Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mr. Blake is attentive, visible and enthusiastic in this support and knows the benefits of participation in athletics. He will quickly say that his involvement in athletics taught many valuable lessons not learned in a classroom setting and allowed his success later in life.

Mr Benn was quite iconoclastic and is probably the most remembered thing I've ever done. Even now, nearly 40 years after we made them, people say, 'God your voice always reminds me of it'. The show had something about it which allowed it to endure. I don't understand what it was, but it was great.

Mothers just got it. Men just didn't. They thought they wouldn't be allowed to eat cookies.

Moving around a lot allows you to experience many different cultures and learn about the ways that different people in different parts of the country live, and it probably made me somewhat more adventuresome and allowed me to meet my future wife in Pensacola.

William Readdy

Max was a genuine icon, a down-to-earth Cajun with a very nuts-and-bolts approach to engineering, ... He contributed immeasurably to America's successes in human space flight. His genius allowed us to compete and win the space race to the moon.

Maynard really created the new Atlanta. What is known as the capital of the New South came from his insistence that minorities, including women, be allowed into business.

Mental toughness comes in varying degrees and we didn't have it tonight. Other teams have allowed defensive touchdowns and survived and I think our kids lost their toughness after that.

Jackie Speier

My life experiences have helped me to be less fearful. In politics, that has allowed me to take on issues sooner rather than later.

Scott Pruett

My life as a professional athlete has allowed me the opportunity to visit and live in many different places and meet many interesting and diverse people.

Lucy Punch

My friends asked me to be a reverend at their wedding in France a few years ago. I went on the Internet, and within 15 seconds, I was printing out a certificate which allowed me to officiate at their wedding.

Robert Battle

My first professional relationship, I danced with the Parsons Dance Company, and David Parsons, my former boss, allowed me to choreograph on the company.

Network neutrality is a nearly indefinable concept. For instance, does network neutrality mean that network operators can't block spam? Should network operators be allowed to stop viruses from spreading? Should large users of peer-to-peer software be allowed unlimited bandwidth so service for other users is slower?

Netscape is one of those companies that came and went and will return with little help from the press. The Internet allowed them to go over our heads directly to customers.

Lesley Manville

One of the significant things that's happened, which shouldn't be looked at as lightly as it might sound, is that women over 45, over 50, are now allowed to be sexy.

Charlie Kaufman

Of course, the Meryl Streep in the play is nothing like the real Meryl, and the proof of that is that she did it. Otherwise, she would never have allowed herself to be seen that way. And the more we rehearsed and worked the character, the meaner she got. She's very game.

Kurt Warner

Of course how it all came to an end was not how I had dreamed it up and was disappointing for me, ... But how do you have any animosity for an organization that gave the opportunities that they gave me, that allowed me to fulfill a dream when nobody else would?

Sathya Baba

No one is born and allowed to live for the sake of another. Each has his own burden to carry and lay down.

Kiefer Sutherland

I think the show is working. I think the character is growing on many levels. I think one thing that we're all discovering is that every season has impacted another, and the character has grown, and the character is allowed to carry with him what he has suffered the year before.

Stella Young

It is a truth universally acknowledged that from puberty onwards, the female body is disgusting and unruly and must be tamed, trimmed and tinted to within an inch of its life before it can be allowed to roam freely in the public eye.

It is a terrifying crime that can never be allowed to happen again,

It is a situation that cries out for fairness, and we define fairness as he's either a Tennessee Titan or he should be allowed to play with another team.

It is a school-related matter, and I'm not allowed to discuss it. He could be reinstated for Saturday's game.

I think there were just a few things that were unresolved Friday night. Things were about 90 percent of the way there, and I think the weekend allowed us to potentially fill that last gap.

Spike Jonze

I think there is something about... unless you come from a really evolved family that allowed you to talk about your feelings and felt like a safe environment, then you aren't really prepared to do that when you grow up.

Jay brought an element we haven't had in the bullpen here for a while. We started right after the season talking to him about coming back. The fact he was honest about coming back allowed us to get it done so quickly.

Rabindranath Tagore

Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travelers to cross their strictly guarded borders

Alex Honnold

I suppose being a bit of an antisocial weirdo definitely honed my skills as a soloist. It gave me a lot more opportunities to solo lots of easy routes, which in turn broadened my comfort zone quite a bit and has allowed me to climb the harder things without a rope that I've done now.

Mary Quant

I saw no reason why childhood shouldn't last forever. So I created clothes that worked and moved and allowed people to run, to jump, to leap, to retain their precious freedom.

I said I didn't think people as young as 16 should be allowed to vote. Apparently, they took points off for that.

I returned from my last L.A. visit to find myself tipping the scales like Homer Simpson when he tries to gain enough weight to qualify as disabled to be allowed to work from home. All I was missing was his kaftan and Fat Guy Hat. So, I decided it was time to diet.

Thomas Mitchell

People in and out of government tend to forget that government exists solely to do the bidding of the citizens, and the only way the citizens can make sure their wishes are being abided by is if they are allowed to do so through open meetings and records. Sunshine Week is simply a means of reminding us all of that fundamental premise.

William Hazlitt

Surely, nothing is more simple than Time. His march is straightforward; but we should have leisure allowed us to look back upon the distance we have come, and not be counting his steps every moment.

States like Nepal, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, or Zimbabwe, which are members of the old Commission, cannot be allowed onto the new Council.