Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Copeland

It always strikes me as somewhat absurd that strikes are referred to as ""industrial action"", for they are nothing of the sort, almost as daft as the sexual act being described as ""sleeping together

Stephen Hunter

Considered purely as effects-driven filmed drama, 'The Day After Tomorrow' checks in somewhere in the middle of one of Hollywood's most absurd and least lamented dead genres, the disaster pic of the '70s. It's a little better than 'Earthquake' but not as good as 'The Towering Inferno,' because it doesn't star Steve McQueen and Paul Newman.

Salman Rushdie

I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.

Robert Brown

I have written three books on the soul, / Proving absurd all written hitherto, / And putting us to ignorance again.

Willie Geist

In a tradition second in wonderful absurdity only to 60-year-old baseball managers wearing uniforms and spikes in the dugout, golf spectators come dressed ready to play 18.

Anna Spencer

The failure of woman to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement in a manner that would be amusingly absurd were it n

Preston Sturges

The camera must point at the exact spot the audience wishes to look at any given moment. To find that spot is absurdly easy: you only have to remember where you were looking at the time the scene was made.

Paul Jannuzzo

The commission is an absurd concept. It's overly broad. It's more powerful than any regulatory agency.

Ye Xiaowen

The 'harmonious world' theory ... will help dispel doubts in the international community about China's continued development and refute the absurd 'China threat theory'.

Emma Stone

I was just a ham since about the age of five. If I was performing at Medieval Times or something, I'd be the court jester. That was always my defense mechanism. I was never all that funny; I was just obnoxious and loud.

Richard Madden

I was always a bit old for my age, then suddenly I'm on set, working alongside the adults, skipping school completely for two years.

Erik Lomis

Kids love the movie. Our audience is predominantly young -- 12 and younger -- so most of the eyeballs got in at children's price. But we expect that age group to grow over the coming weeks as word of mouth spreads. The film is budgeted considerably under $30 million, so it's going to be very profitable. Frankie Muniz's last film ('Big Fat Liar') opened to $11 million and did $47 million (so) this could do $60 million.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Journalists were at the forefront. From the Civil War until the early 1900s, nothing was being done to solve the problems of the Industrial Age.

Dr. Young

I also have five children at home, all under the age of 10. So needless to say, we keep busy.

Jim Capaldi

I always felt from a very early age that whatever one's role in life is, we all have our own particular style, our own particular character.

Randy Hendricks

He wants to take stock of his health and his motivation. If someone said you have to decide today, the answer would be he would retire. He doesn't think at this point, based on the end of the season, that he's got seven months of baseball in him, to go through that grind at age 43-44.

Lorenzo Lynch

He was big for his age so they put him on the line, ... All he was doing was blocking and rushing the quarterback on defense.

Ann Andrews

Hector is a super gifted person and an amazing organ player, ... It kind of blows your mind when you see him. He's very unique. He sits with his back to the audience, the organ facing backstage. You can see his feet, and he puts on quite a foot show. You're just amazed. There's not an age that doesn't appreciate him.

Smush Parker

Kobe is always a factor in the game. I don't think Golden State stopped him from scoring the ball. He just got other guys involved in the offense. It was a game Kobe didn't have to force the game until late.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques agonized over it. Not so much in a financial way, but it increased our recognition factor - it's become a hook for us.

Steve Martin

He?s already been to the show. I know the intimidation factor will be out of him.

Clarence Darrow

What I hope to see for labor is the people who work in factories own the factories

Eric Nicoli

Piracy in all its forms has been the major factor in this reversal but not the only factor.

Steve Johnson

Our load factor (the percentage of seats filled in October last year) was only 56% of what they offered. With that as one of the arguments, you'd look at providing fewer seats.

Andy Kopplin

Our No. 1 goal is to get that money out as expeditiously as possible. The limiting factor will be the number of contractors available.

Robert Hoehn

Iraq will be the overriding factor going forward until that situation is resolved.

Jason Leonard

Being left out of the match squad for the Ireland international was not a factor in my thinking. Retiring from Test rugby has been on my mind for a while because I was away from the family for so long during the World Cup.

Linda Wallace

Kevin was a fighter up to the end, to live, but she wants everyone to know he fought real hard.

P. James

Kevin Payne was my friend. His wife and children, we shared quality time together. I will always honor him as my friend, first, and a fighter second.

Lenny Harris

Keep pushing. Keep fighting. We'll get it done. We have to get it done.

Frank Warren

Joe Will be ready to fight in 2006 and hopefully Lacy will be in the opposite corner.

James Johnson

He knew I was about to stop him. This time I will finish him early, ... I got tired of him parading around like he was the future of the division. Come Oct. 15 I will stop him in his tracks. He may never fight again.

Jimmy Teague

He's a freshman that's got a lot of potential. We were hoping he could use this year and Erik as a tutor to get him ready, but he's going to get right into the fight (today). We'll find out how he's going to react.

Suzi Babos

Her opponent was just playing really smart. To (Stephanie's) credit, she is a fighter and is working hard during practice.

Vince Young

He's been through a lot. Just to see him keep fighting ... I'm proud of him, proud of all the hard work he's done to get to this point.

Shannon Flaherty

I think it's a sense of our guy is under attack. Here is a man that has fought for us in the last 30 years. Now it's our time to fight for him.

