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.

Dale Jarrett

It accelerated everything a hundred-fold. There are things that we have put into place today that we'd still just be considering, but that made us realize that we couldn't afford to have that happen again.

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.

Rich Conover

I think it's a must win game. We want to reestablish a winning streak at home. Within the conference you can't afford to lose too many games.

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.

Eddie Smith

It is a concern, it's one of the reasons why we've really heightened up the level of consciousness with our managers, our servers, to make sure they are not over-serving.

Eldon Hoy

I thought we defended him pretty well, but he hit everything he shot ? 2-pointers, 3-pointers, and he was 10-for-10 from the free throw line. I thought our kids did a good job on him in the fourth, but we were more conscious of him and not giving him any shots because he was making them all.

Richard Rowe

It had not perhaps been raised to our consciousness by the reports we had received.

James Patterson

I'm very conscious that I'm an entertainer. Something like 73 percent of my readers are college graduates, so you can't condescend to people. You've got to tell them a story that they will be willing to pay money to read.

Michelle Williams

I'm very conscious of the fact that when I'm working, my daughter is not with one of her parents.

Richard Crashaw

The conscious water saw its God, and blushed.

Roberto Heras

The Colladiella is a very difficult mountain and we knew it, ... In strategic terms the stage went perfectly. I was conscious about the fact that I took great risks when I went downhill. But the point is that if you want something, you have to take your chances.

Thomas Carlyle

The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

Luc de Clapiers

Consciousness of our powers augments them.

Michael Reese

I'm just glad they're able to use my blood, and I'm helping someone else through the donation and helping myself in the process.

Cathy Curran

It's to the point we're overwhelmed and we have no space, though we have had donations of warehouse space, for which we're very grateful.

Dan Carter

We're more a service organization to the community. I don't know the percentage, but for us here, it's just like any other donation you'd give: You know if you give it locally, it'll help the people you want it to.

Larry Steach

Every penny of the donations goes into the memorial fund.

Tom Logan

Those first trips were to Zaire, and we made sure that 100 percent of the donations we received made it to the field, ... Dr. Morgan, an orthopedic surgeon, did 65 operations in a little over six weeks. Dr. Pueda went to a hospital with no electric power and took out a little girl's spleen by flashlight. He saved her life while we all stood around and held Wal-Mart flashlights so he could see.

Mark Love

If they (businesses) make a donation for two years, 90 percent of their tax liability is forgiven by the state.

Brian Bilbray

She is being extremely hypocritical. She has taken donations from registered lobbyists.

Lee Hartmann

One donation a year is great, but two to three would help us become self-sufficient.

Jay Nixon

It is an outrage for someone to solicit funds from well-meaning Americans eager to lend a helping hand to the victims of hurricane Katrina, only to funnel those donations to something that is nothing more than a racist hate site.

Pat O'Connor

Judge O'Flaherty's rulings are putting drunk drivers back out on the street. It's a threat to public safety. It's offensive to law enforcement and prosecutors and it's offensive to the public.

Tom Crumpacker

It all starts with (varsity coach) Joey Montoya. It's his passion, style and drive to make this program successful. All Bryson and I have to do is follow the pattern Joey has laid out for us.

H. Hart

He was a big, gentle man, quiet and kind, and the hardest worker I ever knew. He would work on the roads, then he would go out and pull his pots, and then he would drive the taxi at night.

Jack Roush

He's as cold-blooded as any driver I've ever worked with,

David Solin

I think it's just really hangover from that. The issue of U.S. interest rates and where we're going has been a pretty important driver for the dollar.

Allison Duncan

Whatever this test leads to is still unknown right now, but I will always be able to say that I got to drive an RCR Busch car, which very few people can say,

Liem Nguyen

We transitioned our lineup away from hard drives to focus on flash players.

Rick Vrhovac

We've got to make teams drive the length of the field. It just has to be done.

Bobby Labonte

When I quit driving it one day, I want to see 25 guys in line wanting to drive it because it must be a great car. You want people to want to drive the car. That would be better than any money you could get to have that feeling.

Ron Heck

It is hard to write the perfect farm bill.

Dave Lewis

Hopefully we get way over what we have 150 percent would be great farmers wouldn't worry about the water no talk about shutting off irrigation we really need the water so hopefully it'll be a good year.

Lou Hatter

If you turn a farm silo on it's side ? that's how big these things are.

