Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Wilde

Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.

Frank has a proven record as one of the top offensive minds in the country and is the absolute best fit for the North Carolina football program.

France is an absolute monarchy tempered by songs

Jay Rockefeller

From our side of the table, there was absolute unanimity on federalization, and we're going to write the law,

Steve Smith

From our perspective, things are absolutely moving in the right direction.

Ben Murphy

We know as long as we play hard and play smart defensively and with the goaltending we've got, we're not afraid that if it's a 1-0 or 2-1 game we can't come out on top. Teams playing down the stretch are playing their absolute best, and that's what we have to give them.

Johnny Damon

Wake has been absolutely awesome lately. Hopefully he can keep up that magic. He's making guys look foolish out there.

Ultimately we looked at what charges were available; we didn't have anything to charge them with. We don't like the fact that nothing comes out of this absolutely stupid behavior, but we have the laws we have.

Ultimate Electronics has been a part of the Colorado community for nearly four decades. The work that the Boys & Girls Club does here in Denver is absolutely indispensable and we hope that this donation helps them to keep on inspiring the community's young people.

Ukraine that existed before the elections no longer exists. It has been split up into two sides with absolutely opposite opinions,

We have to fly legal, which is 1,000 feet over populated areas, and we cruise a little over 100 mph. Kids who have been in commercial flights say that this is so different because you can see the cars and people and cows below. It absolutely amazes them.

We have no illusions about China's desire to acquire sensitive information and technology for military uses by many different means. It is absolutely not true that we downplayed any evidence of this. We took the issue seriously, as our actions demonstrate.

Richard Blumenthal

We have no idea what the legal basis is for these claims, ... There seems to be no legal or factual basis for these claims since the state has played absolutely no role in this internal church dispute. ? We really, essentially, have no idea what they mean by this claim.

What the prime minister has said about the close, personal relationship which I have with this country is absolutely correct. That has always been the case and will always remain the case.

Susanna Kearsley

When you say that you write romantic fiction, there are a lot of people who have an image in their mind of the 'bodice ripper.' It's the one term that most romantic fiction writers absolutely hate because it has no bearing on what people are writing.

We want to set the record straight. At no time during yesterday's meeting between Ford and Bridgestone/Firestone, did any representative from Ford ask us to recall tires or replace any tires. They did not ask us to join with them on a recall or a replacement program. They told us they had made absolutely NO decision concerning our tires on their vehicles. Comments by Ford to the contrary are inaccurate.

Cheryl Richardson

If it's not an absolute YES, it's a NO

Arthur Rimbaud

. . . be absolute moderne.

We absolutely want to hear what they're saying. That's why we're having the workshops.

Eric Brewer

We absolutely want to be in The Villages and can't wait to open.

We absolutely think that we can get a deal done if management is serious about reaching a comprehensive agreement.

We absolutely support the concept of Secure Flight, or whatever name you want to give to passenger pre-screening. It's the concept that we support. We don't support at this time Registered Traveler, we think it takes the focus away from where we really ought to have it.

We absolutely support all these efforts (by the police), especially when we're coming into warm weather.

We absolutely reject the claims that Multiplex make.

We absolutely positively have to do some major belt-tightening. We're accumulating debt at such an alarming rate it is truly unsustainable.

We absolutely played horrible in pool play, then we advanced to the bronze bracket and blew everybody away.

Jeb Bush

We absolutely opposed to that as well, ... The economic benefits do not outweigh the environmental hazards.

Gilbert Arenas

We absolutely miss him. He is crucial to what we do. When you get used to having someone like that and then all of a sudden you don't have him, it means you have to adjust. We're having trouble adjusting.

We absolutely love it. It's made the whole backyard a paradise in Mason.

Patrick Swayze

We absolutely loved it in Winnipeg. The people were wonderful, the architecture is wonderful,

Eliot Spitzer

We absolutely look forward to working with the SEC as a partner in this, ... We need them to come in strongly, aggressively. They understand the problem. They've been our partners. I look forward to working with them.

We absolutely look forward to working with them when they prepare a plan.

We absolutely look at larger trends and reactions on Twitter here at the White House.