Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nathaniel Branden

Of all the nonsense written about love, none is more absurd than the notion that ideal love is selfless. To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive.

Dominic Cooper

We want to pigeonhole things and people, but it is absurd to regard me just as a furry wig-and-britches actor.

Paul Stanley

I don't know what's more embarrassing, these musicians and actors talking about politics in interviews or the media actually giving them credibility about it. It's absurd that a celebrity could speak out on the economy or politics with no more justification than a hit album or a movie.

Paul Merton

When things are difficult, awful, stressful, the thing that always gets you through is a sense of humour. I don't mean - well, maybe I do - laugh at the hangman as he puts the noose around your neck. But an eye, an ear, for the ridiculous, the absurd in life, can get you through a lot.

Todd Gitlin

The manufacture of desire isn't at the heart - if it isn't absurd to speak of a heart - of the media torrent. Chronic dissatisfaction is at the heart of the matter.

Jonah Hill

Look, at the same time that I don't want to be a celebrity, I understand that when you make movies you put yourself out in the public eye. I'd be a baby and a fool to be like, 'Why are there cameras taking pictures of me?' when I'm on a billboard for a movie. I think that's a very absurd concept.

Nathan Fielder

In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.

Nicolle Wallace

It would be absurd for me to diagnose Sarah Palin with a sprained ankle, let alone any sort of mental illness.

Larry Ellison

Autonomy was shopped to us. We looked at the price and thought it was absurdly high.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Many people struggle to make hummus that lives up to their expectations at home, and recreating a favourite brand or the stuff from your local deli is almost impossible.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Almost every culture has its own variation on chicken soup, and rightly so - it's one of the most gratifying dishes on the face of the Earth.

Yotam Ottolenghi

A great fig should look like it's just about to burst its skin. When squeezed lightly it should give a little and not spring back. It must be almost unctuously sweet, soft and wet.

Werner Herzog

Let's put it this way: art house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely, and that means there's a shift in what audiences want to see. And they have to be aware of that and be realistic. It's as simple as that.

Will Friedle

It's fun to see a lot of the crowd become embarrassed. You're kind of watching them almost wanting to not watch the screen, but they have to because it's so compelling!

Warren Stephens

One of the industries we follow very closely is the trucking industry. They would love if today there was an option for them to run their fleets on natural gas, because of the price disparity between oil and refined diesel - which they almost exclusively run on now - and natural gas.

William McDonough

We are all born artists... Almost everything kids do is art.

William Henry Ashley

These mountains appear to be almost entirely composed of stratas of rock of various colours (mostly red) and are partially covered with a dwarfish growth of pine and cedar, which are the only species of timber to be seen.

Webb Simpson

I mean, I think having a great family like I do. You know, I tend to want to give it all I have when I'm at the golf course, and then when I leave I don't want to think about golf at all. And I just remind myself almost daily that golf's just my job, it's not who I am.

Joe Martin

The pioneers are giving way to some of the big guys who can weather all the change.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Lao Tzu

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

Nick Vitucci

Wheeling is an opportunistic team and we are giving them too many opportunities right now. We need to get away from some of the things that are frustrating us out there.

S. Hughes

We are not giving up tax revenue. We are redirecting it to get 700 new jobs.

Eddie Martinez

We are not giving up by any means. He might be hanging out in the sand dunes.

Jim Stuart

We are not giving away condos to them.

Alan Cohen

The universe always gives you more of what you are focusing on.

Alan Cohen

Give people permission to be who they are and they will love, thank, and respect you forever.

Najib Razak

In the space of one lifetime, the Internet has opened up opportunities that were previously inconceivable.

Andrew Vachss

There is no Constitutional right to prey on others. The Internet is just a piece of technology, like the telephone. Society has the right to modify its uses.

Homer

Internet! Is that thing still around?

Mitchell Baker

The Internet offers untold potential for humanity. To make the most of it, we need to think of the Internet as 'ours.'

Tanya Harris

Unless you have Internet access, a lot of people are left completely out of the loop. We want to let them know what their options are. We just want people to vote.

Star Trek

word got out on the internet that Trip was not dead, but what can you do?

Eddie Izzard

I've wiped the file? .... I've wiped all the files? .... I've wiped the INTERNET? I don't even have a modem!

David Duchovny

In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.

Azealia Banks

I've been making music for a while. And I could read about myself on the Internet for a while.

Aja Naomi King

Back when people couldn't read, other people would take newspapers and turn them into theater so that people would know what was going on in the world. That is a powerful thing.

Tom Knight

There is little news to perk up the market.

Venus Williams

You know the reason I don't watch the news is because I don't like violence,

Tom Daschle

We are dismayed and we are angered at the news of WorldCom today,

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The good news isn't that God is victorious. How can He not be victorious? The good news is we can be victorious, too.

David Talbot

Other than that one year, Salon has been very cautious about the way it spends money. For instance, since last year, we've had virtually no marketing budget. It's just word of mouth. And our circulation continues to grow that way by breaking news stories.

Edward Lear

Who, or why, or which, or what, Is the Akhond of Swat?

Arthur Christiansen

News, news, news - that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper.

Arianna Huffington

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Karrie Webb

On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.

Miranda Hart

As a woman, it seems you can't just be a comedian; you're always classed as something else, too, whether that's 'beautiful,' 'pint-sized,' 'larger-than-life' or in my case, 'Hattie Jacques-esque,' 'the giraffe,' 'big.'

Oscar Sanchez

Webb seems to be up to its usual games.

Gail Carriger

It seems to me that Halloween is the perfect time to get all over steampunk.

Miranda Lambert

We had like a jolt of women in country, and it seems like we're just kind of there now.

Carolina Herrera

Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.

Laurie Lee

With three kids, it seems like I'm always shelling out $5 here and $5 there,

John Sacchi

We're in a situation where we just can't stop the bleeding. We keep trying to put band-aids on the wound, but nothing seems to help.

Jim Rash

When you stop thinking about something, the idea comes to you. It seems to work.

Clint Eastwood

When I'm a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It's somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.

Nancy Grace

Listen, when somebody says, 'I take the fifth,' well, you know, they did something, OK? Why else would they take the fifth?

Noreena Hertz

If somebody tweets 'I like Coca-Cola,' does that mean that they're actually going to buy Coca-Cola? One can? Two cans? Three cans? If they retweet someone else's Tweet, does that mean they're going to buy it?

Pete Rose

No matter how many times you say you're sorry, somebody is not going to hear you.

Sevyn Streeter

No matter what you go through, if it's the truth, 9 times out of 10, somebody else has been through the same thing or is currently going through the same thing.

Adam Mansbach

As a writer, I've always been somebody who's been productive and hustled hard.

Adriana Lima

I'm not going to fly a million miles with somebody I don't know.

Lori Allain

Where are you going to find somebody who doesn't know us in Hernando County?

Samantha Fox

When somebody wants me to sign an old picture, it's like looking at another person.