Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Crean

Playing 40 minutes of defense was the absolute key. We thought last week that we played about 20 minutes of solid defense, and we lost our defensive intensity in the second half.

Players have absolutely nothing to do with ticket prices. We had nothing to do with the recent decision to charge for Web broadcasts. These are management decisions, which management makes based on what each club or central baseball determines is the economic condition of the country and each market.

Tony Hatch

Planning and looking beyond the next few days is absolutely the right thing for the railroads to do.

Jacques Chirac

re-establishment of order is for me an absolute priority... which has not yet been achieved.

Past tragedies have given people an opportunity to prosper. Now we face the challenge of ensuring all the money and material help will be managed with absolute honesty, ... We hope not a single dollar will be wasted.

pay a certain amount of money privately and go to his clinic, he'd be able to deal with it. And I think that's absolutely unacceptable.

Dan Smith

In Tom Clark's passing, Kentuckians and all those who care about history have lost an absolute treasure. He constantly thought of new ways to present history, how to teach it, and what next to write about. His boundless energy and endless curiosity to discover the truth about the past were the hallmarks not only of a remarkable intellect but also of a well-lived life.

Ali Larijani

Iran has the absolute right to enrich. Meanwhile, the other side has proposed that for a while the issue of enrichment could be resolved in a different way. This is worth discussing. I think we can reach an agreement that could suit today's circumstances.

Hillary Clinton

Iran has basically propped up Assad, who has waged an absolute war of horror against the Syrian people. And he has done anything he could to stay in power with the full support of the Iranians and including Iranian troops and Hezbollah from Lebanon, which are an Iranian proxy.

If you want to be a leader whom people follow with absolute conviction, you have to be a likable leader. Tyrants and curmudgeons with brilliant vision can command a reluctant following for a time, but it never lasts. They burn people out before they ever get to see what anyone is truly capable of.

In my mind, he's an absolute lock, ... I don't even need to see any numbers. He's in today. He's in yesterday. He's in three months ago. If you had asked me five years ago, I'd have told you he was in.

In absolute terms there has been no period like the past three years in Washington County history. It's a frenzy. That's all anyone talks about is housing prices and how much money they have made.

In absolute terms, the deficit is high. However, this will contribute significantly to the country's gross domestic product. As economic activity gets a boost, the deficit will indirectly spur further economic growth.

Craig Johnson

In absolute dollar terms Wal-Mart is outpacing Target but that's primarily because it's the bigger player,

Tiger Woods

I had a great year, an absolute great year, ... The changes that I made were to become more consistent in the major championships, and that's exactly what happened. I was there with a chance to win on the back nine on Sunday at every one. And that's a great feeling.

If you plan on working out at night after work, then that's when you need to try out the gym. You may find it's an absolute zoo at that hour, and then it probably wouldn't be a good choice for you.

Lindy Ruff

If you go knee on knee and take a shot at the guy's head at the same time, you don't deserve to be in the game. We're going to the playoffs and you take out one of our best players because you couldn't take a hit. That's an absolute joke.

Jimmy Carter

In the United States, we feel that it is very important to have absolute freedom of expression and freedom of assembly,

In some neighborhoods, pay phones always seem to be broken. It hurts poor people the worst. There are still many people in this city who cannot afford phone service, period. Public pay phones are an absolute essential for a lot of people.

Abigail Washburn

In some ways, my most comfortable feeling has been that of being an outsider coming in, but over the years I've tired of that and I'm ready to feel at home. That's what music gives me: a feeling of absolute home.

In our modern age it is very difficult to distinguish between absolute economic and absolute security issues.

Neelie Kroes

I think national champions are absolute nonsense. This rhetoric is extremely dangerous.

David Schwimmer

I really believe that, as an actor, you should be constantly studying other people, and celebrity had the absolute opposite effect on me. It made me want to hide - to run away and hide.

Nic Pizzolatto

I read 'The Conspiracy Against the Human Race' and found it incredibly powerful writing. For me as a reader, it was less impactful as philosophy than as one writer's ultimate confessional: an absolute horror story, where the self is the monster.

David Ogilvy

Claude Hopkins... maintained that nobody with a college education could write an advertisement addressed to the mass millions. That's absolute poppycock.

His doctor told us that Noah would be an absolute vegetable for life. Noah has proved her to be wrong many times over.

Canada has recorded a remarkably bad productivity performance. Productivity has been tepid in terms of absolute growth rates and relative to the growth and levels recorded in other major economies. If this continues it will threaten the standard of living of Canadians.

In an absolute sense, the results were good. But I think there may be some disappointment over revenue, which came in basically in line with expectations.

James Darren

I listen to Sinatra, Dean Martin, Tony Bennett, Nat Cole, John Coltrane, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles. I absolutely love Ray Charles. I listen to Stan Getz, Ahmad Jamal, King Pleasure. My CD collection is getting too large, but I'd never get rid of those. I listen to Anita Baker, Elton John, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones.

Melissa McCarthy

If somebody's doing something, and you're laughing, and at the same time you're so embarrassed for them, it's my absolute kind of favorite type of laugh.

Bertie Ahern

Ireland is absolutely committed to playing its part in supporting the people of Iraq to build a truly sovereign and secure country.

Joe Carnahan

I look at Las Vegas, and I see the absolute best of what we are as Americans, and I see the absolute worst, in the same city.

I have relied on his sound knowledge of the business of cricket, his absolute integrity and his tireless commitment to West Indies cricket.