Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carole Strayhorn

As a mama and a grandma, I appreciate, understand and absolutely believe in the sanctity of life. But I recognize that there are those tough situations where heartbreaking decisions have to be made.

Andy Blackston

(The Bulldogs) just absolutely don't beat themselves. To beat them you have to outplay them.

Mads Mikkelsen

Awards mean absolutely nothing if you don't get it. If you do get it, they're the best thing in the world.

Sophie Kennedy Clark

Auditioning for 'Philomena' was such a traumatic experience because I had three callbacks, and I was absolutely positive that I was just an option.

Teemu Selanne

Bad passes. Absolutely bad passes. We panicked at times.

Jesse Greener

Back-to-work legislation is not an option that will work in the interests of students. If imposed, there will be absolutely no trust in the process since back-to-work legislation could impose not only an arbitrator, but even a contract. In this case, students will likely not see improvements in the faculty student ratio - this would be serious set-back in the quality of college education.

Burt Aaronson

a slap in the face to the County Commission and to all the people that you misinformed. ... Whoever decided on that was absolutely out of line.

Mike Tracy

That was absolutely the pinnacle of my basketball career.

Rocco Mediate

That was absolutely the coolest thing. The fans here are knowledgeable, and they knew I was in trouble and appreciated the effort, I guess.

Joel Coen

No, we don't have an obsession with kidnapping. We just follow the story wherever it leads us, and if it leads us to kidnapping, well there we are!

Michael Ritchie

I've never presented. The logistics of that is a challenge.

Randal Kleiser

It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.

John Frankenheimer

I sought Ben Affleck because I needed an everyman for this role. Ben appeals to men and women. He gives you a sense of intelligence, the notion of a guy who can think on his feet.

John Frankenheimer

The whole thing of this business is to retain your enthusiasm and in a sense retain your innocence and try and practice as much humility as you can.

Morgan Spurlock

This is good. This is really good. To already have this many people have this much passion about something is more than you could ever hope for.

Richard Donner

That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you.

Richard Linklater

You're talking about the outsiders in society and how they deal with it and how they justify what they do. I can relate to that.

John Milius

You never know when you're going to be considered un-hip... The people that really pass judgment on you really have nothing to do with what you do, usually.

Mike Shula

Offense is what creates excitement. Defense just wins games.

Tom Rosenstiel

Normally, the press imposes a sports template and tends to create a winner,

Lauren Spillers

Defense creates offense. We create turnovers and steals and that gives us easy chances.

Michael Strauss

An efficient and effective guest worker program should be created in order to stop the incentive for illegal immigration into the U.S..

Chucky Atkins

The second quarter was the difference. Our second unit gave us great energy to open the second quarter. When this team gets in sync quick and we're locking down on defense, it creates a lot more opportunities on the other end for us.

Alan Young

Something has to be done in the short term, because we have created a panic in our community.

Perry Farrell

Punk rock was exciting because you could get your ass kicked for looking like a punk. Punks were atrocious. They created mayhem. Now you just throw on a plaid-that's not style.

Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created by Man

LaVar Arrington

I've slowed everything down, ... I slowed how I view things. I slowed how I react to things. Not just in football, but in life. I used to create something in my mind and make myself go 100 miles an hour towards whatever that was.

Darren Kimball

Automakers' extremely generous incentives in recent weeks have simply drawn forward industry demand.

Robin Lanier

As long as they're extending the contract, I think that's a signal there will be no slowdown. Perhaps there will be a very long drawn out negotiating process that will give us a lot of gray hair.

Preston Beckman

Ratings for an event like the Olympics aren't necessarily drawn from the usual prime-time television audience. For us to suddenly program differently for those two weeks would be a mistake for our network.

S. Hughes

Prices are going nowhere and homebuilders are using a whole range of incentives to try and draw people in -- free carpets, furniture, legal fees, deposits -- you name it.

Keith Wilbur

Our team was fired up from the get go. They wanted to play well for the seniors. We had a good game plan drawn up from the last time we faced them and we executed it pretty well.

Christopher Abbott

I've never been in a band, but I've hung out with a lot of musicians and helped them with their shows. It's something that I'm really drawn to.

Jaime Winstone

I've always liked to dress eccentrically, but as I get older I'm drawn to more classic looks, though I'll still put my own twist on them.

Meg Wolitzer

I've always been drawn to writing for young readers. The books that I read growing up remain in my mind very strongly.

John Brantley

I've always been drawn to Texas. I just want to go on the visit, see what they're trying to do. Everything I've heard from people is that they like Austin.

Katrina Kelner

Something like this is probably inevitable for most journals.

Jay Farrar

but at this point it seems kind of inevitable or unstoppable.

William Farmer

It's a lot of work, but this is the kind of thing you have to do when you put a new program in; it's just inevitable and you learn to live with it and do what you need to do and move on.

Bob Lutz

The electrification of the automobile is inevitable.

Barbara Sher

A good work is a partnership between you and nature... Nature will help you every step of the way.

Auguste Rodin

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature

Bertrand Russell

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent

Benjamin Disraeli

Nature is stronger than education.

Calvin Coolidge

There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.

Bryant H. McGill

Command the space of your beingness - a space where you are allowed to grow into your true, unique nature.

Charles Darwin

We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which man boasts, may be found in an incipient, or even sometimes in a well-developed condition, in the lower animals.

John McCarthy

When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising.

Blaise Pascal

All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.

Donatella Versace

You can be too boring, but you can never be too seductive.

Talib Kweli

It’s very seductive to focus on what you don’t like as opposed to celebrating all that it is that you do.

Mason Cooley

With age, comfort becomes more seductive than beauty.

Jewel

Life is seductive, yet so few allow themselves to be seduced.

Jack Kevorkian

Despite the solace of hypocritical religiosity and its seductive promise of an after-life of heavenly bliss, most of us will do anything to thwart the inevitable victory of biological death.

Gunter Grass

I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense.

Thomas Aquinas

The splendor of a soul in grace is so seductive that it surpasses the beauty of all created things.

Bertolt Brecht

Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

Bernhard Schlink

But then she was not awkward, she was slow-flowing, graceful, seductive - a seductiveness that had nothing to do with breast and hips and legs, but was an invitation to forget the world in the recesses of the body

Allan Bristow

As of right now, that's our only option, ... We'll look for others. But right now that seems to be the best.

Jeff Sluman

Other days, making one or two birdies seems like it's going to be impossible.

Diane Siri

I've accomplished most of the things I set out to do. It just seems like the right time to make a transition.

Rick Dickson

Somebody said it was a week ago Sunday this all began, ... It seems like many years ago.

Kenny Chesney

now he seems to think he can tell Renee what to do, what to wear, where to go and who to see.

Peter Hitchens

The whole of the U.S. system seems to be creaking at the moment,

Todd Rundgren

It seems like there are two worlds out there - one that has revolved around 'Breaking Bad,' and then the one that I've been in, which just kind of observes it from afar.

Jay Bilas

Even though it seems like a short timeframe, there's a lot that can happen.

Jill Wagner

When work seems like a job, I don't do it anymore. I always want it to be something I'm interested in and something that challenges me.

PewDiePie

I'm not out to max my income. I think my viewers would call me on that right away if I did.

Annie Lennox

I have always been a very visual person and a keen observer.