Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Mayo

The one issue, the one question that comes to mind, is we need to quantify where the (buyers) are coming from. Some of these units are $1 million and up. Can our work force afford these? We have a crisis of affordable housing in that area already.

Glen Lewinski

The rule is, you can afford a house about 2 1/2 times your income. Well, you'd be hard-pressed to find a $140,000 house around here anymore.

Cory Miller

I've seen students check out anywhere between $250 up to $1,200. The fact that we are a rental (school) can make a difference. Some kids just aren't going to be able to afford those books.

Terri Sewell

We could have done a better job explaining what was in the Affordable Care Act, but when you talk to people and you don't label it, people get really excited about what's in it. It is going to make a big difference for people.

Matt LeBlanc

Every sport in this school is down. Kids don't want to get off their butts and go do something. Kids are getting lazy and you can't afford that in a small school.

Michael Leavitt

Every senior will be able to get an affordable plan that will provide peace of mind.

David Padgett

Every game right now for us is a must win. We can't afford to lose any game. Now we've got to win some of these road games and all our home games just to try to get back to .500.

Martin Jones

Every game is now crucial and we can't afford any slip ups, but the situation is in our own hands.

Kimmo Timonen

Every game is big with only 23 to go, but (hosting Vancouver) is definitely one of the biggest. We can't afford to take any nights off.

Cyndi Valentin

As far as the team, we didn't want to end our careers like that. We wanted to fight, stay alive and keep playing.

David Blitzer

As long as Alan Greenspan's not frowning, I'm not too worried.

Lee Sentell

As long as I've been in the tourism business, 30 years, people who come to the state say one thing a great deal, 'I had no idea Alabama was such a beautiful state,'

Dan Colen

As opposed to putting too much confidence in myself, or in an image or a scene or a set of brushes, I really want to allow the oil paint to perform, to show me the things that it wants to do, beyond my imagination.

Sam Wood

Projects like this don't come along very often and I feel amazingly luck to be a part of it.

E. B. White

Our culture tells us that alcohol and sex go together, yet it is illegal to use alcohol to facilitate sex.

Ron Marks

Anybody who says there's such a thing as 'actionable intelligence' has never seen intelligence. Almost never in my 23 years have I ever seen anything that said to me that at such and such a time and such and such a place such a thing was going to happen. It just doesn't happen that way.

George Hamilton

The skill development came along but we never quite came together as a team. It could have been because of the small injuries and other things along the way, but things just never clicked.

Scott Wright

The teams that might take a chance on him - maybe Atlanta. Maybe they gamble that his brother can keep him on the straight and narrow. Maybe Oakland. You never rule out Al Davis taking a shot on a talent like him.

Dick Cheney

A senator can be wrong for 20 years without consequence to the nation, ... But a president, a president, always casts the deciding vote. And in this time of challenge, America needs -- and America has -- a president we can count on to get it right.

Nancy Reagan

A woman is like a teabag - only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.

E. B. White

A writer is like a bean plant, he has his little day, and then he gets stringy.

Don Rose

People are still engaged; they still want music, but they want a choice. So I say, just give the people what they want. It's so simple.

Caroline Levy

North America volumes were below our estimate, but pricing was strong.

Mark Roberts

The third biggest comic people in America want to make a comic book out of me. It's unbelievable.

Christopher Cox

The speaker of the House is just that -- the speaker of the House, ... It is the people's house. It is the business of all of America that is at stake.

Jay London

I wanted to join the Army the sign said 'Be All That You Can Be', they told me it wasn't enough.

Benjamin Franklin

A fine genius in his own country, is like a gold in the mine.

Henry Crumpton

As catastrophic as a nuclear attack would be, it would be self-contained.

Steven Nissen

Ten of 1,000 patients would die, have a heart attack or a stroke. Those are serious irrevocable events.

Kevin Klette

They are a great team. I've said all season that they are tough to beat. And they showed why tonight. They attack the net, skate hard and get a lot of shots and that's how they win games. They're an excellent team.

Kent Jarrell

This is not a normal Vioxx case, which is about heart attacks and strokes being increased by the use of the drug, ... We plan on making it about the specifics of causation. ... This is a good case for us.

Barbara Bush

I don't like attacking.

Brian Doyon

Eagle Valley passed really well and started digging well. On some attacks they didn't put a block, and their back row was digging up the ball. The work Rob (Crawford) has done with them on defense has really paid off.

George Burgess

Each year we would expect more attacks than the previous year based on the fact that the human populations grow, and there's more people entering the water.

Andie MacDowell

As I celebrate life, I can't help but think how young my mom was when she died of a heart attack at 53. My mom didn't get to meet her grandchildren, but I'm determined to watch mine grow up.

Giuseppe Pisanu

At the moment we do not see a concrete terrorist threat to our country and in particular to the Olympic Games. But we believe an attack in Italy, like in any other country, is possible. The fact that the Olympics coincide with the electoral campaign could attract the attention of international terrorist groups.

Steve Forbes

I think when those hearings are held or completed, public opinion will be such that he will be removed from office with full bipartisan support.

Roger Williams

The Public Health Minister who should have done her homework instead defended industry. But critical mass has been reached and many other campaigns have been initiated to eliminate aspartame.

Paul Shapiro

The quality of life of a cage-free hen is so much better than the quality of life of a battery-cage hen that this campaign is meant to move the industry in that direction.

Tom DeLay

Clinton's bombing campaign has caused all of these problems to explode

Ron Bonjean

Senator Kerry's comments used for campaign fund-raising purposes are simply over the top, extremely inappropriate and factually incorrect.

