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.

Shaun Rinier

I think it's a good contract. I think it's fair to both sides. I think it's affordable to the taxpayers. I don't think this contract is going to break the bank.

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.

Shakira

I never thought it was fair for an 8-year-old child not to be able to afford shoes, or to wander the streets having to beg for money. To know that child's joy would end soon, when they realised there was no future.

Sean McGowan

The only thing that is a problem at Mattel is the one thing it cannot afford to be a problem.

Janice Terry

It costs to much to have them dug up. There's a lot of people said the same thing. If they could afford to have them dug up they would be removed.

Robert Ward

There is going to be a large volume of water brought to the surface in the process. We can't afford to waste that water.

Glenn Thiel

We just have to keep winning. We can't afford any more losses, that's for sure.

Shane Pearsall

We're now able to afford to put athletes on the development circuits as we should ... create international experience earlier in their careers.

Dambisa Moyo

I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.

Allard Baird

He has solid, above-average receiving skills and is above-average in handling a pitching staff. He'll be able to aid us in the development of Buck.

John Davis

Really, we were six or seven years into the AIDS epidemic at that time, and I think it was a move that offered an acceptance. You know, sometimes movies are great because I think they can precondition society for acceptance, and I think when they do that we're really at the statesmanship level of film-making.

Michel Lu

In total, China has financed US$15 million in aid for Fiji for this year alone.

Joe Pacovsky

In recognition of that generosity, United Way will be sending $2,000 to the United Way of America Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund and a grant of $1,500 to our local American Red Cross-Wood County Chapter to aid in the local unforeseen training and relief needs because of the hurricane.

Guns Roses

If Magic Johnson got a cure for AIDS / And all the broke (people) passed away. / You're telling me if my grandmother is in the NBA / right now she'd be OK, / but since she was just a secretary working for the church for 35 years, things gotta stop right here.

Mark Regev

If money to the budget of the PA is cut off, it's incumbent on all of us to make a maximum effort to beef up direct humanitarian aid to alleviate hardship.

Ryan Smith

I knew a second language would aid me in any career path I chose. I was fortunate enough to have a high school German teacher who made me fall in love with the language.

Dambisa Moyo

The insidious aid culture has left African countries more debt-laden, more inflation-prone, more vulnerable to the vagaries of the currency markets and more unattractive to higher-quality investment.

Alex Coletti

Knowing this channel was coming, for the past year or year and a half, we've been shooting all our shows in high def, converting them for air but saving a high-def master with 5.1 audio. Now I've got a shelf full of stuff I can't wait to get out there.

Greg Olsen

Just to float in the air is such a great experience. I'm still literally on cloud nine about it.

David Somerville

Josh and Ryan used to hang out all the time together, ... Ryan went into the Air Force, and Josh went into the Marines.

Maria Sharapova

It can be tough to stay motivated to run and train. So when I have a comfortable shoe where I can feel cushion and I can feel like I'm walking on air, then there's so much more enjoyment in my training. The Air Max 360 does that for me.

Bill Rego

He walks with this air of confidence. He always knew this day would come. I couldn't be happier for him. It couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

Frank Catalanotto

He just got a fastball in and I tried to get the bat on it and I was lucky enough to get it up in the air and wrap it around the pole.

Ken Jr.

Guys weren't up there swinging for home runs. We tried to make solid contact. We got a couple of balls in the air and they went out.

Tony Davis

Having started with only two Airbus A320 aircraft in September last year, Tiger Airways has grown and will continue to grow as one of the world's leading low-fare airlines.

JJ Abrams

He said he had a show he wanted to put on the air about the survivors of a plane crash and would I please help him do it, ... I thought, 'How is that a show?' And then I thought if I were to do this it would be far too weird and borderline sci-fi and he'd never want to do it. But his response was no, I love that idea.

Alan Murray

Kieron is very, very low at the moment because he cannot seem to get a run of games in the team injury-free,

James Caan

Joseph Russo is a dear friend of mine and I cannot express enough how pleased I am that your office has taken interest and is in pursuit of correcting this problem.

Samuel Jutzi

It can be contained in domestic birds. It can be eliminated in domestic birds, but at the current level of money, it cannot be contained.

