Absolutely eat dessert first. The thing that you want to do the most, do that.
‐‐ Joss Whedon
Absolutely father knows best, always do what your fathers say, and if you can't find one then just ask me, I am a father and I know best.
‐‐ Rainn Wilson
Absolutely, federal health care options in Congress should mirror those offered in the private sector. If these options are not available in the private sector, then folks working for the federal government should not have them either.
‐‐ Rob Woodall
Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct.
‐‐ Frank Langella
Absolutely, I grew up listening to soul music. People like Stevie, Aretha, Ray Charles, Michael and Prince. My parents' record collection was all I had when I was a little kid. If it wasn't that, it was something else in their collection.
‐‐ Jesse McCartney
Absolutely. I think that this is - politics is a tough business. I describe it as a full contact sport. You have to be prepared to get in there and mix it up.
‐‐ John Thune
Absolutely. I - you know, he was so that much a part of my life that, you know, Elvis, you know, once - once you bonded with him, I mean, there was no - there was no going back. He was just a great guy.
‐‐ Priscilla Presley
Absolutely, it's a really weird stage because at the minute, I can walk down the street and be unrecognised, lead a normal life, but my label and everybody is warning me that will be changing and I'm in for a rollercoaster ride.
‐‐ James Blunt
Absolutely. It's something I'd eventually love. In the meantime, I just borrow all my friends' kids. It's seriously the best birth control in the world. I'm so tired afterward, I'm like, Okay, maybe in another two years.
‐‐ Sarah Michelle Gellar
Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.
‐‐ Martha Beck
Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare.
‐‐ Zhang Ziyi
Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.
‐‐ Matthew McConaughey
Absolutely, 'Rabbit Hole' gave me a nice first introduction into film acting.
‐‐ Miles Teller
Absolutely the United States should lead in space, for the survival of the United States. It's inspiring for the next generation. If we lose leadership, then we'll be using Chinese capability to inspire Americans.
‐‐ Buzz Aldrin
Absolutely the worst thing about this job is the travel and being away from family. I have a wife and three wonderful children, the kids are all active in sports and it's very difficult to up and leave and miss them growing up.
‐‐ Roy Clark
Absolutely, there is a connection between food and love. I always say, when there's love in my heart or I'm feeling particularly good, the food comes out that much better. And so I think Valentine's Day is a special day.
‐‐ Todd English
Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.
‐‐ Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce
Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties.
‐‐ Jose Saramago
Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.
‐‐ Ali ibn Abi Talib
Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.
‐‐ Robert South
Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
‐‐ Al Capp
Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem de Kooning).
‐‐ Jerry Saltz
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
‐‐ Jackson Pollock
Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone.
‐‐ Octavio Paz
Abstract sympathy with the working class as an economic entity is easy, but the feeling can vanish on contact with actual members of the group, who often arrive with disturbing beliefs and powerful resentments - who might not sound or look like people urban progressives want to know.
‐‐ George Packer
Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz
Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract entities.
‐‐ Tom G. Palmer
Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.
‐‐ Robert Smithson
Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz
Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
‐‐ Josef Albers
Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.
‐‐ David Lynch
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce
Abu Mazen has deprived himself of all the practical authorities of government.
‐‐ Ehud Olmert
Abu Mazen has got to do only one thing: to fight terror. That's what he needs to do.
‐‐ Ehud Olmert
Abu Mazen has no more hope for Netanyahu's approach. He's searching for a way to establish the Palestinian state. He doesn't want a militarized struggle with Israel.
‐‐ Ayman Odeh
Abu Mazen is not a member of the Zionist movement. He is a Palestinian.
‐‐ Ariel Sharon
Abu Mazen told me he does not want to change the demographics of Israel.
‐‐ Ehud Olmert
Abu Mazen understands that it is impossible to vanquish Israel by means of terrorism.
‐‐ Ariel Sharon
Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.
‐‐ G. Stanley Hall
Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive.
‐‐ Bryant H. McGill
Abundant choice doesn't force us to look for the absolute best of everything. It allows us to find the extremes in those things we really care about, whether that means great coffee, jeans cut wide across the hips, or a spouse who shares your zeal for mountaineering, Zen meditation, and science fiction.
‐‐ Virginia Postrel
Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.
‐‐ Douglas Horton
Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
‐‐ Tacitus
Abuse is the means in which violence retards love.
‐‐ Inga Muscio
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
‐‐ John Adams
Abuse yourself all you want - just leave animals out of it. Don't wear fur.
‐‐ Steve-O
Abused patience turns to fury.
‐‐ Thomas Fuller