Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Morris

The protests have absolutely nothing to do with the show. There's no question that the people who are trying to promote extreme religious agendas scan the media for opportunities to make a fuss. No one who saw the show objected to it on Christian grounds - when we were developing it there was no controversy at all. What happened is that when it was going to go on telly they thought, 'If we make a fuss by demonstrating outside the BBC then we can get lots of media coverage.' It's very confusing because it means people go to see it with the wrong expectations.

Molly is a fierce competitor who absolutely hates to lose.

Mr Moore has come in and he is absolutely everything I wanted. He is cool, calm and collected and he scored two great goals tonight. He is poised on the puck, a good goal scorer, has a great shot, and is going to be a great addition to this hockey club.

Anne Frank

Mrs. Van Daan's grizzling is absolutely unbearable; now she can't any longer drive us crazy over the invasion, she nags us the whole day long about the bad weather. It really would be nice to dump her in a bucket of cold water and put her up in the loft.

Mr. Schulman absolutely denies he was involved in any kickback scheme and that any referral fees involved in his cases were 100 percent legitimate.

Most women have had the experience of being in a group of men, saying something absolutely profound, and getting no response at all, only to hear one of the men say the same thing a few minutes later and be immediately acknowledged as brilliant. The woman (who has been made invisible or nonexistent) starts to wonder what she did wrong, or what is wrong with her, and she says little or nothing from that point on (which may be the expected, hoped-for response).

Max is absolutely livid that these companies have not followed through with their promises. We have been assured by the host committee that folks are going to get paid.

Max is absolutely livid about this. The administration screwed up royally ... The Federal Highway Administration were advisers to Max on this language and they approved it. They approved it and said the language was fine and now they are changing their tune.

Maurice Abravanel adored her. She was absolutely as important as Abravanel was to the musical life here in the early days. There was no one really quite like her.

Sarah Brown

Media absolutely is important, but let's not pretend it's the only thing.

Michael Hirst

My instinct is to absolutely recoil when talking about writing in a mechanistic way. Nothing could be dumber than writing a film or TV script based on prescriptions, on other peoples' ideas of what character should be.

Anita Baker

My kids' eyes always light up -- 'Why are these people screaming over my mother?' ... People around Detroit have made me cry, just walking up to me in the supermarket to say, 'It's good to have you back.' It's been beautiful. Just absolutely beautiful.

John Tortorella

My little tirade, that doesn't help, absolutely not. That's a bad coaching reaction. That doesn't help the hockey team right now. I have my feelings, but it does not have to be presented that way at this point with this team.

Cherie Blair

My foundation is absolutely about the women we work with, and they are contributing every day to their families, to their communities, and to the economy of their countries. All we are doing is enabling them to be the best that they can be.

Maeve Binchy

Nobody ever wins by the cavalry coming to rescue you. It isn't a question of you're happy if you get married, or you get thin, or you get rich, because I've known lots of thin, rich, married people who are absolutely miserable.

One of our focal points going into the game was the boards against Brisbane and to stay competitive. And I thought Benny Knight was absolutely outstanding with 16 boards - I can't remember him playing a better game than that for us.

One kid at the table tossed it back. It was absolutely nowhere near Terrence Johnson.

Oscar Wilde

One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.

One of the benefits of using omega-3 supplements is that you not only get the benefits of fish oil, there's absolutely no lead or mercury because that stuff is filtered out. So you never have to worry about lead or mercury if you're a pregnant mom.

Bud Selig

One of my priorities -- one of the game's priorities -- is the internationalization of baseball. We're doing everything we can to move the sport in an international direction. I think it's going to be absolutely spectacular.

Nicholas Kristof

One of my frustrations is that we in society generally have this bifurcation in how we see the world. That's probably a little less true with business audiences, but in general, there tends to be this view that for-profit companies are greedy, and nonprofits are noble. It's absolutely more complicated than that.

Lindsay Davenport

Obviously, you never know when a career is going come to an end, ... I have no absolute, no plans to stop. If I said on court as long as I am playing and in contention for titles and not injured, I am going to be back, I absolutely believe that.

Tatiana Golovin

Of course I am disappointed, I was so close. Kim was absolutely solid at decisive points and was playing very aggressive throughout.

Mark Recchi

None of us would have any idea about something like this, no, absolutely not. I was just as surprised as everybody else was and, you know, I think it was shock throughout the whole league, really.

Mark Recchi

None of us would have any idea about something like this, no, absolutely not.

David Kennerly

No one ever saw it from that point of view. Jerry says Michael works with the intensity of a bomb squad. That's absolutely true.

Robin Lee

No one, absolutely no one, can understand what is going in the Oppong camp.

One word - dismal. There's nothing else to be said but absolutely dismal.

My entire family is in Mississippi. My dad has managed to call me twice, just long enough to tell me that they have lost everything - absolutely everything. One of my brothers called me and said, 'We are barely surviving - can you help?' I had been watching the destruction on television in disbelief, and that phone call was enough for me. I cannot sit idly by while these people, especially my loved ones, have nothing. I felt guilty that night taking a shower...these people don't even have a place to rest their head.

Martin Clunes

Mum worked as a secretary for Orson Welles for what sounded like a very miserable year. Her brother was the actor Jeremy Brett, who became famous for playing Sherlock Holmes. He was an absolutely lovely man. Very exciting and glamorous, he'd always make me feel amazing and full of confidence, like I'd picked the right thing to do in life.

Joan Kirner

Mum was an absolutely determined woman. She was determined I would have a good education, and they went without all sorts of things to ensure it.

Mum was absolutely devastated with the photos of Dad. We have all been very protective of him and we didn't want anyone to see him like that.

Oscar Wilde

Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.