Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Capaldi

I wouldn't be here if it were not for the grant system that paid for me to go to art school - because my parents couldn't have afforded it.

Stephen Kenny

It appears to me that Saddam Hussein will be afforded a trial that represents a fairer system of justice than what David Hicks will receive.

Bob Greczyn

Our company's financial stability has afforded us the opportunity to invest in initiatives for our members and our state that will bear long-term results in moderating health-care costs.

Frank DeSalvo

The hearing today was a sham. These officers were supposed to be afforded their rights to due process, but these disciplinary letters were written before they even started the hearing.

Don Aaron

They were afforded the opportunity to get out of the roadway and they didn't.

Marsha Blackburn

Serving as President of the United States is a privilege that is afforded to few in our country.

Masayoshi Son

Softbank's Internet-focused strategy in recent years has served its shareholders well, ... We believe we have just scratched the surface of the opportunities afforded by the Internet.

Chris Stiepock

There are many athletes out there who would covet an X Games gold over an Olympic gold. I've heard it come from athletes mouths - and I'm sure their agents are standing next to them smirking - but when you win an X Games medal, you are instantly afforded a reputation that perhaps you aren't afforded in the Olympics.

Cmdr. Vance

Police officers are subject to arrest for perceived violations of the law like anybody else. This officer will be afforded his right to due process to either clear his name or be convicted.

S. Walker

guarded by a couple of CIA agents and some Treasury Department guys.

Nadine Velazquez

Something like 'The Matrix' would be ideal, something where it's super agents and wire work and special effects - not necessarily running from bombs and shooting people. Something more sleek, like an assassin.

Don Maloney

History has shown to us, especially in New York, that signing the 30-plus-year-old free agents without a very strong base is very risky. It has not worked for us in New York. You have to develop a core group, then you can go out and add.

George H. W. Bush

Our border patrol and immigration agents are doing a fine job, but we still have a problem, ... Too many illegal immigrants are coming in, and we're capturing many more non-Mexican illegal immigrants than we can send home.

Richard Jewell

I heard one of the agents talking to someone on the phone, saying there's not enough here to take (me). And then when he got off the phone, he looked at the other agent and said, 'That was Louis,'

Jarome Iginla

I really like the position of our team, ... We're a young team that has a young core that's still intact and now we're one of those teams that's going to benefit from having free agents become available. If a team like ours is missing one piece, now we're able to go out and find that piece that puts us over the top.

Doug Ellin

I had more agents tell me that was the most frighteningly realistic episode they'd seen,

Jake Johnson

In L.A., if you're in improv, and you're on those stages, all the big agents and managers and producers are watching those shows. They're not flying to Chicago to see the show. People are booking jobs off the stages in L.A. who aren't more talented than the guys in Chicago. But the most guys book out of L.A., and the second is New York.

John Updike

In leaving New York in 1957, I did leave without regret the literary demimonde of agents and would-be's and with-it nonparticipants; this world seemed unnutritious and interfering.

Jonathan Williams

I think it really opened the door for black athletes at the time.

Steve Shephard

It came down to those last two athletes to do their job the best they could and both Stephanie and Meredith really came through in the clutch.

Denny Green

He'll be one of the best athletes they've got there. He can dunk a ball any way you want to dunk it. Absolutely. He's got exceptional speed, exceptional jumping ability. He'll be a regular gym rat.

Kevin Meyer

He knows we need to get him involved more. He is one of our best athletes and we need to find ways to keep him out on the field.

Hilton Armstrong

There are so many athletes on this team. But everybody gives up a little bit to make the team better.

Van Allen

Having that consistency in the coaching staff has really been helping all of our athletes improve.

Nick Hill

Having this kind of technology available to athletes and coaches helps give us that necessary edge that you need to win on the world stage.

Pat Griffin

For men, the stereotypical image has been that gay men are not competitive, not tough enough. It's important for people to see that these stereotypes are not true. Women athletes who come out become instant heroes, because lesbians want strong heroes.

Chad Nightingale

He's as down to earth as they come. You don't always see that in upper-echelon athletes like him. The kid has been raised right.

Thomas Harris

What does he do, Clarice? What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by killing? He covets. How do we begin to covet? We begin by coveting what we see every day.

