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.

Dasha Zhukova

My time at Pop has been a transformative experience that I am extremely proud of. It has afforded me the chance to collaborate with some of the greatest creative minds in the world, and I'm thankful to Ashley Heath and Bauer Media for the opportunity.

John Vanco

That's been a real boon for us this year. Like 'George Washington,' we couldn't have afforded it.

E. O. Wilson

I wasn't afforded the opportunity to return to school. I'm caught between a rock and a hard place. I want to finish school, but I don't trust these people. Are they really going to open again in March?

Russ Granik

I felt the time was right for me to get off the treadmill for a while. I greatly appreciate all the opportunities David and the NBA owners have afforded me for personal accomplishment in this job.

Ann McInerney

Katie on a stress fracture gives us 14 minutes and basically had to take herself out of the game. Ashley hasn't practiced but came back and gave us everything she had. But we're just really limited.

Jim Rimando

(Hayes) found that middle open, so she just shot the ball. If you're going to guard Teresa (one-on-one), you're going to let someone else go. They just let Ashley shoot, and if you leave her open, she going to hit those.

Doug Greseth

I thought Ashley passed the ball really well. He didn't shoot the ball as well as he normally does, but I thought he passed really well.

Dave Shoji

I think Ashley was probably the only one who played up to her capabilities. She played great D (defense) and kept us in the game. She had played well last weekend so I was close to putting her back in the position. I probably should have done it earlier. She'll be in that position tomorrow (tonight).

Dorne Hall

Ashley has a really calming effect on the team. She's been a huge part of our success this season. Tonight was the perfect example of that.

Vicki Coleman

Ashley (Earhart) has a lot of good skills and she did a nice job coming in.

Ed Pultz

Ashley and Maggie (Gibson) get a lot of the ink and the publicity, but there are other people that have performed well in the playoffs and all season for us. You're not going to win in the tournament with two or three good players. You need to have more players and you need to have a bench if you want to advance.

Bob Shrader

Ashley was our best outside shooter, so it was a key loss and I don't think any of the other teams in our section have lost any of their personnel for any long period of time, so it makes it that much more of a challenge, but we've been able to find other players to step up.

Glenn Lincoln

Ashley hit some big 3?s for us. We kept the score close and in the second half we toughed it out.

Lyle Overbay

I was looking for a pitch to hit. I had a chance to drive it. When I saw it go in the gap I thought maybe there would be a chance to score. Next thing you know, we win the game.

Jarome Iginla

Kipper, he's played like that all year. He's been amazing. Especially early tonight, they had some chances and he made some timely saves.

Brian Jensen

I think it's a great team. You get a chance to talk about poker with some great players and there's a feeling of team spirit.

Curtis Painter

I think it's actually helped me relax a little bit. I'm not so worried about making every throw perfect. It gives me a little more of a chance to settle down and read things.

Robert Carter

I think it's a chance that people can get some closure to a situation that's been devastating to a lot of families.

Lee Humphrey

I think it may be just coincidence, I don't know. I put up a lot of shots, and I think that I have a good chance to make every one. It just happened that I made the ones (that were huge). I just hope I've got a few of those left.

Joe Dumars

I think it has been a great experience for Darko to get a chance to play and be around his national team. He really needed this summer.

Michael Haynes

I think it gives us a chance as a team and, really for Orton, to kind of sit back and learn from the mistakes,

Ed McClanahan

I think it is a good idea. I come to Maysville every chance I get. It's a good town. I plan to read something about Maysville.

Gary Arnold

Just wrestle under the name of 'wrestling' or pick some other creative name. Because as soon as you make it about the fact that it's people of short stature wrestling, that's when you're inviting the exploitation.

Patti Smith

I think we have a creative impulse where suffering can magnify our work, but so can joy. You can be in love and write the greatest love song ever. Sometimes I think too much suffering makes it difficult to do one's work.

Tyler Cowen

Food is a product of supply and demand, so try to figure out where the supplies are fresh, the suppliers are creative, and the demanders are informed.

Tracy Kidder

What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative

Vince Gilligan

I wanna keep being productive and creative.

