Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Mayo

The one issue, the one question that comes to mind, is we need to quantify where the (buyers) are coming from. Some of these units are $1 million and up. Can our work force afford these? We have a crisis of affordable housing in that area already.

Glen Lewinski

The rule is, you can afford a house about 2 1/2 times your income. Well, you'd be hard-pressed to find a $140,000 house around here anymore.

Cory Miller

I've seen students check out anywhere between $250 up to $1,200. The fact that we are a rental (school) can make a difference. Some kids just aren't going to be able to afford those books.

Dave Tippett

That's just a trait of the new NHL. It's probably just more of a focus on this team because it hasn't been that way in the past. You could afford to have a $2 million defenseman sitting there, and you just can't do that now.

Joe Urso

That's how important every game is. That's what we're preaching to the guys. We can't afford to look at what we did earlier in the year.

John Shepperd

Alan Greenspan (Chairman of the Fed) recently said inflation is very good and so the Fed can afford to continue the powerful relaxation. The guarantee that the economy will avoid recession the second half of the year.

Travis Walton

A little bit, you know, I'm not used to playing as many games. I've just got to see how I can get through it so it doesn't hit me as much, because we can't afford for anyone to fall off.

Dan Bartlett

Al Gore is running more than $60 million in attack ads, making his campaign the most negative in history. When it comes to experience, America can't afford Al Gore's experience of raising taxes, increasing the size of government, opposing bipartisan Medicare and Social Security reform, and not making education a priority.

and City

Aidan: Don't take this the wrong way but this place could use a little work.Carrie: I know, but I can't afford it.Aidan: You've got eight thousand bucks' worth of shoes over there.Carrie: I needed those!

If they ever come up with a swashbuckling School, I think one of the courses should be Laughing, Then Jumping Off Something

Andee Whitaker

I know that I will work hard and I will give it my all. I just hope to be a part of a good team. We will win some and of course we will lose some, but I hope we will have the dedication and drive.

Paul McGinley

I knew it was four days, there was no cut this week, and I knew the way the course was playing, the scores would come back a little bit. Anything around par was a good score.

Paul Goldstein

I knew Paul is a tough man and he's grinding everything. I was thinking, 'Why isn't every week a tournament here in Houston?' I'm happy to be here in the finals and of course I want to get my first (career) title.

Jeff Nobers

I'm not going to sit here and say we'll increase by 100,000 or 200,000, but there is room to expand. The course can handle 60-70,000 on a daily basis.

Annika Sorenstam

I'm excited to be here. It's great to be back as a defending champion. I think the golf course is in as good shape as I've ever seen it. I think that makes it even more special. I think I'm as ready as I can be.

Mathias Gronberg

I messed up a little bit, but it was hard to play golf, too. I really struggled today. I did not play the way I wanted to. Hopefully I can work on it and get something going. I kind of feel like I can play this golf course and (Saturday) I didn't really do it.

Michael Puhl

I'm disappointed of course with the results, but I'm satisfied with the way I ran my campaign.

Jade Jagger

I love to wear my own Jade Jagger ball gowns. I love their timeless elegance, of course with my own jewelry.

Gloria Allred

Some were told that the reason they had to stand in a particular spot was to make sure that construction workers passing by the trailer would not be able to see them.

Chuck Amato

I've talked to our trainers and managers. If we can't get (the running backs) in the game, we'll let them run the water out during timeouts. That way I can tell their parents they got on the field.

Margaret Atwood

They all disowned their parents long ago, the way you are supposed to

Bashar al-Assad

If you are going to be a mediator or arbitrator you have to be in the middle between the two sides; you cannot take sides only with one party.

Benjamin Disraeli

A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.

Alain Ducasse

Everyone talks about Spanish influences, but where is it?...Tell me 10 great Spanish restaurants in London....You can’t give me the addresses. Nor in Paris.

Jane Asher

My parents were not theatrical at all.

Terry Crews

I see a lot of actors that are doing things to please their coaches, their teachers in the past. They say 'No' to parts they should have said 'Yes' to simply because of the opinion of people in their past. I have no one in my past who is judging me and saying, 'Maybe you shouldn't do that.' I'll do it all.

Diane Abbott

It is time Britain put its trust back into the Labour Party. I believe I am the candidate that can make this happen precisely because I am not associated with the past.

Mir Hossain

Enough is enough. The manufacturers must show some respects to their workers by complying with safety rules.

Angelo Scola

We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people with objective reference to the law of God.

Sparky Anderson

A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules.

Val Kilmer

I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

Vaclav Havel

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.

Sophie Swetchine

Respect is a serious thing in him who feels it, and the height of honor for him who inspires the feeling.

Rumi

We should ask God to help us toward manners. Inner gifts do not find their way to creatures without just respect.

Rumi

Whoever acts with respect will get respect.

Stendhal

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Janet Jackson

I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.

Miley Cyrus

I've never just been able to be alone, and I'm obsessed with being alone and hearing my thoughts. I'm trying to take this alone time — the five minutes I do have a day — to learn as much as I can.

Miley Cyrus

Maybe it's your time to lift off and fly You won't know if you never try.

Colin Mochrie

As I get older, I'm trying to accept improvisation into my day-to-day living.

Jayne Anne Phillips

Divinity. That's what I'm trying to get at, in everything I write.

Maria Mitchell

I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal.

Matthew Weiner

This sounds really craven on some level, but on some level, a lot of what I'm doing is trying to not do a typical TV show.

Jano Cabrera

We're strong. But we're trying to keep pace.