Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Redford

Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it.

Tony Gilroy

Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.

John Updike

It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.

Eric Dubin

I don't know if there is any ambiguity to it. I don't take what he said lightly.

Stephen Rea

The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way.

Marsha Blackburn

When you look at the social cost of carbon - and there is a lot of ambiguity around that - what you also need to be doing is looking at the benefits of carbon and what that has on increased agriculture production.

Dr. Wood

This takes the ambiguity out of it as far as the insurance commissioner is concerned.

Chris Spear

We would like uniformity in the form of federal standards. This is a heavily regulated industry already. We're not unaccustomed to regulations within the chemical industry. In fact, many times regulations are helpful because they provide clarity on how we're supposed to comply. The worst thing you can have in the chemical industry is ambiguity in regulations.

Nick Harkaway

The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering.

Jacki Weaver

I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.

Daniel Becker

It's appalling that Nissan, V.W. and Hyundai are accelerating in reverse.

Paddy Ashdown

Ten years after Dayton, that these two primary architects of these appalling crimes should still be free is a failure on all sides.

Stephen Evans

Complying with this legislation is costly for our business so to find out that a government funded-body is encouraging companies to ignore the law is appalling and puts us at a significant disadvantage to those companies simply because we are law abiding.

Richard Horwell

Every householder's nightmare became a reality for the Monckton family. What followed was an appalling episode of violence.

David Sullivan

What can you say about last night? It was appalling and we, the board, are as gutted as everybody else.

Doug Whitley

I find it appalling that legislators would wish to gag employers so that they will not communicate with employees regarding public policies and civic issues, when we know employees would very much want to know what employers think about issues.

Eric Epstein

I find it appalling from an ethical and moral vantage point that you can actually profit from stealing from the treasury. There should be an incentive to return the money.

Isaac Newton

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Sandra Smith

He was a leader, he wasn't a follower. The boys are really having a hard time. Every last one of the kids is having a hard time because they really looked up to Jeffrey.

Frankie Dettori

He could win it and go on why not? He's done nothing wrong. He just lacks experience. He's got to tackle the big boys sooner or later, so Saturday should be a good test for him.

Simon Fuller

S Club 7, in some ways, was a continuation of some of the things I'd have liked to have done with the Spice Girls. It was also a shift in tone. S Club was this equality of boys and girls, very positive, very uplifting, didn't have the edge of the Spice Girls. I didn't want to repeat it.

Kevin Evans

He's a good boy and he's getting better and better. I tried to rough him up but I couldn't connect because he's so tall.

Maura O'Connor

Hockey has always been a big deal here with the boys program. But people are starting to realize what we're doing. That's good, because we really do have a good team.

Dan Hoffa

I thought we really stepped up in the fourth quarter on defense, otherwise we struggled the other three quarters. Offensively I was very pleased with what the boys did. They just seem to step up when they need to and that is something we've been doing all season. This was a good team win and I'm proud of them.

Caroll Spinney

I was called such names as a kid. Being the smallest boy in the class with a name like Caroll. I remember going home and saying to my mom, 'What were you thinking?'

Dean Tower

I thought we'd get a bunch but we only had four for most of last year. This will be the first time we haven't had a boys team. I don't know why they're not coming out for the sport.

Robert Bruno

The neighborhood butcher wouldn't have sold meat to you. You would be shunned at church.

Konrad Adenauer

Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.

Author unknown

I told the butcher I'd give him $10 if he got the meat down off the top shelf. He said he couldn't. The steaks were too high.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

Alden Ehrenreich

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Chuck D.

Joey wrestled a great tournament, and we don't want him to get lost in the shuffle. He was solid all weekend.

Tim Ehresman

Joe was great tonight. He did things tonight he's been practicing all year. Come heck or high water, he was going to make it (to the regional tournament) again.

Fay Vincent

John is the hero. He did a great job. Now Rose admits John was correct.

Donnie Henderson

I think it's a great opportunity. You always want to hear your name, and now a team has actually called. It's exciting.

John Gibson

I think it's a great opportunity to showcase our city.

Randy Smith

I think it's a great opportunity to be able to talk to him, but more important than that, I think it tells me that he's listening and that's really important to me.

Sarah Palin

All of 'em, any of 'em that have been in front of me over all these years.

Willard Scott

Bryant Gumbel's ego has applied for statehood. And if it's accepted, it will be the fifth-largest.

Caroline Rhea

My favorite machine at the gym is the vending machine.

Matt Groening

English? Who needs that? I'm never going to England.

Milton Berle

The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired.

Justin Timberlake

The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.

George Ade

Anybody can win - unless there happens to be a second entry.

Amy Poehler

Girls, if a boy says something that isn't funny, you don't have to laugh.

Amy Poehler

Take your risks now; as you become older, you become more fearful and less flexible. And I mean that literally. I hurt my knee this week on the treadmill, and it wasn't even on.

Russell Smith

I am indeed completely nuts, but that doesn't mean I don't care about how I look. Sometimes, I admit, I will privilege appearance over comfort.

Charles J. Shields

On the strength of Vonnegut's reputation, 'Breakfast of Champions' spent a year on the best-seller lists, proving that he could indeed publish anything and make money.

Lance Hedquist

In terms of the stance of the payment of the bill, the owner does have to pay the bill, and that's indeed what it'll take to get the water back on.

Zach Hall

This is indeed a day of celebration after what I would say was a long taxi down the runway.

Janet Yellen

I wouldn't say we're completely out of the woods just yet. Indeed there are some issues that have the potential to be troublesome going forward.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.

Bob Wheeler

There is indeed such a bottleneck, and if their software does what they claim, it should get wide support.

William Golding

However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.

Jojo Moyes

Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.

Sarah Waters

I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one'.

George Bernard Shaw

It is the sexless novel that should be distinguished: the sex novel is now normal.

Mohsin Hamid

Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.

Elizabeth Hardwick

Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel—and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or she.

Philipp Meyer

When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.

Terry Pratchett

It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing.

Manuel Puig

I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

Jonathan Vilma

I don't know what to say. I've never been in a situation like this before. It's tough, real tough.

Russell Hoban

There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life.

Tracy McGrady

I know I have to keep up my image. It's all about how you handle the situation.

Dionny Reynolds

In situations like this, it got to be three people.

Jose Vidro

I haven't had an MRI yet, so I don't know what the situation is.

Bobby Bowden

This is one of those situations where we don't have a lot of experience. But they sure are talented.

John Tortorella

Sure I am (concerned). We're in a tough situation here. I'm not going to sit here and (lie) to you.

Chandra Muzaffar

It's back to square one. I don't think the situation is getting better.

Brian Eno

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.