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.

Peter Kessler

A new wave of millions of Afghans will overwhelm hospitality, (we must) insure that we have local and federal governments on board.

Maz Jobrani

Definitely in the West, we're all cast as the same now. Whether you're Indian, Pakistani, Arab, Iranian, Afghan or whatever, you just get thrown into this category. And nine times out of 10, you're depicted as bad.

Vivian Tan

The start of the repatriation season is slow, as some 15 Afghan families comprising about 75 individuals have left Pakistan over the last two days, including five families that returned on Wednesday. But this is quite usual.

Abdul Hakimi

The Taliban are thankful to the Afghan people for rejecting the U.S. drama. Our jihad (holy war) will continue until the withdrawal of foreign infidel troops, and our attacks will be expedited. The Taliban have become more organized and strong.

Jack Keane

Afghanistan is where much of the al Qaeda journey began. It is the main site where Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar and their cohort rose to prominence fighting the Soviets in the 1980s. Afghan territory holds special significance to the group, which is committed to retaking it and re-establishing it as the base of a global movement.

Anand Gopal

Afghan human rights campaigners worry that U.S. forces may be using secret detention sites like the one allegedly at Rish-Khor to carry out interrogations away from prying eyes. The U.S. military, however, denies even having knowledge of the facility.

Navtej Sarna

Afghan authorities are investigating the matter. If these reports are true, we condemn the incident and urge that all of them be released.

Roger King

Afghan and U.S. forces did not open fire based on these initial movements, choosing instead to develop the situation,

Richard Engel

After literally hundreds of firefights, Chosen Company became increasingly battle-hardened. And they also became increasingly suspicious of their Afghan counterparts, believing - with their lives on the line at the end of the day - that they could only truly rely on themselves.

John Langdon

As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words.

Hiroichi Nishi

As a series of key economic events is scheduled this week in both Japan and the United States, it's hard to make major moves now.

Brian Orol

As a planner and a dad, I think it's wonderful. I'm doing this for both my boys.

Carmen Schoolcraft

As a whole, we didn't play up to our potential. We kept them out of the circle okay, except for the one goal, but on the rest of the field they pretty much dominated us in both halves. We just got outplayed today, and the limited opportunities we had, we didn't finish off.

Gerald Turner

As a graduate of both our undergraduate program and our school of law, she brings honor to SMU through this nomination and through her distinguished legal career,

Ron Fournier

A sagging economy, a soaring national debt, and an increasingly restive Congress pushed Obama to order troop reductions that are both deeper and faster than recommended by his military commanders.

David Morrissey

As a director, your work is finished only when it's on the screen. But I will always be an actor who occasionally directs. And no, I have no interest in directing myself. I wouldn't be able to concentrate on both jobs at once.

Bill Sadler

As a defensive measure all of the officers had drawn service weapons and aimed at the individual while they continued to repeatedly order the man to show both hands.

Terry Vaughn

As an athlete, you've got to understand there's no loyalty in sports. I understand that and it doesn't bother me,

Richard Boucher

Contacts between the parties continue on all the issues.

John Shaw

Those contacts I have with those kids last forever.

Jennifer Daly

We need more contacts each year than the 45 inquiries we get.

Allard Baird

Justin probably shortened the time to really establish ourselves by two years because of his contacts and notoriety.

Scott Sutherland

I continue to hear from industry contacts that they're doing very well in the market - they have good products and are winning several deals.

Paul Guen

I had contacts with Rangers last year and they have been resumed recently.

Christopher Hill

It's fairly routine, these contacts in the context of the six-party talks,

Donnie Tyndall

It's about relationships. You start in your backyard. At Middle we had 13 players from eight states. I have contacts to go outside Kentucky and sign good players.

Brian Rogers

This is the most mail, e-mail, phone calls, personal contacts and public testimony on a single issue in about 15 years.

Gene Luen Yang

Any superhero, regardless of how different they are from Superman, recalls Superman in some way. They're either pushing against Superman or reflecting Superman; there's something about them that comes from Superman.

Fabrizio Cicchitto

The scenario right now is that either we win by a narrow margin or they win by a narrow margin.

Susan Hill

I've never written poetry. I'm not a poet, but I think the nearest you get is either the short story or the novella, in that you can't waste a word. There is no hiding place: everything's got to be seen to relate, and the prose counts.

John Wilson

It would be a big game, I hope we can win the rest of our games. There are teams out there that have talent and would love to knock either one of us out.

