Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Young

A's Baseball remains one of the most affordable entertainment values in all of sports. The average ticket price in 2006 will be $25.48, which still ranks in the lower third in all of baseball. And the average ticket-price increase from 2005 to 2006 will be 7.24 percent, which is the second-lowest increase over the last six seasons and lower than the last two seasons.

Craig Barrett

The bottom line is that we want images on PCs to become as easy to use and as ubiquitous as text is today. If digital imaging is easy, affordable and fun for consumers, we believe it will spur PC demand and contribute to the ultimate goal of creating new users and new uses for the PC platform.

Lisa Carlson

People assume they've got to go the traditional route. But we are beginning to see a lot more affordable low-cost options.

M. Wolfe

A few years ago, you could heat a home for $500. Now it takes $1,500. Energy has become a lot less affordable for low-income families.

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.

Brian Davis

Safety is a real issue, and then there is the problem of liability ... we can't afford to do nothing.

Randy Thomasson

Schwarzenegger can't afford to sign the gay marriage license bill, ... He'll actually become a hero to the majority of Californians when he vetoes it.

Vinnie Jones

Puffy faces, beer bellies - I can't afford to go that way. For the parts I play I've got to look respectable, lean and mean.

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.

Jon Daniels

Avoiding the arbitration process for the next two years with a core player such as Mark is an important step for both he and the club. We're hopeful the contract is the continuation of a relationship that will last well beyond the term of this agreement.

Bing Gordon

Somehow, the company must stay true to the founding vision while avoiding the pitfalls of rapid growth - and perhaps survive the hiring of a previously successful executive who doesn't work out.

Jonah Rapino

It seems like it's the classic of classics. I think we had been avoiding it for a little while.

Mark Simon

We just haven't gotten over the hump defensively. It's something we're working on every night in practice, so we're not avoiding it, but it's taking longer than I think we originally thought it would.

Laura Bush

As China reforms its economy, its leaders are finding that once the door to freedom is opened even a crack, it cannot be closed,

Joseph P. Bradley

As marriage and the family institution constitute the foundation and chief cornerstone of civil society, it is of the greatest moment that the marriage-tie should never be dissolved save for the most urgent reason. I cannot assent, however, to the doctrine that it should never be dissolved at all.

Alaa Makki

People cannot walk 10 or 12km, but the election commission isn't putting in more polling stations.

Karen Best

The symptoms teachers are experiencing are real; these teachers are ill. The BUT dismisses that nonsense because I don't understand how cancer, asthma, rhinitis or conjunctivitis falls into that category. We understand that it is a phenomenon, but it cannot be attributed to what is happening at Louis Lynch School.

Joel Denney

One after the other there's been enough things hitting that it continues to push them closer to the edge. They just cannot stand a whole lot more.

Vincent Van Gogh

It would be difficult for me to express all my thoughts about it. It remains a constant disappointment to me that my drawings are not yet what I want them to be. The difficulties are indeed numerous and great, and cannot be overcome immediately. Maki

Justice Marla

The statute inflicts immediate, continuing and real injuries that outrun and belie any legitimate justification that may be claimed for it. Moral disapproval of a group cannot be a legitimate state interest.

Francis Escudero

The worst-case scenario is that the court would say that the impeachment complaint is unconstitutional. But the court cannot prevent us from doing our ministerial duty,

Karl Rove

The will of the American people cannot be subverted in case after case, on issue after issue, year after year, without provoking a strong counter-reaction.

Peter Palese

The virus has been around for more than a dozen years, but it hasn't jumped into the human population. I don't think it has the capability of doing it.

Jon Gruden

This is the first team I've been on that starts every practice with an anti-turnover circuit. We're coaching that hard. ... We're actually implementing drills, specific drills, to increase our capability of hanging onto the ball.

Guy Boutilier

Alberta Environment is doing, and has been doing, everything possible to respond to protect the environment, ... We can always learn from these incidents how we can do better and thats why Ive established this commission to review our capability to respond to these types of situations and recommend how we can improve.

Sue Feldman

There is a welter of information today, and it's only increasing. Search firms recognize that knowledge workers and even consumers need better ways to sort through information. That's what's driving innovation, and we'll continue to see better and better search capability because of it.

Maryann Mitts

Marina has that capability to spark us. When she's on, when she's focused, this team will follow her lead.

