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.

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.

Orson F. Whitney

It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than they imagine, for the success they may have achieved, even in practical pursuits, and for the enjoyment their lives have afforded them.

Anthony Carmona

We all ran barefooted on the dusty roads in our past, but now the Emperor wears shoes, and it is our responsibility to ensure that the barefooted child and the doting mother are afforded a holistic environment to realise their dreams and ambitions.

Jerry Moss

The partnership over the 28 years we had the company afforded him the opportunity to experiment and live his life as an artist and a label honcho and do what he wanted to do. It afforded me the same opportunity.

Dave Bush

I was kind of thinking I just have to settle down, keep throwing strikes, just because of a run in the first inning I can't come out of the game plan. I feel like I've executed fairly well against them.

Tyronn Mitchell

I was just caught up in the moment, that was a shot of a lifetime. Who would think a number 14 seed against a number three seed? The emotion was just so high. I was running around like crazy.

Jai Courtney

I was always dressing up as a kid in the backyard, building some sort of fort and having battles against imaginary enemies. It's often that same feeling when you're pretending for a living, but it's with bigger toys.

Flip Saunders

Kind of how we've been for 37 games. Different guys lead us over different parts of the game, play unselfish. Thirty assists, eight turnovers, that's kind of where we've been when we win games. I think how we played tonight against New York is pretty much how this team has played through the first half of this season.

Brian Vereb

Kenyon is opening a new facility and we will be the second opponent to swim in their new pool. The Ladies are a powerhouse in Division III swimming and this should be a good test for us, swimming against a quality opponent on the road.

Jerry Ryan

Kill the Pope; that's obviously anti-Catholic, but that's against the message of the other writings where they say 'no more war,'

Matt Hasselbeck

Knowing Chike -- he's a guy with a great pass rush and he's got a motor -- I don't think any quarterback gets excited about going up against him. I think our guys, hopefully, will be up to the task.

David Parsons

Kids coming out of high school are coached better today. Nothing against the coaches I had in high school; I thought they were great coaches. But everything is so specialized now. I watch Gary Rankin (Riverdale head football coach). He was a teammate of mine at Tennessee. (Riverdale) has a different game plan for everybody they played.

Gerald Doucet

I would not put my money against it.

Bobby Kielty

I would say the Steroid Era is over. If it isn't, these people are going to get caught. You are going to be caught and you are going to pay. If you are dumb enough to take steroids, you are going to pay the price. The penalties outweigh the benefits.

Romeo Crennel

Just sitting out there, I saw a couple of throws that caught your eye.

Tony Baker

He caught the country and the city by storm.

Mo Cheeks

I thought we did a pretty good job of not getting caught up in the way Phoenix plays.

Seimone Augustus

I think a lot of times we got caught standing in the paint, so there wasn't a lot of opportunity for the perimeter players to drive. Once we spaced the court and screened and cut - do the things we do - it was difficult for them to keep up.

Ken Cassar

Last year, nearly everyone was surprised at how much demand there was. This year, people realize how much demand and potential there is. We won't see as many people caught off guard.

Eric Chavez

We lost. The numbers say you're out and the season is over -- that's it. I think it was quite evident we were not going to do it. The numbers and history were not on our side. When he caught the ball, that's the end, There's no more.

Mervyl Melendez

We lost the conference last year; we didn't deserve to win. There are some teams that think they've caught up to us. It's up to us to show them that they haven't.

Paul Anderson

We made our mistakes. Tonight they definitely caught up with us. Hard.

Johnny Roscoe

Hartsville made plays and we didn't. We had them down, but let them back in the game. We have to finish the job and be more aggressive, or the result will be the same.

Roy H. Williams

You have to finish the job. I've never been one to be big on moral victories.

Clint Bowyer

It is a good finish for us. A good way to turn things around.

Mary Thomason

I thought going in that we could finish in second place but we didn't shoot as well as we had been.

Willie Roaf

I thought about (retiring). I talked to Will and some of the guys. Then last year we finished so strong at the end of the year. It was great seeing Will come back. That helped, too.

Zach Braden

I think you would be lying to yourself if you were not surprised that we were 23-6. A lot of people said we would be lucky to finish .500. We surprised a lot of people, including myself.

Greg Puhalski

It is good for our team to finish as high as possible.

Victor Matfield

We threw it away at the end. We had the game in the bag. It's just a pity we couldn't finish it off.

B. F. Skinner

To finish with just five losses is very pleasing.

Susan Murray

kind of hard to get to your car.

Laura Lange

I wouldn't say I've progressed since last year. I don't think I'm going to play in college, so this is my last year playing and I'm going to play as hard as I can.

Mark Mulder

Izzy told me the first time you're traded or released and go somewhere else is the hardest. After that, it's no problem. I can now understand why people say that. It wasn't hard making an adjustment. It was just different.

