Famous Quotes & Sayings

M. Wolfe

A few years ago, you could heat a home for $500. Now it takes $1,500. Energy has become a lot less affordable for low-income families.

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.

Carl Pohlad

It was tough, but you've got to pay what the market is. It wasn't easy because this sort of thing really isn't our policy. But there's an exception to every rule, and Santana is exceptional. We couldn't afford to lose him.

Ryan Getzlaf

It was a little frustrating to give up a two-goal lead, but we had to win. We couldn't afford to lose tonight.

Lise Buyer

These stocks are for speculators more than investors. The average individual should be very careful that the money they are putting into these stocks is money they can afford to lose. This should be play money.

David Lucas

The zero percent is real effective on those (U.S.) models. Customers shop the monthly payment, so zero percent is what moves the vehicles. As long as they (automakers) can afford to offer zero percent, they're going to be there with it.

David Lucas

The zero percent is real effective on those (U.S.) models, ... Customers shop the monthly payment, so zero percent is what moves the vehicles. As long as they (automakers) can afford to offer zero percent, they're going to be there with it.

Ted Leonsis

As a league, we will have less TV revenue, and locally I don't think we can expect to increase our ticket revenue. However, our ticket prices are going down even more. That price reduction may help attendance, but we don't anticipate it helping overall revenues.

Greg Cook

We did anticipate growth, but even the growth that we've experienced has exceed our own expectations.

Chris Sisko

Farther out, we do anticipate further strengthening up to Category 3, or major hurricane status.

Larry Davis

Everything is intact. We have to give it a few days so it doesn't get dirty or infected. It could be a week or so. We have to let it heal up, but we anticipate a week.

Dan Sullivan

We try to anticipate anything that might happen.

Carolyn Brown

We just sent out bills in October, and already we are seeing a steady stream of payments coming in from credit cards. The system is working very well, and we anticipate that handling these payments electronically will save us even more time as we get closer to the due date.

Bob Elliston

We just wanted to let the lieutenant governor know what is going on with KEEP, what we anticipate our legislative proposal will be. We wanted to give him the courtesy of a face-to-face meeting ... and how we are shaping our proposal.

Craig Patrick

We were positioned well for what we had to deal with, and it's worked out very well. For the first time around in this, it was hard to really anticipate what might happen, but we're very, very pleased.

Gina Ellrich

We lost hundreds of thousands of packages overnight. We anticipate that trend would continue without an extension or any kind of guarantee that there won't be a job action.

Kyle Lohse

I've been out there battling my butt off all year,

Joe Blanton

When I came up last year, we were battling them for a playoff spot just like we are now. Any time we play each other it's a big series and every game is right down to the last pitch, for the most part.

Paula Begoun

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Matt Barnes

What an effort by my kids. These kids kept battling and battling. We had a chance. We kinda showed what Olympus is all about. We've got a lot of character and heart. O We knew we were heavy underdogs coming in. We were under the radar, and we were one shot away from going to the championship.

Ron Gardenhire

We had good at-bats from the sixth inning on. We really pushed the issue, kept battling and got a lot of two-out hits.

Shane Valdez

I still think if they were to wrestle 10 times, they'd each win five times. Welch just happened to win this one. They're so even. I think you're going to see them battling each other in freestyle, and even in college, for a while.

Scott Gomez

If it happens, it happens. Personally, I'm not going to be looking at the scoreboard. That's where we got in trouble. We were so worried about catching teams, this and that, and next thing you know we're battling for the last playoff spot.

Dick Vermeil

I think we will be battling all the way through the final minutes of the 16th game of the year to determine where we play.

Eddie Olczyk

He's been battling something the past few days. He will not play. We will see how he feels Thursday.

Garry Marshall

I think she's a find. She's got a shot. She's pretty, but she's not a sexpot. She can play a regular person in a film. And she's also very bright.

Fred Sosnoski

We were 10-10 in the regular season and just turned it on as a team in that tournament. They got a taste of a championship, and every year they want to improve.

Dave Molina

Colfax will be the big one. We can make our season with a win.

Bobby Jones

During the season on Saturdays, I usually sleep in until about 1.

James Cox

We want to end the season how we started it ? by winning.

Matt Fisher

This was it. As a senior, the most important thing to do is to win and keep the season going.

Mark Banker

We try to stay healthy. We try to get everyone to make it to the season, through the season and beyond.

Tara VanDerveer

You get to this point, and you don't want the season to end.

Tom Brady

There's no better way to end the season than with a win over the Dolphins.

Dave Roberts

What a season. I've never been through a season like this.

Allen Iverson

We just need everyone to contribute. We feel like this is a whole new season for us.

Mike Martz

He'll be back, but whether it's this week or not I don't know.

Tony Mortensen

It's going to be a long, long bye week. Two weeks to think about this.

John Green

I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what I just did. That's the kind of weekend it is--the kind where you have so much time you go past the answers and start looking into the ideas.

Nick Hornby

…I've had a bad week." What's happened?" Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all.

John Mulaney

It was funny to be an emcee, because you're so at the mercy of the club. You can show up for the weekend hoping to get the $400 - and get fired. I had to prank whoever they told me to prank.

Denise Van Outen

At weekends, I've been going on long but steady-paced four-and-a-half-hour bike rides.

Eden Sher

I will have a largely happier week if I get to do a physical stunt.

Lin Yutang

The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should set about to achieve, but just what to do with life? The answer, that he should order his life so that he can find the greatest happiness in it, is more a practical question, similar to that of how a man should spend his weekend, then a metaphysical proposition as to what is the mystic purpose of his life in the scheme of the universe.