Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Wagoner

Any time GM and UAW has something going on, we're all curious about how that may affect us,

Fadela Chaib

An outbreak of cholera, affecting probably several hundreds of people, is occurring,

O. Singh

As far as I know, the hotel project at Providence, close to the stadium, has enough cement in supply at the site. The shortage is basically affecting the small man rather than big companies.

Todd France

As far as Ronnie hurting himself, we are aware of how it could affect him. It has affected guys differently over the years and you cannot predict the future. ... Bottom line, we have always wanted to get this deal done ASAP and Ronnie has been working out very hard everyday.

Chris Warren

As far as contests go, this is the last big event of the season. It's affects us greatly. Normally, we don't get as much walk-in traffic.

Eddie Jones

As a team the increased fuel costs, naturally, affect your budget. Figure this: the transporter that we run gets about 6 1/2 to 7 miles per gallon at best, 4 1/2 at worst. Obviously, the increased fuel cost makes a considerable difference, especially with all of these trips we're making to the West Coast now.

Mark Billingham

As crime writers, we put these characters, year after year, book after book, through the most horrendous trauma, dealing with grief and death and loss and violence. We can't pretend that these things don't affect these characters; they have to. If they don't, then you're essentially writing cartoons.

Brian Mitchell

As a place of some resources we had a responsibility to reach out to those who were affected by Hurricane Katrina.

Dean Duerst

As a group, I don't think it was our best effort. It is always tough to tie. It was a very exciting game and both teams could have won it. Our first-half performance was a level down and it affected the outcome of the game. We need to learn from that. We definitely came back in the second half and played with a lot more energy. It was a great battle.

Bill Belichick

Any time a player goes from one system to another, one thing that could be a problem is breaking old habits. It's not that you don't understand what the new responsibilities or plays are, but just the fact that you've been doing something a long time - it's a habit - and that's not what's required in the other system. And that means kind of undoing something before you can even start to do something new.

Jim Leljedal

As far as we can tell at this point, those men had a right to be at that corner, they weren't breaking any laws. They had a right to have guns in their pockets and they may have been justified in returning fire.

Dave Lambert

As far as I can see, this looks a complete dog's breakfast of a clause as it fails to consider that many so-called 'hacker tools' have perfectly legitimate uses.

Matt Schulze

As far as rock groups, I really like Stone Temple Pilots. As for classical composers, it's Bach. I love Paganini, too, the Italian composer who would break strings during a performance and finish playing on just one string. Someone I would have loved to play with is Jimi Hendrix.

Eddie Greene

As everybody knows, small, rural hospitals have a tough time. It'll get us pretty close to break even, where before we had some operating losses.

Ernie Els

As a result, I'm going to have to take a break on the recommendation of my medical advisers,

P. J. Harvey

As a collegiate athlete, now (Harris) is going to be a lot more relaxed. Not to put any pressure on him, (but) I think he has a chance to break our record in the 60-meter dash.

Jason Richardson

As a lot of times, you go up to dunk and you feel like you want to break that backboard, break that rim.

Dave Sarachan

The bye week wasn't the worst thing. We have a long road stretch, so we needed to break it up.

Geena Davis

As an Independent, she has no party backing, ... Her being the first Independent president trumps the fact that she's a woman. It causes even more upheaval in Washington than her being female.

Michael Gibson

As a direct result of his lack of leadership in this regard, fine revenues were down approximately 20 percent this last fiscal year, which causes a financial hardship on the city and our citizens, not to mention a safety hazard for his failure to properly enforce our traffic laws,

Christine Albertus

Realize what causes hearing loss and use common sense. If you're exposed to loud sounds, use ear protection.

Kary Mullis

People say to me, How many people have you seen die of this disease? They say, You don't know what causes it because you've never watched them die.

Justin Baldoni

People grow; people grow apart, and cancer... I've had a very in-depth and personal experience with cancer, and it really causes a perspective shift.

Nelson Mandela

No stone will be left unturned to establish fully what the causes were and where responsibility lies,

Steve Simmons

Any kind of glitch causes problems that send tremors through the whole industry.

Allen Wallace

A player makes a name for himself and then causes younger players to look and see what can be accomplished. The younger players start focusing on being like one of the older guys.