Ron Polk

He used to be a power pitcher, but after shoulder surgery he's had some hard luck.

Joey Cora

He didn't pitch that bad. He threw strikes, and that's the key for him. He didn't get hit hard at all. He just wasn't lucky.

Ben Braun

He can take a lot of pride knowing he is playing for a championship now as he leaves Cal. He has worked so hard over the years.

George Herman

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

Sufjan Stevens

It's hard to say if actual places really affect the way you write.

Danny Shafer

There are so many people who are working so hard to have so little these days. It's disturbing, because this is the most politics I've ever talked about out of 500 interviews.

Eric Wicks

I thought they'd try to run a lot more outside to open up the field. I think after a while, they were just trying to make a play, anywhere.

Anthony Geary

I have friends in France who are artists. I go to gallery openings and things like that.

Tom Peterson

Our middles are very good. We passed really well and that opened things up for our offense.

Paul Vachon

If you give them open looks, they don't miss. But if you have someone there, and especially with Paradis because she shoots from the hip, it's going to be a little tougher than if they're open.

Jeff Hironaka

In the first half, we (hit the 3), and that opened things up. We had better opportunities to go to the basket. That's how we have to play.

Justin Leonard

I played a practice round with him at Baltusrol in the '93 Open on my 21st birthday,

David Cross

If the owner hadn't come and seen the smoke, by time this place opened tonight it would have been rolling.

Danielle Tauro

I haven't run in any open races this year so it should be exciting.

Boone Logan

I haven't really thought about the season opener yet. But I will be soon.

Chris Murray

He didn't really get a shot. They didn't give him much opportunity in the pre-season.

Ron Chernow

You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buying opportunities. You don't want too much complacency because people will be blinded to some risk.

Travis Tritt

I've been very fortunate to have had the opportunities to have the career I've had.

Regis Philbin

I missed so many opportunities along the way to do what I wanted to do because I didn't have the confidence to tell myself, much less anybody else, 'Yes, this is the business I wanted to be a part of, and not feeling that I had the talent... and letting it go all the way through Notre Dame and then through two years of Navy service.

Reid Hoffman

Finished ought to be an F-word for all of us. We are all works in progress. Each day presents an opportunity to learn more, do more, be more, grow more in our lives and careers.

Woodrow Wilson

There are times when words seem empty and only actions seem great. Such a time has come, and in the Providence of God America will once more have an opportunity to show the world that she was born to save mankind.

William Weld

If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability economic, political and social.

Rob Bell

I feel like I've gotten an extraordinary opportunity to experience a sort of collective humanity. If you hug many people in such a short period of days you pick up on a communal energy, almost like feeling a giant heartbeat that everyone is beating together.

Tucker Max

Obstacles are only obstacles if you see them as obstacles. They can also be called opportunities.

Samuel Johnson

To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.

Ronald Reagan

There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values.

Ben Kingsley

I may return to the stage, but not in the foreseeable future.

Shimon Peres

It's a very sad day and a very serious situation. And the first and most urgent task is to return from shooting to talking,

Javier Solana

They have to think, they have to return to negotiating ? the temperature has to be lowered.

Bernie Williams

It is weird. You know going in, that this isn't going to last. In a little while, we'll return to our teams and it'll be back to normal.

Publilius Syrus

Modesty once lost, never returns into favour.

Sharon Lee

Let us return to 'no'. It has the charm of brevity.

Helen Andelin

To awaken chivalry we must return to femininity. We must stop doing the masculine things and become the gentle, tender, dependent women we were designed to be.

Troy Brown

I actually feel like a rock star. I feel like I'm important here.

Ed Stern

He was pivotal. He was sort of the rock of the Playhouse: organized, disciplined, always in control.

Richard Paul Evans

The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity.

Rick Derringer

I was almost kind of trapped by my own success into only doing rock.

William Wordsworth

Monastic brotherhood, upon rock Aerial.

Sarah Rees Brennan

They should've built a city on rock and roll.

Tracy Morgan

I love 30 Rock because Tina Fey allows me to fly over the cuckoo nest once a week.

Robert Wyatt

I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry.

Robert Plant

The way I see it, rock n' roll is folk music.

Robert C. Solomon

Familiarity can no longer be a necessary condition for trust.

Vittorio Alfieri

A usurper always distrusts the whole world.

Wayne Dyer

St John of the Cross told us that if a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark. I interpret that as a direction for us to trust in the guidance we receive from our invisible self.

W. C. Fields

Trust everybody, but cut the cards yourself.

Samuel Johnson

Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses.

Zoe Saldana

Trust me: Studios, investors, filmmakers, they will shift because they just follow the money trail.

Eric Hoffer

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

James Cash Penney

Honor bespeaks worth Confidence begets trust.

James Augustine

It's frustrating because you want to be out there. But you have to trust your teammates.