Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Cory Miller

I've seen students check out anywhere between $250 up to $1,200. The fact that we are a rental (school) can make a difference. Some kids just aren't going to be able to afford those books.

Linda Lingle

This is an exciting project. Even though I can't afford one of these units, I can still appreciate the beauty that you're putting into this project.

Jim Hossack

This is good news because while BMW has been an industry leader in diesel and hydrogen technology, it hasn't been a factor in hybrids. No one knows for sure which technology is going to win for the future, but BMW can't afford not to look at other choices to learn which is the most economic and cost-efficient.

Ann Kaplan

This is not for people with money. It's for people who want a procedure and can't afford it.

Bertie Ahern

This is not a time for sitting back. It's not a time for complacency. We cannot afford a prolonged stalemate.

Kathryn Schmitz

This is not a program you could do in your home, unless you can afford to have a full gym in your basement.

Bob Gray

The word 'flu' is always dangerous. So I figured I'd see what it was all about.

Bob Becker

We figured if we got two dozen, we'd be really happy.

Rand Pecknold

We talked about it as a team - that a point in November is as big as a point in February. It just didn't register and that's something we figured out that we have to do better next year so we can move up in the rankings.

Daron Malakian

We haven't figured out how we are going to present that yet, but it's going to come on a separate thing. I think we might put it on a separate disc.

Hal Sutton

He's knows I'm a gambler. He figured that I would do that.

Glenn Johnson

We had goals set before the season and to finish with 10 or 12 wins, we thought that was realistic. We never figured to be in the final game. No matter what happens it's been a successful season.

Sara Baker

I figured if his mother wasn't nervous it would be OK,

Alex Lewis

We took a game-by-game focus. If we took it like that, we figured we'd have as much success as we've had so far.

James Butler

He got paralyzed. I figured we should give him something.

John Fossum

I've never heard of a situation like this before,

Scott Owens

When I heard this morning, I said 'What?

Ian Hunter

When I heard him, I thought, if he can do that and get away with it, I can do it too. (on Sonny Bono)

Steve Clark

To be honest, I never even thought of it or heard of it.

Kyle Lowry

You heard about it all the time. It was always sold out in here so I couldn't get tickets.

Jan Egeland

We have not heard of any tsunami hitting anywhere.

Kary Moss

We haven't heard of jails taping what should be confidential conversations. That's wrong.

Wilma Bennett

She had a big jolly laugh. If you were in a room with a lot of people and you heard her laugh it made you feel better. It was that kind of laugh.

Penn Jillette

I have never heard her say 'hell' or 'damn,' ... She's not coming.

Ashley Ellott

The down payment is $400,000 for the car.

Gene Wolfe

When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.

Tim Chapman

This is going to be a social services disaster.

Mel Kohn

This is something we need to do a lot more talking about.

R. Robinson

Every day, he talked to us about being responsible,

James Hansen

There's no win for us in talking about this.

Dorothy Allison

I wanted her to to go on talking and understand without me saying anything. I wanted her to love me enough to leave him, to pack us up and take us away from him, to kill him if need be. (107)

Adolf Hitler

I don't talk for the sake of talking. I do become intoxicated with sound. When I open my mouth, it's to say something.

Allen Ginsberg

You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own voice, you're making a strained attempt to talk, so it's a matter of just listening to yourself as you sound when you're talking about something that's intensely important to you.

Martin Edwards

We'll talk about it when we get back to the jail,

Anthony DeCurtis

Interviewing is a lot like talking, but you have to guide the conversation. You have to know what you want and go about getting it.

Andy Stanley

Learning never takes place while you're talking.

Anton Chekhov

Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

Arthur Schopenhauer

It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass.

Albert Einstein

The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening

Douglas Wilson

How is it possible to live like a machine and bear fruit like a tree?

Robert Frost

Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss....

Sylvester Stallone

If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there'd be bodies hanging from every tree!

Ray Davies

The only time I feel at ease is swinging up and down in a coconut tree.

Thomas Jefferson

The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.