Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Higgs

In 2002, a Scottish journalist, during a dinner meant to be private, absolutely wanted me to react to Stephen Hawking's comments. I said one shouldn't pay too much attention to what Hawking was saying because he was a celebrity but not a specialist of elementary particle theory.

Mary J. Blige

I don't think there's anything they can say about me that I haven't said about myself already. And I would be an absolute total liar, and my fans would not respect me, if I said that my life and my marriage are perfect. But we absolutely love each other; we have fun together - it's great.

Michael Mandelbaum

The great thing about baseball is the causality is easy to determine and it always falls on the shoulders of one person. So there is absolute responsibility. That's why baseball is psychologically the cruelest sport and why it really requires psychological resources to play baseball - because you have to learn to live with failure.

Debby Ryan

Acting and the industry of making movies is beautiful, but it's so exhausting and such hard work; if you don't absolutely 100% want to do something, it defeats the purpose.

Barack Obama

Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.

Barack Obama

What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.

The governor is absolutely in favor of this as a mechanism to get that road built more quickly.

There are also many extra demands placed on the flag-bearer that potentially take away from the preparation (for competition) and which can be a distraction. A number of athletes choose not to take on that added responsibility because they believe their first responsibility is to perform at their absolute maximum.

When you get back to the United States, you're absolutely thrilled to recognize what we have here that we absolutely take for granted, all the way from street lights and street cleaners to being able to pick up a telephone that actually works.

When you hear the title, some people think there's nudity in it. They wonder, 'do the characters pee on stage?' Absolutely not.

When you have four shows on a network, some decisions you're going to agree with and other decisions you're going to violently disagree with. You've heard me violently disagree with other decisions (and) it has absolutely no effect on the decision-making process.

There are all kinds of forms that have to be filled in on the typewriter. I don't know why, but universities are one of the worst for insisting on forms. There is absolutely no sense to it. They insist on putting all the information into a little box.

There are absolutely no price pressures in our system.

There are absolutely no easy games on our schedule this year. We can't have letdowns. All of the teams that we play this year are very good. We have to come to play every single night.

There are absolutely no allegations by anybody, including the young lady, of any sort of inappropriate behavior.

Melinda Gates

There are absolutely lots of teachers who are trying to come into the profession, but they are not attracted enough to say, 'I'm going to switch careers to do it,' or they are often not retained... because the salaries and the compensation aren't there to make it happen.

Bill Guerin

There are absolutely guys who are going to want to get things off of their chest, and that's why we're doing this. We have more than 700 people, and we're not going to agree on everything, so it's good to get together and talk about everything that's happened.

When you look at Josh's numbers, he's done absolutely everything you can possibly do in the Frontier League. He has the background in independent baseball of a number one starter and I'm thrilled to add him to our roster.

Phil Garner

When you go into an organization that's been losing and you try to change the culture, it's a difficult job. It requires absolute faith from ownership. You've got to do some things on the field with your personnel that people don't like. But you've got to do it if you're going to turn it around.

The plan would be to move the team to Halifax. It is a great city and I think they'd go absolutely crazy for their own team.

David Harris

What she does is set extraordinarily high standards for everyone and is absolutely relentless in pursuing those high standards.

We've just decided that transparency is the way to go. President Brodhead thought it very important to think about people on the outside ... people of absolute integrity and genuine leadership.

The Universe is the periodical manifestation of this unknown Absolute Essence.

Carole Bouquet

This new thing about liking yourself, I find that absolutely appalling. Anyone who likes themselves, I just can't go too close to them. To me it's pure stupidity. But having some peace with yourself, that's quite a relief.

Lance Armstrong

While I'm absolutely enjoying my time as a retired athlete with Sheryl and the kids, the recent smear campaign out of France has awoken my competitive side. I'm not willing to put a percentage on the chances, but I will no longer rule it out.

With the amount of injuries we've had these last two weeks it's been an absolute blessing to have 13 players on the roster.

Martin Freeman

With superheroes and comics and fantasy and sci-fi being absolutely the popular currency in cinema, it's like people have said in endless magazines, it's the revenge of the geeks and all that. There's some truth in that.

With so much of the final text for the Council still in dispute, it is absolutely vital that the Caucus' leaders weigh in now and insist on a new and improved human rights body.

Albert Finney

Within two weeks of working with her, I realized how good she was for the role because she was absolutely with it and she has got terrific instincts, I think, as an artist, too.

Michael Howard

We have made it absolutely clear. We think 28 days is the absolute limit of what should be permitted.

We have made it absolutely clear that 28 days is the absolute limit of what should be permitted while there's no evidence that someone been involved in terrorist activity.

When we surveyed students about their interests and needs, they expressed a lot of support for the upcoming changes, but the educational climate we have is very important to them. We absolutely need to retain our commitment to providing a small-college experience. I don't pretend to say this won't be challenging, though.

Tessa Jowell

We will have some of the most inspiring and visionary facilities in the world and making sure they are delivered successfully is an absolutely key task.