Samuel Hopkins

In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation.

Roy Moore

It is a crucial time to run for office when rights and liberties are being eroded, taxes climb, the education of our children declines and morality erodes while judges tell children they cannot pray,

Shooter Jennings

L.A.'s cool; I had a run with it to where it just pretty much wore me out. I love the weather and I have great friends there, great family, but I really cannot take a lot of the culture. Like Nashville, where everybody's a songwriter, everybody out there is an actor.

John Howard

I think we have been silent for too long about the impact of some of these things. You cannot keep bombarding people with violent messages and anti-social messages without them having some impact.

Feroze Mohamed

I think we're probably two to three years away from coming up with a technique where we might be able to put an individual in an MRI scanner and say whether an individual is telling the truth or telling a lie. But I think we have the technology. I cannot say with a 100 percent certainty, but I'm cautiously optimistic.

Jon Kutler

I think this is good news for Boeing in terms of what's going on in Asia. Boeing cannot get airplanes out the door fast enough to service the domestic market.

Billy Pate

He's a great player and an interesting guy. He's not like a lot of guys, out there screaming and yelling. He's passive and quiet, one of the most humble guys you'll meet. He never loses his cool and always gives us a fighting chance.

Dan Dougherty

He's always cool under pressure. He's always been that way. He was trying to stay calm, and I was going crazy.

Grant Preston

He's got great composure. He's always cool and calm. He's been a great leader for this offense. That's a big part of the success he's had so far.

Steve Nyman

He's got the coolest head. He's not a choker at all.

Josh Stiles

I think (the GDP and ECI figures) will tell the market that the economy is not cooling much and that wage pressures are building.

Bobby Labonte

I think we think alike. We drive similar setups, I think. It feel like it's the coolest opportunity.

Drew Stafford

I was just one of those little guys out there playing. And it's pretty cool to remember that. I was talking to a friend of mine who said he has pictures of that when we were really, really young playing at the Bradley Center.

King Krule

It's strange. No one ever really talked to me about my voice. People started writing about it, and I was like, 'What?' I'm really about my lyrics, but more people were talking about my voice. It's cool, but at first I got upset because I wanted people to focus on the content.

E. B. White

He was getting loud and doing some loud whistling. I told him to cool it, this is not a loud rowdy bar. People were here just to have a good time.

Jerry Costello

Jobs are disappearing from every sector of the economy, from engineering to health care workers, forcing hundreds of thousands of families into unemployment and low-paying jobs.

Amar'e Stoudemire

It hit me personally because I've been in that type of situation when I was a kid (living in a number of different homes in Florida), when I really didn't have a household to go to. When I see those families and kids down there, I see myself.

Jose Bono

Today is a day of pain and mourning and solidarity with the families who lost loved ones.

Davitt McAteer

The families ought to be involved. If we have families that are involved in mine safety, the mines will be safer.

A.G. Lafley

It's incredible. We've got to get some of these families back on track.

Rosemary Fox

It's very painful physically ... away from families and familiarity.

Ronnie Brown

It takes time. Carnell and myself, we were together for four years, so we had the opportunity to hang out a lot. On this level, it's a little different. People have lives as far as families and stuff away from here, so you don't find yourself hanging out as much.

Jan Balkenende

It's terrible if you hear about a fire of such size, 11 people dead, ... Our thoughts are with the families of the victims and the wounded.

James Riley

It's going to be the heart, the pulse of the relief effort, ... We've got a vested interest in getting back there and getting things running. That's where our homes are, that's where our families are.

William Hazlitt

His sayings are generally like women's letters; all the pith is in the postscript

Bill Donald

I think it's going to be important, if we can get markets open in the same general are of the world. It will help instill trust in the product we were used to before the ban.

M. Wolfe

I am impressed that the stock market generally speaking hasn't been taking it worse than it has,

Joan Baez

I generally like to get to the point.

Sam Smith

I generally have people stop me once or twice a week about that.

Paul Busse

If you can tolerate it, the trains generally will.

Joseph Sullivan

A general meeting will be scheduled as soon as possible.

