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,

Dan Heckman

This was absolutely a game that we should have won.

Jimmy Webb

When I started out, I was absolutely awful, I had no voice, I didn't have a lot of stage presence and most of the interpretive intensity that I brought to the experience was actually terror.

Barbara Mikulski

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

Brad Smith

Every time we do absolutely everything we've been asked to do, we're told that there's something else we need to do.

Dan McGowan

There was absolutely no effect on our operations in Albany.

Vincent Van Gogh

What am I in the eyes of most people--a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person--somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then--even if that were absolutely true, then I should

Steve Beuerlein

We were playing the Rams in Anaheim and I threw a deep ball to Ricky. That might have been the only ball I ever threw him that he should have caught, but didn't. He dropped it. Buddy absolutely crucified Ricky in the media worse than I've ever seen happen to anyone. But Ricky then is just like Ricky now ... well, except maybe he's a little wiser and has a whole lot less hair.

Susan Kuretsky

The prints allow you to look over the artist's shoulder. They are often witty, funny and highly personal. My guess is that people will be absolutely delighted and probably surprised.

Joyce Bickers

As always, there are things to work on, but I am seeing the players incorporating things we work on in practice into the matches, whereas before they would work on it in practice, but never attempt in an actual game. These players are growing with each play and getting stronger and stronger and more confident.

Tim Hamilton

If Congress does not address the exports problem, company simply will pocket tax breaks. Any actual increase in production occurring in the U.S. will likely to find its way out of the county and prices will continue to climb.

Mike Rizzo

And, of course, ... if we get the equivalent of J.D.'s actual production, well, we're kind of screwed. But, no matter what happens, it still can't possibly be as bad of a signing as Russ Ortiz .

Mike Nichols

It's very, very corrupting to the spirit, doing comedy. And you have to be almost a saint, like Jack Benny was, like Steve Martin is, to avoid the corrupting of it, because there's very little work where the actual work and the reward are simultaneous, and comedy is that.

Neil Diamond

I t was a difficult time, but the actual creation of the record in the studio was the most eye-opening thing for me of the whole process,

Brett Hall

It will be the largest veto in terms of actual dollars in the history of the commonwealth. But, then, we've never had a capital budget this large.

Oscar Wilde

In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.

Oscar Hoya

It's exciting to be contributing to a project that pushes the popularity of boxing to a new level and to a new audience. EA SPORTS Fight Night Round 3 is so realistic anyone can pick up the game and learn about the actual sport while having a fun time doing it. The visuals in the game are so amazing. You can actually see the emotions on my face change throughout the round.

Tom Schrader

It seems that GM put a damper on things with some negative comments, and the economic numbers were a little weaker. They are both putting an overhang on the IBM news, which was generally positive. This is one of the biggest earnings days we have -- and people are going to be focusing more on the guidance than they are the actual earnings.

Scott Westerfeld

Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing.

Jeff Smoller

It started in '77 as just a rainy-day party, a bunch of friends, because we were bored and tired of the rain.

Mike Matheny

They're probably going to get bored with me because I'm going to start giving them pretty much plain, drab answers, just premeditated boring stuff.

Stacy Keach

It was Christopher's brilliant concept that he did not want this to become like every other sitcom where you do one take, and the audience gets bored with seeing it ten times, you know, over and over again.

Marilyn Monroe

My dinners at home are startlingly simple. Every night, I stop at the market near my hotel and pick up a steak, lamb chops or some liver, which I broil in the electric oven in my room. I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots.

Steve Payne

He's never complained or felt sorry for himself. That's been the hard part for me, having to watch him go through this. It's been an inspiration for our guys and our program to see how he's handled everything as far as being unselfish and how tough he's been.

Greg Oden

I know that's where I want to go, ... I'm not really worried about other schools or things like that. As far as signing, I just haven't talked it over with Mike or Mom yet.

Ernie Whitt

I know you are not supposed to look too far ahead, but you have to in a tournament like this.

Fred Bennett

The guys we've got replacing them (Simpson and Joseph), I think they're ready for the challenge. I think this far through the spring they've showed that they can play. I felt they've done a great job. Losing those guys was a lot, but I think we've got some great replacements.

Steve Schultze

The younger kids are following suit. It's nice that we don't have egos, and you like the idea that you have to play as a team to win. That will take you as far as you're going to go.

Rob Enderle

There will be a vastly improved user experience, particularly for the 9x users, ... It is far more stable, reliable and secure than the 9x base. Unlike Windows 95, this actually delivers on the promises.

Andy Butler

They probably haven't gone far enough, but it's a good start.

Joe Browne

It was so far down that the ... people looked really small. You could see it was completely charred.

Steve Hill

We're making this investment because Verified is not only first, but the only private provider of Registered Traveler services. So far the program has been very successful.

Meghan Coward

Sometimes Molly will fly out to L.A. for a few days, raid the gallery scene there, and come back with a list of names and try to lure them down here.

Olin Browne

I guess there are a few more people who recognize who I am,

Greg Rose

I just don't recall seeing them much until the last few years.

Shane Sweet

I personally think that this is going to settle out over the next few days.

Tina Shipp

Hey, could you just move a few miles down the coast?

Nicholas DiNubile

Can he be relied on week after week for the next few years as the No. 1 guy? That will be the challenge.

