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.

Oscar Hoya

I think I proved my point. I think that winning the title at 154-pounds and knocking him out in the eleventh round, I think at this point in my career I really can't afford to give rematches to anyone I already knocked out.

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.

Tony Judt

I just like being on my own on trains, traveling. I spent all my pocket money travelling the London Underground and Southern Railway, what used to be the Western region, and in Europe as much as I could afford it. My parents used to think I was going places, but I wasn't, I was just travelling the trains.

Shah Rukh Khan

Those who do not need to provide or have not built the vehicles of their own sustenance can afford to be less hardworking and driven than those who carry the burden of necessity.

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.

Joe Pistone

John and I go way back. We worked a lot of cover cases together,

Ruben Donis

We are going to monitor all cases of human exposure, but at this point there is no reason to panic.

Anne McLellan

It is going to take a very long time for them to be able to resume their lives and even in some cases I'm sure determine whether they want to return to homes that have been largely destroyed or whether they want to start over somewhere else.

James Laughlin

There are numerous cases of that, where one of our writers discovers another writer whom he likes, and we then take that book on. So it's a very close relationship. We can do that because we're so small.

Matt Taibbi

In reality, everybody in Congress is a stand-in for some kind of lobbyist. In many cases it's difficult to tell whether it's the companies that are lobbying the legislators or whether it's the other way around.

Jason Calacanis

I have hundreds if not tens of thousands of fans... The people who have negative things to say are typically loser-type people who are probably in some cases mentally ill.

Jim Harlan

I don't know of any cases that have actually ended up in the hospital, but it's gotten close.

Condoleezza Rice

He talked... about the cases of these American citizens and permanent residents and the importance of transparency, the importance of humanitarian considerations,

Dirk Kempthorne

He has long-standing ties in the community, and will have an excellent temperament for the bench, ... He has litigated some very complex cases and clearly has demonstrated a keen knowledge of the law.

Seth Shostak

NASA's Office of Commercial Exploration has been concerned about protecting the landing zones where humans first walked on the Moon, and one of my colleagues, ecologist Margaret Race, has been part of their deliberations.

Leif Johansson

There is a growing interest in the market to reduce fuel consumption. We now have a technology that is interesting from a commercial viewpoint . . . for a hybrid market for heavy vehicles.

Lee Brumbaugh

Today his commercial work is probably his most interesting. Today his commercial work is considered urban industrial documentary. It foreshadows Walker Evans's documentary work of the 1930s.

Peter O'Meara

I know of one million-dollar player who gets about half his money from a commercial arrangement and no one over there (east coast) has kicked up about it. What we're doing isn't new. Commercial payments have been around rugby for some time.

Brett Hull

I'm scared to death to fly commercial... I have not flown commercial since 9/11.

Glenn Matthews

In hindsight it was probably naive of me to make a promise that with commercial realities you can't really keep. But I'm not making any excuses. I made that promise and I regret not being able to keep that promise.

Roger B. Taney

In large commercial cities, the money power is, I fear irresistible. It is not by open corruption that it always, or even most generally, operates.

Don Reynolds

In a lot of ways it's been like a dream come true for us. The theater is designed in a really neat way because it invites people to a downtown experience. It's more of a theater that would accommodate a night out on the town, compared to the cookie-cutter model of some of the commercial development chains.

Casey Affleck

I like studio movies; I love big commercial movies.

Margot Robbie

It's just terrible: I miss flights all the time, more than I probably catch one.

Punky Moore

What's in this for us is it gives us a new way to monitor some of our fires. You don't always want to put people in those areas, and it reduces the number of flights we have to make to get a good picture of what's happening.

Kate Christensen

Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.

Chris Hadfield

No aeroplane you've ever gotten into had less than thousands of flights before they took their first passenger. Because vehicles are unsafe at first.

Susan Moores

If it's three flights or less, take the stairs.

Jean Claude

Whoever might say that this is the end of supersonic flights would be wrong,

Kelly Martin

Lived through people shooting at the helicopters, running up five, six flights of stairs.

Geoff Hoon

Most people are flying to Heathrow because it's a hub, so they can fly on to other places, often long-distance flights. If they can't go on those long-distance flights from Heathrow, they will go to Paris, they will go to Amsterdam, they will go to Frankfurt, because those are viable alternatives.

Ted Forrest

When you have a carrier with something like 500 flights a day, its going to be hard for someone else to get a niche.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Don Miller

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

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

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.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Graham Elliot

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

Gale Norton

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

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.