Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Hewson

I was just absolutely exhausted. The media said I've been treated for a nervous breakdown. All that stuff I just took as people taking the opportunity when you're down to give you a kick.

Dave Ullman

Key West is the absolute best place to sail. I try not to ever miss this regatta.

Paul Azinger

Jack absolutely has to have this. Even if he pars here, he needs to finish birdie-birdie-birdie to make the cut. If he misses, there's no chance.

Michael Pagano

I would say that getting hybrid in place, up and running, is the absolute most important thing they have to do. If they don't get hybrid right, all their competitors can come and pick them off.

Gene Lamont

I would say now it's next to impossible for us to make the playoffs. Even if we won the rest of our games, everything would have to fall absolutely perfect with Buffalo and Rochester for us to have a prayer.

Brian Boland

I would say that Notre Dame is a top-10, top-15 team. It's a strong club and they're only going to get better. VCU is another underrated club. They're as good as anybody we've played this year. We had an absolutely grueling match with them.

Jacques Gansler

I would say we didn't get the data we had hoped to have, ... The question of whether it's an absolute need or not is one that the secretary (of defense) and the president will be deciding.

Roberto Cavalli

Kate looks absolutely fantastic. She is confident and stylish, and she works well with the Cavalli look. She is back working and doing what she does best and, like usual, she was really professional.

Stuart Higgins

Kate has made it absolutely clear all along that she will cooperate with any police investigation when the necessary arrangements can be made.

Joel Siegel

His Texas accent doesn't come closer than Perth Amboy.

Brian Crozier

He looked at me in the eyes and said, 'If you'll forgive my accent -- Where I come from, you are Public Enemy No. 1.'

Robert Carlyle

I must have been dreaming about Albie. I spoke in a Liverpool accent all the time. It becomes second nature. It's much easier like that. It seems to me common sense rather than extraordinary.

Kevin McKidd

I live in L.A. so I worry my kids aren't that connected to Britain, I suppose I don't want them to become American kids. We try to get back three or four times a year. When they go to school they speak with a British-American accent but when they come home to us they go back to their British accent.

Bill Clement

I have to be journalistically appropriate and voice my opinion if something happens, but I want to do my best to accentuate the positives of the sport.

Mark Twain

I have traveled more than any one else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent

Rex Reed

I had some problems with his accent it was like he was talking with two fingers on his tongue. But he got that thing Truman did with his eye right. He was always rubbing it. So I guess it was pretty close.

Salma Hayek

I grew up in Mexico, not the U.S., and the fact is that there just aren't any parts for Latin actresses. I have to persuade people that my accent won't be a problem, but an asset.

Andie MacDowell

In 1984, I starred in 'Greystoke: The Legend Of Tarzan,' my first movie. My lines ended up being dubbed by Glenn Close, supposedly because my accent was 'too southern'. It was completely humiliating at the time. I became a laughing stock. I'm amazed that I managed to pick myself up and dust myself off.

Mike Sutton

There are no perfect fisheries that I know of­ we want to certify the good fisheries and make them better, so others will aspire to emulate them.

Gene Upshaw

He meant as much to us off the field as on it. He had his name on the lawsuit (for free agency) and didn't get one penny. That's the type of guy he is. His character, his integrity was everything any NFL player should aspire to be.

Towny Anderson

It has to be on the fast track. It can't be everything that we aspire it to be.

M. Wolfe

These industries are interdependent but very separate. It's very tough for technology companies to become media companies, even though they aspire to become so. And media companies are not about technology. They are at the two ends of the spectrum--they are coming together on one side but are still very separate.

Mirra Alfassa

Daily we must aspire to conquer all mistakes, all obscurities, and all ignorance.

Najib Razak

As a leader of a majority-Muslim nation, I believe Islamic countries must better understand what young people aspire to.

Joel Kinnaman

For somebody in my neighborhood to aspire or revere a person from the upper class, that is the most ugly and pathetic behavior you could exhibit.

Sathya Baba

Aspire to live in peace, not in plenty.

Sorin Cerin

The soul mate is what we aspire to and like to understand about us, is what we deem to be perfection, purity and endless regarding our own being.

Brian Mulroney

He certainly made an important mark on Canadian journalism.

Ryan Gosling

I don't feel like I would be a good mentor. I don't know what I have to offer in that respect. I do this for pretty selfish reasons.

David Bolland

I could see them sort of lay back a little bit. They were sort of like, 'Holy ... what's going on here?' It's a Canadian game we want to play. We want to make sure everyone knows that we're coming out hitting.

Patricia Ross

I am concerned about the U.S. energy industry taking over our Canadian natural resources. We should be holding onto them more tightly.

Al Leiter

Having faced a lot of these Canadian hitters, I certainly didn't think of them as patsies.

Steve Butler

Rising commodities prices definitely contributed to the fortune of the Canadian dollar today. Commodities have been a positive factor for the Canadian dollar in 2005 and the market expects good news to continue this year.

Stephen Harper

If the Liberals are re-elected, this is what Canadians can look forward to, a government pre-occupied with ongoing scandals, corruption and police investigations.

Boris Schlossberg

If you have a continuation of gains in commodities prices, the Canadian dollar will rise. There is some positive momentum going on for the Canadian dollar.

Mark Burnett

If you look at that situation, it certainly bodes well for the future of getting a Canadian on Survivor. Tell Canadians to submit more tapes.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege to itself.

Sarah Palin

I had the privilege of living most of my life in a small town.

Tori Amos

Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually.

Margaret Deland

... when personal happiness conflicts with any great human ideal, the right to claim such happiness is as nothing compared to the privilege of resigning it.

Ani Difranco

Privilege is a headache, that you don't know that you don't have.

Dean Heller

Serving in the United States Senate has been the greatest privilege of my life.

Ali Partovi

Coding is a privilege, but that privilege is not available to most Americans.

Thomas Starr King

What a privilege it is to be an American!

Rick Santorum

A lesbian woman came up to me and said, ‘why are you denying me my right?’ I said, ‘well, because it’s not a right.’ It’s a privilege that society recognizes because society sees intrinsic value to that relationship over any other relationship.

Jason Wu

The Taiwanese are big on tea. I think it's nice to slow down a bit. It's very much a custom.

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Susumu Tonegawa

It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

Deirdre O'Kane

You worry about whether you are match-fit, coming back to the stand-up stage.

F. Schumacher

That has to be our target. Whether it's realistic, we'll find out in Bahrain.

Sabrina Davis

I want everyone to get their say, whether they say yes or no.

Lucy Hawking

I wonder whether being a scientist's daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.

Silas Lee

There's a lot of frustration. Whether or not all the incumbents get defeated, that is to be seen.