Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oliver J. Lodge

People of sense will not take its absurd triviality as anything but helpful in contributing to the proof of the survival of personal identity.

Tommy Caldwell

Stand at the base and look up at 3,000 feet of blankness. It just looks like there's no way you can climb it. That's what you seek as a climber. You want to find something that looks absurd and figure out how to do it.

Junichiro Koizumi

Some people called postal privatization an absurd idea. But the people judged that it is the right idea,

Germaine Greer

I think these things are so political you can't trust them at all. It's madness that I am on the list. It's absurd and completely unjustifiable. Their problem was they had to put an Australian on it. These lists are always so right-wing. It's like the Nobel prize, it is always 'people we can do business with'.

Robert Lantos

It is a sad testament of the absurdity of the ratings code and the completely illogical moral criteria that provide the underpinning for it, where any form of violence is perfectly acceptable for kids but sexuality continues to be the ultimate taboo,

Sir Eddington

I think there should be a law of Nature to prevent a star from behaving in this absurd way!

George Soros

The absurdity of its illegality has been clear to me for some time. I learned about pot from my kids and realized it was a lot better than Scotch, and I loved the Scotch. Then I went to my doctor, and he said, 'I'm thrilled. You're drinking too much. You're much better off doing pot than drinking.'

Anatole France

The absurdity of a religious practice may be clearly demonstrated without lessening the numbers of people who indulge in it

George Osborne

The allegations are completely untrue, and dredging up a photo from when I was 22 years old is pretty desperate stuff. This is merely part of an absurd smear campaign to divert attention from the issues that matter in this leadership contest.

Falun Gong

receiving a high level of attention from the Chinese government.

Roger Pielke

reinforces the view that we should pay even greater attention to preparing for the inevitability of future intense hurricanes striking vulnerable locations around the world. In the context of ever-growing coastal development, the costs of hurricanes are going to continue to escalate.

Daniel Winkowski

Relatively nothing is known about how the brain increases and decreases signaling. We want to discover the cellular mechanisms of how attention works.

Todd Davidson

Oregon offers some of the most accessible, high quality lodgings in the West, each with its own distinct service and attention to detail. It's gratifying to receive this recognition, especially when it's from travelers themselves.

Rob Walton

Paul and Jose are rotating off as part of our normal governance guidelines relating to the service of our outside directors. John chose not to stand for re-election in order to focus his attention on his duties as lead director of Delphi.

John Cacioppo

Part of living a healthy life is paying attention to friends and family.

Jeff Schuster

Paying attention to the changing lifestyles of the consumer is very important. When you have so much competition differentiating your product over others with a little tiny thing that suits (the consumer's) lifestyle may be enough to sway them.

Leatrice Eiseman

Pay attention to your feelings, ... Don't be concerned with what others think. Color is a highly personal choice.

Daryl Strohbehn

Pay attention to what the current markets are, see where the averages are and establish based off of what that market is some kind of price range that you're willing to trade in. You have to set your limits.

Javier Solana

Regarding relations with the European Union, all the declarations of the election campaign have been positive.

Verna Rutherford

Participating with the Beaumont Chamber of Commerce, we did a 'shop local' campaign in the month of December and spent quite a lot of money in an electronic media campaign.

Carol Rice

Participants can look a Texas map and see how far they could have gone if they had been walking in a straight line. One of the goals of the campaign is to help people develop good fitness habits whether it gets them moving indoors or outdoors.

Stephen Hess

Suddenly the campaign is over, they wake up and the press is not seeking their opinion. There's no more entourage, no Secret Service. It's very, very difficult.

Jeffrey Toobin

Starting Monday, we're going to see this campaign at a new level of negativity and hostility and combat that will make the summer look like a student council election.

John Glenn

some good advice, maybe even out of this committee, come up with a good campaign reform law.

Paul Kirk

Our role is not to jump-start a campaign and all of the sudden make a candidate competitive.

Maggie Jones

Our goal is to embark on a capital campaign this year because we have outgrown our facility and our facility is very antiquated.

Jared Hernandez

Our goal is to reach out to every Gator on this campus. This campaign is about marking the end of politics as usual.

John Kirkwood

Patients with this disease face a desperate situation for which we really lack any promising approaches,

Mary Parker

I thought we were all kind of desperate housewives. Mine was just a little more desperate than they were.

Stephen Joseph

It is nonsense on stilts and seemingly the work of a desperate journalist...

Seth Payne

Ideally, you're desperate every week, ... It's hard to get a win in this league no matter how good you are, so whether you're 0-3 or 3-0, that next win is tough to come by.

Chris Drury

This was a good game on our part in the desperate part of the game.

Bruce Gersh

Given Coty's outstanding track record in the fragrance market, the Desperate Housewives scent is guaranteed to be a hit with women everywhere.

Mike Williams

Jackson is to be commended to extend something like this, however (in this case) this is a desperate move to win this election.

Rod Keogh

Josh was desperate to play last Saturday and should be okay and Leigh is moving much more freely than he was.

Jim Moffat

I have lads here who have played for Dunfermline or who played under Davie at Livingston and they are desperate to get through. They want this tie and they want to have a go at Dunfermline. But we are not under-estimating Huntly.

Barry Hyman

I think it's just more of the same. The Nasdaq is quickly approaching 5,000 and it's hard to divert money back to traditional stocks when the opportunities are so phenomenal in the new world economy.

Ron Shock

I have a routine I go through on the days that I work, and I don't want to divert from that.

Dalton Gooding

When that statement was made, it highlighted the significance of the situation. We will not divert from that statement.