Kim Clijsters

It was tough to find a good rhythm out there tonight, ... She went for everything and either hit the lines or made unforced errors. But I did everything I had to do to win to win in straight sets.

Heidi Gwynn

It was an evenly matched game. It could have gone either way, but a win is a win and we will take it.

Glenn Lincoln

The second game could've gone either way. They just got a good server to the line at the end and we couldn't knock her off.

Drew Bledsoe

I should've thrown it high enough and far enough wide that either Terry was going to get it or no one was going to get it. I didn't put enough on it, and that was the game.

Dennis McAlpine

It would not surprise me if there were a deal, either way.

Michael Hendricks

Progress was slow at first, but the evidence is mounting that restoration is working.

James Heckman

The scientific study of labor economics provided the opportunity for me to unite theory with evidence my lifetime intellectual passion.

Ryan Ward

I've spent a lot of time doing the fitness stuff, taking it to the next level. I guess that I'm kind of evidence that if you stick to a game plan and work hard, that good things can happen and maybe you can have the opportunity to do something that you love, which I've been fortunate enough to do.

Marcia Clark

I've never seen so much evidence even on the first day, as I did in that case.

Glenn Tilton

These solid results are evidence of real progress in our work to make United competitive and resilient.

Chuck D.

These settlements are evidence of systemic, industry-wide problems that need to be addressed.

Don Peters

These returns are pretty strong evidence that tax-efficient investing does work.

Charles Schumer

is good evidence that Mr. Fitzgerald is, indeed, following this investigation to its logical conclusion, even if it reaches the highest levels of our government.

Maria Cheng

It would not be surprising if it had spread from Turkey, but at the same time, we have no evidence yet that it has.

David Mann

It's been increasing significantly over the last year and a half.

Alan Brown

The use of application processors in 3G mobile handsets is increasing the semiconductor value per handset and semiconductor revenue for suppliers of application processors.

Jalal Talabani

For the Iraqi state, it is very difficult,

Michael Rubin

The Iraqis have consistently surprised us at every milestone.

Patrick Burns

The Iraqi people are out of luck, the way it stands right now.

George H. W. Bush

This is a very positive day for the Iraqi people and as well for world peace, ... Democracies are peaceful countries.

Mohamed ElBaradei

We are going through many of the issues, outstanding disarmament issues. The Iraqi side is providing explanation on some of the issues ... We are discussing, but we have to wait until tomorrow.

Zalmay Khalilzad

The reaction that's needed by the Iraqis -- they need to come together.

John Norris

You have enough men, ... We will work together. We will not let the Iraqi people down.

Jerry Uelsmann

The room itself had a strange, timeless quality to it.

James Purnell

There is a possibility that the number of offences will increase. That in itself could be a sign of success because more people are using the powers of the act.

Albert Camus

An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself

Noam Chomsky

The Tea Party movement itself is maybe 15, 20 percent of the electorate. It's relatively affluent, white, nativist. You know, it has rather traditional nativist streaks to it. But what is much more important, I think, is the - is its outrage.

D. James

If that swelling comes down and they can do some things with it and get itself worked out, then possibly he could come back. But if it doesn't, that's something he can't play with.

Bob Bourne

Cy-Ride outgrew itself continually, right from the beginning.

Jeff Traylor

It's always worked itself out in the past and this situation will work itself out too.

William Gibson

It seems as though the Net itself has become conscious,

David Friedman

As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs.

Tom Daschle

As a veteran, there is no question that I stand strongly with the troops,

Sean Avery

No question that this is a way (for the league) to do something to me,

Pete Carroll

No question it helps. I wish I had two weeks for every game.

Stephen Hess

No question about it. It is overwhelmingly the issue.

Klaus Wowereit

No question about it, it is a glitzy scene but that is also part of Berlin,

Bob Goin

The stakes are higher, ... There's no question about that.

Allen Mesch

The summer's going to be without much question very bad.

Joseph Grundfest

There are a lot of complicated questions to answer.

Apolo Ohno

The first question is always, 'We loved him on 'Dancing with the Stars,' we loved him in the Olympics, but can he speak English?' Yes I speak English. Yes, I can.

John Gandy

I feel very strongly that we are in the driver's seat.

Jim Doyle

I feel very strongly that that's not where we should be going with this,

Bill Thomas

I have supported him in this campaign. Throughout our careers, we have strongly disagreed on cases. I don't think we've ever disagreed this much.