John Logsdon

It doesn't hurt. The money they provide is very important to the Russians in keeping their capability for human spaceflight active.

Robert Olstein

Here's a company that we think has free-cash-flow capability of between $1 and $1.25 a share, ... At this price, this would be an outstanding acquisition candidate.

Mike Riley

I think it's exciting for everybody. I think everybody realizes what Joe has meant to the program and what capability that Joe has.

Roger Cressey

In times of crisis I think you have to explore, use every capability and explore every option. But past those, in the day-to-day operations when there is no imminent threat, you need to revisit procedures and structures in place to ensure proper oversight.

Anatoly Chubais

To stop us, they want to scare us. They will never succeed, ... We will fulfill the goals she sacrificed her life for.

Damian Woetzel

Fulfilling your mission is one thing; vision is another, and having a commitment to something leads you to do better work.

Beau Bridges

Fortunately I've been able to work in a lot of different mediums in my career, and they are all fulfilling in one way or another.

Russ Reineke

I am not here to lecture you or to ruin anyone's day. Quite the opposite. I am here to hopefully help make your day and to hopefully help you have a more fulfilling life.

Finn Wittrock

Film and television are so piecemeal. You do one scene, and then you put it to bed, and then you do a scene that comes before. In a play, you have to go from beginning to end every night, and that's harder, but also more fulfilling in a way.

Linda Lavin

I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great. This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream.

Manny Acta

We have big stars in our country, and it's tough to trim our roster. There are lots of expectations around our club. I think we're going to fulfill them.

Fergie

I was in a group called Wild Orchid and it just wasn't working. I wasn't being myself. What I should have done was say. 'Girls, it's really time for me to go on my own. I need to fulfill this dream of mine to have a solo album.' And I didn't know how to do that. I wanted to please them.

Brett Lee

Growing up, you look at guys like Jeff Thomson as heroes, so going past him is pretty special.

Barbara Kingsolver

But nothing on this earth is guaranteed, when you get right down to it, you know ? I've been thinking about that. About how your kids aren't really YOURS, they're just these people that you try to keep an eye on, and hope you'll all grow up someday to like each other and still be in one piece. What I mean is, everything you get is really just on loan. Does that make sense?" Sure,"I said. "Like library books. Sooner or later they've all got to go back into the nightdrop.

Bailey Chase

It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-80s, and we had the 85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.

Bruce Kennedy

We're growing up, and we've got growing pains,

Brendan Fehr

Distance makes the heart grow fonder, a little bit, but there's a certain maturity level that just comes with experience and growing up.

Brad Pitt

Indian cinema seems to be growing very well at its own pace.

Jane Campion

I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated, and when you first experience the world of film-making you have to develop a very tough skin.

Tori Kelly

I remember growing up singing; even when I was just three years old, I was singing all the time in the house. My parents said I was singing before I could even talk properly.

Janet Jackson

A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.

Gloria Allred

Some were told that the reason they had to stand in a particular spot was to make sure that construction workers passing by the trailer would not be able to see them.

Betty Cuthbert

You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed.I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed.

Barry Unsworth

But whatever the ramifications, whatever turns the path takes, the beginning is always there, in a particular moment, a particular point of access.

Ronda Rousey

Every chick I try to intimidate in a different way. You have to think about their personality. You have to think about what would get under that particular person's skin the most.

Tom Sneddon

We have a cooperative victim in this particular proceeding.

Martin Lee

There's one particular woman who does a lot of cooking.

Jim Tracy

That was a part of the reason. There was one situation in particular that Kent picked up on. For competitive reasons, I'm not going to say what it was.

Chris LeDoux

Mostly it would be those who rode in a particular even would hang out with those who rode in the same event.

David Lee

All these things were on her mind, stewing and stewing. And all these things boiled to the surface in one particular moment.

Ben Hecht

Out of the seventy movies I've written some ten of them were not entirely waste product.

T. S. Eliot

I can connect Nothing with nothing

Thomas Love Peacock

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

Plautus

To waste one's breath; to pump into a sieve.

John Piper

God doesn’t waste anything for those who are yielded to him.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Don't waste your time on life.

David Hawkins

He told me not to come here to waste anybody's time; he told me to make the team,

Bobby Lee

If I had abstained, we would have had to go through it all over again. And it will be the same thing all over again. I'm too old to waste my time.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Eternity: what a waste of time.