Famous Quotes & Sayings

Strip away everything that is not absolutely essential to your focus. At the start of almost every interview, the interviewer will ask, 'what do you do?' Go directly into your focus.

Stephen Graham Jones

Stories need stupid decisions that, at the time, seem absolutely rational and necessary. Without stupid decisions, the world isn't thrown out of balance, and so there's no need for a 'rest of the story' to balance it back.

Simon Schama

St. Paul was making it impossible to be Jewish and Christian at the same time. What is very striking about those early churches and communities is that you could be both. Under Paul, though, you absolutely couldn't.

Brendan Shanahan

Some people told me that, with the lock-out, this was the wrong time to do something like this. I thought it was absolutely the right time - even the only time - to do it.

Sovereignty is no longer an absolute value. We can see that more than 12 foreign states have put our territory under surveillance. So, efforts to guard the unity of this state are a must,

So they don't injure their voices. Basically, screaming is a part of a new up-and-coming generation of real-life rock 'n' rollers where passion and sincerity and reality is absolutely necessary and required. I don't want to see them damage their vocal cords.

Sources close to Heather say that she is absolutely shocked by the relationship because she didn't find out about it until everybody else found out about it.

Sounds like what we've got tonight is a little bit of Hilton Magic (here tonight). I can tell you that I am absolutely delighted at the outcome.

Sven Goran

Sometimes I feel you should not say too much about a young player, but he is absolutely incredible.

We had preordered and also had cheese quiche with potato crust. It was absolutely wonderful,

John Kuhn

We had people dropping off items within minutes of our announcement, ... Since then it has been a steady stream of donations, it's absolutely amazing and it says a lot about the compassion of people in our community.

Nick Zinner

We went into the studio with absolutely nothing. Sometimes we were on the same page, but other times it was more complicated, basically because we didn't know what we were after. All we knew was we wanted it to be different from the first one.

We have done this for a long time, we do it well, and if things are happening right now that are not to our standard, then we absolutely need to change that.

David Lloyd

I think the Occupy movement is absolutely fantastic; in my opinion, it's probably one of the most important people's movements of the 21st century and the 20th century. The trouble is that nobody really wants to support what they represent. They are too 'grassroots' for their own good.

David Rakoff

Let's face it: professing a deep interest in movies, the absolutely dominant global art form of the last century, is at this point like professing an interest in air. Passion is nice. Erudition is admirable. But it's like that moment when good manners cross over into meaningless etiquette.

The relationship between God and his people was always the one having absolute primacy, the one that had basically to determine all human relationships, whether those within the covenanted community itself or those between the covenanted community and the outside world.

Ben Lovett

'I Just Might Pray' by The David Mayfield Parade has an upbeat tempo without being sugary sweet. 'I Just Might Pray' is an enjoyable track and is easily listened to. As a side note, the video for 'I Just Might Pray' is absolutely adorable.

We'd absolutely love it if our Burnout games worked on 360. But it's down to what Microsoft wants to do. It controls and decides what games its emulator works with. I've actually asked them four times myself for them to make it happen, but it's really not up to us.

Both history and practices of 'the myth of empires' have demonstrated that the pre-emptive strategy will bring the Bush administration an outcome that it is most unwilling to see, that is, absolute insecurity of the 'American Empire' and its demise because of expansion it cannot cope with,

Jiang Zemin

Both democracy and human rights are relative concepts and not absolute and general,

John Milton

Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them

John Milton

Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.

Jeremy Jordan

Bonnie and Clyde grew up in absolute poverty. They didn't go to school or have any money; the only way they could figure out how to get ahead was to steal. The banks were foreclosing on everyone's homes. I think a lot of people will be able to relate to that struggle.

Borders absolutely supports the customers' right to choose what to read and what to buy, and Free Inquiry has the right to publish the cartoons. We made the decision not to carry this particular issue of Free Inquiry because of the fact that we place a priority on customer and employee safety and security.

Julie Walters

Both my parents died from smoking, so yes, I absolutely agree with the policy. It's nice for me not to have to worry about secondhand smoke here anymore.

Steve Davis

Bringing back some of these styles and retro looks is absolutely brilliant.

Michael Brown

Brian, it's an absolutely fair question... The federal government just learned about those people today.

Ben Howland

Brandon is just absolutely terrific. Looking at the stats, it's amazing how good this kid is.

Brad took a quality wrestler in Lau and absolutely dominated him in every phase. Brad rose to the occasion and came close to pinning Lau.

Mark Gottfried

Brewer for a couple of minutes just absolutely took the game over.

Brent told us he was going to dominate (Saturday), and he obviously brought his game face. He was an absolute stud (Saturday). That's the best game I've ever seen him pitch. After what we went through (Friday) night, that was big.

Phil Garner

Boy, he just stepped up large for us and just took control of the ballgame, just absolutely dominated the game.

James Adamson

This cost reduction initiative is absolutely critical to our reorganization, ... We had no alternative but to take this action. The company continues to take the steps necessary to return to financial health and regain the confidence of its many stakeholders.