Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Brown

Unbelievable was absolutely my first reaction and my second thought was to my son Christopher, that was a slap in the face,

Barbara Mikulski

We in Maryland are hot. We are absolutely hot about these gas prices,

Len DeLuca

We had the absolute perfect storm of college football. The absolute delight is that the game exceeded expectations. I think it will be college football's version of the Georgetown-Villanova game in 1985, a great game that stunned people in how well it was played and how it went down to the final seconds.

Charles Harper

We want to advance real scientific research, ... Discovery Institute has never done - has never moved forward - any scientific research. On these deep issues, they've done absolutely nothing.

Rich Ballinger

We'll start those tee times at 7:30 in the morning and run them until probably 6 o'clock in the evening. If you want a cart, you will pay the cart fee, but you can walk for absolutely nothing.

Theresa May

What is absolutely clear is that we have, with the U.S., an extradition treaty which is important, I believe it is an important treaty, for both sides, the United States and the United Kingdom. It is a treaty that I believe is balanced and we work on that basis.

Steven Blum

What I'm watching in the last two years is absolutely unprecedented, unexpected and absolutely remarkable.

Sophie Kennedy Clark

What I find relatively funny is that I'm not a model. I'm five foot six and a half; I have absolutely no dream or desire to be a model, I don't live for fashion. But when an opportunity comes your way very early in your career, like Burberry, you do it.

Hans Blix

The country is not a democratic state. Therefore we fear that they might carry a recorder in their pocket or there may be bugs in the walls, and you cannot be absolutely sure that you get a straight testimony.

George Washington

We'll be asking to set aside the Court of Appeals decision.

Surapong Suebwonglee

I know that there is a huge number of silent people in the Thai community who are not satisfied with the protesters.

Tom Hanks

All directors should have to act and all actors should have to direct, so that they can understand all these key things that come into play with whether you can meet your day.

Mike White

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

Charles Figley

I guess in Jacksonville, residents are responding quite differently than South Florida residents because they have not been through a direct hit.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I feel that I don't have to wait around for good scripts anymore, that I can get things moving more quickly. I can ring up directors I like and say I'm keen to work with them, which is pretty great.

Tony Fabrizio

There is a growing, deep-seated discontentment and pessimism about the direction of the country.

Zhang Yimou

I'm very honored to become executive director of the ceremonies.

Chris Culos

We've always been friends before we were even in a band. It's a good-natured feeling, playing together on stage every night. To us, hanging out is playing a show. We can read each other and know each other's moods, and we know the direction we're headed. But we also know nothing is set in stone.

Debby Padgett

Our efforts are coordinated, and we are working toward a fabulous event in 2007. Not only for 2007, but beyond.

Robert H. Schuller

Tough times never last, but tough people do. You might add, "You're tougher than you give yourself credit for."

Denise Levertov

Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it.

Andrae Crouch

Every day, we hear that somebody got saved to our music from all over the world. The music reaches people. It can encourage them. I feel like I have to do it because there's somebody out there who needs to hear the gospel.

Billy Blanks

What I'm teaching as an exercise instructor, my goal is to be able to take all the love off myself to help someone else.

Jean Chretien

To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it.

Jean Giraudoux

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

Hippocrates

Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath.... Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.

Hillary Clinton

I think companies trying to exercise a so-called inversion should be hit with an exit tax. So I want to change behaviors, and I am deeply distressed about quarterly capitalism, because I think it is causing businesses to make decisions that are not helping the long-term profitability of American corporations or the success of our economy.

Hillary Clinton

It was outrageous that [Donald Trump] would be advocating [that] women who exercise their constitutional right and have autonomy over their healthcare decisions would be criminals, along with the doctors that served them. He did try to walk it back - I think pretty unconvincingly.

Hillary Clinton

I would like the Supreme Court to understand that voting rights are still a big problem in many parts of America, that we don't always do everything we can to make it possible for people of color and older people and young people to be able to exercise their franchise.

Hillary Clinton

The right to express one's views, practice one's faith, peacefully assemble with others to pursue political or social change - these are all rights to which all human beings are entitled, whether they choose to exercise them in a city square or an Internet chat room. And just as we have worked together since the last century to secure these rights in the material world, we must work together in this century to secure them in cyberspace.

Hillary Clinton

I had often joked in my speeches that I had imaginary conversations with Mrs. Roosevelt to solicit her advice on a range of subjects. It's actually a useful mental exercise to help analyze problems, provided you choose the right person to visualize. Eleanor Roosevelt was ideal.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Thomas Jefferson

That government that governs least governs best.

Thomas Jefferson

I'd rather have newspapers and no government than government and no newspapers.

Thomas Jefferson

Those who bear equally the burthens of Government should equally participate of its benefits.

Thomas Jefferson

A free government is of all others the most energetic.

Thomas Jefferson

If I had to choose between government and a free press, I would choose a free press.

Thomas Jefferson

Government governed least is government governed best.

Thomas Jefferson

The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.

Thomas Jefferson

Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.