Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Haggis

As a filmmaker, it's a great thing to feel you've really affected them, one way or another. I'd much rather have that than have someone say, 'Nice film, man.' That's a stake through your heart.

David Orton

Profitability for the quarter was affected by the lower revenue and a reduction in average selling prices for the company's board products.

Jim Albaugh

People touching product and programs won't be affected much.

Patricia Russo

Our deepest, heartfelt sympathy goes out to everyone affected by the scope of this tragic natural disaster, ... At times like these, the performance and reliability of communications networks are more critical than ever. That's why our Lucent and Bell Labs teams are drawing upon their knowledge and expertise in network disaster recovery to help the Gulf Coast victims and our customers to rapidly restore and rebuild the region's vital communications networks.

Lori Anderson

Our efforts reach far beyond this community, by participating in the tithe program we have helped Habitat for Humanity International build homes for 11 families living in Central America. It is exciting to think about how many lives can be affected when we share our blessings.

Coby Karl

I sort of took a page out of his book. I don't think it would have affected (the team) too much, but I didn't want outside stories wandering around. I wanted the focus to be on our team and not some outside situation.

Kyle Herring

The work force is the first and foremost priority -- making sure that they are safe, and that they are taken care of. At the same time, a lot of those people who are affected are also motivated to get back to the business of flying space flights,

Richard Gephardt

The right way includes an immediate tax for those Americans most affected by the economic slowdown and a budget that leaves enough money to pay off the debt, invest in the needs and priorities of the American people, and keep interest rates low and our economy strong,

Gary Wagner

There won't be that many people affected because a lot of the bank's members already work on the base.

Lyne Lortie

People are very upset. Many made holiday plans and have had to cancel them, or they are here and not getting their rooms cleaned. We only have 200 managers working to keep things going.

Andy Borowitz

After Sept. 11, I didn't write a piece for a couple of days because I thought people wouldn't want me to be funny. This time, it was so obvious what could be written, and I'll continue to write it. I can usually gauge reader response from the number of people who cancel on my e-mail list, and there's been no major withdrawal.

Nika Fleiss

The visibility is OK, but on the jump it was so windy and that's why I fell. It was a lot of wind. It pushed me back and lifted up my skis. I had no control over what was happening. It was really dangerous. It's the right decision to cancel the race.

Kris Kristofferson

Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.

Phil Reeker

Each embassy, as you know, conducts its own security assessment, and an embassy like Amman may decide to hold or limit or cancel its July Fourth events. And so that, in fact, it is the case.

David Russell

I pluck with my fingernails. If I break a nail, I can't cancel a concert. So I can make a nail out of a ping-pong ball.

Patricia Houston

Community ed is driven by the needs of the community, ... If I put a class out there and the community doesn't show interest in it, then I have to cancel that class.

Peter DeFazio

I would just cancel the mission to Mars, ... I don't think we should pay a trillion dollars to go to Mars, as the president is proposing.

Siv Meisingseth

We expect to cancel about 40 flights today.

David Rodgers

People cruise around with their kids and their grandchildren - it's a family-type event.

Morten Anderson

I've seen him a lot during the years, ... usually during those kicker competitions in Hawaii or Fort Lauderdale. We were even on a cruise together a long time ago. I was single. I think he was engaged. I can't remember what we talked about.

Sandra Dials

I was scheduled to go on a cruise in January.

Jim Larson

If we don't dredge every year, the cruise ships won't be able to tie up.

Brian Rolle

But I don't think we're as focused as last year. Last year, we knew what we had to do. This year, since we know we won the championship, everybody is like 'Oh, we're going to cruise along.' I'm not saying everybody is loafing but everybody is not giving that extra effort. Last year, we played every game like it was our last.

Anthony Amero

Mike says he's taken more cruises with me than he has with his wife. Which is true.

Ken Jr.

Nah, he wanted to talk to me about the cruise that was canceled. The White Sox or a trade? All he said was that there is nothing to report.

Bill Maher

We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.

Sirio Maccioni

It didn't get any more glamorous than Havana, Cuba, in the 1950s. I used to go there when I was a waiter on a cruise ship.

Dr. Ratard

No such outbreak occurred because of Hurricane Katrina.

Stacy Stewart

Some people thought the hurricane season was over. It's not.

Mark Goodman

It was the (strangest) hurricane we've seen in a long time.

E. B. White

Even if there's no damage, it's going to take at least two weeks for refineries to come back. It's at least as serious as Hurricane Ivan, which we had last year. And it took six months to get production back to normal in that case.