F. Sionil Jose

The Japanese covet important symbols - their heroic past as enshrined in Yasukuni, the Imperial family which has never been sullied by scandal.

Joe Torre

Just win as many games as we can and see where that leaves us when it's over.

Brian Thornton

Josh did a great job tonight, but it's not just tonight. He's done well the last several games and in practice. When Josh is playing well, it gives us a lot of versatility. When Josh is hitting shots and doing a great job on the boards, it gives us a lot more options.

Byron Scott

I think it's a good thing for our team right now. If we can win games without Chris, I think it gives these guys even more confidence. And it also shows when he comes back that we'll even be better.

Mark LeRose

He keeps us in games. He's really stepped up recently and made a statement.

Brian Dawkins

We've been through so much before as a team, all those big games that we have lost and the way that we have been able to rebound,

Sam Huff

I thought they might win 10 games last year. If they win 10 games this year, I think it would be a hell of a successful season. Right now I think Joe Gibbs would settle for 10. Who wouldn't?

Ed Pultz

I thought that was one of her better games at managing the game. She played under control, rebounded and played pretty good defense.

Stacey Phillips

I think we had a good taste of what it takes to be successful. For six games and winning a tournament -- they got a big mouthful of success.

Dick DeLaney

I think we have to view the rest of the games like the playoffs, with that same intensity.

Jerry Colangelo

He wants to win a gold medal. He said that very clearly. He said if asked, he would be honored.

Thomas Morgenstern

It is a dream. Two gold medals within two days.

George Babicz

He says his gold medal glows, and his silver medal sparkles.

Andrew Marvell

He hangs in shades the orange bright, / Like golden lamps in a green night.

Richard Barnfield

Gold is a deep-persuading orator.

Tracy K. Smith

time never stops, but does it end? and how many livesbefore take-off, before we find ourselves beyond ourselves, all glam-glow, all twinkle and gold?

Robert Plant

I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.

Samuel Johnson

The dangers gather as the treasures rise.

Virgil

The accursed hunger for gold.

Greg Beratlis

I would've liked to have heard something out of his mouth. Yes, anything. A plea for his life or just his opinion on what went on over the last two years,

Mark Mandel

John is never at a loss for words. But when he heard the news, he was speechless.

Carl Dodd

Her mother done told her a lot of stories. My plan is to sit down and talk to her and let her know that a lot of things she heard aren't true, and let her be the judge.

Charles Smith

He said he was worried about his sister. He hadn't heard from her since the Sunday before the storm.

The Beatles

To every word of love I heard you whisper, the raindrops seem to play a sweet refrain.

Michael Judge

I have heard other leaders in the justice system say that they will be retired before this is over,

David Parry

I have heard of no other schools turning down instant replay other than USC,

Joe Gibbs

I don't know about that, ... I've never heard that over a headset, I'll put it that way.

Christopher Shays

I'd like people to listen to our soldiers. They were there. They heard the alarms go off. They tasted the substance in the air. They spit up blood. They had rashes on their bodies. They got sick.

David Hall

You do see things instantly as they change.

Heidi Range

When we all met her, we instantly knew she was the only person to share the rest of the journey with us.

James DePreist

I thought it would be better to starve slowly over there than instantly over here.

Steve Albini

You see something happen to a population whereby everyone adopts something that's just preposterous in a way that makes it normal instantly. If any one person prior to the rash of puka shells, for example, was seen wearing puka shells, he would look like an idiot. But when everyone is wearing them, it instantly makes them normal.

Sara Cox

I used to be double-jointed in my hips, so I could put my toe in my mouth. That can't be classed as a talent really, rather a mild deformity.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.

Joseph Addison

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.

Kesha

I don't really plan what comes out of my mouth, and that's what makes most of my lyrics entertaining.

Ellen Key

All philanthropy is only a savoury fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer.

Kristen Bell

I have the mouth of a sailor.

Natasha Lyonne

Sometimes the things that come out of my mouth are mortifying.

Patrick O'Brian

We understood one another better before ever I opened my mouth

Patrick Rothfuss

Close your mouth, E'lir Kvothe, or I will feel obliged to put some vile tonic in it.

