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.

Dean Winters

New York being the greatest walking city in the world, I tend to walk everywhere as long as I am afforded the time.

Robert Johnson

Burlington Northern denied these older workers benefits afforded to younger employees which had the effect, in some cases, of forcing them to retire earlier than they wanted to.

Mark Rush

She wishes to hear all of the relevant information before she makes a decision, so she has afforded us the opportunity to meet with her.

Tim Scott

But in my life, the vast majority of people that have really afforded me the opportunity to succeed were white folks.

Leslie Brunell

I would say we're talking several to many years before the city can be rebuilt.

Bill Hopkins

It always concerns me when a homegrown company like Roanoke Electric Steel gets tied up with management control outside the city and state.

Mike Campbell

Having this kind of concentration of musical talent in the city over one weekend is completely unheard of.

Brian Brennan

Having more executive housing in Ventura would be a huge draw to the city for companies and investors.

Howard Williams

Here we have 40,000 people and if we had a day or two notice we could probably get everybody out if we had to evacuate the entire city, ... Every emergency plan presupposes one thing, that there will be infrastructure to work off of, a road to drive down, some way to get a generator going to get electricity. If your city is underwater, when you reach a disaster of that magnitude it simply overwhelms any plan.

Dusty Baker

He's earned it. It couldn't happen to a finer young man. The whole city of Sacramento is probably proud of him.

J. J. Johnson

I think it's going to take a city staff determination on that sign.

John Keegan

I think it says a lot about the people in the city of Peoria and their commitment to making this a great community well into the future,

John Barrett

I think it's an excellent deal for the city of North Adams,

Michael Thompson

I went to the post office, the grocery store and the drug store today, and everywhere I went people were talking about it.

Brian Cashman

He's been young everywhere we've put him. But obviously he is very talented.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I know. Ive been everywhere and seen everything and done everythingSophisticated God, Im sophisticated!

Charlton Young

I'm not a candidate. That's message-board stuff. They've got me going everywhere this year. I'm a Georgia Tech guy.

Rep. Rubio

The idea that we have to have a system that is uniform everywhere all schools look alike, the same desk, the same light, all the same over and over. Maybe 12 years is too short or too long. Maybe it should be year-round. Maybe it should be longer days. I don't know, all I'm trying to do is start that debate.

Wilson Mizner

A good listener is not only popular everywhere but, after a while he knows something

Brett Basanez

That kid was everywhere - he was head-hunting,

Mitch Daniels

I try to take the same message everywhere I go, ... We're all in this together in Indiana.

Katie Gearlds

Aya was everywhere tonight. She had a great performance all around.

Sasha Roiz

I have this tendency to play these horrible, horrible characters.

Donald Rumsfeld

It tends to be speculative, ... It is not actionable. It is not verifiable.

Katherine Center

Beauty comes from tenderness.

Edith Hamilton

A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.

Chris Jordan

My ideas tend to arise out of nowhere when I'm not intentionally trying to think of something.

Laurie Helgoe

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

John Updike

A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise.

Dan Shechtman

Israel, in general, should learn from other nations. We have a tendency to teach the world. In many cases, we should learn from the world, because they make advances.

Ray Anderson

I don't think it's that simple. But historically, there have been some 'copycat' tendencies in the league.

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.

Lorrie Moore

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

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.

Fred Wilpon

You can't get much more New York than this.

John Catsimatidis

New York never felt the recession. New York never felt a depression.

Cary Fukunaga

New York is perfect for Tanizaki because it's filled with so many dark spaces.

Tamara Tunie

I'm Irish on St. Patrick's Day. I'm Italian on Columbus Day. I'm a New Yorker every day.

Rita Ora

A New Yorker is anyone who has the guts to really live in the city.

Santiago Cabrera

I've been to New York a lot. I grew up in London but I'm from Chile originally.

Eddy Curry

That's just how things happened. I think in the long run, New York is going to come out on top.

Erik Estrada

I wanted to be a New York City cop before I became an actor.

Antonio Sabato, Jr.

I'm a Laker fan, always have been. And the New York Yankees, for sure.