Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robin Cook

We had no contact with the Spanish government before he came or before he was arrested, ... There was absolutely no entrapment in this case.

Jim Calhoun

When we're executing and blocking shots and playing defense and you don't get us in a situation where we have to create plays, we're absolutely terrific. But we're a flawed team.

Where democracy has been lost, people take things into their own hands. I'm not suggesting major public disobedience is where this is going, but I can tell you that people are very, very angry and they're not going to stop, absolutely not going to stop.

Mike Nichols

There are absolutely almost perfect people who experience no guilt; they don't know what it is. They simply do what they need to do - or want to do - next. They see nothing wrong with it. They feel no guilt. They express no guilt. And it's not even certain what harm they do.

Mickey Rooney

Sometimes the transition from being in control of your life to having absolutely no control is swift, but other times it is so gradual that you wonder exactly when it truly began.

It absolutely helped - to write the father in both 'Juicy' and 'Beasts,' I had to see the whole story from his point of view. All of a sudden I understood more of what my own father must be going through - the fear, the frustration, the anger... the hope that he'll leave a legacy.

Calvin Klein

AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap.

Camille Paglia

I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.

Camille Paglia

Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.

Chris Squire

I've had to replace parts in the basses when they've gotten old or worn out, so everything isn't absolutely original.

R. Buckminster Fuller

One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.

Cynthia Ozick

I'm a fiction writer, and I do write essays, but I am not a poet. And I absolutely reject the phrase 'woman writer' as anti-feminist. I wrote an essay about this as far back as 1977, at the height of the neo-feminist movement.

Dwayne Johnson

I absolutely believed when I was young because the Tooth Fairy was always good to me. The Tooth Fairy generally left me a dollar or two dollars and, as a kid, that was a lot of money.

Duane Michals

There are those photographers who have made a whole career doing commercial work but have never had a museum show, and then there are others who've only had museum shows but couldn't survive for five seconds in the real world of photography. But I've done absolutely everything.

Dwight Schultz

The time between appearances for us is so great that we lose track of it. It would be like watching 'Ben Hur' at one frame a second. There would be long periods of time where absolutely nothing was going on.

Paul Haggis

All my work is partly biographical. I mean, 'Crash' was absolutely that, absolutely. But you just wouldn't recognize me in most of those characters. But I was in every single one of those characters in 'Crash,' because those were all fears that I had felt. Things that I had thought in my deepest, darkest heart.

Patricia Hewitt

Barbara Castle should have been Labour's - and Britain's - first female prime minister. What a role model she would have been: passionate, fiery, and absolutely committed to social justice.

Norman Foster

You can find, occasionally, some absolutely fantastic things in hunting shops. I've got one jacket that I just happened across which is a kind of unwashed leather - completely anonymous but absolutely special.

We played well in overtime, but couldn't get the score with Pacelli attacking the ball. His (Andrew Gross) two finishes were absolutely great.

Ron Wilson

We had some guys were probably already sitting on the plane ready to go home and that's not what we needed in a game like this. Now we've got to find a way to get back points we absolutely need.

This school has given me absolutely everything that a college experience should be.

This says so much about the City of Pittsburgh and their support of their sports teams. You have a group of people who absolutely love this team.

Jeanine Pirro

Was it my best day? Absolutely not! ... Am I better than that? Absolutely not.

Joe Torre

Tom Gordon, God love him. He has been terrific. He has come in with absolutely no room and has been spectacular.

Norv Turner

Yeah, I'm absolutely concerned about the penalties. I don't know if you get different officiating in the preseason and the regular season. But what we'll do is look at every one of them, and coach them.

John Thain

We are looking at the hours that the exchange opens, among other things we are looking at, and we haven't decided anything specific. There is absolutely nothing new in this.

We're at one of those inflection points where we have to be disciplined about where we continue to invest. We try to plan for the worst and hope for the best. We absolutely expect to grow and build our business, but at the same time, it's only prudent to wait for some indication that the market dynamic will start to change.

Fay Wray

That was' one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover his own ugliness. I was in his clutches and I had to hit him in the face.

Gloria Steinem

Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful.

Sam Shepard

I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers who seem to be writing out of a desperate act. It's like their writing is part of a survival kit. Those are the writers that I just absolutely cherish and carry with me everywhere I go.

Allan McNish

My motto is to do everything absolutely flat out and to the best of your ability.

There absolutely will never be a situation like this again.

John Gray

There absolutely was a commitment and still is a commitment to save this collection. There absolutely was a commitment and there is a commitment to save this building.