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.

Ogden Nash

I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.

Douglas Brinkley

Influenced by Pete Seeger and the Weavers, McLean proudly wore the mantle of troubadour in the early 1970s, when 'American Pie' topped the Billboard charts, and has never shed the cape.

Billy Godwin

I'm not a big self-promoter. I'd prefer to emphasize our club. I don't think that billboard is going to get us any wins come February.

Robert Murray

The message to marketers should be clear, and the implications obvious. If your site is not found on the first page or within the first three pages of search results you might as well be putting up a billboard in the woods.

Michael Parmly

The billboard is an effort to dialogue with the Cuban people. Only in totalitarian societies do governments talk and talk at their people and never listen.

Michael Parmly

The billboard is an effort to dialogue with the Cuban people.

Brad Dean

The N.C. visitors are a loyal and strong draw for this market. We would hope a few billboards wouldn't change that.

Chuck Hayes

They've probably got a billboard up for Sparks already.

Lee Bromberg

It seems to me it's a prudent move by Yahoo. It's one thing to put your billboard up next to the other guys. But this, it seems to me, is different in nature and kind because you're employing search engine technology to guide customers from the Internet to you.

Don Thornton

Just mentioning that cameras are up there deters people.

June Allyson

I was at a luncheon; and some cameras were trained on us. I dont' know whether they were for television or not. You know how little I know about cameras.

Ronda Rousey

If there's a camera on me or off me, it's roughly the same, just a lot less energy.

William Sadler

I don't get a chance to be funny on camera as often as I would like.

Saoirse Ronan

We grew up with a camera in front of us.

Wayne Rooney

Unlike others who have been caught swearing on camera, I apologised immediately. And yet I am the only person banned for swearing. That doesn't seem right.

Whitney Houston

From the beginning, the camera and I were great friends. It loves me, and I love it.

David Snyder

Red light cameras can help communities enforce traffic laws by automatically photographing vehicles whose drivers run red lights. A nationwide study of fatal crashes at traffic signals in 1999 and 2000 estimated that 20 percent of the vehicles involved failed to obey signals. In 2004 alone, more than 900 people were killed, and an estimated 168,000 were injured, in crashes that involved red light running. About half of all deaths in red light running crashes are pedestrians and occupants in other vehicles who are hit by the red light runners.

Rob McClure

If you think hard enough about it, Rowlf the dog playing the piano on 'The Muppet Show' - what kind of insanity was happening underneath the cameras to make that happen? His mouth is moving, and he's got two hands playing the piano. That's two people under there!

Patrick Surtain

I was just thinking about it yesterday, wondering if I'm going to get fooled or not, ... It's going to help me somewhat because I know what those guys can do and I know some of their releases, but they're in a totally different offense. In one respect, it will (help me), but in another, they run totally different routes now.

Chad Epperson

I'd be a fool to say we don't miss them.

Richard O'Brien

He who quotes himself has a fool for a source.

Richard P. Feynman

An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!

Robert Plant

All I can say is that it's amazing what you can accomplish when you're young and foolish.

William Blake

If others had not been foolish, we should be so.

Robertson Davies

Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.

Washington Allston

The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.

George Bernard Shaw

I learned to speak as people learn to skate or cycle, by doggedly making a fool of myself until I got used to it

Stephen Sondheim

I happen to like movies and plays about dislikeable people as long as I get to know why they are what they are.

John Fithian

Here's what we know about 2005: The movies are not as good,

Mike Marsh

I watched some of the old Peter Sellers movies to pick up some of his nuances and his style of comedy. He is so unique.

Heather Graham

I watched movies and thought, 'I want to be in movies,' and wanted to be an actor.

Kristan Higgins

There's something so satisfying about road trip movies - and books!

Steven Bauer

I'd like to make movies as a producer and a director.

Judi Shekoni

I'd actually read the 'Twilight' books and seen the movies, and I was a fan.

Vincent Cassel

When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.

Hugh Dillon

I'm working consistently, and they're using my music in the movies,

Fred Dooley

He did the right thing. So, I thought it was the right thing to do to take the pictures down.

Hanna Salonen

I really want to go out there and take pictures of what I find interesting and not like, these set-ups of life.

Jessie Boylan

I know you from somewhere. I've got pictures of you.

Donald Rumsfeld

I indicated in my remarks that there are a lot more pictures and many investigations under way,

Julian Schnabel

I wanted to make pictures where you would not know who took them. I also bring the present into the past.

Scott Ian

I don't even know who that person was in the '80s. I see pictures of myself from back then and I don't even recognize myself.

Willie Smith

Everything you can think of, he was there taking people's pictures and he was just an outstanding person.

Jake Paltrow

'La Notte' is my favorite of the Antonioni pictures and my favorite work of the master cinematographer Gianni di Venanzo, who also shot '8 1/2' for Fellini.

Ken Zipovsky

We received reports from many sources that inappropriate pictures were being taken.

Mike Mower

We've been very public in our support of this.

Robert Winston

I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr. Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get publicity.

Robert Peel

No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

Zachary Quinto

Even the former Attorney General of the United States Eric Holder has come out to say that he believed that [Edward] Snowden performed a public service, and I couldn't agree more.

Gary Peck

If I were the public officials, I would look at this ruling very carefully.

Mahatma Gandhi

Journalism has a distinct place in familiarizing and expressing public opinion.

Mahatma Gandhi

Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.

Jennifer Saunders

The truth is, you can be honest with your friends - but you just can't be honest with the general public if you want to keep your friends.

Ross Perot, Jr.

AllianceTexas is a cash machine for our public partners.

Warren Buffett

Take the high road; it's far less crowded.

Wellington Mara

I'm not taking that. Go ahead, it's here, just take it.

Maureen Caddigan

I know he is taking this very seriously.

Bam Margera

I just had the worst wake up ever, so I'm taking it out on Dunn.

Cedric Bozeman

I'm just taking it day to day. It's tough to handle.

Nancy Grace

The reality is, when you're representing someone that's guilty, you're in the position of taking that position.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Never stand and take a charge... charge them too.

Phil McGraw

Take the high road, there's a lot less traffic up there.

Abraham Torres

I've been up there a long time. I just don't see the justification for what is taking place.

Emily Lyons

I was in the right place, just at the wrong time that day.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Denny Green

J.J. is the starter. I said that a long time ago.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Leslie Cohen

I think it'll be time at the end of this year for them to go off and try something new, ... It'll be torture. It'll be torture.

Mary Lambert

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

Teller

Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.

Susanna Moore

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

Richard Whately

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

Ryan Reynolds

I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line.

Robert M. Pirsig

There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.

Robert Jordan

Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.

Yoshihiko Noda

China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.

William Hazlitt

In what we really understand, we reason but little.

Zelda Fitzgerald

Nobody has ever been able to experience what they have thoroughly understood - or understand what they have experienced until they have achieved a detachment that renders them incapable of repeating the experience.