Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dolly Parton

I think 9/11 affected everybody in one way or another.

I just don't understand how it escalated and got this far. She's had a hard life. She grew up in the projects. I guess what she's seen between me and my husband, the verbal and physical abuse, affected her.

George Fisher

Clearly, our underlying growth this year has been very much affected by increasingly difficult economic times and a tough competitive environment. Neither of those conditions is likely to change in the near-term,

Being affected by this law is not something people are looking to advertise.

High interest rates have affected car and motorcycle sales. The high interest rate climate has affected consumer demand; retail sales have been affected.

His answer? Pressure. Every time he would line up to kick an extra point or field goal, there were so many lives affected by the outcome.

But it affected his right side. It affected his speech. He was diagnosed with short-term memory. He had seizures a lot.

Mike Sherman

Certainly, the hurricane has affected players on all our rosters directly,

Childhood obesity will not be significantly affected by simply taking sodas out of high school. It's an issue that needs to be looked at on a bigger scale.

By 2007, building on the results of this effort, we will be in a good position to seek the involvement of all the stakeholders affected by tractor injuries and fatalities: farm and safety groups, equipment manufacturers and dealers and most importantly, farmers, ranchers and their families.

Donald Trump

By my calculations, 1 percent of Americans, who control 90 percent of the wealth in this country, would be affected by my plan.

James Gandolfini

Honestly, the last break affected me detrimentally. It was long. I think your brain starts to eke out other places. I don't think I was horribly affected--I hope not. But it was long.

Mike Holmgren

He's an outstanding special-teams player. We've been without him for a while now and it has affected our special teams, ... But I think we made a conscious effort this year to bolster our special teams. We have a few more bodies we can juggle around, but will he be missed? Certainly he will.

Gasoline consumption fell. That suggests one of two things. First is the economy in worse shape than we thought or the high oil prices are starting to be affected by demand destruction.

Robbie Robertson

I remember from my earliest years, ... people speaking, you know, in a certain kind of rhythm and telling stories and sharing experiences in a way that was different in Indian country than it was other places. And I was really struck by this and obviously very affected by it, because it's always come out in my songs.

I know for a fact we were affected (by the economy) in our season ticket sales, ... When companies are laying people off, it's hard for them to justify buying season tickets again.

I know it affected him pretty deeply, and I felt bad for him. It was one of those things where I knew he was going to be important to us the rest of the season. I really tried to pick him up.

I just had to go back, get relaxed and realize that I'm going to be OK and that I'm not affected really by what he did.

I hear a lot of people say they feel guilty going to the beach or going camping when our neighbors in bordering states are affected forever, ... Traffic is light. I've seen very few out-of-state tags today.

Howard Gordon

I hope people will understand, I hope they'll be affected by the loss and I hope they'll miss him. Because if they do, we'll have all done our jobs.

I haven't heard anyone say the World Baseball Classic has adversely affected sales. It's almost like we're going in parallel universes.

Ryan Robbins

I have to say that Common is one of the kindest, most humble, grateful individuals that I've ever met in my life. I was profoundly affected by meeting him. I think he is an outstanding human being.

I really think our serve affected how they performed. It was just a matter of not giving them easy points. We took them completely out of their offense. They weren't able to run their plays in the middle.

I really feel like the dark side of the '60s began in that period, ... I wanted to explore that and show how that might have affected individuals, or how individuals had their lives changed by that shift. ... I do feel that a lot of the promise of the '60s was not only unfulfilled, but broken.

Florentino Perez

I really enjoyed the first four years. It was the happiest stage of my life but everything went wrong after Camacho quit. He showed he was a Madrid supporter but he left the club less affected than me.

Kevin Hall

I really lost my energy on the back nine, ... and it really affected my shots.

Padraig Harrington

I played better today, but what's been going wrong with my game affected my short game today a bit as well.

Investors in Egyptian stocks are psychologically affected by today's declines in Persian Gulf markets.

Investors expect a headline-grabbing punitive damages award next month or so and this has affected our share price,

Amanda Crew

How can you not be affected by disappointments relating to work you love so much?

He's saying that whatever measures we've taken, they have not affected him. He's got to reassure people that he's alive and well.

Joe Torre

He's really responded about like Jeter did 10 years ago. When Derek would make an error or make a play on the base paths which wasn't the right play, it never really affected him ... It looked like a breaking ball away from him and he went out and got it and was able to rake it over the fence. That was huge.

Bill Self

I don't think that game has affected him negatively. He's a mature kid, and he's handled it well. He's fine. But I do think that, at least initially, it hurt and hurt bad.