Famous Quotes & Sayings

Salman Rushdie

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

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.

Charles Cooley

''I'' is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life.

Elfriede Jelinek

was made into an award-winning film, ''for her musical flow of voices and countervoices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's cliches and their subjugating power.

Bernard Levin

No amount of manifest absurdity . . . could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.

Ralph Ellison

And I knew that it was better to live out one's absurdity than to die for that of others.

Sorin Cerin

Once we are a creation, how much absurdity can there be in our heart without God the Creator.

Baruch Spinoza

He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.

Oliver Goldsmith

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it, for error is always talkative

Joe Funderburk

Jake lost to an outstanding wrestler. He's a two-time state champion and ranked second in the nation.

Harry Redknapp

Jose won't let him come but I would have taken him. They need their players for the Champions League so there is little chance of Glen coming.

Doug Cauthen

He was a champion and it was a great privilege to have been around him. Even though he'd been out of service for a couple of years, we kept him in the same stall so he still felt he was part of things. That's what he deserved.

H. Hunt

He is the essence of sports in Kansas City and why there is a Truman Sports Complex and, frankly, why the two teams are there. He is and always will be a champion of all sports in Kansas City.

Tony McCoy

When I started off riding, you dream about being champion jockey. Then I wanted to be champion jockey again. Then I wanted to ride 200 winners in a season. Then, when there was a chance of riding more winners than Richard Dunwoody, that was my goal.

Tony McCoy

Essentially, I am a dreamer. I've dreamed all my life. When I started, I dreamed I'd be Champion because it is a sport that is all about the people who win the most, and I have a fear of not winning.

Dave Vining

Having those champions is great in just two years.

Steven Gerrard

He's a great player. He scores goals in the league, in cup competitions and also in the Champions League,

Jerry Bailey

He seems to be a pretty good horse. I'm not ready to crown him a champion yet, but he was pretty impressive.

Dennis Miller

Just put down 9/11... I think, on most things I'm liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on.

Sigi Schmid

Joel is a versatile defender who was here for our mini-camp in November. He can play centrally or on the right and is a young player with great potential.

Willie Savannah

Juan has been wanting to fight. If it was up to him, he would have defended his title three or four times in the past year instead of once.

Jeff Zucker

He didn't know if the man would back up and try and run him over, or whether he had a weapon, so he defended himself and hit the gentleman two times. Unfortunately, they were fatal blows.

Alan Cook

He likes to dribble a lot, ... so I told our defenders to just stay on his back, don't let him turn. Make him play the drop ball, and they did a good job of doing that.

Dick Morris

her right foot is nailed to the floor in having to defend the Iraq war.

Andrew Park

It is great that I can go to a place where I can walk on the same ground of somebody that defended our country,

Mark Johnson

I was disappointed about the way we wrestled today. We had five guys in the finals and didn't get it done. We seemed to be satisfied with qualifying for nationals and not defending our title.

Norman Ornstein

There is extreme nervousness about November. The last thing that members want is to be out there in a tough campaign, where the wind is at your face, defending the indefensible.

Rick Carlisle

I think it's a continuance of the same things we've said for a while. The margin of error for us is not great. They had 13 second-chance points and 50 points in the paint and those numbers are hard to overcome.

Steve Klosterman

We just have to hit smarter shots. We're hitting out too much, not challenging the block. We're making too many errors on our side of the net.

Dan Ariola

We've got to play catch, and we have been. I don't think we have had an error so far in league.

Eddy Bresnitz

It is likely that the discrepancy is an inventory or clerical error and not truly missing samples.

Anne Hendricks

The packaging error was detected during a store inspection process.

Lori Snell

We made too many errors and did not have the sticks to back ourselves up.

Kevin Bowler

I don't know exactly how many errors we made, but it was way too many.

Bruce Allen

He made a terrible error in judgment. The program is very clear, and we're proud of it in the NFL. You're responsible for what's in your body,

Richard P. Feynman

If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions.

Chris Cornell

I'm not usually in a talkative mode.