Famous Quotes & Sayings

Giraldus Cambrensis

From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of greater importance.

Wendell Berry

If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.

William Kamkwamba

I want to bring clean water to people who do not have it. What I'm trying to do now is think of ways to build a well-drilling machine that is low-cost so people in rural areas can afford it. People in rural places could use the water for irrigation or for drinking.

Vivienne Westwood

I don't feel very comfortable defending my fashion except to say that people don't have to buy it. You do have to consume. You have to live. If you've got the money to be able to afford it, then it's really good to buy something from me, but don't buy too much.

Clive Thompson

Politicians or pundits can distort or cherry-pick climate science any way they want to try and gain temporary influence with the public. But any serious industrialist who's facing 'climate exposure' - as it's now called by money managers - cannot afford to engage in that sort of self-delusion.

Emmitt Smith

If I didn't have a scholarship to go to the University of Florida or any school, I probably would have considered the military because my family could not afford to send me to college.

Elizabeth Warren

It is easy when you are successful to think that you did it all by yourself and to forget that you didn't. You got here because a lot of things broke your way. You were lucky enough to be born into a family that could afford to take care of you well.

Chen Shui-bian

We must unify Taiwan; we cannot afford to have our society being divided in half.

Charles Pena

The political atmosphere is charged. Democrats can't afford to be seen as soft on defense or terrorism. They're going to have to fight the social cuts without bargaining on defense.

Cecil Beaton

Miss Marilyn Monroe calls to mind the bouquet of a fireworks display, eliciting from her awed spectators an open-mouthed chorus of ohs and ahs ...

Cecelia Ahern

are you saying that the feeling of searching for a missing sock is like searching for love ?

Cecelia Ahern

what you don't know, you don't miss

Arsene Wenger

It's like you wanting to marry Miss World and she doesn't want you, what can I do about it? I can try to help you, but if she does not want to marry you what can I do?

Tom Izzo

We just didn't score. It's not the offense. It was just (that) we're missing some shots.

Bruce Bochy

We had our chances. We're just missing the big hit. It was similar to the first game.

Becca Fitzpatrick

It didn't escape me that he couldn't seem to stop finding reasons to touch me. Nor did I miss that I didn't want him to stop.

B. B. King

You never miss what you've never had. I never had any other life. I didn't know any other life.

Dan Burke

I think if somebody doesn't, they're missing the boat. I'm not an expert, but I've been around long enough to know that. Mike's the kind of guy, you've got to see him on film and you've got to watch him play. It's as simple as that.

Bill Burr

I do my podcast on Mondays for a specific reason. A lot of people go to work and don't like their jobs. If you give people something to laugh about, it's good.

Kathryn Taylor

We'll reassess on Monday whether to open on Tuesday.

Larry Coker

Whoever wins Monday night, ... everything else is forgotten.

Andy King

On the Monday after Rita, we were short 30 temporary laborers,

Jim Moser

If it does snow as much as we think it might, the snow could stick around to Monday or Tuesday, when the temperatures will rise to the 40s.

Mike Pereira

What we want to do is to pick up the paper Monday and read about the game, not the officiating. We all want to be anonymous.

Paul Ince

He's a gent from Monday to Friday... then on Saturday, out comes the beast.

Dennis Allen

We just have to come out on Monday and get back to work, because next week is going to be tough.

Drew Bledsoe

We've got to go back to work on Monday and try to prepare better. The only other option is to quit - and there's no quit in this team.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

When I started to play football, when I was around 15, 16, I remember the players that played on the national team and noticed that it was only typically Swedish guys.

Darell Hammond

The national nonprofit I founded, 'KaBOOM!,' is on a mission to save play for America's children, and has long been championing the cause in high-need communities.

Francois Arnaud

I started studying theater in school, and then I got into drama school at, like, 19, and it was a national drama school in Montreal, and so it was just you and nine other students for three years, and it was really intense.

Jalal Talabani

We have the right to be proud in saying that today was a day of national consensus, ... So congratulations to our people for their constitution.

Maurice Ager

Winning a national championship. You really can't top that. ... I feel like I'll be kind of underachieving within myself if I don't win a championship before I leave.

Rod Wright

We made a pact that we were going to win a national championship. Now, we need to get it done.

Zell Miller

John Kerry, who says he doesn't like outsourcing, wants to outsource our national security.

Alfonso Scanio

The problem of railway safety has by now become a national emergency.

Rod Smith

Those are tragedies that have to be addressed on a national level.

Yoshihiko Noda

China's development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.

William Shatner

If I'm given an opportunity to do something, I do it. Or else I fool around with it.

Frank Marshall

I'm a big fan of documentaries. I've always loved them, and I've just never had the opportunity or the time to make a feature.

Carrie Underwood

[When] opportunities present themselves, I take them. It's just how I roll!

Carl Sagan

Maybe it's a little early. Maybe the time is not quite yet. But those other worlds - promising untold opportunities - beckon. Silently, they orbit the Sun, waiting.

Ashton Kutcher

I guess I really haven't thought much about winning an Oscar, but if I had the opportunity, I'm sure I would like it.

Ashton Kutcher

Opportunities look a lot like work.

Arnold Rothstein

Some days I make 20 bets. Some days, I make none…so I wait, plan, marshal my resources. And when I finally see an opportunity and there is a bet to make, I bet it all,

Antoine Fuqua

I like the opportunity to make films.

Newton Minow

When television is good, nothing is better. When it's bad, nothing is worse.

Aaron Harberts

Gretchen actually used to work at a television station.

Annabella Sciorra

I don't have a television, so I don't know what they do,

Dave Chappelle

I've done 10 or 11 pilots for network television, which is ridiculous.

David Shuster

Meet the Press is the oldest and most treasured public affairs show on television.

Dave Barry

Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around.

Bryant Gumbel

There is a lot to life, and a lot more than just television to life.

Aaron Sorkin

Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.

Aaron Sorkin

There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don't like something that I've written because I usually agree with them.

Stan Grimes

We've got some wagons that are worth between $400,000 and $500,000.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

E. F. Schumacher

Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years ago one could do without difficulty, cannot get done any more. The richer a society, the more impossible it become to do worthwhile things without immediate payoff.

E. F. Schumacher

The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.

Henry S. Haskins

When a thing is not worth overdoing, leave it alone!

Joseph Kahn

potentially interesting, if true, but not something really worthy of a story in itself.

Daniel Borochoff

If it's worth that much, why aren't they getting the value?

Denis Waitley

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.

Chris Fecera

We actually renovated it so we could show about $20,000 worth of merchandise here.