Words matter. These are the best Absolute Quotes from famous people such as David Bowie, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ingrid Newkirk, Erik Larson, Cameron Mackintosh, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
One hates to be absolute, but in my view, there is no such thing as humane meat.
With my research, I really need absolute confirmation of what actually happened, direct physical connections to the past.
Audiences aren’t going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I’m dead, buried and forgotten. They’re going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.
The first ‘Interdimensional Cable’ episode is amazing because it’s filled with such absolute drunken nonsense.
Villains are always the best roles, but that meant that for months afterwards, all I got offered were absolute cads and bounders and really nasty pieces of work, as well as a lot of people who only had one arm. Such is the limited imaginative power, you see, of a great many casting directors.
If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.
Anything I shouldn’t laugh at makes me laugh. I mean, I’m bad at that, when somebody is singing something terribly and I’m thinking to myself, ‘If I laugh now, this is the absolute worst thing I could ever do,’ and then I start laughing and I can’t stop.
No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.
Music is such a joy, just an absolute joy.
Ignoring all prejudices of caste, creed, class, color, sex, or race, a swami follows the precepts of human brotherhood. His goal is absolute unity with Spirit.
The absolute worst thing that you ever can do, in my opinion, in bringing science to the general public, is be condescending or judgmental. It is so opposite to the way science needs to be brought forth.
I’m a Utilitarian, so I don’t see the rule against lying as absolute; it’s always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise.
Doing a lot of drama earlier in my career and now exploring comedy has been a treat for me, and I’ve had an absolute blast, and I hope to continue.
I’m not sure about ‘absolute’ happiness, but I am happiest when I go to bed at night knowing that I tried to do my best that day.
We don’t regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth.
My very first memory of being alive is being tossed in the air by my father and laughing and knowing, really knowing, that his was absolute joy.
Skittles are my absolute favourite.
When I took over the Writers’ Workshop, it was one little class and there were eight students. All of them, brilliantly untalented… I had an absolute vision after the first workshop meeting.
Madonna is my absolute queen – as a performer, there’s no one better than her.
Working with Scorsese was an absolute dream, and one of my favourite ever jobs was ‘Beowulf’ because it was just pure acting. Your imagination explodes as you try to imagine you’re fighting a dragon or whatever.
Football is wonderful because no one is right: there’s no absolute truth.
Golf is the absolute worst place for me to be because I am the exact opposite of everything that a golfer should encompass, should be, and I’m not.
If you’ve got aspirations to be tested to the absolute maximum you want to be in the starting line-up.
Social media is the devil. Absolute devil. Oh, my God. It’s the worst thing ever.
But you know, really, if you think about it Roger and I and all critics really have one absolute essential part of our credentials and that is that you believe that that is actually what we think.
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it’s not going to happen. I’m fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.
‘Satra Ko Shaadi Hai’ is a very sweet film. It was the first film that I shot. I play a shy small town boy in it, which is an absolute contrast to what I played in ‘Sanam Teri Kasam.’
When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.
The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of ’49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific.
I think being a writer is being heavily attuned to the absolute absurdity of things you take for granted, and I think that having actual parents who lived through the Cultural Revolution who are also interested in literature, they’re also very attuned to those moments.
The point is that there are few opportunities in top games. For this you need a striker who has the absolute will to achieve the goal.
My absolute favorite thing about working on ‘Liv and Maddie’ is my cast and crew. The people that I spend almost every hour of every day with. Your cast has great influence over the quality of your life, and I’ve been blessed with not just a cast, but a family.
Elton John is an absolute lad. He’s a hero.
I just had the absolute best luck in the world in terms of meeting The Young Bucks, and they might look like wild little rock stars who are irresponsible, but they are business geniuses. They set up the deal with Hot Topic, and they’re going to be the first 7-figure downside characters that New Japan Pro Wrestling has.
It’s quite rare that you find something that you can quite literally have an absolute ball doing, as well as the tough stuff and the difficult stuff and the pain.
The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
Life has an absolute value and its preservation takes precedence over other commandments.
Through protest – especially in the 1950s and ’60s – we, as a people, touched greatness. Protest, not immigration, was our way into the American Dream. Freedom in this country had always been relative to race, and it was black protest that made freedom an absolute.
Salim-Sulaiman have always been my favourite. It’s just an absolute pleasure working with them, and there’s always something new you get to learn just by sitting in their studio and absorbing all that’s happening around you.
People own their own bodies and have the absolute right to put anything they want into it.
I think the absolute worst job I ever had – not because it was a terrible job, just because I was just so bad at it – was when I worked at a scenic factory in Chicago.
I am a tea connoisseur and my idea of absolute heaven is a tea shop.
The poverty line in the U.S., for example, has nothing to do with the poverty line in India. It is a relative poverty line. It is reset from time to time but it is related to U.S. median income, so if I set that to be the absolute poverty line everyone in India would essentially be poor.
In rock stardom there’s an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.
I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
The doctrine of marriage depends on Genesis being true. If there’s an absolute authority, and if God’s the Creator, He made one man and one woman. Jesus came and said that marriage is between a man and woman. If Genesis is not true, we’re just animals, and marriage is just whatever you want to make it to be.
Robert Ludlum, all of them, write the absolute best they can. You can’t tone it down. You just do what you do, and if it comes out literary, so be it.
Since I was a kid, I’ve had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties – but I’d never really touched on dark Americana.
I have absolute faith in the correctness of my course.
Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.
I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even absolute prohibitions can sometimes be broken. If that is a contradiction, it is a contradiction that ethics has to embrace, or else it becomes like glass: hard, clear, but fatally inflexible.
There’s no such thing as an absolute openness. Openness is relative, I think, in all societies.
You know, I was such a big Beatles fan, and when I’d buy a new album I’d invariably hate it the first time I heard it ’cause it was a mixture of absolute joy and absolute frustration. I couldn’t grasp what they’d done, and I’d hate myself for that.
