Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brendan Gaughan

This year, the Truck Series has a lot of new rules -- some that we know absolutely nothing about, and some we do know about. We have a new right-side window for the first time ever in the truck. Nobody, except for a few teams, went to test Talladega.

Ramsey Clark

This trial can divide or heal. Unless it is seen as absolutely fair, and fair in fact, it will divide rather than reconcile Iraq.

This time we will absolutely not cancel unless he's on a plane.

Joe Perry

This time it wasn't like I had some deadline or any agenda or was even thinking like that. This was an absolutely no-pressure situation, just an at-home project, totally different from any kind of record I've made before.

David Halberstam

We had absolute military superiority but they had absolute political supremacy. That led to a stalemate - and that became the governing issue.

We had absolutely nothing to lose, so we went into it with a mindset of 'Why not?' and things just seemed to come out right in the end.

We had absolutely no life, no energy. They just came out and didn't play. That really surprised me, really disappointed me.

Steve Alford

We had absolutely no issues academically at all. Our five seniors are all on pace to graduate.

Craig Young

We had absolute agreement between our investors and management that putting these two companies together would create a powerhouse in the industry of managed IP services.

We had a boat-load of chances. We missed some absolute sitters, and it cost us in the end. But, the game can be very cruel sometimes like that and we were just on the wrong end of it tonight.

Jacques Rogge

We are speaking of a sporting session in 2009 and it will not have an impact. If Copenhagen wins it will be from membership that is absolutely universal from 70 countries.

We base everything around pitching and defense. We have been doing a good job of catching the ball and keeping the errors to an absolute minimum.

Weather radios are absolutely critical for people to be alerted of tornado warnings, severe weather warnings especially in the over night hours.

We believe it's absolutely unfair and unjust that they just arbitrarily say they won't pay. There could be no question in anyone's view that he is suffering from a disability. We are absolutely confident that we will prevail.

Dick Cheney

We believe it is absolutely essential, ... It would be irresponsible for us not to move forward.

We believe investors are too focused on the relative rate of change instead of respecting and admiring the absolute growth. We believe the market will continue to grow at a double-digit percentage pace.

To think that here we are, 31 years later, and they (now) know absolutely no more about massive hemorrhaging than they did then,

To the customer, it means absolutely nothing. These are teething pains. ... This had nothing to do with the safety and security systems in our subways.

My worst job ever, this was when I was a kid, was picking potatoes on the back of a trailer in March. It was freezing, absolutely freezing. We had to sort the good ones from the bad ones. Once you do that for a day in March in the north of England, it makes you think there must be better jobs than this!

Terry Pratchett

'Nation' was one that I'd have killed myself if I hadn't written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my soul.

Isaac Newton

Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces, which our senses determine by its position to bodies, and which is vulgarly taken for immovable space.

Isaac Newton

It may be that there is no such thing as an equable motion, whereby time may be accurately measured. All motions may be accelerated or retarded, but the true, or equable, progress of absolute time is liable to no change.

Literally every department of state government has gone through, or is in a period of, chaos. Not just fiscal chaos, but certainly as we saw in the Department of Children and Family Services and State Fair Agency and many of Walker's departments, there is absolute chaos.

Imelda Staunton

I never wanted for anything. We went to Ireland for holidays every year. I was 14 when we first went to Italy. My mum was determined I was going to go to a good school. My mum was an absolute grafter. A real grafter. I got my work ethic from her.

Dale Archer

'Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not.

Jose Rizal

The government that governs from afar absolutely requires that the truth and the facts reach its knowledge by every possible channel, so that it may weigh and estimate them better, and this need increases when a country like the Philippines is concerned, where the inhabitants speak and complain in a language unknown to the authorities.

Hans Kung

It is an absolutely unique success of the church community to have introduced such an epoch-making change, in just a few years, without having a serious division.

Fritz Sauckel

The citizen parties, by an absolute majority, elected a National Socialist Government.

Ishmael Beah

Shakespeare is absolutely big in Africa. I guess he's big everywhere. Growing up, Shakespeare was the thing. You'd learn monologues and you'd recite them. And just like hip-hop, it made you feel like you knew how to speak English really well. You had a mastery of the English language to some extent.

Christopher Nolan

The thing with computer-generated imagery is that it's an incredibly powerful tool for making better visual effects. But I believe in an absolute difference between animation and photography.

Christopher Hitchens

I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.

Doris Lessing

When I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires. You know, when people talk about the British Empire, they always forget that all the European countries had empires.

Jane Gardam

When I was young and the empire was beginning to disintegrate, the idea was absolutely unbelievable, particularly to children who'd been taught that the sun never set... that's what all my books are about, the end of empire.