Famous Quotes & Sayings

George A. Romero

Somehow I've been able to keep standing and stay in my little corner and do my little stuff and I'm not particularly affected by trends or I'm not dying to make a 3D movie or anything like that. I'm just sort of happy to still be around.

Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity.

Seth Shostak

Are we the only members of the Galaxy that can actually understand what a galaxy is? Could Homo sapiens really be the pinnacle of Creation - the cleverest critters in the cosmos? If we learn the answer is 'no,' that would affect our philosophies forever.

Walter Dean Myers

I think that what we need to do is say, 'Reading is going to really affect your life.' You take a black man who doesn't have a job, but you say to him, 'Look, you can make a difference in your child's life, just by reading to him for 30 minutes a day.' That's what I would like to do.

William Banting

The great charm and comfort of the system is, that its affects are palpable within a week of trial, which creates a natural stimulus to persevere for few weeks more, when the fact becomes established beyond question.

Virat Kohli

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn't divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

Aaron Spelling

When we did Dynasty, it was the clothes. I think the clothes affected every woman around the world. I got so many letters, I think we made the designer a millionaire!

Alexandra Stoddard

You can sometimes avoid costly mistakes. Paint a corner of the room a certain color to see how the light affects it. Or buy just one yard of an expensive fabric to see how you like it in your room.

Tim Walberg

Talk radio is an asset to our nation because it encourages strong and healthy debate about public policy, and there is no reason to affect that debate with government legislation.

We were able to utilize MIR3 as one method to reach out to our customers with text-to-speech notification alerts about Hurricane Katrina starting the week before it was due to make landfall, ... We sent multiple alerts to our customers before communications were affected by the disaster in order to give them plenty of time to prepare for the event, which is necessary especially in the case of an oil refinery which could take days to shut down.

Ethan Allen

We were able to maintain our current prices in spite of increases in materials and shipping costs, ... In addition, to meet the demand of strong sales, we were able to quickly increase capacity in our plants without affecting our margins.

Keith Murray

We definitely have maintained some level of distance from what's happening. It doesn't really affect us emotionally, which is sort of odd. We never actually get that worked up about stuff. We definitely have fun doing it, but for some reason, everybody else seems way more excited and blown away by what we've done. We just find ourselves in a weird position. It all seems so odd and not really related to us at this point. Surreal.

Paul Allaire

We delivered another record quarter, reflecting strong double-digit earnings growth consistent with our objectives, even though pre-currency revenue growth - at 7 percent - was clearly affected by some weaker economies,

William Henderson

We don't let injuries affect our play. We don't make excuses for how we play. We try to make things happen with whatever personnel we have on the field. That's the way we've always handled things, and it won't change.

We don't know yet how all that has happened in Mississippi really affects the company's balance sheet.

Jane Elliott

We don't know anything about racism. We've never experienced it. If words can make a difference in your life for seven minutes, how would it affect you if you heard this every day of your life?

We do get mail asking why can't we (do) 'South Pacific,' ... I feel we need to put students in touch with new works so they can understand how changes affect the canon.

Justin Timberlake

We want to help kids affected by the tragedy as much as we can.

We want to have a senior tradition that will affect everyone on campus.

We are never so ridiculous by the qualities we have, as by those we affect to have.

Samuel Bodman

We are mindful that the affected region contributes a significant amount of our oil, gas, and refined product supply.

We are making efforts to calm the situation now. Employees are not affected and are continuing with their jobs.

We are making decisions like this, out of the ordinary. You don't see other foundations do things like this, build a golf course and then give it away. We're trying to think outside of the box a little bit and think how we might benefit the entire Coachella Valley with the one gift, how we can benefit so many other charities in the valley other than what we can personally affect with what we do.

The rate at which our Asian trading partners open their borders to U.S. beef will be an important factor affecting growth for the state in 2006.

There are a series of factors affecting categories of the business. We have to take all those factors into account.

There is a very pervasive misunderstanding that chronic diseases affect only wealthy men in wealthy countries.

Emmanuel Jal

War destroys people's souls. Most people focus on physical injuries, but the invisible injuries can take a lifetime to heal and affects the lives of generations to come.

Ralph Brown

Wal-Mart will provide a source of low priced goods and services that students need, and it will provide jobs for students. The shopping situation we have right now is pretty meager. That may be a factor that affects students' decisions into coming to Vermillion.

Wal-Mart is such a huge retailer that, when it changes its strategy, it's going to affect your business.

Kat Graham

To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world.

With each of those projects I wasn't thinking about how the layout would really affect the story I was working on - it wasn't the content that was affecting the layout, it was, how I wanted to draw at that point in time.

Derek Hough

For me, you've got to start from within. The things you eat directly affect the way you feel and the way you move.

Derek Jacobi

I don't think he's permanently affected me except in the sense that I miss him. I miss being him. Or trying to be him. He is one of a gallery of characters that have had an impact on my career and therefore my life.