Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Shapiro

I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about.

Simon Schama

I would want the British reader to feel that religion in America isn't an absurd thing - a sign of a pin head athwart a gigantic body.

Peter Salus

I think it's absurd that they think the authors should have to come to them to opt out of the database,

Charlie Melancon

I think it's absurd that insurance companies would avoid paying these claims,

Ron Wyden

I think it just looks absurd for us constantly to shovel out tax breaks when executives go on television and say they aren't needed, ... They don't need tax incentives.

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.

Robert Foley

It breaks up into very small fragments so it is quite technically complicated to put it all back together again,

Casey Looze

It breaks my heart that she went to federal prison. This lady was so sick, so frail. It just breaks my heart.

Jim McGreevey

It breaks down the secrecy, it requires hospitals to report this information,

John Fox

He just didn't feel like he could explode out of breaks with it. When a guy is thinking like that, he's better off not in there. Chris has been around long enough to understand how competitive and how tough it is, especially with the receiving corps they have, and it was a problem.

Paul Cohen

This was a game that just went back and forth, ... There were a lot of mistakes, a lot of hard hitting, and it just came down to us being able to get the breaks when we needed to set up in field goal position.

Philip Fretz

This was one of those games where we simply got the breaks we needed. We could have been down 2-0 at halftime as Huntington North hit the crossbar twice but couldn't get in.

Mark Bowman

I thought we wrestled well. A couple of breaks go our way and we would have won the whole thing.

Bob Kalp

I think the mystique of knowing they're good enough to do it has been removed, but they know it can happen. It just remains a case where you've got to have a few breaks and you've got to play well.

Tom Davies

I think when you bring a program up from the bottom, you don't get any breaks. You don't get any breaks from officials, on scheduling, stuff like that. That's part of the price you pay for your program having been down for quite a period of time.

David Nelson

Kellogg recognizes the importance of constantly streamlining costs ... That is how it has avoided, and we think will continue to avoid, the margin deterioration that has plagued the industry.

John Ellinger

He wants to go forward, and especially at Spartan Stadium, you were constantly on your heals with those guys running at you.

Keith LeGree

I was constantly going. I thought it was just something that you just get fatigued. I just never looked into that. I've had people telling me they'd knock on my door in a hotel, and I didn't hear anything.

Daniel Boorstin

We expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighbourly . . . to revere God and to be God.

Al Cook

We've got to keep working with these developers and encouraging them to revitalize. We keep our fingers crossed and we're constantly developing the space, to get information out for prospective tenants and developers.

Terry Labonte

It is pretty obvious when you drive through any race track and there are No. 3 flags around everywhere and still fans with (Earnhardt) hats, shirts and jackets. We are constantly reminded of him.

LaVar Arrington

I think what you guys fail to realize is I do hunt for minds. So I'm constantly trying to figure out who you are, what you're about.

Jim Ratcliffe

It is not necessary, nor appropriate, to sow dissent and misrepresent employees or constantly to threaten industrial action.

Joseph Muscat

Lawrence Gonzi is constantly taking the wrong decisions to the detriment of the Maltese and is not interested in tackling problems seriously

Mr Howard

I think it is the obligation of senior executives of Telstra to talk up the company's interest, not to talk them down.

Elizabeth Warren

Regulators all meet with Goldman Sachs executives and employees day after day after day. They don't see the people who get tricked, the people who get cheated, the people who get fooled by the products that Goldman turns out.

Jay Ritter

In terms of the executives involved, they've got every incentive to do a deal, whether it makes sense or not, because if they don't do one, they give the money back.

Larry Ellison

In the last few days, Oracle executives have had the opportunity to speak with the holders of a majority of PeopleSoft shares, ... Many of those shareholders indicated the prices at which they would tender their shares.

Steve Ellis

Being able to extend E-mail to executives who aren't at their desks is a real productivity win for us.

James Burrows

I remember on the pilot of 'Will and Grace' some executives from NBC saying to me, 'There are too many gay jokes.' I said, 'If not on this show, then what show?'

Joe Roth

I'm no longer interested in having executives supervise other people. I want everyone to be doing their own work.

John Ridley

Not only does Hollywood make money - it seems to make better movies during recessions. I'm sure a lot of studio executives wish we could have one every year.

Malcolm Forbes

Executives who get there and stay suggest solutions when they present the problems.

Chris Bucknam

I think it looks to be an outstanding stadium.

Matt Osborne

He didn't get many looks at the basket. But he picked it up defensively and he had six rebounds and six steals.

Bill Cowher

He can time things up and be very explosive. It looks sometimes like he's walking and not moving, but he can go from Point A to Point B very quickly. He's a very sudden player, and I think that's what makes him unique.

Quvenzhane Wallis

Doing the long lines - it looks easy when actresses do it: they just say it straight up, looks like they do nothing wrong, they just keep going, but it's not like that.

Frank Taylor

He's a big, strong, really good-bodied horse, and he looks really fast.

John Farrell

His range has been solid in the field; he's running and moving well. And his at-bats have been very consistent. He looks like he did when we first signed him. He's back on track.

Mark DiCamillo

I think it's a two-step process and it looks like he's successfully getting people over in terms of step one to the undecided column. But there's a segment of voters who are withholding judgment. They know who Schwarzenegger is, but they are not sure.

Mark Billingham

I think women tend to write about how violence feels, whereas men tend to write about what violence looks like.

Shaun Alexander

We've got to wait and see. But it looks pretty good.

Khaled Hosseini

All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari.

Warren Buffett

I'll bring my tax returns; you bring yours. I'll meet you anytime anywhere.

Wesley Snipes

I was never charged with tax evasion. I've never been a tax protester.

Robert Orben

Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?

Winston Churchill

There's no such thing as a good tax.

Andrew Zarnett

Plainly said, the (Pennsylvania) tax is too high.

Ken Johnson

The FCC has levied an unconstitutional tax on telephone companies,

Tim Pape

Taxation without representation? No, they're getting taxed, and they're getting represented.

Kent Conrad

It will make tax controversies more expensive, more intrusive and more inconvenient for taxpayers.

Len Burman

Non-compliance amounts to a tax of about $2,000 on every taxpayer.

Rick Baker

I think you've been on television plenty, Ed,

Annabella Sciorra

I don't have a television, so I don't know what they do,

William S. Paley

Television, I would say, isn't an advertising medium. It's a selling medium.

William Gibson

I can see television much more easily than I can see features, because the economy and politics of making big, big features seems to me to be narrowing even from what it was.

Will Estes

I don't really get a chance to watch much television.

Rebecca Eaton

I love mysteries on television - the more psychologically complex, the better.

Robert Carlyle

I've really enjoyed my work in television, but the problem for me is the turnover of directors every week.

Tucker Carlson

The best thing about television news is, it's immediate. Everything at a news network happens quickly.

Robin Day

Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.