Sam Morris

We want to remove organic material from the municipal solid waste stream and divert it to a higher and better use.

Bennett Miller

Every relationship probably has, at its inception, a hundred things that you could pick on and divert you from it, but the feeling is there. You figure out a way to make it work.

David Foster

To divert meaningful volumes of through-trucks from I-81 in Virginia, the upgraded rail line would need to handle six new trains per hour, not per day.

Robert Slattery

In Illinois, it is illegal to levy a tax for one purpose and to then divert the funds and spend them for another purpose.

Tom Rath

This is very much going to divert the agenda,

Ashok Kumar

We had to divert considerable resources from planning and development to security related matters.

O. Henry

Our point here is that what we don't want is for people to walk away and say, well, those are yesterday's issues and they have been or will be addressed.

Pradeep Maharaj

Some of the issues they raised are new but many of them have been raised before.

Barry McGuigan

I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.

Bill Crawford

Regardless of what is being discussed . . . the issue is never more important than the quality of the interaction.

Cecil Taylor

The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.

Cecelia Ahern

What seems tragic now won't even be an issue in a few years time.

Carl Sagan

When you buy a used car, you kick the tires, you look at the odometer, you open up the hood. If you do not feel yourself an expert in automobile engines, you bring a friend who is. And you do this with something as unimportant as an automobile. But on the issues of the transcendent, of ethics, of morals, of the origins of the world, of the nature of human beings, on those issues should we not insist upon at least equally skeptical scrutiny?

Art Alexakis

I've always cared about the world. That's never been an issue. But with learning how to smile, it's been learning how to feel comfortable within my own skin, and to feel accepted, and to feel empowered, and to feel worthy.

John Greenwood

I think there's no understanding whatsoever of what the safety issues are.

Randy Cunneyworth

Our leadership has to step forward, and not just by being vocal in the room.

Marvin Miller

Some of the players were leaning on leadership to do most destabilizing thing possible for a union, to open they contract. They will rue the day they did this.

Christopher Whitney

Republicans aren't thinking as they used to think on these issues. There has been a role reversal at the leadership level and it has trickled down.

Peter Drucker

Management is doing a thing right; leadership is doing the right things.

Emily Williams

I'm here to teach them about JSU and different leadership positions and their roles.

Bill Shuster

Democrats' attack on the Republican majority leader is nothing but a coordinated agenda to stop an effective leader from accomplishing the people's business.

Cathy Rigby

There's no disgrace in failure, the disgrace is not to try.

Carrie Underwood

It's hard to look at things that are too close.

Bergen Evans

Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement. For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.

Paul Taylor

Price matters in this market. This is an increasingly price-sensitive consumer.

Bryce Fisher

Our offense is good. It's only a matter of time.

Al Groh

Our mentality is that no matter who we're playing, you'd better ready to prove yourself every week. Teams that don't have that mentality usually end up with an unpleasant result.

Nathaniel Bronner

Success is often not a matter of talent, but a matter of tenacity.

Hunter Collins

(State) is where most upsets happen. It doesn't matter who you're wrestling. It's not like other tournaments. At state, you've got to be ready to go at the first whistle of every match.

The Eagles

Our stance on the matter has not changed.

Joe Sacco

Robert Crumb is an influence on how I draw, but not on the subject matter I take or my approach. One thing I do like about Crumb is that he's chronicled his age, his times, and I think that is what artists should do.

Chipper Jones

Roger isn't ever going to let up, no matter who he's playing.

Tiger Woods

Rocco is very loose. No matter whether he's shooting 80 or 60, he's still the same.

Elliot Mintz

Janet is merely one of a number of witnesses and there is no allegation whatsoever that Janet has violated any law.

John Webster

We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.

Lord Salisbury

Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools.

Charles Hodge

Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his, but productivity will keep him on his feet.

bell hooks

Blacks who lack a proper killing rage are merely victims.

Marianne Williamson

'Accepting the Christ' is merely a shift in self-perception.

Frank Sinatra

To think that spring had depended/On merely this, a look, a kiss/To think that something so splendid/Could slip away in one little daybreak . . . .

Dada Vaswani

What humanity needs today is not merely philosophy or theology, but a message or reassurance.

Bianca Jagger

Photography speaks a universal language that does not need translation, and with an immediacy that the written word lacks. It freezes a moment in time, leaving an indelible image.

Cecil Beaton

You can't teach people photography, they've got to learn how to do it the best way possible for them. They can learn from looking at pictures taken by well-known people, but they don't really get intimate with the medium until they've made a few bad shots!

Carrie Mae Weems

I didnt know photography would take me to the places that it has taken me

Carrie Mae Weems

Photography can still be used to champion activism and change. I believe this, even while standing in the cool winds of postmodernism... Postmodernism looked radical, but it wasn't. As a movement it was profoundly liberal and became a victim of itself. Precisely at this historical moment, when multicultural democracy is the order of the day, photography can be used as a powerful weapon toward instituting political and cultural change. I for one will continue to work toward this end.

Carl Sagan

He sought a way to preserve the past. John Hershel was one of the founders of a new form of time travel.... a means to capture light and memories. He actually coined a word for it... photography. When you think about it, photography is a form of time travel. This man is staring at us from across the centuries, a ghost preserved by light.

Antonia Fraser

The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.

Anton Corbijn

Apart from photography and music videos, I also do graphic design.

Anton Corbijn

The really simple approach to photography is a great balance to making the films.

Anton Corbijn

I don't think I treat my film work as an extension of my photography. There are two different sets of rules there.

Howard Finster

You can't smear acrylics, you know, it dries too fast.

Mark Shields

The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work.