Famous Quotes & Sayings

Groups of boats, still lashed together on the dock, they're just sitting up there out of the water. It's a problem. Nice boats, too; and before that, they couldn't even afford to fish. It was horrible.

Given the increasing competition from Microsoft and Nintendo, Sony can't afford any delays that may help its rivals get ahead.

French people should be prioritised; clandestine immigrants get 100 per cent refund on healthcare while two-thirds of French people can't afford medical help. Charity begins at home.

For years, the poor, poor people of Los Angeles county were between a rock and a hard place of having to buy insurance, but not being able to afford it.

Herbie Hancock

From '70 to '73 I'd had a sextet, but the band was not self-supporting and I couldn't afford it, so I broke it up. And then I didn't know what kind of music I wanted to do, because I was just fed up to here with it. It wasn't fulfilling anymore.

We have a strategic opportunity to put the peace process back on track and we cannot afford to lose it,

We were already down two games, and we felt like we couldn't afford to go down three. We talked about it yesterday and today before the game.

We want to tell people, 'Here's a place for you to do your stuff.' We want it open, not just for people here, but everywhere. We are non-profit. We want it to be affordable and available.

We always had this window to try to get him fit with the maximum amount of rest we could afford before the tour. We were very happy with his progress, the little bit of soreness was predictable. It just got worse in the nets so we decided to inject his knee and hope it will make him all right for next week.

Sam Snead

The only reason I played golf was so that I could afford to go hunting and fishing.

We are proposing to develop 209 units of high-quality, very affordable housing, including about 100 units of housing for formerly homeless individuals and 100 units of housing for low-income individuals.

We are pleased to see that Maryland legislators stepped up and made a statement about what kind of businesses they want in their state. Marylanders deserve businesses that provide for their employees, pay a decent wage and provide affordable health care, not those that expect taxpayers to foot the bill for their bottom-line corporate profits. They get that with Fair Share Health Care.

Chris Rock

We've all heard the question. Why didn't these people just leave when they had the chance? But now we realize that not everybody can just jump into their SUVs and drive to a nice hotel. These people depend on public transportation and these people can't afford a nice hotel, because some of them work there. Now it's your chance to help them.

Chris Rock

We've all heard the question, ... Why didn't these people just leave when they had the chance? But now we realize that not everybody can just jump into their SUVs and drive to a nice hotel. These people depend on public transportation and these people can't afford a nice hotel, because some of them work there. Now it's your chance to help them.

We started the first and second half with a bunch of turnovers. In a playoff game, you can't afford to commit 20-some turnovers.

We are against duplicity of inspection. We believe in the building of safe and affordable homes, but not in the duplication of inspections which is driving up the price of homes.

We are losing business opportunities as a result of the shortage of workers and the affordable housing issue.

We are at a point in our Nation's history where we cannot afford to turn our back on any reasonable power source to meet our Nation's energy needs.

We are at a peak period of employment. Companies can't afford to lose people.

We stressed defense in practice this week. We didn't locate their shooters when we played them down there; we can't afford to do that again.

We still think it's an extraordinarily affordable product.

We're in it, but we can't afford to lose anymore games. When we had a five-run lead like this, and then let it get away, it hurts.

Dennis Hastert

We stand firmly behind Tom DeLay and ask that he be afforded the same rights as every other American -- that is innocent until proven otherwise,

We spoke with her agent, explained what we envisioned for the role and waited to find out if she might be interested. Her agent came back with an offer. I don't remember exactly what it was now, but I know our budget couldn't afford it. He asked what we could offer, and we made our offer.

When you've got the Republican governor of Colorado running around the state asking voters to suspend their TABOR law, and they're talking about privatizing their higher ed system because they can't afford it, it shows it's one of those things that would have a significant negative impact on public safety and education in Nevada,

Nick Offerman

I'm enjoying the opportunity that 'Parks And Recreation' affords me to exploit my own soapbox agenda, which is to try to encourage people to make things with their hands.

There is no question that there is a capability that the Internet affords us to get a closer look at the customer and to be closer to the customer.

There is no question that clean, affordable drinking water is essential to the health of our global community. But bottled water is not the answer in the developed world, nor does it solve problems for the 1.1 billion people who lack a secure water supply. Improving and expanding existing water treatment and sanitation systems is more likely to provide safe and sustainable sources of water over the long term.

There is no money in the budget and the district cannot afford this action. The district, likewise cannot afford to loose any more paramedics or continue staffing with overtime.

Until we develop a defensive pride, nothing is going to change. We can't afford to give up so many uncontested 3-point shots. We really need to make a (defensive) statement early, and we didn't do that.

Until now, financially justifying an investment in an automated system just wasn't an option for many customers. Now finally customers have an affordable option.

Until Majority Leader Tom DeLay has his day in court, it is vitally important he be afforded the same presumption of innocence afforded to every other American,

Alex Steffen

We're not going to persuade people in the developing world to go without, but neither can we afford a planet on which everyone lives like an American. Billions more people living in suburbs and driving SUVs to shopping malls is a recipe for planetary suicide. We can't even afford to continue that way of life ourselves.