Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Hall

They're 16- and 17-year-old kids. We played really, really hard. Was it our best performance? Absolutely not. But you know what, things happen. We'll face far worst crises in our lives than losing a basketball game.

And I have to say I knew when I first saw him that was the absolute end.

A lot of coaches are missing the boat on Anna. Whatever coach gives her a chance is going to be absolutely happy.

All of his desires to assist in the criminal case are absolutely irrelevant.

A luxury home has to be immaculate, absolutely spotless.

Although the deal is not totally done, we like the way it's coming together. And we like even more the potential for the event. We think the community support in Fresno and throughout the San Joaquin Valley is going to be absolutely tremendous.

James Salter

Although I've made notes for things and even written synopses sitting in trains or on park benches, for the complete composition of things I need absolute solitude, preferably an empty house.

A lot of people have asked about my year, so I've had to reflect;ÊWhat really has happened here? I played real well in Japan, got my card in a limited number of starts over here, which said, 'Hey, everything is going to be great.' Then I did the dreaded, 'Hey, I'm going to change my swing.' To be honest, I absolutely struggled for three years there. I didn't wake up even wanting to play golf. I finally decided that what I was doing before was pretty good. It took awhile to get back to that.

Bill Nelson

Almost all of the Gulf of Mexico off of the state of Florida is restricted airspace; it's where we train our military, ... The ace up my sleeve is, at this time in our nation's history, you don't want to fool around with training our military to be the absolute best - and you can't be doing those joint exercises if you've got oil rigs down there on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico.

David Bergen

A mentor, a 'teacher,' is like an editor. I absolutely value my editor, who is my teacher.

Amelie is a very, very hard player to beat and even if Fabrice loses his singles matches, there is absolutely no doubt he is the best doubles player in the tournament,

Tim Roth

Americans have bought lock, stock, and barrel the Jeremy Irons-Kenneth Branagh England. And it's fake. It's an absolute con. Merchant Ivory? Bollocks.

Hugh Jackman

Americans are the most generous country on the planet, ... I've worked in Europe, I've worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a foreigner. If you do your job well, they embrace you.

A man who does not respect his own mother is absolutely no good.

Paula Abdul

American Idol. When we had auditions here they were absolutely fantastic, great stories, great characters. We had one 24- or 25-year-old guy who was prematurely gray and sang the standards -- Perry Como, Frank Sinatra -- a total Vegas guy.

Paul Haggis

They managed the campaign very well, getting the DVDs into the hands of the viewers, believing that the picture would sell itself. I thought that we had absolutely no shot at the Oscar, though I hoped that some of the actors would be remembered.

Pat Riley

They played an absolutely great game. They did what they had to do defensively. It didn't help us that Shaquille got in foul trouble. Any time he gets in foul trouble and has to sit down, it sets us and him back.

David Moore

They pay a premium to get an American college degree. It's an absolute growth area, and new proposals and opportunities are coming to us every day.

The young boy is so traumatized, he has absolutely no clue what's going on, and I don't even know where to begin to tell him what's going on,

Jim Bunning

They never take the step that you need to take to let people know that this is absolutely unacceptable, and that's to throw them out for life.

They need to figure out where the people who work in the restaurants and the kitchens and cleaning restrooms are going to live. People who have low-paying jobs are absolutely essential to the economy of New Orleans, and they won't be able to chase them away and rebuild the economy.

Lee Harvey Oswald

They have found absolutely nothing to connect us with the Communist Party of the United States. In regards to your question about whether I myself am a communist, as I said I do not belong to any other organization.

They have been working on it for the past nine months and I have been absolutely thrilled by the stuff they have been producing together.

Ali absolutely worshiped Ray. Still does. Usually, the greatest fall from grace is by fighters. People tend to avoid ex-fighters. They feel they took one too many. Randy Turpin once asked Ray, 'What's worse, being a has-been or a never-was?' Then Randy committed suicide. But the people never forgot Ray. He felt God had made him a boxer for that reason. So he would not be forgotten. So he could help.

The model a lot of companies use is a very pyramidal model which sort of designates that all creativity, all wisdom flows from the top. We think that's the absolute wrong model.

Darryl Sutter

You're talking about a boy that just turned 21. When you're 21 and playing in that element and in a position that next to the goalie is absolutely the toughest on the ice, it's not easy.

You're seeing the very first, absolutely identified comet particle that has ever been seen.

Andy Roddick

You're right on as far as that one. Backhands, I didn't hit it well. You're absolutely correct.

Tiger Woods

Zero, absolutely zero. I'm here to try to get ready to win this tournament, and hopefully come out of this week positively so I'll be in good standing going into the U.S. Open.

you've really got an auto-centric mentality among the bureaucratic elite. They've got absolutely no conception of the role that rail plays. ... All they're trying to do is to destroy the company and not have their fingerprints on it.

Jean Stafford

You say that you hope I will be recognized as the best novelist of my generation. I want you to know now and know completely that that would mean to me absolutely nothing.

Your support of the president and his missions and what he is doing is absolutely vital for the next 25 weeks,

Michael Howard

You simply cannot be in that shooting environment and not get blood on you. Several labs did extremely thorough examinations of Sarah Johnson's clothes and the reports indicated absolutely no blood.