Famous Quotes & Sayings

We lost two one-point games this week. I think we may have let that affect us.

We missed a lot of shots and it was a classic case of letting our missed shots affect the rest of our game.

We miss a lot of shots, and you can't let that affect (the game). We miss a shot, we hang our head for a minute and they're gone. That was the crux of it. I don't think we took poor shots. We took shots that were within the scheme of what we were doing. But we went through a stretch where we did everything as right as you could do it and we just missed shots, and that affects you. Whether it should or shouldn't, it does.

What's happening now is that the market remains trading at very thin volumes and that can affect prices, even when just a handful of shares are traded. The decision of any fund to pull out from certain stock hits the price.

What's going on in the waters of their neighbor to the north, whatever Virginia decides to do in the future vis-a-vis development ... in their coastal waters, will affect North Carolina.

Karl Hobbs

We had the ball inside and they took it from us. Pops had a couple of shots inside -- dunks he usually makes and he missed them. That really affected our shooting percentage. A large part of that had to do with their defense.

We will not be surprised if we see more people affected either in college context or as students spend time with their families or with their community friends. We will continue to see an extension of this outbreak into the community level.

George Eliot

We women are always in danger of living too exclusively in the affections; and though our affections are perhaps the best gifts we have, we ought also to have our share of the more independent life -- some joy in things for their own sake. It is piteous to see the helplessness of some sweet women when their affections are disappointed -- because all their teaching has been, that they can only delight in study of any kind for the sake of a personal love. They have never contemplated an independent delight in ideas as an experience which they could confess without being laughed at. Yet surely women need this defense against passionate affliction even more than men.

Richard Gephardt

We will work to make the broken places right again. We will rebuild New York. We will work on a bipartisan package to strengthen the economy, ... will help unemployed workers in the airline, aerospace, tourist and other industries affected by the attack.

We show our empathy and sympathy for those guys, ... but at same time we have a game to play Saturday and can't let that affect us.

We understand and are very sensitive to the fact that it affects commerce and business.

Barney Frank

When I spoke to him, the first thing I did was tease him, saying I thought this was a ploy because he wants to run for Congress. It's not anything that's fun to do, sharing with people intimate things about himself, but it's important and unimportant at the same time. It's something important for him to be honest with people, but it doesn't affect how he does his job.

We are certainly at the part of the sun's cycle where flares are popping off more frequently and affecting us more frequently.

We are calling off any trial test runs scheduled at the end of the month until such time that we are fully assured of the safety, not only of the area affected by the collapse, but of the entire terminal.

We had a couple guys that we were missing, so I hope this won't affect our confidence. When you don't play with intensity the whole game, someone is going to get you.

We had a tough time shutting down their offense. And we missed a lot of foul shots the first three quarters. When you do that it affects your offensive execution.

We got information gradually as the details came out and people understood what had happened and how it was affecting the country and the rest of the world.

We believe that Alcoa's earnings will begin to reflect the strong aluminum price beginning with its 1Q 2006 earnings - particularly since several of the headwinds that affected Alcoa over the last two years, whether it be input costs or foreign currency, have stabilized.

Paul Otellini

We believe PC growth rates have moderated over the course of the past few quarters, leading to slower chip-level inventory reductions at our customers and affecting our revenue in the first half of the year.

We are seeing the economy slowing down, and that is affecting same-store sales.

Weather affects everything we do. We have a live radar that monitors everything from rain to lightning.

E. B. White

To this day it still bothers me because I can hear it in my nose. I can hear a little bit of the nasally thing. I remember that time was very difficult for me. It didn't affect the fate of the record, but I can still hear it.

Ben Bernanke

To the extent that bank panics interfere with normal flows of credit, they may affect the performance of the real economy.

Ike Barinholtz

I'm more scared of parking by a parking meter than vampires because one of them is real and adversely affects my life and results in a $35 fine, and one is nonsense.

Ira Sachs

Suspense films are often based on communication problems, and that affects all of the plot points. It almost gives it kind of a fable feeling.

John Piper

When people think about 'thinking,' they often think 'academia;' they think 'threat.' They think 'coldness.' I want to reverse all those images and say, 'No, the brain God gave you is intended to throw fuel on the fire of your affections for God. It's really good at it if you let it.'

A. J. McLean

We didn't realize there were that many boy bands until we started touring in Europe. I don't think we were ever affected by it since a lot of the groups in Europe didn't really sing live, but we did and would perform a cappella as well.

With a new type of nozzle for applying the ozone under water, we can have a very efficient destruction of the cell and toxin without releasing the ozone into the atmosphere. So it looks very promising. It is going to affect any marine organism in the area, but with red tide there won't be much alive there.

With an estimated 13 billion chickens in China alone, this project represents a tremendous opportunity to further grow and diversify the Company's revenue stream. We believe that the successful demonstration will also open up opportunities in other parts of the world that have been affected by this devastating outbreak.

While good rains in August and September have alleviated drought conditions in portions of central and southern Illinois, the most severely affected area in northern Illinois remains stubbornly dry.

Yet the rebuilding of affected areas will likely raise production in the fourth and first quarters.

The program is great. It teaches the kids that heart disease can affect anyone and it also makes them feel good about helping others.

Trevor Phillips

There are proposed changes to the immigration laws and we want to give clubs information so that they are aware how this is going to affect our foreign players.