Famous Quotes & Sayings

The pending decision against Microsoft and the decline in the share price was absolutely the catalyst for the sell-off. To the extent these companies may do very well in the next year, I think there may be buying opportunities here.

The penalty is severe. ... It's 25% of his possible income for the year. He is absolutely going to have a tattoo on him for quite a few years. ... It has a dramatic effect on his career. But he can overcome it by performing well and never again being associated with this.

Gerry Adams

The peace process lies in absolute ruins, ... And the responsibility for that -- and for restoring it -- lies with (British Prime Minister) John Major.

The payroll survey is the best measure of the absolute amount of employment and employment trends, and this is really quite a pessimistic report.

The Patriot League is a real competitive league and Rachel going there will make an impact. They need a two-guard that can shoot the ball and she can absolutely do that. It's going to be a good fit for her and I know she'll love Washington D.C.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The path of the imam is the absolute path of the Islamic republic. He was the founder of the revolution. He is the reference of the revolution.

In England, there is a dividing line between artists and illustrators, who are thought inferior to painters. Well, that's absolute rubbish. Some of the most creative work is being done in children's books. In Japan, everything is art. They don't say painting is better than ceramics or dress design.

Beeban Kidron

The devadasis have a multilayered story, a story in which poverty, deprivation and injustice against women is central - but what has happened to them is absolutely an outcome of imperialism and the impact of British rule in India.

Beeban Kidron

I absolutely don't want to suggest that women are unreliable because we're mothers - on the contrary. But the question of who brings up the kids has a material effect on all women's careers.

Daniel Radcliffe

I think it would be very hard to go out with an actress, because they're mad. Some actresses are just insane. I've never worked with a nasty actress - they're all absolutely delightful. But completely barking.

Deborah Eisenberg

For someone whose goal in life was to stay unemployed, I can't imagine what I thought was going to happen. I was so terrified of everything, I just thought I'd curl up in the gutter and die, and by a complete mistake, my life turned out to be absolutely wonderful.

Deborah Eisenberg

Politics is a matter of human transaction. I consider absolutely everything political, because all fiction involves relationships between people, and relationships between people always include matters of power, of equity, of communication.

David Boreanaz

I could easily escape to a hotel for a weekend and do absolutely nothing.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I am struck by how, walking down the street, I'm rarely made aware of my race, but that among journalists, race is absolutely massive.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

There's a catharsis in cutting down trees. But there's absolutely none of that in picking cotton. It's maddening! It's fiddly, and it pricks your fingers, and it's something that's a very hard skill if you have no alacrity for it.

Play is the best natural resource in a creative economy. Kids need more of it. It is the work of childhood. We hope to intrinsically change the opinion that play is not just a luxury but an absolute necessity for kids' lives.

Denis Napthine

It's absolutely essential that Melbourne, and Victoria, has a rail link to the airport.

John C. Calhoun

How can this full, perfect, just and supreme voice of the people, embodied in the Constitution, be brought to bear, habitually and steadily, in counteracting the fatal tendency of the government to the absolute and despotic control of the numerical majority?

Bill Cosby

The absolute truth is that there is no power in celebrity.

Foster Friess

I am absolutely stunned how the Democrats were able to somehow say that the Republicans had a war on women... What was the war on women?

Charles Hazlewood

Music is about communication, and the chemistry between an audience and the orchestra is absolutely essential; the performance does not exist in a bubble.

Charles Hazlewood

Most people in the Western world grow up with the received wisdom that Mozart was a genius. But few people necessarily know why. More than anyone else, he captured this something which is the human condition, the fine line that we all constantly dance between joy and pain, between absolute happiness and absolute heartbreak.

Freddy Rodriguez

I would absolutely recommend for actors to start in the theater because it establishes a foundation in your craft that you can build off of.

Lewis Thomas

Having long suspected that there was something alive in there, running the place, separate from everything else, absolutely individual and independent, we've celebrated by giving it a real name. My self.

Lulu

Time Bomb encapsulates everything I have learned over the years and wished I could find in a capsule collection. It's the absolute best skincare and body products I could envisage - and I am fussy. I am now able to indulge my love of beauty products and call it research.

For both Protestants and Catholics, and whether or not absolute continence is demanded of the clergy, celibacy remains a blessed spiritual state.

What we have pointed out is that we often hear promises of greater resources devoted to R&D (as a result of a merger), but there is absolutely no proof that in the mergers over the last three to five years that that has occurred.

Lorraine Bracco

What we have on HBO, which I find absolutely phenomenal, is creative freedom,

Ozzy Osbourne

What you see on the show is absolutely us,

We did what we needed to on defense to win. Tyler Harrington had an absolutely fabulous game at defensive end for us. He had three tackles for losses. David Mullen had two sacks and several hurries. Those hurries helped our defensive backs pick off four passes.

According to the kinetic theory of gases, the mean kinetic energy of a molecule is a measure of absolute temperature.

Wilbur Smith

I believe that a healthy body breeds a healthy mind. I am 74 years old now and my wife, Niso, is 38 years younger than me. She absolutely insists that I take regular exercise with her.

Iris Apfel

I absolutely consider fashion a form of art. Of course, there is some fashion that is not art at all - it's utilitarian, made for the purpose of covering up. And there are a lot of people out there who put a lot of effort into looking awful. But there are also people putting the same amount of energy into making bad art.