Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isabella Rossellini

I loved modeling. I absolutely loved it. I was so happy to get the cover of 'Vogue' - 23 times. I keep each copy. I made more money as a model than as an actress or as a filmmaker. In monetary terms, beauty pays more than anything.

I think funny is just the foundation. I don't really think, to some extent, funny is the absolute most important thing. It should also communicate some idea through the medium of cartooning. Just to be funny is... You know what, the things that you laugh hardest at aren't cartoons.

Robert Klein

There are certain families who absolutely incorporate their nanny as part of the family, and there are other people, and there are codes for this, when they call in, they say, 'I am really not looking for a friend.' It is clear they will not be members of the family.

Marcy Kaptur

We have to get rid of the constant fundraising that happens inside the Congress. Before, political parties used to raise money; now, individual members are raising money through the DCCC and the RCCC. It is absolutely corrupt.

Let's be absolutely clear about this, we have made no approach to anyone at this moment in time.

Lucas is in a unique position himself to create these rules and enforce them. He paid for the entire film himself, and he and Fox are just trying to maintain absolute control over the film.

Maintenance seems to be extremely high and there are spec changes in the United States. It's not that there are absolute shortages of products, but there is a concern about how much there is going to be.

Make sure you are absolutely clear about what kind of place you want. Otherwise, the consumer won't come, and it won't work.

Make sure the bank gives you an absolute commitment.

Lynn Harrell is absolutely one of the greatest cellists on the planet and great figures performing today.

Celso Amorim

made no proposal and then what there was went up in smoke. . . . He circled around the subject and seemed to be opening the door but then made absolutely clear he was not making a proposal.

Eugene Ormandy

Let me explain what I do here. I don't want to confuse you any more than absolutely necessary.

Kofi Annan

Let me be absolutely clear: the United Nations does not want to take over, police or otherwise control the Internet,

We are on track to becoming an absolutely normal company again.

We are only removing those trees that absolutely have to be removed for construction. We are working around some of the older trees.

Alan Autry

We are on it, ... I want people to be absolutely safe in parks. I believe they are.

Jeremy Corbyn

We are one of the richest countries in the world, and there is absolutely no reason why anyone should have to live in poverty.

Hugh Hardy

When I went to India, I became absolutely obsessed with the idea of building a hotel in India. I've never done a hotel, and I'd love to do public spaces in that culture.

This is the absolute truth: and on this truth our tactics must be based. All tactics that are not based on this are false, and lead the proletariat to terrible defeat.

Yaya Han

So many of us, we love these things that come from Japan. We play the video games every day, we read the manga, people watch the cartoons, they absolutely love it.

Yara Shahidi

One thing that used to worry me is the fact that it seemed like Harvard was this big scary thing where I would have to spend all my time studying just to get in. But getting to go to both campuses of Harvard and Oxford and getting to meet some of the professors was absolutely amazing.

Yara Shahidi

At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.

Timothy Noah

The intriguing aspect of food charges on airlines is that they create the perfect laboratory for any economist who wishes to study the question of how to price a good that possesses, by universal consensus, absolutely no objective value.

Health is relative. There is no such thing as an absolute state of health or sickness. Everyone's physical, mental, and emotional condition is a combination of both.

Ian Mckellen

So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?

The great universal literature has always had a tragic relation with freedom. The Greeks renounced absolute freedom and imposed order on chaotic mythology, like a tyrant.

Gale Harold

I'm a bad interview because I want to always feel like I'm being totally honest, but at the same time, I'm absolutely paranoid. That combination results in a lot of spaces.

Garry Hynes

I remember thinking, 'I can't act.' Pretending to be someone else is a terrifying thought. The thing was that, along with other people, I could create a whole world. I felt absolutely right directing.

Gail Carriger

My absolute favorite food of all time is alpaca.

Yotam Ottolenghi

The combination of lentils with rice or bulgur is the absolute height of Levantine comfort food. I could eat it every day.

William Weld

We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

Oh my gosh, if I could be on '30 Rock', my life would be made. That is my favorite show. My absolute favorite show.