Vince Gill

We all get caught up in the process, especially when you have a wave of success. But to me, being creative is not about rehashing everything you've done over and over. It's to continue to grow, continue to get better.

Rowan Atkinson

And, we put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.

Vladimir Nabokov

An active and creative reader is a re-reader.

Dan Glickman

Piracy not only has an economic impact on our industry, ... but it has an impact on the creative spirit in this country.

Mike Piazza

kind of fun, especially in New York. I've seen it on smaller levels in other cities, but it's fun to get into the rivalry thing and experience it.

James Kirkman

just very humbled, and appreciative, and amazed; it was a very happy experience.

Rachel Dretzin

I think it fuels her. The fact that she can see the work she's done make an impactmost journalists don't experience that.

Mike McGlynn

I think it is good that we got some experience because all of it helps. I don't know if I'll ever take a snap in a game, but it is good to be ready and the more positions on the line you play, the better it helps you.

John Fletcher

Go far -- too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, Through all your travels; for you'll find it certain. The poorer and the baser you appear, The more you look through still.

Bryant Dillon

He's got goals in life. Being that he had a hard upbringing, I think that's prepared him for life, to live better and to experience a lot more. He does have his head on straight.

Joe Gibbs

He's got tons of experience, and he's a very good holder. We felt like it was somebody we need to look at.

Paul Lambert

He's got SPL experience and provides us with more options in midfield.

Bill Belichick

He's got some size. He's a fast guy. He's got some experience on special teams. We'll put him into the mix and see what he can do.

Matt Grow

Just like everyone, we are growing. And we are growing extremely fast.

Ron Niekamp

Jordan is a big concern, but they have a lot of other guys who have stepped up as well. They play extremely hard and are a very disciplined team.

Chris Gratton

It can be extremely frustrating. It's tough to start out like that.

Rich Phillips

He was a fine young man. I'm extremely proud to say I'm his uncle.

Ned Yost

He knows what he's doing and knows what he wants. He grew up in this game and knows the game extremely well. I think he still has to work on his defense, but he will play every day.

Fran Maier

We take these things extremely seriously. We always have, we do now. That's all we can say considering that these things are under litigation.

Bob Ulrich

We are extremely pleased with our overall results for fiscal 2001, particularly the strength of our fourth quarter,

Jason Kreis

It is probably the most bittersweet moment in my life to be honest. I am proud of this one, but I am extremely disappointed in our result.

Robert Cerundolo

It is, not to use a cliche, but, it is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. We feel that in our hearts and our heads. We are all extremely excited.

Lance Williams

He knew he was better than Mark McGwire. It offended him when people said Mark McGwire might be the greatest player who ever lived.

Jamie Trowbridge

In the last two years, it has made the greatest leap, and that makes us the fastest-growing subscriber income of any publication.

Carl Edwards

I'm not the greatest qualifier, and I'm learning a lot,

Scott Graham

I literally have the greatest job in the world.

Shane Pendley

The greatest pain is the pain you did not know you had.

Michael R. Bloomberg

The greatest honor we can do them is to remember them,

Anne Wallace

The greatest thing is the motivation, it makes you kick into gear, being around all these people who are so passionate about writing - it is contagious,

James Naismith

the greatest team that ever stepped out onto the floor.

Leo Veness

The greatest sense of inner peace is not having to prove oneself

Winona Ryder

I remember when I did Little Women, I didn't watch the Katharine Hepburn one over and over, which I thought I would do. Heathers, I was completely obsessed with.

Will Rogers

Any nation is heathen that ain't strong enough to punch you in the jaw.

Christian Slater

The extreme always seems to make an impression.

Greta Scacchi

I'm a heathen when it comes to marriage.

Mark Bruener

Heath and I could really relate. And I know he'll go through a lot of the things I did 10 years earlier.

Robert Scheer

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Persisting social crisis, the emergence of a charismatic personality, and the exploitation of mass media to obtain public confidence would be the steppingstones in the piecemeal transformation of the United States into a highly controlled society.

Sandra Cisneros

This is the age of fear and so many of us feel afraid to speak out about what has happened to our lives in the wake of 9/11. Television promotes the world as a scary place for the United States and this justifies peeling away every element of privacy we had before. The media is monopolized so we don't even hear a lot of dissent about this new era.

