Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Calhoun

Bobby Jones looks to me like a guy who can make a living in the NBA just playing defense. He's an absolutely magical player defensively.

Bill Paxton was absolutely wonderful. He knows how to talk to other actors as a director because he's an actor himself.

Billie Holiday really sang what she had to say in her own way. That's one of the things that was so impressive about her; she was a survivor, and had an absolutely brilliant, innovative concept of her own.

Biotech has been absolutely spectacular this year. A lot of the investors that are looking for high-growth stories really started to move into biotech in late '99 and early 2000. Despite the shakeout in April, there's still a lot of interest in the sector.

Biotech has been absolutely spectacular this year, ... A lot of the investors that are looking for high-growth stories really started to move into biotech in late '99 and early 2000. Despite the shakeout in April, there's still a lot of interest in the sector.

Big Shane has worked hard this summer and you can see so much improvement in the way he moves. He's done some good things in camp and learned the offense, and we're sort of just looking for him to take that next step to where he can be a major contributor for us. He'll absolutely get on the field.

Everybody did his job. The pit stops were absolutely incredible. When they interviewed me on TV (late in the race), I told them that we had the best car and the best driver and he was in first. Why would I be nervous?

Everyone we've talked with had absolutely no success getting police interested, even for amounts as high as $50,000.

Every operating division achieved strong volume growth and increased operating profits both absolutely and as a percent to sales, ... It is especially encouraging to see dollar operating profits rise strongly even in Latin America and Europe despite currency pressures.

Marcus Samuelsson

Every day, whether I am teaching or entertaining - I absolutely love bringing different people and cultures together.

Jack Straw

Every enlargement that has taken place within the European Union has made both the existing and the new member states stronger and more prosperous, ... I'm in absolutely no doubt that the benefits will follow from this enlargement and bring a strong secular state which happens to have a Muslim majority into the European Union.

Based on our investigation thus far, there is absolutely nothing suspicious about this.

As the man got on the train I looked at his face. He looked from left to right, but he basically looked like a cornered rabbit, like a cornered fox. He looked absolutely petrified,

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.

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.

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.