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.

O. Henry

It cannot be emphasized too clearly and too often that this nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religion, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason, peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.

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.

James Wolfensohn

His work in the developing world has afforded him a deep understanding of the many challenges of development. He knows what a remarkable institution this is, he appreciates its outstanding team of development professionals, and I know he will bring continuity to its programs and its mission of fighting poverty.

Howard Dean

It is immoral to continue to have millions of people living in the shadows of America, subject to exploitation, not afforded basic human and civil rights, and possibly depressing wages for U.S. workers.

Kelsey Chow

Dance and theatre afforded me the opportunity to discover my passion for acting, for telling stories.

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.

Kate Christensen

I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.

Mike Woodson

I'm not asking for preferential treatment. All I'm asking is that my guys are afforded the same calls the other team is getting. That's all I've ever asked for.

Patrick Barkey

I think it masks the state of the economy and understates the degree to which the job picture has worsened.

Mark Frauenfelder

I actually studied engineering in school - I have a degree in mechanical engineering. But, when I got out of school, instead of going to work as an engineer, I was in a band.

Douglas Kirkland

I always considered, with every shoot, I was on trial; every time I pick up my camera and start out on the relationship, I am at degree zero. There is no coasting.

Phil Dow

I think the main impact of the election has been a degree of uncertainty. Once we know who the president will be it will be very much like Y2K -- it will come and go. You have to focus on sales and earnings, and those have been pretty robust.

Hugh McColl

To date, despite our many successes in individual businesses, we have not made the degree of progress we would like toward realizing that potential, ... We've assembled the right parts, but after years of additions, our resulting structure is neither as efficient nor as effective as it needs to be." ()

Terry Robinson

It got down to about 26 degrees here around 5:45 in the morning. I know there's some damage.

Ted Brennan

It got so hot those few weeks, I know it easily got to 120 degrees in there. The wine was literally cooked.

Lauren Willig

I went to grad school with the grand plan of getting my Ph.D. and writing weighty, Tudor-Stuart-set historical fiction - from which I emerged with a law degree and a series of light-hearted historical romances about flower-named spies during the Napoleonic wars.

Chuck McBreen

He's going to get his degree in four years, and I am so happy for that kid to be able to do that.

Keith Tkachuk

He's a competitor, I'll tell you that much. He wants to win; he's been with the Rangers and he demands a lot.

Dennis George

It is all symptomatic of the pursuit of the demands of the Washington consensus.

Daniel Doctoroff

We can do something truly exceptional ... something that demands a new standard of imagination and ambition.

Octavia Butler

I have the kind of mind that demands that I work things out, to see how they would really work if they were real. I have to be able to do that.

Victoria Gray

The company's demands are unreasonable, and we plan to fight them in court.

Bob Williams

The union's termination demands are the most recent in a long series of outrages.

Bruce Arena

The German team needs a win because the public demands it.

Michael Jordan

The game is my life. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.

Pat Williams

This is my 37th year, and I've never seen more demands and expectations on coaches, ... Man, it's like we need a miracle every night. Every team has to go 82-0 or we're not happy.

Shandon Anderson

I think it's because we're a veteran team and we understand what we're trying to do at the end of the day, and that's win a championship. To win a championship you can't have any egos on this team.

Jeremy Bloom

There aren't a lot of egos on this team.

Oren Koules

He never put himself in front of anybody. He never did anything for the ego ? everything he did was for the betterment of the movie.

Richard Rohr

The ego knows itself by comparison.

Wayne Dyer

If you want to feel connected to your own purpose, know this for certain: Your purpose will only be found in service to others, and in being connected to the something far greater than your mind/body/ego.

Wayne Dyer

When you are in-spirit (inspired) you have no need for the ego.

Tony Yayo

When you got a group like G-Unit... we sold millions of records, we got a lot of egos.

Robert Maxwell

I keep on repeating, I'll say it for the last time-I'm not on some ego trip.

Rod Steiger

Film acting would be about 80 percent better than it has been lately if actors did their homework, if they didn't have egos that took the size of their talent for granted.

Dan Reynolds

I wouldn't recommend being a musician to anyone. It's not glamorous. It's a lot of being dirty, not eating, playing for five people and one of them is the bartender.