Joe Gibbs

Keeping a team healthy is a huge deal,

Francis Gannon

I think it was a very healthy thing that we saw this week, ... It was a valuation correction, not a fundamental correction.

William Dietz

I'd like to think this shows women are leading the way in recognizing obesity as a health threat.

Robert Collier

Face towards the perfect image of every organ and the shadows of disease will never touch you.

William Shenstone

Health is beauty, and the most perfect health is the most perfect beauty.

Will Durant

The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.

Sarah Palin

Enough of this foreign fiasco distraction. Get back to work. It is time to bomb Obamacare.

Richard Dawkins

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.

Vincent Van Gogh

The more I become decomposed, the more sick and fragile I am, the more I become an artist.

Madeleine Quayat

I was known as the person with the 24-hour smile.

Ramsey Clark

has been in total isolation. He hasn't seen a member of his family, talked to a member of his family, met with a lawyer or met with friends he has known before.

Torrey Smith

I want to be known as a solid all-around receiver that's fast, not a fast guy that plays receiver.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

HARANGUE, n. A speech by an opponent, who is known as an harrangue- outang.

Judy Gold

I didn't want to be known as a gay comic, but as a comic who happens to be gay.

Matthew Bright

He looked like such a Republican. He dressed like Pee-Wee Herman. But had I known what he had done when I was reading about him, I might have thought different.

Viola Spolin

That which is not yet known comes out of that which is not yet here.

Maureen McCormick

Playing Marcia was a double-edged sword; it always will be whenever you play a character like that. You will be known as that character forever.

Mike McCurdy

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Bill Parcells

I was kind of thinking back to Seattle last year, ... We kind of talked about that. We're just fortunate, really.

Joe Edgens

Kelley is going to be right up to the last minute before it's done.

Dave Kaplan

(Jocelyn) bounced back from a rough outing last time. Very nicely done. She's going to get another start, and we're going to keep working with her.

Bobbie Davis

I think I said to the players last year that they had one day to celebrate. And then they had to start concentrating and thinking about this year.

Jim Knight

There are so many things that we try before we ever go to court. It's the last step, and we don't like to do it, but there needs to be consequences.

Justin Gray

I think (the fans) are going to talk about it all the time just because they know probably what we could've done with the team from last year. But that's last year.

Peter Currie

It is fundamentally different from the last time we restated, primarily because the scope is a lot narrower.

Marthen Manu

Last night one person was rescued, the rest have been picked up today.

David Price

Last night he painted the picture of the night he was going to have.

Udonis Haslem

J-Will is always running. We just have to run with him. Sometimes we just can't keep up. ... If we can run with him, he's going to find you.

Donna Myers

What you are doing is running the seniors out of Worthington.

Denny Rinehart

Gonzalez will be a factor. Erica Hicks can run anything she wants to.

Lindsay Whalen

It could be worse, ... I'm already kind of running around and jumping. They kind of said to me, 'Just see how you feel.'

Derrick Williams

We talked all week about establishing the running game. We established out running game, and now we can see that we can run and pass.

Al Wolski

We're on our way back. We're going to try to run the table and see what happens.

Oliver Purnell

I think we will probably be in the NIT. It's disappointing we didn't make a run at winning (the ACC) tournament.

Jim Hendry

I think we've got more versatility. We're more athletic. I think we're going to run a lot better and play a lot better defense.

Andy Johnson

I think we tried to play at their pace, and we can't run with them. It got away from us in the second quarter.

Hope Schulte

I don't know what was going on. It just seemed like everything was just going in for me. I just did what I usually do, and (the shots) just seemed to fall.

Chris Williams

It went very well. It seemed to be pretty straightforward.

Nina Alimpic

It seemed to work for her, not for me if I talk.

Gregory Allen

It seemed to me that he was there for her.

Matt Foy

It was unbelievable. Everything just seemed to click. It seems like everything I did went right.

Aaron Miles

It was a long possession. It seemed like 20 seconds.

Fred Williams

I didn't see any survivalists; it seemed to be more for profit.

Lisa Tuttle

I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.

Roy Harper

I was determined if I was going to become a superstar it would be on my terms. I've had that ethic since the beginning.

Shane Valdez

I think that's the first time since I've been here that we had everyone qualify.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Samuel Smiles

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

Zane Grey

These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.

Chelsea Clinton

I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.

Michael Mayer

I haven't read a single word that a critic has written about me since 1994.

Kelly Slater

I haven't surfed since Japannot even one wave.

Saku Koivu

I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.

Cindy Christensen

I think we'll get a lot of people. I could be totally wrong, but I think we'll get a lot of people.

Spencer Grammer

I loved 'The O.C.' and I totally watch 'Gossip Girl,' too!

Carolyn Sime

It's totally inappropriate for wolves to be that close.

James Shuler

It's totally devastating, the way things went down.

Tom Petersen

They (the stores) don't have to be totally upscale, but we need some better things.

Shinji Mori

It's two totally different things. There was nothing wrong until I got injured.

Alan Mosley

This is totally unacceptable. This is going to have to be fixed, and right now.

Amy Jordan

I wanted to do something totally out of the ordinary,

Parris Chang

We won't be totally disappointed because there will be other goodies in the package,