Mark Shapiro

A general manager is never happy, ... But I do feel that, from a big-picture view, we are on course.

Roy Barnes

It's been a long path. I've had a lot of good help. I'm ready for the general election.

Bobby Bowden

I'm pretty hot right now, because that was a pretty frustrating offensive performance,

John Oates

You've got to pay me to leave my house, spend the night in hotels and fly in airplanes. That's what I get paid for. Playing I actually do for free.

Bobby Burton

The hottest school in the country, period. And it has been for three years.

Jim Dixon

The hotter and sweatier you are, the better it tastes.

David Paulison

These people in hotels and motels must take the next step to find a better housing solution.

Patrick Biancone

It is too hot to travel during the middle of the day.

Larry Coyer

It's truly the hot kettle because here it is.

Susan Barnes

It's the same thing as sharing a hot new 45 or tape or CD.

Robert Lane

It's the same every year, you always have rain, you always have hot weather,

Halle Berry

I think it was a shift in the industry for the people of color.

Alan Autry

Your Mayor must seek new ways to bring jobs and industry to our community.

Bobby Frankel

I want to be the Martha Stewart of the health-food industry — without the jail.

David Sowerby

It's more and more the sobering acknowledgement that the industry is significantly challenged.

Ridley Scott

There's a big film industry in Egypt, and quite a big one in Syria, and there's a big Muslim community in Paris.

Rob Sanderson

They're referred to in the industry as patent trolls.

Dennis Miller

The American auto industry is blowing up like a 1976 Ford Pinto.

John Mica

What we did when we did it was necessary, ... We didn't want the industry to totally collapse.

Christine Wu

We are still positive on the industry as a whole, but I'm personally more conservative on UMC.

Brad Ranson

I think we got the cobwebs out in the second quarter. At first, we were a little nervous. I thought the key was the second quarter, getting up by a big 10 points and just keeping the lead throughout the game.

Richard Gephardt

Real security means keeping Medicare and Social Security strong and getting a Medicare prescription drug program. So those are some of the things that I'm going to talk about.

Paul Buckley

Clearly, Coretta Scott King was a mover and shaker, and much of what people understand about Dr. (Martin Luther) King and keeping his memory alive, we owe to her.

Scott Downs

I'm just riding a wave right now. Pitching right now is fun. I'm going out there and keeping my team in the game.

Colin Montgomerie

I know the place very well, and I'm playing well. It's just a matter of keeping going.

Doc Rivers

It's not about who we play, but about keeping up the tradition, about maintaining the streak.

John Major

It's a puzzle, and it's keeping us on our toes. It's showing signs of an eruption, but not to the size and magnitude of 1980.

Bob McNair

We're going to look at any and all options. Whether it's keeping the pick or trading or whatever.

Brad Little

Your keeping the rich rich and the poor poor,

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

Thora Birch

I'm really lucky! I'm just cognisant that I wanna move forward, and people will let me or not; who knows.

Simon Spurr

People can take away your assets, but not your DNA.

Matthew Devost

There are a lot of smart people out there. And they will always find a way in if there is something they want.

Steve Ford

Had the residents not done (what they did), the project would not have been what it is,

Bill Henderson

The milling and resurfacing part of the project is part of our regularly scheduled maintenance,

John Loyd

They did try working one day. The soil could not be worked to reach the project specifications.

Les Claypool

For me to do a project - I have a pretty successful solo career, so - for me to even want to do Primus, it had to be a creative step forward.

Carlo Ciampi

A project once seen as utopian has become reality,

Jim Soukup

The whole project should take about two weeks.

Jerry Smith

This is a project that is desperately needed,

Lou Duggan

This project would have never worked if it hadn't come from the youth in this town. They've come up with things we never would have thought of.

Barbara Jones

We had been talking about doing more projects together.

Josh Duncan

It is huge. Another win provides more motivation. We'll keep going.

Mike Mower

We've been very public in our support of this.

Gary Peck

If I were the public officials, I would look at this ruling very carefully.

Frank Mitchell

I want the public to know I'm still in it.

William Daley

They've got observers. This has been done in an open, public way.

Mick Cornett

Any urbanist has to appreciate New York City and the way it works. The public transit is astonishing.