Tim Henman

Our media is possibly the worst in the world.

Leon Wieseltier

Incorruptibility by money is the old story, ... Now it's incorruptibility by media.

Jose Antonio Vargas

To me, it's just that social media is allowing people to be in charge of their own narratives.

Jon Krakauer

Short form media is reductionist by nature.

Emraan Hashmi

I don't want to belong to any league. I am in a league of my own. I don't want any tags associated with me because I know when the media associates tags with you, they also have the power to remove those tags tomorrow.

Oriana Fallaci

I am angry at the Jews for many things... If you want to take the example of America, how they hold the power, the economical power in so many ways, and the press and the other kind of stuff... I never realized how it happened and they came to control the media to that point. Why?

Curt Schilling

I don't go out there with the mindset that he did this, now I'm going to better him. This game's too hard.

Hans Rosling

Let the dataset change your mindset

Isaiah Kacyvenski

We all wanted to have a song to get our minds right to run down the field.

Ron Oden

None of this has anything to do with me running. So, what's the real issue? What is the issue? I can't get into the minds of people.

Freeman Dyson

It is better to be wrong than to be vague.

LeBron James

We have a lot better mindset this year. I feel that I am a lot better. I know what it takes down the stretch.

Scott Olson

We want to keep that mindset going. They've performed admirably so far.

Michael Strahan

When we make our minds up, we can play with anybody.

Bill Parcells

The players' minds are off that game, ... They are working on San Francisco. They have been working on it since 8 o'clock this morning. They are not thinking about Washington.

Vance Havner

Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.

Kelley Armstrong

A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it.

Jonathan Swift

All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.

Kathleen Hanna

Popularity is totally overrated.

Garrett Hardin

The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.

Shigeki Maruyama

The LPGA is very popular in Japan, ... She will be a big star.

Shawn Wayans

To us, it's just kind of starting to tap into our audience, and we're excited. We need to be part of that transition, because it is pop culture.

Karen Bell

It's just not as popular as is used to be.

Tina Kuckkahn

It's the most popular place for student activities.

Lynda Carter

Having them go to these premieres with me and tell me that they are proud of me is pretty cool.

Rick Barnes

He had to step back and look at a lot of things. I'm proud of him, because he took a tough situation and got the most out of it.

Rex Ryan

I can't tell you how proud I am to be the head coach of the Buffalo Bills.

Robin Tunney

I'm really proud to have been in The Craft. I will always be that chick from The Craft, no matter what I do.

Robert Schumann

I sometimes lack confidence in public, although I am proud enough inwardly.

Roseanne Barr

I'm fat and proud of it. If someone asks me how my diet is going, I say 'Fine - how was your lobotomy?'

Yoko Ono

Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics.

George Clooney

I'm proud to be part of this Academy. I'm proud to be part of this community. I'm proud to be out of touch.

Jeff Bower

I'm proud of the way they stepped up. We did a lot of things well for our first ballgame.

Saint Basil

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship.

James Taylor

I can't thank you enough for showing up. It's not the same without you.

David Mitchell

I remain thankful to God for all his mercies.

Thomas Fuller

Eaten bread is forgotten.

George Black

He was cooperative, ... We were thankful for that.

Hideo Kojima

Looking back, I am thankful that I didn't go into the film industry.

Karen McCrary

We?re blessed. We?re OK. We?re just thankful to be alive." ()

Grenville Kleiser

Be grateful for the joy of life. Be glad for the privilege of work. Be thankful for the opportunity to give and serve. Good work is the great character-builder, the sweetener of life, the maker of destiny. Let the spirit of your work be right, and whether your task be great or small you will then have the satisfaction of knowing it is worth while.

Horace

Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth...

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

John Shimkus

It is a bittersweet time for many of us to be here,

Jack Smith

It is a long season, we have a long time to get at them.

Scottish Proverb

What may be done at any time will be done at no time

Lorena Ochoa

There is going to be a time when they come my way.

Daina Parent

We've been working all year toward this. This is the time we're going to go out and show them what we're made of.