Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sam Shepard

I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers who seem to be writing out of a desperate act. It's like their writing is part of a survival kit. Those are the writers that I just absolutely cherish and carry with me everywhere I go.

Allan McNish

My motto is to do everything absolutely flat out and to the best of your ability.

Alice Oswald

I try not to invent; I try simply to translate the weird language of the natural world. And I'm not into absolute ownership of things.

There absolutely will never be a situation like this again.

John Gray

There absolutely was a commitment and still is a commitment to save this collection. There absolutely was a commitment and there is a commitment to save this building.

There absolutely can't be any Triple-A rotation that's better, not with the way these guys are pitching now.

There is at this time no indication of any risk to the general public. People who are coughing but don't have exposure to unprocessed animal hides have absolutely no reason to be concerned.

There is a tremendous amount of detail to be looked after, and of course, that's why we have the experts to help us do the design but we really want the lay people, if you will, to look at it from a fan experience. It absolutely makes a difference to sit in the seats, sit shoulder to shoulder.

Charles Hazlewood

There is a terrible conservatism, like a cancer, right in the heartlands of music-making, a tremendous resistance to change, an absolute horror of the idea that more people might connect with music. That infuriates me more than I can say.

There is a supposition here that this involved Mexican citizens, and that is absolutely incorrect. There would have to have been racial descriptions, and that would imply a certain element of racial discrimination on the part of the American sheriffs.

Wal-Mart is absolutely and unequivocally committed not to engage in branch banking.

Christopher Stanley

I got a job as a series regular on a television show when I was in my 20s. It didn't get picked up. It only went for 13 or 15 episodes, but it was huge. It was just absolutely huge, and it made me put money in the bank, and I didn't have to worry about bills.

Walter Kirn

The Bible has been through millions of rounds of exegesis and interpretation, but it hasn't been until quite recently that it's been taken as the absolute truth, to the point where people expect it to inform ideas about biology and life on this planet.

Trey Anastasio

What I thought at the moment was the worst thing that could happen was absolutely the biggest gift I've received.

Dennis C. Blair

I like to think I would not have approved those methods in the past, but I do not fault those who made the decisions at that time, and I will absolutely defend those who carried out the interrogations within the orders they were given.

Catherine Tate

I used to go red when anybody spoke to me. It's awful because you absolutely cannot control it. If you are a child that blushes, or is shy, the one thing you want in the world is to be the child who comes in and says, 'Hi,' to everyone and goes up and makes friends.

Craig Venter

People think genes are an absolute cause of traits. But the notion that the genome is the blueprint for humanity is a very bad metaphor. If you think we're hard-wired and deterministic, there should indeed be a lot more genes.

Craig Venter

I am absolutely certain that life can exist in outer space, move around, find a new aqueous environment.

Curtis Stone

You've got to set yourself up to be as healthy as you can. The thing we tend to do is when it gets to be a bit too hard, we actually opt out for the absolute worst option. For example, if you're in a rush in a morning and you feel like you don't have time to make breakfast, you skip it.

I absolutely think women's perspectives should be considered in making economic decisions.

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.

Mike Nichols

There are absolutely almost perfect people who experience no guilt; they don't know what it is. They simply do what they need to do - or want to do - next. They see nothing wrong with it. They feel no guilt. They express no guilt. And it's not even certain what harm they do.