Famous Quotes & Sayings

Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered that they were not Indians at all but only dirty-clothes hampers.

Martha Stewart

My daughter doesn't allow me to wear fur.

Jim Marks

Multi-lender sites allow you to get a good look at the rate market. (Traditionally), it has taken a lot of time and effort to find out what rates are. You'd have to go to two or three different places and possibly even fill out an application each time.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

must not allow itself to be turned into an instrument in denying a nation of its inalienable right.

Hanna Rosin

Men and women are equally intelligent, but separate factors, such as the abilities to focus, be collaborative and take other people's views into account, allow you to be successful.

John Thune

my hope would be that the president will allow the process to work.

J. H. Wyman

My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.

Brian Turner

Now, with those games out of the way, we want to keep watching these players when they return to their clubs and make sure they maintain the standards we expect and that they don't allow bad habits to creep in.

Drew Kesse

Negative things roll right off our family; we don't allow negative things. We're realistic; we understand it could go another direction. That just doesn't help anything.

Adam Carolla

I've never really broken this down before, but, in movies, you almost have no connection to fans. And if you do TV, you're kind of connected, but they know you as the TV name not your real name. If you do radio, there's more of a bond there. And then if you do a podcast it's like you're literally inside of your fans.

Jack Guynn

With gasoline at or near $3 a gallon recently, and other energy costs such as natural gas almost doubling in the past year, consumers may face tough choices in how they allocate their spending.

Renzo Piano

We chose steel and extra wide panels of glass, which is almost like crystal. These are honest materials that create the right sense of strength and clarity between old and new, as well as a sense of transparency in the center of the institution that opens the campus up to the street.

Jeff Clark

There's a difference, mentally. You have to like power. You're almost like a mountain man. You're comfortable putting it all on the line. Being a big-wave surfer, you really rely on your instincts.

Noah Baumbach

There's something deceptively simple about how he acts. It reminds me of Spencer Tracy. It's almost like he isn't doing anything, but he is really doing so much.

Mike Birbiglia

There's something about small venues that's amazing for developing material. It's almost like you can not only hear people's response, but you can understand it. In bigger venues you lose that, but you gain this sense of camaraderie in the audience.

Joe Meno

There's slowly been a kind of shift in how we think about childhood. It's like childhood almost extends to 20 or 22 even after the end of college. When I was growing up, there was this expectation that you were on your own now.

Joe Lo Truglio

There's shorthand that happens when you work with someone you know where you can almost finish each other's sentences. There's just a certain back and forth that becomes much easier with someone you've worked with for so long.

Geoffrey Gilmore

There's filmmakers here, almost every single one of them, who are thinking about (the world) when they work and we saw it throughout the festival.

John Gibbons

Ted (Lilly) has a bad back right now, something he felt the day after his last start (March 26). So we'll give him an extra day of rest and have Josh (Towers) start the second game and Lilly the third.

John Warren

Sarah pitched a pretty good game for her first outing. I'm happy with her. We had one bad inning and that cost us the game. Losing never changes. It still hurts as much as it did 12 years ago (when he started coaching).

Bill Maris

Say you have cancer - you have this broad thing we call cancer; we're going to irradiate you and pump this poisonous material into you and hope more of the bad stuff dies than the good. That is going to seem so medieval when we can fix it on a genetic level, and Foundation Medicine is the first step to diagnosing it on a genetic level.

Jack Pitney

Public opinion has a short list of bad guys, and the drug companies are on it. That can be hurtful to Proposition 78.

John M. Smith

Public consensus is clear that the sewage deal with the City of Sumas is a bad deal for Abbotsford and needs to be terminated as soon as possible,

Robert Mintz

Prosecutors have to show this was not simply bad management and bad judgment, but outright fraud. The only way to do that is with insiders.

Michael Sandler

Quite honestly, it's a good news, bad news situation. The bad news is our portfolio is not as cheap as it was at the beginning of the year.

Billy Donovan

Quite honestly, I'm not concerned about that. I'm more worried about making sure that this team understands what's a good shot, what's a bad shot, going into the season.

Scott Robinson

Quite frankly I was shocked at our performance on Wednesday. To play like we did Saturday then turn around and play that bad Wednesday was very surprising.

Ambrose Bierce

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

Marty Smith

That was two too many. The first rule was you must shower every day.