Betty Rogers

Being a farmer is not just what he does. It's who he is.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler

I really like the whole urban farming idea, because I grow my own produce in L.A., and I think it's great to teach people here in Manhattan so they can do the same.

Justin Vernon

I'm just living in Eau Claire, not really leaving for much. I go to the farmers market, go to the studio, go home and play with my cats. I don't know if I've ever been this happy, which is really awesome.

Tommy Brock

The Mexican worker is the only people that has come and wanted to do this work in the 25 years I've been farming here.

E. O. Wilson

The farmer then has an incentive not to sell his land, ... And society has what it wants - open space.

Pascal Lamy

They made a step forward in recognizing U.S. farm programs will have to be reformed.

Julie Buchanan

Kathy told me she honestly thought they'd be home in three days, so they didn't pack a lot.

Adam Braidwood

I take a lot of responsibility for it. I'm going to go home and look in the mirror. I don't think, my last two games, I've played up to my potential.

S. Walker

I actually had to do my homework to pass the time. It was horrible.

Vicki Bosley

He was a hometown hero, and Lorraine made sure everyone knew it.

John Milton

He unobserved / Home to his mother's house private returned.

Larry Brown

He'd be in a lot more trouble when he got at home if he didn't do what he did.

Mark Mersel

He knows those guys. It's more of a homecoming than you might know.

Simon Spurr

I'll always be a Brit abroad, and I love London so much, but New York is my home.

Larry Ellison

When I was a kid a long time ago, when the sun rose, I was outside on my bike. If my parents were lucky - poor parents! - I would be home before it got dark.

Jennifer Baker

I would say maybe there are more mistakes.

Joel Klein

I think it could take a year, maybe a little more than a year,

Kyle Waters

I think in the past year, he wrote maybe one check.

Sarah Brightman

I always felt older than my years, maybe because I was married to someone older.

Mark Calcavecchia

I thought somebody would shoot 7- or 8-under for sure, maybe even 9-under.

Champ Bailey

I was a little shocked with the recovery I made so fast. I didn't think I'd be able to do anything today. I thought maybe tomorrow, but not today.

Matt Rawitzer

I was just trying to stay even par or maybe 1-over on the back 9. I thought that would probably get it done after the way I played on the front.

Joseph Ramos

I think they'll keep raising the rate this month and maybe every month until the end of the year.

John Gibbons

He's getting there. He's not full-speed. We'll see how it goes. Maybe this weekend. We'll see if he's ready.

Vladimir Putin

Though we still come first in the sphere of gas export, national production has diminished due to the increasing volumes of hydrogenation for the electric power industry and therefore there is a lower need for gas at thermal power plants.

Walter Raleigh

Corrupt seeds bring forth corrupt plants.

Tommy Futral

If you can't see through your plant somewhat, then you haven't done enough pruning.

William Cullen Bryant

We plant, upon the sunny lea, A shadow for the noontide hour, A shelter from the summer shower, When we plant the apple-tree.

Chogyam Trungpa

You do not have to force yourself to do anything at all. There is a continual exchange, a continual dance. It is similar to the sun shining and plants growing. The sun has no desire to create the vegetation; plants simply react to sunlight and the situation develops naturally.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Plants live; how much they feel and enjoy, who shall say?

Jamie Oliver

The future is about a plant-based diet.

Rick Santorum

The dangers of carbon dioxide? Tell that to a plant, how dangerous carbon dioxide is,

Michael Pollan

Eat mostly plants, especially leaves.

Trudi Canavan

It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is grieved by what it finds there.

William Wordsworth

The wind, a sightless laborer, whistles at his task.

William Sharp

A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forests. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.

William J. Clinton

We simply have to transition from an economy based almost exclusively on oil and coal and natural gas to one that's far more diversified, that uses solar energy, and wind energy, and the power of the tides, and bio-mass energy, and eventually, develops hydrogen.

Rebecca Pidgeon

If you want to know how far gossip travels, do this - take a feather pillow up on a roof, slice it open, and let the feathers fly away on the wind. Then go and find every single feather and re-stuff the pillow.

Robert Plant

As we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our souls.

Samuel Johnson

He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

Samuel Johnson

Labor's face is wrinkled with the wind, and swarthy with the sun.

Wallace Stevens

The wind shifts like this: Like a human without illusions, Who still feels irrational things within her.