Famous Quotes & Sayings

Calvin Klein

AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap.

Camille Paglia

I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.

Camille Paglia

Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.

Chris Squire

I've had to replace parts in the basses when they've gotten old or worn out, so everything isn't absolutely original.

R. Buckminster Fuller

One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.

Cynthia Ozick

I'm a fiction writer, and I do write essays, but I am not a poet. And I absolutely reject the phrase 'woman writer' as anti-feminist. I wrote an essay about this as far back as 1977, at the height of the neo-feminist movement.

Dwayne Johnson

I absolutely believed when I was young because the Tooth Fairy was always good to me. The Tooth Fairy generally left me a dollar or two dollars and, as a kid, that was a lot of money.

Duane Michals

There are those photographers who have made a whole career doing commercial work but have never had a museum show, and then there are others who've only had museum shows but couldn't survive for five seconds in the real world of photography. But I've done absolutely everything.

Dwight Schultz

The time between appearances for us is so great that we lose track of it. It would be like watching 'Ben Hur' at one frame a second. There would be long periods of time where absolutely nothing was going on.

Paul Haggis

All my work is partly biographical. I mean, 'Crash' was absolutely that, absolutely. But you just wouldn't recognize me in most of those characters. But I was in every single one of those characters in 'Crash,' because those were all fears that I had felt. Things that I had thought in my deepest, darkest heart.

Patricia Hewitt

Barbara Castle should have been Labour's - and Britain's - first female prime minister. What a role model she would have been: passionate, fiery, and absolutely committed to social justice.

Norman Foster

You can find, occasionally, some absolutely fantastic things in hunting shops. I've got one jacket that I just happened across which is a kind of unwashed leather - completely anonymous but absolutely special.

We played well in overtime, but couldn't get the score with Pacelli attacking the ball. His (Andrew Gross) two finishes were absolutely great.

Brad Miller

We played absolutely awful. The only reason the score was close is because they had a bunch of turnovers, too.

John Lawson

We projected a lower and an upper figure. We wanted to make sure the Treasury was absolutely committed to the idea. We don't regret coming up with our numbers. The government did its own calculations.

Tippi Hedren

Right now I'm looking at a liger out my bedroom window. He's half lion and half tiger. And he's absolutely beautiful. His name is Patrick.

Scott Weiss

It's really hard to break through the clutter and get the attention of the top investors, as they typically only look at deals that come in from a warm, credible referral. There's absolutely nothing more credible than getting an endorsement from a well-known subject matter expert who has already put their own money into your company.

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.

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 do not have any of what I consider scientifically sound evidence that chelators are going to make a difference for children with autism.

We're in pretty good shape now, but we absolutely have to get a handle on it before summer.

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.

When we came out and saw the entire crowd, it was absolutely packed, and it was an amazing site to walk out to that.

Yulia Tymoshenko

With this visit, I wanted to show that sometimes politicians have no fear when they are sure in their actions, ... I initiated this trip not only to show that there is no problem, that everything is absolutely normal but also to finally solve the issue and to put an end to it.

We're seeing a variety of things that we know absolutely come from a comet.

We were definitely out-hustled and outfought. The kids off the bench did an absolutely super job.

Rory Sabbatini

I remember when I was a rookie and would just let it go. There's absolutely no possibility I could ever have hit it that far. Just unbelievable.

Over the next decade I am absolutely certain we will see a huge shift in attitude.

Our tank is absolutely pristine. There was no indication of any kind of defects on this tank.

Vaclav Klaus

I'm absolutely convinced that the very small global warming we are experiencing is the result of natural causes. It's a cyclical phenomenon in the history of the Earth. The role of man is very small, almost negligible.

Lloyd Blankfein

I don't look forward to a time when every politician, every legislator goes to Washington absolutely committed to an extreme point of view. Elected representatives are sent to Washington to compromise, not to never compromise.

Sheryl Sandberg

I absolutely loved Tina Fey's 'Bossypants' and didn't want it to end. It's hilarious as well as important. Not only did I laugh on every page, but I was nodding along, highlighting and dog-earing like crazy.