Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dewey Mitchell

I think most people that have been involved in athletics would point somewhere down the line to some coaches that affected them positively. I was very fortunate, I had many coaches that affected me positively.

Hannah Vick

We encourage everybody who is affected by the disaster to register with FEMA.

Jon Banner

He has kept that mostly to himself. I know it has affected him. He's a very compassionate and genuine person and I can tell that it has affected him greatly.

Larry Schnall

I hear a lot of people say they feel guilty going to the beach or going camping when our neighbors in bordering states are affected forever, ... Traffic is light. I've seen very few out-of-state tags today.

David Caldwell

I haven't heard anyone say the World Baseball Classic has adversely affected sales. It's almost like we're going in parallel universes.

Florentino Perez

I really enjoyed the first four years. It was the happiest stage of my life but everything went wrong after Camacho quit. He showed he was a Madrid supporter but he left the club less affected than me.

Kevin Hall

I really lost my energy on the back nine, ... and it really affected my shots.

Terry Bradshaw

If I were a resident of New Orleans and had lost everything that I have, had no home, and possibly had lost a loved one, I really don't think that football is going to help me escape the present position that my family is in, ... I don't really think for those who have been most affected that the NFL is something they're going to be glad to see. ... For those who didn't lose everything, maybe it's a little different.

Joel Coen

I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it's hard to parse how growing up in a Jewish community in Minnesota really affected it.

The Wizard

feel a certain sense of rejection and inadequacy. I was doing everything I was told to do. It couldn't all have been because I had the wrong lapel pin. I just felt like I couldn't get in. I could not make myself visible.

Ted Scambos

Feedbacks in the system are starting to take hold. The consecutive record-low extents make it pretty certain a long-term decline is under way.

Steve Francis

Everything is cool at my house. My daughter wasn't feeling well. As a man you have to do certain things and still be able to perform at your job.

Daniel Lipman

The response we've gotten and continue to get from certain elements of the gay community is just startling to me.

David Tom

There was a chance if it was real close to a certain area, they couldn't fix it. My nurse has the same problem, and they could fix her. But I was lucky. And it's 95 percent I'll never have another problem.

Herb Alpert

There was a certain naturalness that was happening in the '60s and '70s that felt more like a happening, ... Production wasn't as clean and neat as I'm hearing these days. They're not perfect, but they have an honest feeling, which is what I was going for.

Sam Phillips

There was a certain feeling I developed as a young person for black people. Somehow they were able to get pleasure out of things that I couldn't see them enjoying. I heard them sing a lot, and I didn't hear white folks going down the cotton rows singing that much.

John A. Logan

There's still a lot of skepticism about the SST, and it's not at all certain that Congress will pass a national tax law.

Eula Biss

There's a cultural expectation that everyone will be immunized, in part to protect the entire population. When people refuse that expectation, they're indulging in a certain kind of political or social immunity.

Edward Said

To say that we're going to end countries or eradicate terrorism, and that it's a long war over many years, with many different instruments, suggests a much more complex and drawn-out conflict for which, I think, most Americans aren't prepared.

Bernie Sanders

I know media is not necessarily focused on these things. But what a campaign is about is not Hillary Clinton, it's not Donald Trump. It is the people of this country, people who are working longer hours for lower wages, people who do not have health care or are underinsured.

David Sandor

We want to get the message out that they can go to any Home Depot in the country and get a job.

Jackie Payne

Women all over the country are being turned away from obtaining valid and legal prescriptions. These kinds of laws would only make the situation worse. It's shameful.

Frank Adams

This whole country runs on fuel, but our industry for sure,

Elaine Xie

We feel this issue must be reviewed with ultimate seriousness to protect the safety and sovereignty of our country and people.

Rebecca Martin

We felt that we disappointed students. We tried to reach out to the country demographic, and it did not work out.

Eid Kabalu

We expected that he would win the bout. We join the Filipino people not only in the country but those overseas as well in celebrating his victory.

Tywon Lawson

We're usually one of the top 10 teams in the country each year. So naturally that No. 1 spot is something we hope to get each year. But the main thing is to just win games. Not to lose. We don't want to lose.

Andy Johnson

Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild.

Andrew Niccol

Some people think 'Lord of War' is a political film,

Liam Hemsworth

Southern people remind me a lot of Australia.

Mark Rylance

So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it.

Lois Lowry

Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

Robin Cook

Tell the people of Serbia how much wealth you have sucked out during the same years they have been impoverished in Serbia,

Nick Hanauer

Tech innovation is something societies have to pursue as vigorously as they can. We have to innovate civically and socially at the same rate; otherwise, you create unfortunate disruptions, and that's where you have people opposing technological innovations.

Harvey Pekar

Sometimes I want to convey something complex philosophically, and sometimes I just want to portray myself in a situation that I think other people have been in many times, but it hasn't been written about much.

Ron Moody

Pressure makes people react in different ways. Some people plunge in, and others take the way out.

Bruce Springsteen

The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.

Leonard Maltin

Documentarian Laura Poitras has crafted a first-rate Hitchcockian-type thriller telling the story of Edward Snowden.

Neil LaBute

Everyone has a story.

Kate Seredy

[My stories were] an excuse for making pictures.

Lili Taylor

As a woman, a lot of stories haven't been told and we've got a lot of catching up to do.

Leo Tolstoy

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Peter Gabriel

Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story.

Paz Vega

I like small stories.

Phil Crosby

Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.