Mark Richt

I would say you're running it up if you've got your first-team players in the game with five minutes to go and you're up by 40. If you're still throwing bombs, maybe that's running it up. I think it's the defense's job to slow people down anyway.

S. Walker

Just under ten seconds...call it nine point five in round figures.

Don Waddell

Just think we're going to have this player for the next five years.

Ken Valiska

Jose has got phenomenal skills. He's got great moves with the ball, a really quick shot, he'll probably be one of our top five starters. I've been very impressed by him. He's a great player with a great attitude.

Peter Donovan

He was a full-time mortgage-broker and poker was a pursuit. He was doing about four or five hours a week, just like we would play tennis or watch TV.

Bobby Frankel

He couldn't have rode a better race, ... She had never been a mile-and-a-quarter before. I wasn't really comfortable until five jumps from the wire.

Jim Courier

He'll be lucky to last five or six years on those knees. What it might have to come down to is playing less on hard surfaces and playing more on forgiving surfaces.

Mike Madden

He literally, probably stood there in shock for about four or five minutes.

John Bliss

Golden Valley is a very tough team and they always play us very tough. We're going to have to step it up.

Anton LaVey

I request reason for your golden rule and ask the why and wherefore of your ten commandments.

Andrew Marvell

He hangs in shades the orange bright, / Like golden lamps in a green night.

Robert Jordan

The Golden Crane flies for Tarmon Gai'don!

Lauren Dougherty

His hair is more naturally sun-kissed, and he has a little less of a golden tan.

W. Tozer

I love it when you win in two, and I hate it if you go to the golden goal.

Malcolm Mclaren

Don't kill the golden goose.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Golden is a surface colour.

Anthony Cummings

The Golden Slipper is a pressure race and this horse doesn't feel pressure.

Steve Nash

It's a strange one - I've been away for 20 years now; I've been away longer than I lived in Canada, but for some reason I remain wholly Canadian.

Russ Reineke

What matters most is how we lived and loved between the dash.

Al Sevier

He was just a little bitty toddler when he lived here.

Richard C. Armitage

I have been to the theater more since I have lived in New York than I ever really did in London working on a television show.

Mikael Tellqvist

I don't feel too much pressure like that (taking over as No.1). I've lived with it since I was 7 and I can live with it now.

Kadiatou Diallo

I don't know what went wrong that night. I just know that he (Amadou) was in the right place because he lived here, ... He was going in the place where he lived.

Andrew Marvell

Had it lived long, it would have been / Lilies without, roses within.

Doug Tobin

Price and Evans lived in the same place. They were described as friends. At this point, we don't know why he shot his roommate.

Vicky Gunderson

I read it and put it aside. Until I lived it, I didn't understand.

Kellan Lutz

I love the idea of marriage. I definitely want marriage and little Kellans running around.

Keke Palmer

I love competing. I love a challenge. I love going in and showing people what I can do, proving to them that I can get this part, that I can give you what you want.

Grady Sizemore

I always feel like that. That's what I love about the game. There's always pressure in baseball.

Maria Sharapova

I also want to play in the Olympics and would love to represent Russia there as well.

Stephen Jackson

He wants to play with us. He loves his teammates. He has no problem with his teammates. He told me that personally. He wants to come back and play.

Rod Carew

He cared. I love him. I'm going to miss him.

Peggy Fleming

He just loves what he's doing. And that rubs off on his skaters.

Sami Hyypia

He is very aggressive, loves a tackle and can play as well.

Graham Elliot

Even though I live in and love Chicago, I can't stand deep-dish pizza. I'm a New York-style pizza person.

J. C. Watts

I have friends who didn't turn 60. As you get older, your perspective clears.

Rob Halford

Never lose perspective on where you are and what you've got. And how you got it.

William Wordsworth

For all things are less dreadful than they seem.

Robert Plant

I was young - I was 20 years old. Now I have the gift of perspective and I feel pretty good about it.

Wayne Thiebaud

If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective

Wesley Snipes

Nobody wants to get locked up, although 'locked up' is a matter of perspective. There can be people who are out who are in prison mentally and emotionally and worse off than those who are behind bars.