Monica Crowley

Just when you think you've heard it all from Team Obama, the next day brings another jaw-dropper.

Meredith Ostrom

John Casablancas was saying, 'You will be the next Claudia Schiffer!' But I said, 'Actually, I have to go to college.'

Ted Ligety

I think it's kind of stupid to make him do it if he isn't going to be in the next run.

Ken Warwick

When they go to school the next day, it's become the show to watch, and if they haven't seen it, they've got a problem.

Elliott Sadler

I actually am pretty pumped up for the next nine races.

Charlie Lewis

He was really on us that next morning, ... We didn't start that day.

Bon Battu

He has no personal problems whatsoever and will be back training next week.

Shimon Peres

He indicated he may do it in the first part of next year.

Ricky Bennett

He doesn't throw it a whole lot in games, but at least he's trying something he can work on going into next year.

Jim Scherr

His appointment to the Olympic team is our issue.

Sammie Henson

I want to be the Olympic champion. . . . Then I'll have peace that no one can ever take away from me.

Bode Miller

The stuff after the Olympics was pretty aggressive.

Jin Yan

Safety and quality of all the Olympic venue projects are under control.

Don Kardong

Prior to the 1976 Olympics, I was a 5,000m runner.

Andy Murray

For me, by far, the Olympics is the biggest sporting event in the world.

Cindy Klassen

The Canadians have really stepped it up these Olympics. It looks very promising for Vancouver.

Shaun White

You show up at the Olympics, and you're no longer you; you're an American Olympian. You're part of this greater whole, and the individual doesn't matter.

Mike Lambert

I wish he was younger or the Olympics were this year. I wish he picked me up earlier, but he didn't think too much of me then.

Joshua Hoyt

They wanted to use this as a wedge issue, perhaps for their presidential campaigns.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare... Perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways.

John Lennon

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything.

Stacy Stewart

Perhaps by the end of the work week it could be posing a threat to Bermuda, but not the US.

Oliver Kahn

Perhaps we will still be using this policy for the World Cup. That would be a new concept.

Ann Gerhart

Perhaps this is how she is spending her capital,

Todd Hamilton

I'm so excited, I probably won't sleep for two or three or perhaps seven days,

Wentworth Miller

When I've had my periods of unemployment, I'll get these e-mails from my father: 'I've read that the LAPD has a reservist program. Perhaps that's something you'd be interested in taking a look at.'

Pico Iyer

The one thing perhaps that technology hasn't always given us is a sense of how to make the wisest use of technology.

Martin Amis

The true manipulator never has a reputation for manipulating.

Sydney Smith

Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory.

Sienna Miller

I'm supposed to be this complete slapper, that's my reputation.

Mike Lynch

I really didn't think we'd be able to be standing here. I never really thought I'd be able to do something like this.

Johnny Christ

If I ever wanted a gnome, I guess Id just stand out on my lawn for a while.

John D. MacDonald

A nonreader is somebody standing there in a blindfold.

Dr. Seuss

Whats the point of fitting in, when we were meant to stand out?

Gar Heard

He'll be back, I am sure he'll be back.

Tom Fisher

He's a veteran quarterback. I'm sure he'll be on top of his game.

Chance VanGundy

I thought for sure we were a top-10 team in our district.

Richie Sexson

I was wondering why, when he left, he kind of got the boos. I wasn't really sure of why exactly,

Tom Costello

I'm not sure where we're going to go from here,

Bob Shoop

I'm not sure what to make of them.

Willis McGahee

I'm not worried about them. I'm pretty sure we're on the same page,

Paul Shryock

I'm not too sure what to expect. But I do think we'll get a lot of benefits.

Michelle Wie

I'll be sure not to wear white tomorrow.

Bobby Cox

I think you've got to do what you have to do to win right now.

Gerhard Schroeder

There is no alternative to this struggle, which we must win and will win,

Chad Qualls

We've got to win the first before we win the fourth.

Amani Toomer

To get a win we've got to play good. And we really didn't play that well at all.

Richard Petty

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

Richard P. Feynman

Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something.

Retief Goosen

You can't really measure your game. You can shoot seven under and lose and you can shoot even and win.

Trudi Canavan

It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is grieved by what it finds there.

Rick Cook

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.