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

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

George Pierce Baker

In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.

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.

Kenneth Koch

Here I was in my 20s, and life seemed to me so exciting and full of girls and gardens and steamships and drinks and tennis games and countries and cathedrals... I mean, it seemed absurd to be writing these drab, depressed little poems. I knew there were things like death and poverty and injustice, but they weren't everything.

Tom O'Neill

Historically, they've demonstrated a shocking lack of humor for people in such an absurd industry.

Guy Quaden

It is absurd to think that such an interest rate could kill growth.

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.

Tony Oliva

I come from Cuba. Taxes for me are no big thing.

Jeff Pustina

I guess that stuff is for you guys. We just keep playing down at Cuba and keep working hard.

Miguel Tejada

The Cubans all could be major leaguers, they all could be good major leaguers.

Michael Parmly

The Cuban regime does not represent the people, nor does it have any interest in bettering their lives. Rather, the regime is obsessed with self-preservation.

Pedro Cabrera

No, there is no defection. The Cuban team is in very high spirits. The aspirations from when we left Havana have been multiplied.

Stephen Coonts

It's just people from various walks of life in Cuba and what might happen to them

John Sherman Cooper

There was no testimony of conspiracy - Oswald's efforts to get in touch with the Soviets and with the Cuban Fair Play groups in New York were rebuffed, rebuffed at every step.

Dennis Jett

Venezuela and Cuba don't have anything at risk in Bolivia.

Fidel Castro

we remember forever for his deep caring, support and solidarity toward the Cuban people and our revolution.

Brian McLaughlin

I was in Pensacola, Fla., for Ivan and I just want to be able to feel like I have helped people in my life,

Patrick Hogan

(Kirby) helped people...he always wanted to help people so splitting the money up is most in the spirit of (Kirby),

Rig Veda

Knowledge increases his thinking capabilities and helps him in getting new and innovative ideas.After implementing those ideas successfully he earns wealth.

Will Peterson

Knowing the way he throws can help us. But it is a different team, a different offense now.

Luke Donald

Knowing I have played well here before helps a lot.

Robert Reed

Katrina, in some sense, helped that process be a little quicker.

Pat Callahan

Just to release a rock record with very little help from MTV, and with just touring and radio, I think it's awesome. I think it did a lot better than any of us expected. But we're a touring band. That's where our roots are and we love touring. It's a lot of fun.

Mark Slotsve

It actually helps to have played them, we know a little of what they're about.

Sufjan Stevens

I think it just helps us to feel kind of unified,

Joseph Volpe

I think it's an opportunity for him to really take the time now, that he has the time, to look at all of his medical needs.

John Olerud

I didn't need seven years of medical school to know what was next.

Fred Gordon

He had a variety of other medical problems, so part of the problem is we've been sorting through those medical issues.

Yumi Oshima

Part of the problem is her parents live in Taiwan and she only has the Rutgers Medical Insurance. They can't transport her back to Taiwan because she is in such serious condition.

Paul Morgan

I'm making enough for the prosthetics and making a statement about the medical establishment, ... ... Yeah, I'm trying to make a little profit too.

Stephen Dick

All the workers will undergo medical examination before repatriation to their families.

Miles White

This acquisition complements our strategy in medical products.

Charles Barkley

There's no medical term for what I've got.

Dr. Shannon

We'll keep him medically sedated as long as possible.

Phil Roe

I'm a veteran. If I go into the V.A. hospital in Tennessee, I want to know that the procedures they're doing to me are being done properly. That is not unreasonable.

Alan Perlis

If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.

Marianne Moore

I never 'plan' a stanza. Words cluster like chromosomes, determining the procedure.

Bea Arthur

If you would have told me ten years ago I'd be doing this and being received like I am now, I'd say you're crazy.

Jerry Glover

I have never received one dime. This is all volunteer.

Volodymyr Lytvyn

I have not received the resolution for signing.

Scott Nester

I keep checking, and we have not received any yet.

Jeong Kim

Each team will receive a word, then they will have 20 seconds to confer and 60 seconds to spell.

Rachel Johnson

After that I received 74 unsolicited text messages,

Henry Ward Beecher

There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.

Dita Von Teese

Anyone who says they don't like to receive a gift is lying.

Sean Moran

We have yet to receive a response from the town or the Benjamin Co..

Tracey Ullman

I hope I never get so hard up I have to do advertisements. I've gotten ridiculous offers.

Michael Winter

The greatness of being an artist is the kind of ridiculous guffaw you can have at one's own misery. 'That was miserable! Now how can I write about it?'

Shane Warne

All Graeme Smith did was say some ridiculous stuff.

Norman Reedus

I'm so fortunate, it's ridiculous.

Brad Penny

It's ridiculous that they worry about stuff like that. It shows (the Marlins) don't know anything about the game.

Stephen Harper

It sounds superficially appealing, but if you think about it for 30 seconds it's a ridiculous plan.

Marilyn Monroe

It's better being completely ridiculous than unbelievably boring.

David Pogue

I travel a ridiculous amount, so I've thought a lot about, and spent a lot of time refining, what I carry and how I carry it.

Robert Blair

Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious.

Jannie Coverdale

He's just trying to save his own skin.

Mike Kuntz

I think it's going to save a lot of lives.

Wade Redden

He was there to save us. We've got to be better for him (tonight).

Richard Lee

If you save one soul, your work has been done.

Sue Lyon

If you take down a tree to save a house, you should save the house. Don't come tomorrow and want to take down the house.

Marsha Blackburn

If you see something suspicious, don't just walk by. Notify authorities. Get help. You could save innocent lives.

Mike White

You come to a point where you realize your work doesn't save you.

Kurt Russell

All I wanted for him was to save the world,

Henrik Lundqvist

It was one of the most important saves of my career.

Kate Saunders

It is not unprecedented that the two will be in the United States at the same time.

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Willy Brandt

Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.

Steve Lyle

Other states have called us, and are taking a look at it.

Anne Patterson

In our opinion, there is no international support for this idea. I don't think this idea is going to work in the future, and the United States will not support this.

Friedrich Engels

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

Jules Verne

I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!

Milton Friedman

If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.

Jimmy Page

When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I'm not a bloody blues guitarist. I'm a guitarist.

H. Hunt

I don't know of it being in this county, but I do know it's in the western United States.

Robert Torricelli

The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life.

Robert M. Gates

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

Virginia Foxx

In the face of terrorism, a united front is one of the strongest weapons.

Wesley Clark

This is kind of hard to articulate, but in broad outline, the United States is going to do what the United States has to do.

Zhu Rongji

Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade

Donald E. Graham

I'm not wise enough to know what is the right immigration policy for the United States of America.

John Bruton

Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong.

Jim Chase

In the southeastern United States, especially Georgia, termites are very active.

Robert Torricelli

The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life.

Robert M. Gates

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

Wesley Clark

This is kind of hard to articulate, but in broad outline, the United States is going to do what the United States has to do.

Zhu Rongji

Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade

Nancy Pelosi

Yes, [I am accusing the CIA of] misleading the Congress of the United States, misleading the Congress of the United States. I am.

Northrop Frye

We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States, but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours.

Muqtada al Sadr

Anyone supported by the United States is cursed by us.

Leon Panetta

Well, the United States is a Pacific power. And we have always had a presence in the Pacific.

Bruce Springsteen

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.