Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aretha Franklin

A fellow Detroiter, Wilson Pickett was one of the greatest soul singers of all time. He will absolutely be missed. I am thankful that I got the chance to speak to him not too long ago.

Ramsey Clark

A fair trial in this case is absolutely imperative for historical truth.

William Cowper

A firm persuasion of the superintendence of Providence over all our concerns is absolutely necessary to our happiness.

The one thing over which you have absolute control is your own thoughts. It is this that puts you in a position to control your own destiny.

The one assurance I've been able to give him is that we have seen absolutely no evidence and we have absolutely no other information to suggest there was betting on hockey or that the integrity of the game was compromised in any way.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, or preventing all possibility of its continuing as a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

The oil sands potential up there is absolutely enormous,

After 19 treatments, finding out I was pregnant, I was in absolute shock. I did three tests because I couldn't believe it.

Tedy Bruschi

After I was able to complete workouts and run the conditioning workouts over and over again, I knew this was going to happen, ... I'm not going to jump into something without being absolutely 100 percent positive. And I am.

After good dialogue with members of the executive board, I decided that it was in the best interests of the membership to conduct a secret ballot vote amongst our player representatives and executive officers so that there are absolutely no questions regarding my election as executive director and general counsel.

Marty Schottenheimer

The most remarkable thing of this whole football game, and I've been doing this a long time, I cannot remember the last time that I coached a game in the NFL when there was only one penalty. That was absolutely remarkable and unfortunately we had the one. But we'll get that worked out.

Bronson Arroyo

The most promising thing (about the trade) is I won?t have to worry about going to the bullpen . . . unless I?m absolutely horrible.

The most important thing you can get on these guys is their accurate height, weight and time (in the 40-yard dash). That information is absolutely critical.

Gary Roberts

The most important part of your trade is your skates, ... If you're skates don't feel good then you're in absolute trouble.

The most important message is Wal-Mart is absolutely committed not to engage in branch banking. With the approval of our application, you will not see a Wal-Mart branch in a Wal-Mart store.

Adam Derbyshire was absolutely sensational and we tried six blokes back there on him today.

Jim Balsillie

Actual shipments and replacements and sales and software is absolutely staying perfect, really.

A couple of things were shored up. They absolutely dominated us defensively. They were playing hard on that end of the floor. They dictated the tempo.

Strip away everything that is not absolutely essential to your focus. At the start of almost every interview, the interviewer will ask, 'what do you do?' Go directly into your focus.

Stephen Graham Jones

Stories need stupid decisions that, at the time, seem absolutely rational and necessary. Without stupid decisions, the world isn't thrown out of balance, and so there's no need for a 'rest of the story' to balance it back.

Simon Schama

St. Paul was making it impossible to be Jewish and Christian at the same time. What is very striking about those early churches and communities is that you could be both. Under Paul, though, you absolutely couldn't.

Brendan Shanahan

Some people told me that, with the lock-out, this was the wrong time to do something like this. I thought it was absolutely the right time - even the only time - to do it.

Sovereignty is no longer an absolute value. We can see that more than 12 foreign states have put our territory under surveillance. So, efforts to guard the unity of this state are a must,

So they don't injure their voices. Basically, screaming is a part of a new up-and-coming generation of real-life rock 'n' rollers where passion and sincerity and reality is absolutely necessary and required. I don't want to see them damage their vocal cords.

Sources close to Heather say that she is absolutely shocked by the relationship because she didn't find out about it until everybody else found out about it.

Sounds like what we've got tonight is a little bit of Hilton Magic (here tonight). I can tell you that I am absolutely delighted at the outcome.

Sven Goran

Sometimes I feel you should not say too much about a young player, but he is absolutely incredible.

Oscar Wilde

One can only give an unbiased opinion about things that do not interest one, which is no doubt the reason an unbiased opinion is always valueless. The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.

Now he never said, 'Make it up,' ... But the entire conversation left me in absolutely no doubt that George Bush wanted me to come back with a report that said Iraq did this.

Now is absolutely the worst time for an optical IPO to come to market.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education --if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon --all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness.

Billie Burke

No woman has less temptation to seek matrimony from sordid motives of selfishness or convenience. The actress is an absolutely independent wage-earner, and better compensated than the great majority of women who make their own livelihoods. She need not marry for money, or social position, for these are her natural possessions.

Once we achieve the practice facility, this place will be absolutely world class.