Wayne Coyne

Keeping perspective and being happy and being energetic and being creative - that's all tied to being healthy.

Van Morrison

I just wanted to stop and try to get some perspective. [ A Period of Transition] it was just a matter of wanting to review the whole thing...to try and get some relationship to what I was doing.

Ursus Wehrli

I like to turn things upside down, to watch pictures and situations from another perspective.

Jeaniene Frost

Similarities in the vampire genre are so rampant that there's really no such thing as an original idea - only an original take on an idea that's been done before.

Rabih Alameddine

Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.

Rich Brooks

There have been rampant rumors that I will resign,

Susanne Beauregard

I think it was a relief to her.

William S. Burroughs

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

Violette Leduc

To find relief in what has been, we must make ourselves eternal.

Robert Wyatt

It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.

Roberto Hernandez

I'm a relief pitcher, ... That's all I know. When the game's on the line, I want the ball.

Orhan Pamuk

It's a great relief for me that no one will ask me anymore: "Orhan, when will you get the Nobel Prize?"

Brett Beal

The need to seek relief from the stress at work, you know, the stress at home.

Jim Andrus

It's been way too dry. There doesn't look to be any relief in sight.

Rob Carter

It was more of a relief than anything.

Sergei Bubka

His statements are really crazy, we are really shocked.

David Wojciechowski

He?s going to play. It?s the state championship game.

E. O. Wilson

I was completely surprised at his statement (to resign).

Larry Small

What we are trying to do is make a statement -- If you can't come to the Smithsonian in Washington, we will come to you,

Kate Saunders

It is not unprecedented that the two will be in the United States at the same time.

Quinnetta Claytor

We can do it, we can win state championships.

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Willy Brandt

Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.

Steve Lyle

Other states have called us, and are taking a look at it.

Scott Simon

Just pretty much staying within myself with my swing and not doing too much with it. That's usually when I'm at my best.

Forrest Gump

Just stay a little longer.....Okay Jenny I'll stay.

Richard McIntyre

Hamid took him as a brother. He let him stay at his house.

Felipe Alou

He's a tough kid. We're staying with him.

Larry Pleau

He's going to stay with the organization for a long time.

Felix Hernandez

I threw it and it just stayed up there. It was an error.

Nico Melendez

It is a continual progression. We need to stay one step ahead.

Alice Lowe

I think when a couple stays together, it's because of compromises they've both made.

Randy Palmer

He's doing real good. Real good. There's so much stuff to learn, and you kind of have to stay on it.

W. H. Auden

We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.

B. C. Forbes

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

Charlotte Bronte

Rapidly, merrily, Life's sunny hours flit by, Gratefully, cheerily Enjoy them as they fly!

Stephenie Meyer

But on a clear, sunny day? How would she know to flee when she couldn't see any place for danger to hide?

Mike Hunter

We wouldn't be winning necessarily if it were all sunny days.

Judd Gregg

Whatever my wife tells me to do with it,

Kenny Lofton

He tells guys, 'Go out there and play hard, but have fun,'

Chris Shelton

I just think that if we play the way he tells us to play, we'll win.

Josh Groban

The honest-to-goodness answer is that Twitter tells me everything, and I have calluses on my fingers from all the mouse-clicking.

Jimmy Rushing

The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing.

Jerome Bettis

It's been done before, so that tells you something -- it can happen. Hopefully, there'll be another one this year.

Ron Gardenhire

It's very tough. They didn't put a timetable on it, so that tells me it's going to be a while.

Ned Colletti

It tells you who he is, what he is. This is a professional.

Gary Latham

This is an active, not a passive, RFID system. It tells workers what to do with the vehicles and when.

Napoleon Hill

Remember when your plans fail, that temporary defeat is not permanent failure.

Napoleon Hill

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination.

Henry Rollins

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Napoleon Hill

You are fortunate if you have learned the difference between temporary defeat and failure, more fortunate still if you have learned the truth that the very seed of success is dormant in every defeat that you experience.

Lou Reed

It's just a temporary thing.

Bud Perrone

This temporary setback can and must be overcome.

Suzanne Collins

If my holding out those berries was an act of temporary insanity, then those people will embrace insanity too.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.

Gus Van Sant

I've always been attracted to temporary families.