The fact we don't have a resolution there is impacting the entire relationship.

Christopher Thompson

Let them know they hold the key to the 22,000 jobs.

Jeff Reed

Second, I passed one of the numerous records he holds in the NFL. Gary's the most-respected kicker who's been through this league. It means a lot.

Ming-Na Wen

'Mulan' holds a very special place in my heart. It's been 16 years since the film, but hordes of fans still come up and tell me how much she means to them.

David Pickett

Much has been written about 'super mums', but there are many 'super dads', holding down jobs and doing work at home.

Angus MacKenzie

MOTOR TREND holds a distinctive place in the landscape of automotive journalism. It is a strong and influential publication that is poised for tremendous growth. It is the right time for Ira to take MOTOR TREND to the next level.

Mike Greene

McNabb was having his game, but we were holding him pretty good. And we just let it get away from us. That's just part of being a young team.

Unknown

May the joys of today Be those of tomorrow. The goblets of life Hold no dregs of sorrow.

Michael Shermer

My libertarian beliefs have not always served me well. Like most people who hold strong ideological convictions, I find that, too often, my beliefs trump the scientific facts.

Taylor Twellman

Obviously, we've missed Pat tremendously his play, the way he holds the play up. It's a pleasure playing with him, and hopefully we can do well together in the playoffs.

Nobuyuki Idei

So far, Sony management has no reason to make any revision in sales targets for the PlayStation,

Van Honeycutt

One thing that we've seen difficulties with is recruiting of senior management.

Mitsuo Kinoshita

Getting overseas staff to share our views on management and quality is very difficult. But that task is urgent.

Jack Sebbag

From a management standpoint and a cost-reduction standpoint ... you can now with a single console, with reduced costs, manage all these point products with just one resource and one just one technology.

Mark Horstman

From a management perspective, if it surprises you that someone leaves, it's because you weren't in touch with them.

Eliot Spitzer

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

Marc Savard

I'd like to be back here, but that's up to management. We'll see what happens.

Rob Guinn

I don't know what management is thinking. But I think we've got a good, solid team, and I think teams are going to be scared to play us in the playoffs.

Mark Siegel

This streamlines the management structure in terms of the way we respond to our owners.

Caitriona Balfe

Modelling wasn't a passion of mine, so that made it get old kind of quickly. I was getting very frustrated.

Cameron Russell

Modelling is no better or worse than many other professions, but it is more obvious, more accessible.

Shari Brill

Moderate successes are good, because if they do better than the shows they replaced, it's still a success for the networks.

Marc Johnson

Moderate strategies in the past had moderate results.

Art Alexakis

One of the things about being a boy, especially growing up without a father, is you really don't have that role model to teach you how to do things.

Democritus

Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.

William Collins

If aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song, / May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy modest ear.

Deborah Abbott

We want to make this a model for other communities in the future.

Doug Rockel

I would have been disappointed if they had not raised rates by about 3 percent. This is what we all modeled for.

Jerry Nelson

Of all the times you get a wrong number or a prank call, I was wishing it was a prank.

David Macdonald

No one has any idea where they are getting their numbers from.

Telyshia Adams

No, no, I thought it was going to take me a while. I said that I wanted to score the number on my jersey, but I didn't think I was going to be able to do it tonight. Not at all.

Nathan Brookwood

Multi-core is the new megahertz. If you want more performance rather than ramping up the megahertz, now it's all about ramping up the number of cores.

Diane Glossman

Morgan's numbers were outstanding. It was all trading.

Ben Edwards

Numbers can give you a ... sense of the organization, but they can't give you the whole sense,

Bud Selig

Number one, let me say that the program we have is working, ... There's no question about that.

Rick Burch

Number one is we don't have day jobs. And something that stems from that is we're able to get together more often.

Russ Howard

Number one by a mile, baby. No question.

Paul Taibi

We're taking it one rung at a time.

Mike Birbiglia

My last name has the word 'big' in it. It seems like a logical progression that if you shed away the Bir and the lia, I'll just be Big.

Debbie Johnson

No one seems to know who he is.

Todd Rundgren

It seems like there are two worlds out there - one that has revolved around 'Breaking Bad,' and then the one that I've been in, which just kind of observes it from afar.

Kate Grenville

I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.

Jay Grimes

She seems like she'll come through. It's going to be a while.

Frank Sinatra

Sinatra has had a long and wide association with hoodlums and racketeers, which seems to be continuing.

Tate Casey

Shannon (Desmond) is just phenomenal. When it's a big game, she seems to step up and get it done for us.

Jay Haas

I'd like it to go back to no carts. It just seems right. It seems like if spectators can go out and walk, we can, too. It's part of the competition.

Marc Chouinard

I don't know who did the schedule, but he seems to stick them in when we're on a roll.

Jack Abramoff

Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context, another effort by those assaulting my career.

ASAP Ferg

Mixtapes are always small scale to me - they never get taken seriously, and they're always short-lived.

Ludwig von Mises

Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in our sense of the word All economic change, therefore, would involve operations the value of which could neither be predicted beforehand nor ascertained after they had taken place. Everything would be a leap in the dark. Socialism is the renunciation of rational economy.

Ludwig von Mises

Public works are not accomplished by the miraculous power of a magic wand. They are paid for by funds taken away from the citizens.

Charles Spurgeon

No man can put on the robes of Christ’s righteousness till he has taken off his own.

Diane Kruger

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

Dennis Prager

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

Dennis Prager

People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.

Dennis Prager

The Left has taken over the universities and, increasingly, high schools and elementary schools. It dominates the news and entertainment media. And many judges and courts are leftist - meaning that their decisions are guided by leftism more than by the law or the Constitution.