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

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.

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.

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.

Anna Spencer

The failure of woman to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement in a manner that would be amusingly absurd were it n

Preston Sturges

The camera must point at the exact spot the audience wishes to look at any given moment. To find that spot is absurdly easy: you only have to remember where you were looking at the time the scene was made.

Paul Jannuzzo

The commission is an absurd concept. It's overly broad. It's more powerful than any regulatory agency.

Ye Xiaowen

The 'harmonious world' theory ... will help dispel doubts in the international community about China's continued development and refute the absurd 'China threat theory'.

Dave Bautista

Know your lines; otherwise, have an open mind because you want to get lost in the moment. When you have talented actors and directors to work with, then it's pretty easy to do.

David Thwaites

I suspect it's going to be a fairly weaker open. Stocks are still looking for direction in Europe -- there are no big macro drivers today.

Vicky Gill

I always feel lost when he's not there. I need someone to direct me and push me and then hold me back when I'm doing too much. It's nice to be back and have a mentor there to help me out.

Tom Burt

He can't tell them what to do, he can't direct them, he can't manage them.

George Herbert Mead

Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.

Stephen Chbosky

'Rent' was a special project for me. It was my first notable screenplay job. I worked with two wonderful directors on it, starting with Spike Lee in the summer of 2001. I wrote a draft for Spike and he was really good to me.

Aaron Johnson

There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.

Myles Munroe

So what do you desire to do? What do you really want to do as a person? You need to stop and document that; write it down; make a plan; and then God says, 'I'll direct your steps.'

Taha Ramadan

It (Iraq) is cooperating with all initiatives in this direction provided there is no encroachment on Iraq's sovereignty and security,

David O'Leary

Kevin is out on Tuesday and is a doubt for Chelsea,

Dan Marks

Karl is one of the most experienced and respected executives in television sports rights. There is no doubt that BT's new on-demand TV service has the potential to revolutionize the way sports are viewed and Karl will help us to realize that potential.

D.J. Shockley

Joe's very smart. There's no doubt in my mind that Joe can get the job done just as well as if I was playing.

Suzy Kassem

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

Iker Casillas

We are going to play an important game and the moment of truth has arrived. Everyone knows just what is at stake and nobody should doubt that we are going o give it everything,

Kjell Bondevik

There is no doubt we want this food distributed, and that is why I raised it with the president.

Thomas McSweeny

There is no doubt we are going to do something.

Milorad Vucelic

There is no doubt this is a question of Milosevic's liquidation by The Hague court.

David Rosenberg

There is going to be near-term inflation. Is it going to be sustained? I doubt it.

John Ambrose Fleming

Evolution is baseless and quite incredible.

Georges Benjamin

The genetic evolution we're observing is very worrisome. The threat is real. It's already a pandemic in birds.

Paul Chellgren

The notebook especially has its place, particularly in productivity. What we'll see if evolution from the PC down.

Joanna Stevens

It's an evolution in thinking. The plans are more realistic in terms of what will work for the Internet.

Robert Summers

I've honestly never understood where the problem lies within this debate, ... Science simply explains the work of God. For those who can put faith in God without question, (creationism) is for them. For those that need physical proof, evolution works for them.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Protecting our future on this planet depends on the conscious evolution of our species.

Ernst Mayr

Evolution is no longer necessarily progressive; it no longer strives toward perfection or any other goal. It is opportunistic, hence unpredictable.

John M. Smith

Evolution is great, but I still like bananas.

Richard Kissel

Evolution is a process. As long as there's life on the planet, it can't not happen.

Dave Taylor

He is probably the premiere mystery writer today. He's our generation's Dashiell Hammett.

Eric Bana

I like the unknown. I like mystery.

Jeff Vogt

It's still a mystery for a lot of people what he will do or who will actually run the government.

Judith Kilpatrick

It was just a wonderful mystery in many respects.

Ben Sherwood

There's a reason for everything, you said, and though it's a mystery to me now, I know it won't always be so.