Glenn Kroll

The situation was what it was. It didn't cause me to stop being friends with him.

Jim Edmonds

An out's an out, ... We all make outs. It doesn't make it any more frustrating that anybody's on deck. It's the fact that you make outs with guys on base, knowing that's your only chance right there.

John Shaffer

As far as the shuttle program is concerned, it's unacceptable if there's another chance of an accident.

Jay Lasley

As far as from an offensive standpoint, we had chances, we just have to capitalize. If we have those chance again, we just have to drive in runners.

Charlie Warner

As he was going up to the plate, (his teammates) were telling him he'd get a chance to swing. The only pitch he swung on all night he hit out of the park.

Tommy Smothers

As I always say - if they can't get our famous husbands, they'll take us, ... But at least it's a chance to wear my tiara.

Jack Rose

As far as our character, we are a very similar team. We have a chance to win some games down the road here. Hopefully, we'll win enough to get a shot at the playoffs. But we have to improve a lot.

Michael Hastings

As for the like of Hillary Clinton, I - you know, I've covered Secretary of State Clinton before. I covered her during her campaign. And she's a very likable and charismatic person once you get the chance to spend any time close to her.

Jarome Iginla

As a series goes on, each game gets bigger. We have a chance now to put a dent in them, but we know that, coming off a loss, they're going to be more desperate.

Joe Hall

As a visitor, I was really impressed with the downtown. You really have a jewel down there, and you need to use this (Hurricane Katrina) as a chance to polish that.

Svetlana Kuznetsova

Now nobody will disturb me about this, ... Nobody will say nothing to me. I'll just relax and take some time off, I guess, and just prepare for the next events.

Michael Grant

We were disturbed the president moved too slowly, that FEMA looked too disorganized.

Tony Clark

What's been disturbing to me, over the last few years (the price) has been high and consistently high, ... There hasn't been a low to offset the high.

B. F. Skinner

We're disturbed by that. You want to go out and respect the opponent and respond to that. We didn't take it as a challenge. We just went with the flow. Quite honestly, the game's over. We have to get ready for league play.

Elliot Mintz

The timing of this is macabre. (Ono) thinks it's outrageous. ... It sends out a message to other disturbed people that killing is a way to fame.

Jerry Brown

We just stay out of the woods as much as possible, don't disturb the trees. The less the damage, the less we tear up, the less it will look like we've been there. That's what we want.

David Prowse

Leave them to me. Do not disturb my meditation.

Prince Frederik

No, he sleeps so well just now, I don't want to disturb him.

Isabelle Dinoire

On May 27 after a very disturbing week and lots of personal worries, I took some tablets to forget.

Maurice Ager

Any player usually plays better at home. I've had some struggles on the road. But I'm going to try to fix those.

Marc Danley

Our theory is if it's not broke, don't fix it.

Dennis Wilder

Some people today want to see a quick fix to the trade imbalance. In the new global economy, there is not a quick fix.

David Mellem

Once you've done the sale, the only way to fix that is with a time machine. But you can take steps to minimize the (tax) impact.

George Vasic

Technology is now out of favor. People are rapidly concluding there is not a quick fix in store.

Derian Hatcher

Right now we're a fragile team, there's no question about it. It's something we need to fix, and the only way to fix it is to win games.

Sathya Baba

Pray to God and recite His Name or meditate on His Glory for some fixed period of time everyday; you will find it amply rewarding.

Jim Schuster

(President) Kennedy said the time to fix the roof is when the sun is shining. Well, it's time to fix the roof.

Gary Hamilton

The sad part about it is, they haven't fixed it right yet. It's still rough. And if it rains again, it's going to happen again.

Sam Reed

As a consequence, Americans are more comfortable in India because of human freedom and democracy.

Yasser Arafat

a victory for our people, for all the free and proud people and for every freedom movement in the world.

Juergen Peters

That people don't want to give this away of their own free will goes without saying.

Kurt Opsahl

That was a big win for free speech.

Shaukat Aziz

Progress on Kashmir would pave the way for free trade between the two countries,

Henry Ward Beecher

On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that, citizens; on this side, orphans; on that, children; on this side, captives; on that, free men.

Kate Ford

Do you miss it? What are you doing with your free time?

