Famous Quotes & Sayings

I felt the time was right for me to get off the treadmill for a while. I greatly appreciate all the opportunities David and the NBA owners have afforded me for personal accomplishment in this job.

I can't afford to recruit foreign kids. They don't qualify for federal aid money.

I can't afford to play like that on the road, how I did today, I just got out of my character. I don't know.

Brian Holland

I can't afford to pay the monthly $3,000 insurance bills on my boat when I can't fish a couple months of the year because of the grouper quota.

I can't afford to fill it all the way up. If I had to guess, it would be $50.

I can't afford that distraction . . . not going to let myself have it.

I can't afford parking. And now I can't afford gas. And the wear and tear on my vehicle ....

Edmund White

I can remember in the late 1980s and early 1990s how many men with AIDS I saw everywhere in Key West. There were hospices and medical supply stores geared to people with AIDS. It seemed that every sick man who could afford it had headed for the warmth and the tranquillity and the gay-friendliness of the island.

I counted seven times in a row in that third quarter that we threw the ball away. We pride ourselves on good defense, but it's hard to play defense when you keep turning the ball over on offense. We can't afford to be that careless with the basketball.

I do think Kurt deserves the right to see what he can do. Our room for error is not very good. We can't afford to have the interceptions and those kinds of things.

I don't think Daft or anyone would want to stick their heads out there now with the regulatory environment being what it is. This may have hurt him, but I don't think the board can afford not to rally behind him at this point.

I don't think, budget-wise, we could afford to start a program, ... But I can't say that even if we did have the money, that we could find the teachers.

I basically had 24 hours to decide. That's not a lot of time to figure out where you're spending your summer. (They told me) I would be interning at the Santa Cruz Sentinel in Santa Cruz, Calif., so I spent the next 24 hours researching the city ... Santa Cruz is definitely not affordable on $300 a week." ()

John Phillips

I am not a wealthy man. Yes, I am privileged, I do own a lakefront home. But I'd like to know where this mitigation fee comes from. I cannot afford it.

Kailash Kher

I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.

Olympia Snowe

I believe it is not a question of whether or not we support tax cuts, ... It really is a question of what we can afford to do now in the current economic and fiscal climate.

I don't want to schedule cupcakes. We can't do that. We can't afford to do that with our schedule. You don't get better by playing weaker teams. You get good by playing tough opponents.

I don't think we can afford to lose that kind of brainpower.

Lindy Ruff

I don't think they can afford it, first of all, to get back in the series. I think you might be surprised. It just might be totally the other way.

How this all came about was that I went to Charlotte in May for the 600 to see if Richard Childress was telling me the truth about his wine, ... He'd been telling me how good it was, but I guess he couldn't afford the postage to send me a bottle.

Robert Allenby

I couldn't afford to get delicate with it.

I couldn't afford a good saddle and, like any other kid, I wanted to be a cowboy. When I was 17, I had the opportunity to work in a saddle shop.

Chumlee

I could never leave Las Vegas. I can't really afford New York or Los Angeles. I love this town. We don't have that much. We have the Runnin' Rebels and boxer Floyd Mayweather. When Mayweather fights, it's good for the whole city. It's like the Super Bowl out here.

I can confirm to you that we've had no interest expressed by Manchester United. We hope that they can't afford Wayne Rooney and effectively that Wayne will stay with Everton.

Robert G. Allen

. . . I came out here so I could afford a house, and because I love my golf.

I believe government should not try to solve every problem. But private enterprise and government - working together - should ensure that everyone willing to work hard and play by the rules has a fair chance for a good job, a decent home in a safe community, affordable health care, and a quality education for their children and retirement security.

Kent Conrad

I believe President Bush's campaign promises are unraveling, ... He claimed we could afford his massive tax cut, a major defense buildup, more money for education, while paying down the debt and protecting Social Security and Medicare. He was wrong.

I began working as a part-time salesman, went to full-time salesman and on up to general manager, and eventually wanted to buy the place but I couldn't afford it.

I believe in 'last in, first out' budgeting, ... If you go to any company, any family budget, that's what you usually cut in a time when you can't afford things. We are at a very critical point where we have to make decisions about whether we can really afford this huge new entitlement.

People are saying to me that what they don't want to do is put people who cannot afford this into a position where they are harming their own families.

People are always going to be on the water. Hurricanes may cut the field down some, but the ones who can afford it will be here.

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