Famous quotes containing the word absolutely:
“The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveller.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)
“There were some schools, so called [in my youth]; but no qualification was ever required of a teacher, beyond readin, writin, and cipherin, to the Rule of Three. If a straggler supposed to understand latin, happened to sojourn in the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizzard. There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education.”
—Abraham Lincoln (18091865)
“As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthlessand absolutely essential.”
—William Goldman (b. 1931)