Rebekah Brooks

I am incredibly proud of the many journalists I have worked with throughout my career and the great campaigns that we have fought and won.

Marcy Winograd

The vast majority of Americans want to see the end to the US occupation of Iraq. There's increasing disenchantment. My campaign is to represent that sentiment, and the real concerns of Americans about health care, and the needs of a single-payer system of universal health care.

Jay Jacobs

They are only giving the impression of mounting a campaign for the top of the ticket, but are working much harder down ballot.

Geoffrey Becker

They aren't Jeb Bush. They don't speak Spanish off the top of their head. They have to distinguish themselves either by who they pick as a running mate or by how they conduct themselves on the campaign trail.

Mayor Manross

They are just starting their September campaign early.

Lisa Murray

collaborative education is a better way to learn.

Barbara Jordan

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted.

Andrea Lewis

Don't get me wrong ten list, I'm getting a good education but some of my professors just don't get me going.

Dan Erikson

The UN is going to stay in Haiti for a long time. It should be much more involved in improving healthcare and education than peacekeeping.

Jim Dale

What we are saying and implying here is that the education you get here is effective. It's not simply for its own sake.

Bradley Wilson

We were pleased that we had four other applicants that are leaders in higher education in the country,

David Keller

What is UVSC's role in the Utah system of higher education in general and, more specifically, to the local community?

Mark Baldassare

The public's frustration with the state of education is palpable. They see lots of rhetoric but little progress.

John Davis

Our experience has been very, very good. They are very comfortable, one doesn't think that they will be. They ride well ... we've had very little problem with them.

S. Walker

Now I've got so much more experience and I feel way more confident.

Jeff Lacy

Sometimes you need a loss to win. I think it could be a good learning experience for me. Joe is a great champion. I shot for the No. 1 guy in the division. Maybe someday we can do it again.

Joe Kasper

This is going to be my last year. I hope to get a little experience in the field.

Jane Hirshfield

My job as a human being as well as a writer is to feel as thoroughly as possible the experience that I am part of, and then press it a little further.

Celine Buckens

My parents are both Belgian-born, and so am I, actually. I'm bilingual, so I had experience with French.

Andre Holland

Theater is where I have the most experience and feel most at home, but I'm really, really loving film.

Scott Dickie

That was the first tough game of the year. We're going to have a few more, so the experience is good. We know we have some weaknesses, but now we've seen them and can work on them.

Dion Harris

That would be great for our team. Les is a veteran guy who's been here for four years. It always helps to get a veteran guy back, as far as leadership and experience on the court.

Chuck Pavlos

You're going to have a million people in this corridor.

Russell Perreault

There are more than 300 million people in the US, so we still have a lot of potential sales out there.

Albert Brooks

If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.

Mike Burkett

So many millions of people don't feel like their vote has any meaning. There is no reason why younger people can't be a unified force.

Bobby Cox

He's getting paid $12 million because he can hit.

Jim Patrick

I never though this team would go out like that. Not in a million years.

Councilman Zine

I'm not prepared to pay $18 million to settle that case.

Robert Kelly

You can't go and round up 11 million people and ship them out of the country. It just isn't practical.

Ewan McGregor

When you take away the phone and e-mail and you don't have a million things to run around to, it allows your mind the space to think more expansively about the things that matter.

Farrah Fawcett

Everything has positive and negative consequences.

Venus Williams

I don't have time to be negative.

Arthur Lydiard

The idea that you can't lose contact with the leaders has cut more throats than it has saved.

Aubrey McClendon

American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security... or every loan they made?

Brenda Ueland

running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed: driving in a sealed car in warmed-over carbon monoxide and smoking a seegar. I am the Goddess! He is a bug in a monkey nut!

Jane Hamilton

This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer.

Barry Eichengreen

As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.

Jane Smiley

The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other two. The body isn't below the mind and the spirit; from the point of view it's between them. if you reside too much in the mind, then you get too abstract and cut off from the world. You long for the spiritual life, but you can't get to it, and you fall into despair. The exercise of the senses frees you from abstraction and opens the way to transcendence.

bell hooks

In 2014, when Hillary Clinton was not yet running for president, I stated that I was not in agreement with her politics. More recently, when asked my thoughts about Hillary Clinton during a public conversation with Gloria Steinem, I stated, "she embodies the very best of imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't vote for her."

Diana Vreeland

All people are meant to be creative in a certain way. What way? Perhaps I was cut out to be a wonderful housewife, with a marvelous sense of cooking, being with my friends, running a perfect house. But I am not ambitious towards anything.

Brian Regan

I like to go on stage with a variety, with some stuff that's been around for a handful of years, some stuff from the last year, some stuff is from last week, and some stuff is brand spanking new. Those are the moments that excite me - when I'm coming up to a brand new bit. The more virgin the snow, the more fun it is to run on.

Alice Cooper

How old are you? Sixteen? S-seventeen? [asks security guard] Is seventeen legal?

Hamid-Reza Asefi

We are not worried by the Security Council, but it is the wrong method.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Bodybuilders' cocks are the same size as everyone else's.

Gina Gershon

Size counts. That's all.

Connie Smith

This is not about me. It's just that social workers are needed. ... It really does a lot of good.

Maureen Dowd

Tweetin' ain't cheatin'.

Gore Vidal

I have no social position and I stay away from what is known as society as much as possible.

Zig Ziglar

A smile is your greatest social asset.

George Ayittey

Socialism is always wrong.

Bill Nighy

If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.

David Mamet

I don't really have a social life.