Famous Quotes & Sayings

Deborah Eisenberg

Politics is a matter of human transaction. I consider absolutely everything political, because all fiction involves relationships between people, and relationships between people always include matters of power, of equity, of communication.

David Boreanaz

I could easily escape to a hotel for a weekend and do absolutely nothing.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I am struck by how, walking down the street, I'm rarely made aware of my race, but that among journalists, race is absolutely massive.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

There's a catharsis in cutting down trees. But there's absolutely none of that in picking cotton. It's maddening! It's fiddly, and it pricks your fingers, and it's something that's a very hard skill if you have no alacrity for it.

Play is the best natural resource in a creative economy. Kids need more of it. It is the work of childhood. We hope to intrinsically change the opinion that play is not just a luxury but an absolute necessity for kids' lives.

Denis Napthine

It's absolutely essential that Melbourne, and Victoria, has a rail link to the airport.

John C. Calhoun

How can this full, perfect, just and supreme voice of the people, embodied in the Constitution, be brought to bear, habitually and steadily, in counteracting the fatal tendency of the government to the absolute and despotic control of the numerical majority?

Bill Cosby

The absolute truth is that there is no power in celebrity.

The 20 grand Window really caught the imagination of the public and once Gerry and Michelle were chosen as the contesting couple reaction was absolutely huge.

The absolute worst way to hunt elk is off an ATV, ... There is something about the pitch of an ATV that's just wrong. They are much louder than an average passenger vehicle or 4-wheel-drive vehicle.

The absolute worst visit of any college athlete that I've ever been associated with. It was god-awful.

The absolute worst piece of information that can get out is your Social Security number.

The Absolute Truth of Knowledge is precisely non-Knowledge. If this Mirror called Knowledge remains in the phase where nothing is reflected in it, then it does not have a Self anymore, it does not have any element, is as empty and sterile as if it were not. Thus the Mirror is non-Knowledge more than it is Knowledge and becomes Knowledge only when other Prints of the Matrix Words reflect in it.

The absolute numbers are in the opposite direction.

The absolute necessity is diversity has to be in portfolios.

Jim Balsillie

The absolute motivation for this was really to give clarity and certainty to all of our ecosystems, so we can really start our new year ... with all of these issues resolved, and a clear exciting growth path going forward with no more of the noise and distraction.

The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.

Tony Blair

The accumulation of weapons of mass destruction by Iraq poses a threat, a threat not just to the region but to the wider world, and I think George Bush was absolutely right to raise it.

The alternative was absolute impotence. So people were eager to try it out, especially when the potential of failure presented no obvious downside.

The allegations are of quite startling brutality in the implementation of force-feeding. Yet there's been no independent medical evaluation, and there absolutely needs to be one.

Andrew Demetriou

The All Australian team isn't always conducive to being good and adept at this game, and Kevin and his support group have put together a team which no doubt will be absolutely attuned to this sort of game.

The aristocracy of Western Europe has absolutely tabooed silver in those countries and driven it away from there. Here it finds its only resting place.

The answer is yes, absolutely they're very good and they're very fair-minded people. This is the driving criterion for why they were selected.

John Davidson

The assassination of his character, to me, is absolutely ludicrous. There's no question in my mind, if there's a person in the world of hockey that deserves the benefit of the doubt in a situation such as this, it's Wayne Gretzky.

That would kill any team. I didn't see anything I liked. Absolutely nothing.

That would be like a personal loan, and our auditor said absolutely not.

Bob Hill

That was the difference in the game. We just kept fouling. They shot 39 free throws in our building. That had absolutely nothing to do with the officiating. That was us. That clearly where the game was won right there.

David Vitter

That would be absolutely horrible news for our Gulf states.

That was something my husband wanted and used to say, 'You can play golf, but you're absolutely going to graduate college.'

We have an extraordinary team of journalists and employees in this company who are absolutely dedicated to getting this paper out, no matter what the conditions are, people who lost their homes, who didn't know what had become of their families and who kept on working.

We have an absolutely clear conscience because everything humanly possible is being done with the greatest care for security, also for safety in case of extreme panic.

We have always had absolute zero tolerance for sexual meetings. As for short-term liaisons, who is Match to say whether an encounter will last one night or a whole lifetime?

Susan Collins

We need to have clear guidance, in law, that makes it very clear that inhumane treatment of detainees in American captivity is absolutely unacceptable. This problem is hurting us around the world. It's contrary to our values, and we simply must have this as part of the final bill.