Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vikram Seth

I am careful about fiction. A novel is not a tract or an essay. If I want to write about land reforms, or Hindu-Muslim relations, or position of women, I can do it as it affects my characters as in 'A Suitable Boy.' I could only write about issues specifically through essays. But I'll do that only if I have something worthwhile to say.

There is little or no point being chair of the Labour Party and being ignored when engaging with Labour ministers when you're trying to articulate something that affects ordinary people in society.

Nicholas A. Christakis

We and others have done a bunch of work to show that if your real friends online say or do something, it affects you. But if your acquaintances online say or do something, it does not. People on average have about 106 Facebook friends, but only 5 or 6 real friends.

A pretty good test of a man's religion is how it affects his pocketbook.

Sean Covey

Paradigms are like glasses. When you have incomplete paradigms about yourself or life in general, it's like wearing glasses with the wrong prescription. That lens affects how you see everything else.

Roger Wicker

Embryonic stem cell research is legal in America, and nothing in the administration's current policy affects that legality; 400 lines are currently being used to conduct embryonic stem cell research, both in the private sector and by the Federal Government.

Patrick Carman

I'm a visual thinker, thrill seeker, and I'm easily distracted. I see everything I'm writing, and I think it naturally affects the pace of things.

We've learned a lot about how weather affects counts, and really refined our calculations about the weather and the days that we fly, I can't say it's not a possibility that there were 3,000 manatees in 1991.

We're watching to see if and how it affects domestic steel.

Dave Roberts

We're used to this. The people that it really affects the most are the poorer folks that maybe are renting and might not have the means and transportation to get their possessions moved to higher ground in time. They lose everything.

Roy Barnes

By creating a Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District, we will give local governments a framework for working together on an issue that affects our whole state.

When you have an injury in your forearm, it affects the command of your pitches. I would yank pitches down away, or they were staying up. I'd go to accelerate, but everything would come forward except the ball. The ball was staying behind. When you have an inconsistent release point like that, it's impossible to throw a changeup.

My biggest grouse since the time I filed for divorce has been that when all the drama unfolded, the children were made pawns. That should never be the case. You never know how it affects them.

Most of the damage was on the side of the brain that affects his speech. At this point, his memory is pretty good, but his mind can't tell his mouth what to do.

Most of that increase they note is due to high world oil prices. The same study reflects that ethanol affects prices by just a few pennies.

Most companies are looking at how the housing market affects them. If they see housing slowing, they'll be more cautious.

Chet Faker

Most of my inspiration comes from mistakes, so every time I make a massive mistake, that usually affects me so much that I have to process that via song.

Whirling disease affects the majority of rainbow trout in many of Montana and Colorado's famous streams like the Madison in Montana and the Gunnison and Colorado Rivers,

It definitely opens up a lot of things that you don't think about before you have a guy like Joe. It affects everybody out there.

Wayne Hale

It does depend on what happens with those flights because when we get back from a mission, we have to see if there's anything that affects the next flight.

Joe Nichols

It definitely affects your lifestyle if you don?t have a six-figure income.

It definitely affects your home life, but luckily my wife has been behind me 120 percent. She handled the whole thing like a trooper. Without her, my whole life would have crumbled.

It definitely affects us. Jermaine plays a major part of what we're trying to do offensively, and in establishing our identity as a team. So definitely it's a setback. But we have a lot of guys, so we expect guys to step up.

Rodney Harrison

It definitely affects the way you prepare because you never know who is going to be in there. It affects the communication. However, everyone has to be ready and that's no excuse.

Greg Smith

We have not had any casualties this month, and we're grateful for that. But all guardsmen are concerned for the health and welfare of our comrades in Iraq, especially guardsmen from other states. Whenever we hear of casualties, it affects us.

We haven't lost any customers because it's a tax that affects all rental businesses in the city, so it wouldn't help for customers to rent from another store in town. We're all in the same boat, ... It's just like the rising cost of gasoline. It's a cost that we have to pass along to our customers and they understand that. They don't like it, but they understand we're doing what we have to do.

Ben Bernanke

Identity theft is a serious crime that affects millions of Americans each year.

Robert Kiyosaki

When America stopped importing from China, China stopped importing from the rest of the world. This affects Asian countries as well as Australia, Brazil, and other suppliers of raw materials.

We appeal to the donor community to help us feed the livestock as it affects thousands of households.

Sophia Bush

I fight for the environment because we only have one planet, but I see how the environment affects poverty and how the environment affects women around the world.

Mike Johanns

We are doing everything we can to help our Gulf Coast producers recover from the affects of Hurricane Katrina, ... The assistance announced today is an important component of USDA's efforts and our commitment to help farmers and ranchers rebuild their operations.

Mary Szybist

I was thinking recently about the popularity of TV shows about people shopping for houses. I wonder if part of their appeal is the chance to vicariously imagine our lives playing out in a variety of spaces. We have a sense that the shape and style of our dwellings affects the shapes of the lives that unfold within them.

Dave Foley

It even looks a little like me, ... He's got my eyes, my great big bulbous eyes, and he has my stammer, (and) that affects your facial features when you stammer.