Famous Quotes & Sayings

To be competitive with the Ivy League schools, the coastal schools, we absolutely need chairs and professorships. It recognizes our very best faculty and provides them with unrestricted resources to try new ideas, things they wouldn't otherwise be able to get money for. It supports undergraduate student researchers and gets them in labs. These are things that are critical, and our competitors have chairs and professorships, and we need to as well to keep people here.

You learn a great deal when you come close and you do a good job but you lose an election, ... The campaign he's run this time is absolutely terrific, it's right on target.

Make sure you are absolutely clear about what kind of place you want. Otherwise, the consumer won't come, and it won't work.

Lynn Harrell is absolutely one of the greatest cellists on the planet and great figures performing today.

Celso Amorim

made no proposal and then what there was went up in smoke. . . . He circled around the subject and seemed to be opening the door but then made absolutely clear he was not making a proposal.

Eugene Ormandy

Let me explain what I do here. I don't want to confuse you any more than absolutely necessary.

Kofi Annan

Let me be absolutely clear: the United Nations does not want to take over, police or otherwise control the Internet,

Low-sulfur fuels are absolutely critical to us having a successful diesel market in the U.S.,

Look who you have up here tonight. I'm not even the best basketball player on this dais. I am absolutely honored to be up here.

Layering debt on the operation of the Hall of Fame was something we were absolutely committed not to do.

Steve Greene

Last year we didn't have the most explosive start. This time we got a pretty good start and hopefully we can keep it going. Everyone is hitting the ball real well. The team is absolutely crushing the ball. We haven't had a game where nobody is hitting the ball. Everyone is getting line shots or beating out ground balls.

Many of the countries highlighted in this report have absolutely abysmal records of torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of detainees. The United States government must do all it can to end the global culture of torture. But real change can only occur if the Bush Administration not only admits that its own policies perpetuate torture and ill treatment, but also cleans house and stops warehousing detainees in countries with shameful human rights records.

Brian O'Connor

Sean Doolittle absolutely set the tone for that game with his performance on the mound on just four days rest. He set the tone for the weekend and fortunately, Casey came in there in the ninth and we found a way to win at the end.

Seniors across the country will be absolutely bewildered by the choices they are confronted with and they are going to have a very difficult time navigating those choices.

David Robertson

sense of being absolutely creative within the rules. I tend not to think in terms of one mass of people that you unify, but rather as a field of play in which the inspiration might come from any group at any time, which then can be suddenly absorbed by the rest of the group. The reaction time feels instantaneous. You have music that none of you knew was going to be there before--and suddenly arrives.

Jerry Colangelo

So I visited with him about a half-hour ago to confirm that everything's OK and absolutely it is. He said 'Well, what should I tell the media?' and I said 'Tell them you're in, because that's what I'm going to tell them.

Peter Hain

So it is absolutely essential now that the government gives the lead to re-establish the rule of law,

Wayne Smith

So if the other two tools haven't been released, there's no great reason to have this released yet. It absolutely exists to support both Web Designer and Interactive Designer.

So I believe absolutely in this coaching staff and players and what they're doing.

Sol is absolutely fine. I have been in continuous contact with him since Wednesday evening.

Sol is absolutely fine. I have been in continuous contact with him. He needed time and space to gather his thoughts. He has no personal problems whatsoever. He will be back in training next week.

Sol is absolutely fine. He needed time and space to gather his thoughts.

She's the most enjoyable player on our team. Our kids absolutely love her.

She was a fan you could always count on that would always be in the stands, no matter what. She was absolutely going to be there. She was not going to have anything stop her.

She wanted more and more and her demands were absolutely exorbitant.

She talks about her ordeal in her book. We are absolutely thrilled to have her.

Lois Capps

Obviously, the real test of these regulations will be their implementation, ... It is absolutely critical that the Air Force leadership ensure that these regulations are well understood and strictly enforced, especially at the Air Force Academy.

Obviously it's great to be on pole again, ... The way things go wrong in these sessions - they're so short - that you have to be absolutely flat out from the first lap. That's basically what our plan was and it seemed to work out. I didn't qualify at the last race at Watkins Glen - my teammate Bob Stallings did - but that's two poles in two qualifying sessions for me, and that 's something we're pretty happy about.

Maria Sharapova

Obviously, I felt a little tired but that's normal after playing four straight weeks. I mean, I'm not gonna feel great. My body's not gonna feel great. That's absolutely normal. But I just have to give it all I had, and I tried. But, you know, at the end of the day, just come up short. That's all right.

Obviously, a quarter-million dollars puts a lot of people in a different tax bracket. All we are looking for is getting Jennifer back. We're giving absolutely every person the opportunity to come forward.

Robert Thompson

Nobody had that expectation before. Television was something you had absolutely no control over.

Paula Creamer

Nothing. I'm going to lay on my couch and do absolutely nothing.

Right now, money is going out three times faster than on a normal day because we have so many people working so many hours and we have absolutely nothing coming in.