Joel Fuhrman

Cancer is caused by what you do for many, many years, not what you do for a few weeks or months.

Joshua Michael Stern

I'm working on a few different films and I'm just searching for the right new story to tell. As a director, you just have to kind of like just get through the first project before starting on the next one.

B. R. Hayden

I needed a few more runs to get a world record myself - unfortunately these things happen,

Thomas Huxley

Each such answer to the great question, invariably asserted by the followers of its propounder, if not by himself, to be complete and final, remains in high authority and esteem, it may be for one century, or it may be for twenty: but, as invariably, Time proves each reply to have been a mere approximation to the truth tolerable chiefly on account of the ignorance of those by whom it was accepted, and wholly intolerable when tested by the larger knowledge of their successors.

Luther Burbank

Science . . . has opened our eyes to the vastness of the universe and given us light, truth and freedom from fear where once was darkness, ignorance and superstition. There is no personal salvation, except through science.

Karl Popper

While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

Karen O

I plead total ignorance to Led Zeppelin. I am totally in the dark about them.

Malala Yousafzai

Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

All problems in life arise from some weakness of mind. All weakness of mind is due to the mind's ignorance of its own essential nature, which is universal and the source of infinite energy and intelligence. ... In order to root out any problem of life it is only necessary to be brought out of ignorance, to be brought to knowledge.

John McAfee

Ignorance and confidence are constant companions

George Lopez

No particular race is the enemy. Ignorance is the enemy.

Franz Kafka

There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.

Joby Scroggs

We knew going in that they were going to zero in on Kevin, who still had 115 yards in the game. Now, we've got another weapon - teams have to prepare even harder.

C.C. Sabathia

I knew I hadn't pitched out of the stretch, but I wasn't thinking about a no-hitter.

Michael Oster

I knew I didn't want to do that forever. I was 26 years old and needed something different, an unusual challenge. So I moved to Western Europe.

Chris Hernandez

I knew I didn't have much time, that I had to take a step and let it go.

Deirdre O'Kane

I knew I couldn't do what Eddie Izzard does, so I just tried to write some stories that were based, or partly based, on my own experiences.

Cilla Black

I knew I could do anything I wanted to do and go anywhere I wanted to go and not have to worry if I could afford it.

Chuck Darby

I knew he was special from the first day when he took over the huddle. The huddle, that?s the linebacker?s house.

Elliott Ambrose

I knew he was going to get some time, but man. That's a long time.

Michael Feinstein

I knew her for over 20 years and we worked together over 200 times.

Edmund Burke

A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?

Michael Jackson

took place in a proceeding where neither my lawyers nor I ever appeared.

Robert Greene

You must bear in mind that each law is circumstantial. It does depend on the circumstances.

Thomas Jefferson

The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them.

Thomas Jefferson

As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn from their bench, whose erroneous biases are leading us to dissolution. It may indeed injure them in fame or in fortune; but it saves the republic, which is the first and supreme law.

Thomas Jefferson

[An] act of the Congress of the United States... which assumes powers... not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void and of no force.

Thomas Jefferson

Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.

Russ Feingold

We need to get rid of the Federal Elections Commission. It's a joke. It doesn't enforce the law.

Rush Limbaugh

[Barak] Obama's immigration behavior, executive amnesty, this DREAMer stuff - everything he's doing - is outside the law.

Henry David Thoreau

In society, in the best institutions of men, it is easy to detect a certain precocity. When we should still be growing children, we are already little men. Give me a culture which imports much muck from the meadows, and deepens the soil,--not that which trusts to heating manures, and improved implements, and modes of culture only!

Henry David Thoreau

The voice of nature is always encouraging.

Ron Rivera

It's football. It's kind of the nature of the game, the nature of the beast, and we'll find out.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts of mankind... it is the prince of mathematics, and the sciences founded on it are absolutely certain. It has measured the distances and sizes of the stars it has discovered the elements and their location... it has given birth to architecture and to perspective and to the divine art of painting.

Leonardo da Vinci

I say that the power of vision extends through the visual rays to the surface of non-transparent bodies, while the power possessed by these bodies extends to the power of vision.

Leonardo da Vinci

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

Leonardo da Vinci

Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.

Leonardo da Vinci

Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.

Robert A. Heinlein

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Vernon Jordan

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It’s the gimmick of money.

Alexei Mordashov

My wealth is reflected in the price of Severstal, and the number of shares I have in my possession doesn't have any impact on the company.

Irv DeGraw

I would like to think they can get in the 20 percent range, but with that number of shares it could be difficult.

Will Forte

It takes a certain type of person to register your 'Donkey Kong' score. So I'm just number 29 in registered Donkey Kong scores.

Nathan Myhrvold

Near Marseilles in the south of France, bouillabaisse is a cult food. In Toulouse and Carcassonne, the bean-based stew cassoulet is a cult food. Spain has paella and a number of others. Italy has so many, its cuisine is practically defined by them.

Elyn Saks

Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.

Bill Gates

I have to admit that business-type thoughts do sneak into my head: I hope our customers pay us, I hope this stuff is decent, I hope we get it done on time. The little additions and subtractions that one has to do. Take sales, take costs and try to get that big positive number at the bottom.