Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Paul Auster

People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and another person will say it's absolutely idiotic. I mean, there's no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.

Patti Smith

I don't stay in one discipline because it's more lucrative than another. In fact, the most successful thing I ever did was 'Just Kids,' for which I had absolutely no expectations.

Reese Witherspoon

I worry about my kids growing up and how the world might hurt them. But at the same time, I absolutely do not worry about them growing up - because they have great values and a great sense of self.

I know that there are people who believe that if they get to the stage where life is absolutely intolerable because of pain and indignity... they would like to end their life before nature intended, and we think they should have the choice to do so.

Phil Anselmo

It was awesome growing up in New Orleans because there were great metal bands, there were great hardcore bands, there were great thrash metal bands in the middle '80s and what-not. But then, take me out of New Orleans, and I moved to Fort Worth in 1987, and there's a scene there, too. And Texas absolutely has a different sound.

Time is of the absolute essence if we are to restore the public's trust.

Ticket sales have been absolutely amazing.. we've sold over 1.3 million tickets more than any other commonwealth games by a long long way.

E. B. White

To win the best on ground in a winning grand final is absolutely unbelievable.

To win it is absolutely unbelievable. All next year I will be introduced as the world champion and in everything after that, I'll be the former world champion.

Sathya Baba

True humanness consists of a continuous series of tiny acts executed with absolute sincerity and largeness of heart.

Troy's remarkable vision, understanding of the game and penchant for hard work were evident since day one, ... He has already blossomed into an outstanding announcer and I'm looking forward to the work that he and Joe Buck produce with the added room that a two-man booth provides. I know they will form the absolute best NFL broadcast team in the business.

Guillermo Coria

tried mimicking me right from the start. It was a distraction. Their captain, who has been mouthing off all about sportsmanship, is talking to the (chair umpire) on every second point of my serve. That's not sportsmanship ... that's absolute rubbish.

Trevor's a (state) runner-up, so we're real excited the way he's wrestling. But we're astounded at the way Dan Norton is wrestling. He's absolutely outstanding. ... He didn't place at all in districts last year and to become the big second in districts behind Trevor, the No. 1 seed, that's really exciting.

Year-after-year growth is what makes a company worth more, not one-time synergies that undermine potential growth. So we are baffled by their statements and their actions and absolutely do not consider our offer in any way opportunistic.

Kimberley Nixon

When I first started out, I absolutely begged my agent to get me a Poirot audition, and my wish came true - I did a Poirot! I need to do a Marple to round it off.

Jerry Hall

When I first met Mick he wore jeans and those Seventies ribbed, tight T-shirts, and I absolutely loved that look. Nobody looks better in jeans than Mick because he's got this amazing body with a very slim, long waist and a bit V-shaped chest and I thought that was just the cutest. That's when I fell in love with him. Then in the Eighties he started wearing trousers and badly cut tweed suits, big shirts in orange and brown. Ugh! Clothes that he wore for about 20 years. But now he's started wearing jeans again and he looks great I saw him the other day and I thought, 'thank God'.

When I first got into the record business I learned that it wasn't cool to be into the Grateful Dead. But if you look at where the music business has been forced to go by technology, now it's not about selling records. It's about live shows and inspiring a fan base to be absolutely loyal.

We know this is an absolutely critical period for children's development -- for their intellectual development, their social development, their physical development. But we need to make sure the media that they are using are not only not harming that development, but are actually enhancing it.

We know these are very strong medicines. You'd want to be absolutely sure the child needs it.

Al Gore

We've been given absolute assurances that they won't move into Kosovo,

Hans Jonas

Only a completely unintelligible God can be said to be absolutely good and absolutely powerful yet tolerate the world as it is.

Hillary Scott

I absolutely love the fact that they are looking out for me and it's not really even just Charles and Dave. Out on the road, I'm one of very few girls out here. There's a lot of pseudo big brothers who are keeping an eye out on me.

I was battling absolutely as hard as I could. A pitcher would rather have a rocket hit off him than have someone stand up there and keep fouling off pitches. That's frustrating for a pitcher. He thinks this is the pitch and you foul it off. I know as a catcher I got frustrated. ... I think it was a great opportunity for a hit, a walk, anything. Once I was three, four minutes into the at bat, I'm thinking 'I have to get on base some way.

I was most happy to see us play with great effort and great passion, ... Sure, absolutely (last year was on our minds). We're determined to prove some things this year. Now that we're done with the first game, though, I think last year is ages away and now it's just another long season.

I was much happier with our performance today and we're getting very close to the title. I think we need 11 points from our last two games to be absolutely sure and I'd be disappointed if we couldn't manage that.

I would like the innuendo to stop. I?m quite confident they?re going to find absolutely nothing involving my clients.

I would absolutely not support this if I thought it was just an in-your-face thing against the labels,

I would absolutely love to work with this woman.

Marlee Matlin

I would absolutely love it if you didn't have to ever change the batteries. I am so cautious about that, I even keep batteries with me all the time.

Paul DePodesta

I would absolutely have interest in re-signing each guy.

Matt McGorry

My character on 'Orange is the New Black' is not one that requires being absolutely shredded with 5% body fat. But I wouldn't be opposed to doing that for a role one day.