Victor Mendez

It's not just the workers. It's the traveling public we're also worried about.

S. Hughes

Where there is muck to be raked, it must be raked,and the public must know of it, that it may mete out justice....

Bill Gates

It's hard to improve public education - that's clear.

Dave Bowman

As of now, no response from the public or business.

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.

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.

Ayumi Hamasaki

New York was a relief - not all hierarchical and rule-bound.

Eddie Griffin

We've lost a bunch on the road, I don't even know how many. It's a relief to get this one.

Jay Gallagher

It's a real sense of relief to have Tim home.

Libby Lenton

It's a relief to get it over and done with, especially in such style.

Phil Crosby

When you're out of quality, you're out of business.

Arun Sarin

As was evident, mobiles are better than the wire service here.

Dan Bailey

We're going to try and make it a one-stop social services fair,

Bill Gates

Your customers get better when you do.

Mike Torres

The service may be a little slow for a little while it stabilizes.

Tim Chapman

This is going to be a social services disaster.

Les Garland

We want the Web site to be a storefront, as a service to our viewers.

Ron Kaufman

How can you learn more? By admiring what you've done right? Or by studying what you've done wrong?

Ron Kaufman

Always do what you can do instead of worrying about what you can't.

Richard Paul Evans

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.

Whitley Strieber

I wondered if I might not be in the grip of demons, if they were not making me suffer for their own purposes, or simply for their enjoyment.

Willa Cather

Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.

Marcel Proust

There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.

John Adams

The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity.

Luc de Clapiers

He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.

James Cook

The power of faith to ease our suffering is God's love.

Emile M. Cioran

At this very moment, I am suffering—as we say in French, j’ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else, for everyone else. Except for God, if that word can have a meaning.

Emile M. Cioran

Suffering makes you live time in detail, moment after moment. Which is to say that it exists for you: over the others, the ones who don't suffer, time flows, so that they don't live in time, in fact they never have.

William Law

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

Will Durant

The dog that buried the bone which even a canine appetite could not manage, the squirrel that gathered nuts for a later feast, the bees that filled the comb with honey, the ants that laid up stores for a rainy day - these were among the first creators of civilization. It was they....who taught our ancestors the art of providing for tomorrow out of the surplus of today, or of preparing for winter in summer's time of plenty.

Sarah Silverman

People who follow their religion to the letter of the law are just silly. I mean, I want to tell Hasidic Jews I promise you, God will not mind if you wear a nice cotton blend in the summer.

Sarah Silverman

Summer camp: the second worst camp for Jews.

Samuel Rogers

Kindred objects kindred thoughts inspire, As summer clouds flash forth electric fire.

Rian Johnson

I feel like people want to be surprised when they get out of the movies. They want something thrown at them they didn't expect. They want stuff that reminds them of the feelings that you get when you're watching art house movies but with the fun of like a big summer movie. That's the goal, I guess.

Robin Hobb

Remember with your heart. Go back, go back and go back. The skies of this world were always meant to have dragons. When they are not here, humans miss them. Some never think of them, of course. But some children, from the time they are small, they look up at the blue summer sky and watch for something that never comes. Because they know. Something that was supposed to be there faded and vanished. Something that we must bring back, you and I.

Wallace Stevens

Divinity must live within herself: Passions of rain, or moods in the falling snow; Grievings in loneliness, or unsubdued Elations when the forest blooms; gusty Emotions on wet roads on autumn nights; All pleasures and all pains, remembering The boughs of summer and the winter branch. These are the measures destined for her soul.

Wallace Stevens

The winter is made and you have to bear it, The winter web, the winter woven, wind and wind, For all the thoughts of summer that go with it In the mind, pupa of straw, moppet of rags....

Lloyd Bridges

Bear Valley is the hidden treasure of the Sierra.

John Wooden

All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.

Chris Hughes

I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.

Roberto Unger

The supreme good of life is vitality. And vitality is always seeping away.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesnt have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.

Charles Bukowski

But she projected vitality - you knew that she was there.

Nancy Astor

My vigor, vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.

David Whyte

The price of our vitality is the sum of all our fears