Sarah Olson

Definitely, our free throw shooting sealed the win for us tonight. The girls really stepped up in a lot of pressure.

Chris Holt

Device-makers use free logistics as a way to compete. The down side is that doctors, because they are not paying, have no incentive to manage inventory tightly.

John Eaton

I wait until something is really in the shape that I want to make it as a permanent record, because I think of recording as a permanent record.

Immanuel Kant

The only thing permanent is change.

Michael Rubner

Our coatings have the potential to provide the first permanent solution to the fogging problem,

James Connaughton

We are doing what we said we would do. We are on track. Stay tuned for the planning and construction of the more permanent barrier.

Linda Ronstadt

I've been on the road since I was 17, ... and I'm 52. It's enough already.

Patrick LeBlanc

The road is simply overwhelmed and we need to do something about it.

Jim Herron

The road is heavily used because it is an alternative to the U.S. 1 corridor.

Kim Cattrall

If I'm producing, I'm not acting, and it's such a long road to get anything off the ground.

Bob McKenzie

There are a lot of considerations, especially on a road that is as traveled as I-15.

Wanda Sykes

When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.

David Hansen

Yes. Yes. And yes. They wanted to keep the show on the road just as it was on Broadway.

Bob Gansler

We've had 2 1/2 lackluster performances here, ... Let's see if we're the road warriors we think we are.

Jamey Carroll

We are going to find out a lot on this road trip about us. Nothing is working, and it's very frustrating, and we don't know what to do.

Don Wright

If they don't do it in a timely (manner) there is at least $30,000 that will slip away.

George Hamilton

I'm not known as a singer, but in life I like to do things that are a bit beyond my reach to keep myself from slipping.

Chris Pronger

To let it slip like that is disappointing.

James Gandolfini

You know, all writers are vampires and ... they'll look around and they watch you when you're not even thinking they're watching you and they'll slip stuff in.

Donnie Edwards

We let one slip away. We've got to find a way to make plays. At least we will have Gates.

Greg Puhalski

We let one slip away. We didn't play smart with the lead.

Dan Uggla

We let it slip away. Once again, another tough one.

Chris McAlister

No sacks, no turnovers. That's not our type of football.

Chris Mack

That's not a 3-point shot, but it's a game-clinching type rebound.

Lykke Li

The first thing you do when you get off tour is let off some steam and, you know, have some type of big breakdown.

Craig Ferguson

In the 1970s vampires were pretty boring. The scariest vampire was Count Chocula. One bite of Count Chocula and you were cursed with Type 2 diabetes.

Abdallah II of Jordan

I'm not the type of person that is forced.

Ryan Kavanaugh

To me, an Oscar movie has to have some type of emotional pull.

Allen Ginsberg

The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!

Alfred North Whitehead

I am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type of thought from the charge of anti-intellectualism, which rightly or wrongly has been associated with it.

Alex Haley

But then, as far as I know, as far as I've studied or heard or picked up, it seems that this type of thing is a curse against mankind.

Al Golden

You never know it as well as you think until you have to be the teacher,

Ian Millward

And, until we get that right, we're not going to win games.

F. Stone

You have to give them you until you is what they want.

Brian Leonard

Right now it is only a scare. We won't know until after the fact.

Mark Ellis

I just feel good. I didn't think anything of it until (Mark) Kotsay said, 'If you get a chance, keep running.

Robert Harrison

I'll be here every year until I die.

Ozzie Guillen

If not then he'll have to wait until Monday.

Carol Davis

If I was the council, I wouldn't want to wait until July. It's been too long.

Rita Ora

I never knew how small L.A. was until I started to work here.

Daniel Anaya

The weather is crazy. I kind of like snow, though.

Alan Wooley

The weather has been a wonderful bonus. We're packed every day.

Jan Karon

In Ireland there’s no such thing as bad weather ~~~ only the wrong clothes. (In the Company of Others)

Anton Chekhov

What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.

Billy Connolly

The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things... after the weather.

Eckhart Tolle

See if you can catch yourself complaining in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

Rashad Bobino

You have to weather the storm. In every big game, there is always a big play. The thing is what are you going to do after that big play?

E. B. White

Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life's dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive.

Douglas Coupland

The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.