John Green

We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved.

John Foxe

It was emotional. We're a rivalry. There's no mystery to that.

Donald DeMayo

Where (those charges) stem from is a mystery to me.

Charles de Gaulle

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

Walter Lippmann

Even God has been defended with nonsense.

Jim Wallis

Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.

Oscar Wilde

I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.

Josh Billings

Good nonsense is good sense in disguise.

Georg Solti

Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense.

C. S. Lewis

Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I tried to swallow his nonsense without choking.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

PROOF-READER, n. A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.

Orson Scott Card

Nonsense," said Graff. "Ender always has plans within plans.

Joseph Castelo

It should not strengthen the position of those with a preconceived notion about terrorists.

Ray Allen

It seems the referees take these preconceived notions about what he's going to do. It's ridiculous some of the calls.

Michelle Branch

People have this notion of me being this sweet, nice girl, but I'm kind of a pervert.

Donna Brazile

I'm not about waiting anymore. I'm off the privilege notion now; I'm on to fairness.

Loren Thompson

We ought to get off this notion that we're going to be deploying it, because we're not.

Ha-Joon Chang

I think this notion that public enterprises do not work and therefore nationalization will be a disaster, I mean, it's not supported by evidence.

Gary Peters

I take very seriously the notion that you have to get out in your community; you have to talk to people, but, more importantly, you have to listen to people.

Golan Levin

The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.

Frank Melton

It occurs to me that I'm not protecting a source. I am the source and I don't need protecting.

F. Schumacher

Going from two wheels to four, we've seen in the past that this can be done.

Richelle Mead

Don't judge the past by the standards of today. It won't work. They're incompatible.

Ronda Rousey

Judo taught me that I am capable of anything... I can mentally push past anything and be victorious.

William Faulkner

A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and not because of the high quite often only too rhetorical rhetoric of humanity but for the simple indubitable practical reason of his future: that capacity to survive and absorb and endure and still be steadfast.

Richard M. Nixon

The 1970s must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by reclaiming the purity of its air, its waters, and our living environment. It is literally now or never.

Richard M. Nixon

As we work to expand our supplies of energy, we should also recognize that we must balance those efforts with our concern to preserve our environment. In the past, as we have sought new energy sources, we have too often damaged or despoiled our land.

Richard M. Nixon

We have been through, over these years, some difficult times. During the period that I have served as President of the United States, we have been through some difficult times together, and I can only say that the friendship that we have for this nation, the respect and the admiration we have for the people of this nation, their courage, their tenacity, their firmness in the face of very great odds, is one that makes us proud to stand with Israel, as we have in the past in times of trouble, and now to work with Israel in a better time, a time that we trust will be a time of peace.

Richard Gilman

I want my poor value to exist past me, somewhere else.

Robert Dale Owen

After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?

Saint Ignatius

The wellbeing of the head resounds throughout the whole body, and as are the Superiors, so, in turn, will their subjects be.

Dan Smith

He was getting at a really important subject and he did it thoughtfully and gracefully.

Jess Walter

I'm a writer, and the subject is less important than the act of writing itself.

Mahatma Gandhi

No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation.

Laura Miller

It's very, very troubling, and very subjective and very unfair,

Alton Brown

Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.

Soren Kierkegaard

Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.

Nigel Barker

If I am to judge others, I should be subject to be judged. You make your bed, you must lie in it.

Barton Gellman

NSA surveillance is a complex subject - legally, technically and operationally.

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Susumu Tonegawa

It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

Deirdre O'Kane

You worry about whether you are match-fit, coming back to the stand-up stage.

F. Schumacher

That has to be our target. Whether it's realistic, we'll find out in Bahrain.

Sabrina Davis

I want everyone to get their say, whether they say yes or no.

Lucy Hawking

I wonder whether being a scientist's daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.

Silas Lee

There's a lot of frustration. Whether or not all the incumbents get defeated, that is to be seen.