Michael Chertoff

We are going to be very prepared for Hurricane Wilma.

Richard Wright

It looked like a tsunami with hurricane winds.

Mitch Frazier

There is not the hurricane protection here that there once was. It is significantly compromised. The hurricane level protection we have had here prior to Hurricane Katrina will not be able to return. It will be years, not months.

Mike Trevino

We've got another 800 (adjusters) or so standing by waiting to work Hurricane Rita.

Lynette Miller

Our problem with coastal storms does not end with the hurricane season.

Rob Neyland

That's where the rubber meets the road in this - the lasting impact.

Atharva Veda

See yourselves in all; See all in yourselves; that is the road to lasting peace and joy.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Michael Redd

I've thought of guys, whether they were here last year or not, and doing something special for them.

Shane Olivea

This is probably the worst performance we've all played, together, in the last two years.

Brooks Bollinger

This is so tough, ... People on the outside don't realize how tough it is to get to the playoffs. Last year, we were one victory away from a championship game.

Brian Tracy

Do your own market research; ask your last ten customers exactly why they bought from you.

Jane Jacobs

A region is an area safely larger than the last one to whose problems we found no solution.

Channing Tatum

Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.

Jim Lushine

Rain will be as heavy, if not heavier. You don't want to be walking around out there with possible downed power lines and debris. It's not over until it's over.

Derrick Jensen

The big dividing line is not and has never been between those who advocate more or less militant forms of resistance, or between mainstream and grassroots activists. The dividing line is between those who do something and those who do nothing.

Damon Lindelof

In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

Dan Harmon

There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.

Ani Difranco

Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight - Other days the line tends to deviate.

Angela Sarafyan

I prefer for things to happen serendipitously, but honestly, I also love terrible pickup lines.

Anthony Hopkins

What I do is just go over and over and over my lines and learn the script so well that I can just be easy and relaxed. That's the way I always work.

Tony Abbott

Although our powers are great, they are not unlimited they are bounded by some lines of demarcation.

Simon Pegg

You know what, despite my complaints about The Phantom Menace and Episode II, when Episode III comes out I'll be first in line. I genuinely love it.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

Johnathon Schaech

People recognize me on the street for all kinds of different things that I've done. 'That Thing You Do' remains to be my favorite film in which I played my favorite character. That role is the one that I'm most recognized for.

Karlos Dansby

People really dont know or they really aint watching, ... Got to give them something to see.

Howard Dvorkin

People spend what's there. If it's not there, they're not going to spend it.

Kevin Spacey

People sometimes have to be reminded, I'm not Frank Underwood. I'm an actor named Kevin Spacey.

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Mike Archer

I've been around a long time, ... and I've never seen anything like this in my life.

Felix Sabates

Q:'You don't spoil your grandchildren do you?A:'Not this morning, I haven't seen them yet.'

W. S. Gilbert

I've seen it in all sorts of industries.

Robert Williams

I've never seen anything like this in Detroit. It's different for sure.

Todd Pratt

I've never seen anything like that, ... You just sit down and go, 'This is unbelievable that this is happening.'

Doug Graham

I've never seen (a case) where they've taken the vehicles together.

David Daniels

This is the first time I've ever seen this called. I hadn't seen it all year. There hadn't been any warnings issued all year in any of our games.

Sandy Miller

This is probably the worst day we've seen in many, many years.

Doug Dixon

That's just unheard of. I've never seen anything like that before.

Laurie Helgoe

I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.

Colin Mochrie

The American audiences are more vocal and enthusiastic. British audiences tend to sit back a little more.

Debbie Ryan

We just went cold. We have a tendency to do that.

Katherine Center

Beauty comes from tenderness.

Edith Hamilton

A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.

Bob Mayer

First novels tend to be blood-lettings, and they're focused on you, not the reader.

Peter Hook

Democracy for us tends to be has to do with who shouts the loudest!

C. S. Lewis

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Louis MacNeice

I do not envy any animal, though I envy many of their capacities.

Edgar Allan Poe

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Edgar Allan Poe

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

Anu Garg

Hindi is my mother tongue. Even though I do not get to use it as often, it's still a part of me.

Katie Jacobs

Even though they are competitors, we really wanted to do the right thing by the users and give them other choices.

Mike Eaves

Even though we've slipped a little bit, we understand that at the end of the year is when it truly matters.

John Parsons

Even though he never said anything; you could just tell,

S. Hughes

You have welcomed me home, even though I'm here as a refugee,