Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kim Basinger

I just absolutely, totally hated school. It was like a prison to me. I just could not stand that structured, absolute disciplined way of having to deal with life.

Ben Okri

The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.

This would be an absolutely novel treatment, the first ever with potential to repair a traumatically damaged brain.

This would be an absolutely novel treatment. Given what a big problem brain trauma is in society, any new therapy could make an important difference.

Bill Cunningham

The question is ... did that dashing lover on screen, Rudolph Valentino, have a high pitched voice after all? Perhaps we'll find out. At the very least, this show will be a wonderful trip down memory lane, ... And like many trips down memory lane, there will be a lot of laughs involved. This is an absolutely fun and funny show.

The only reason we played that hole was because there was no other fairway to play. Everything else was under water. It was an absolute mess. It was a monumental operation just to get the thing done.

Timing is absolutely critical. We need to land it before it gets too hot. The good news is the weather is quite calm. At this point, we're treating it like a normal landing.

Tom Renney

Time will tell, but he's a good player. It's not like this guy came out of absolutely nowhere for us.

Stanley Hauerwas

To try to turn Iraq into a liberal democracy is absolutely crazy. Islam has no understanding of the separation between church and state because they don't understand Islam to be a church.

Eric S. Raymond

Traditionally, operating systems had been written in tight assembler to extract the absolute highest efficiency possible out of their host machines.

Steve Nash

To win three in a row is difficult. But they've done it to us and there's absolutely no way that we're incapable of doing it to them.

This story about that makes absolutely no sense. This is a story likened to a fairy tale in their marijuana-soaked minds.

This sport is awesome. It's crazy because you can do a run and think you absolutely killed it, did the best run of your life, and then you do the same run against somebody and you'll completely step it up a notch that you never knew you had because there's someone racing right beside you. All of a sudden you can ride faster and stronger than you ever knew you could.

Ernest Hemingway

To be a successful father there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years

To be absolutely ruthless, what's going on in the Middle East is terrible but it's not going to effect the earnings of many European and U.S. companies,

To be absolutely certain that your donation will go to the aid of the people that are in need, I encourage everyone to donate to a reputable charity, such as the Salvation Army or the Lenawee County Chapter of the Red Cross,

Srikumar Rao

There are terrible jerks, and there are an unusually large concentration of them in the workplace. And that means that you do have to make some changes in your behavior, but there is absolutely no need for you to give them power over your happiness.

Sri Chinmoy

All around us is the cosmic game, the cosmic play. The universe is full of joy, inner and outer. When realisation takes place, we have to feel the necessity of manifesting this constant delight in our heart. The delight glows, but does not burn. It has tremendous intensity, but it is all softness and absolutely sweet-flowing nectar.

Olivia Holt

I'm all about scary movies! The 'Halloweentown' ones are my absolute favorites.

Basing my conclusions on experience I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrated survival, demonstrated by occasional interaction with matter in such a way as to produce physical results.

Greg Wise

As a teenager, I used to travel everywhere with my guitar. I appreciated the fact it was with me, but it was always an absolute pain to carry around - even though, in those days, you could take in on a plane as hand luggage.

George Miller

I was what they call a pool hustler. That's absolutely true. For long periods of time I got by, barely skimmed by, just playing pool.

Tom Rath

I would absolutely recommend against excessive positivity and optimism. Any positive emotion that you're infusing into a workplace needs to be grounded in reality. If it's not realistic, sincere, meaningful, and individualized, it won't do much good.

Tom Stoppard

I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses.

Twiggy

As every teenage girl, I was absolutely obsessed with The Beatles, and the first record I bought was 'Please Please Me.' I'd have been 13 at the time.

Twiggy

If you've got the body and the chutzpah, a pencil skirt is so sexy on older women. Look for ones that fall just below the knee. Think 1940s, cinched-in jackets - imagine you are Lauren Bacall on a date with Humphrey Bogart and you just absolutely have to wear very high heels.

Sheryl Sandberg

I absolutely loved Tina Fey's 'Bossypants' and didn't want it to end. It's hilarious as well as important. Not only did I laugh on every page, but I was nodding along, highlighting and dog-earing like crazy.

William Lacy Clay, Jr.

I have absolutely no confidence in the Ferguson police, the county prosecutor.

William Boyd

I can bore for England on the subject of James Bond. But I knew I couldn't do it frivolously; I had to take it very seriously, however much fun I was having. And I had to make myself, you know, absolutely steeped in Bond and in Fleming and that world.

Wayne Newton

When you think about those of us that live the life that we want to live, we can thank absolutely and completely our men and women in uniform. Because if it were not for them, we wouldn't enjoy the freedoms that we have.

Warren Spector

If anything, game development is even more of a team effort than making a movie, so for individuals to get credit for making a game is absolutely insane.

Ben Carson

There's absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn't be involved in things that affect all of us.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

There is a real and evident problem of democracy in Georgia, and this was the core reason of my entrance into politics. We have no rule of law. It's absolutely absent.