Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Palmer

I'm not concerned that my stuff isn't extreme. I don't want to be heavy. I can't think of another attitude to have toward an audience than a hopeful and a positive one. And if that includes such unfashionable things as sentimentality, well, I can afford it.

Kurt Student

After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure; apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks.

Mark Taylor

Luckily, we have had such a good year that I can afford this. I was just not feeling well enough; not 100 percent. We don't know what it is, food poisoning perhaps, but I was not feeling well enough to go race, and the decision was made to sit out this one. We will move on.

Milton Pedraza

Luxury Institute researchers found most luxury brands in the writing instruments category, as in the luxury watches category, to be niche brands, with 1% to 4% awareness among the wealthy, and in many cases, known only to connoisseurs. Still, the holy grail of a luxury brand is a Harry Winston, or a Rolls Royce, brands that are known to the majority of wealthy consumers, but are affordable by only a few. That feat requires brilliant products, and even more brilliant marketing skills.

Kevin Davis

Making even 20 percent of new housing affordable doesn't seem to be enough for everyone who needs it. They'll just end up building more and more until there is nothing left to build on.

Peter Donovan

Lenders don't like people taking out unsecured loans for their deposit. A substantial loan brings down the amount of mortgage you can afford to borrow, and if you try to get an unsecured loan without telling the mortgage lender, you are deliberately misleading your lender.

P. Herbert

Lord, how can man preach thy eternal word? / He is a brittle crazy glass: / Yet in thy Temple thou dost him afford / This glorious and transcendent place, / To be a window, through thy grace.

Steve Jobs

Look, we have to get this thing under a thousand dollars. But we can afford to pay up to that because we have to live with these things for five years. We don't want to buy something that's going to be obsolete in nine months.

Dennis Smith

Las Vegas will never again be viewed as an affordable housing market by the 'working class' as it was just five years ago.

Bill Bradley

Let me assure you, you are going to be all right.

Pervez Musharraf

Let me assure you that President Bush never talks about when are you taking your uniform off,

Drew Rosenhaus

Let me assure you, he will be playing in the future. He will be dominant. There are a lot of people in the NFL who respect him. He wants to be an Eagle. But do not write him off.

Ben Crenshaw

Length is always going to get its due. Playing shorter clubs into these greens makes a huge difference, I can assure you. But, really, no matter how long or short the course plays, you have to deal with these greens. They have been the main defense of this course, and always will be. I hope they never change, because they are fascinatingly complex.

Billy Donovan

Lee is one of those guys who understands scouting reports, schemes and how we are guarding. You can be rest assured that he is going to follow everything to the minute detail of what he has to do. So, forget about the shooting part of it, we have just lost maybe our best overall defender.

Doug Anderson

Many of the smaller nonprofits in town have incurred significant out-of-pocket expenses. My concern is that the money collected by the United Way for the express purpose of reimbursement to nonprofits be disbursed in a timely and efficient manner as Mrs. Wormington has assured me that it will be,

Charles Gittins

No other document was provided to Scott and we have been assured that Adm. Fargo will meet with Scott with an open mind,

Robert Pinsky

When I was a teenager, just about the only thing I could do right was play music. In my graduating class, I was certainly not voted 'Most Literary Boy.' I can assure you I was not voted 'Mostly Likely to Succeed.' I was voted 'Most Musical Boy.' And the music led to the poetry.

Joe Wright

We met with some of our key Hispanic employees last week and were assured they understood how important it was to milk the cows.

Jeff Nelson

Seven days off, and I come in with the bases loaded. I made the one out, and that 2-2 pitch was close. The 3-2 pitch was away. The inning happened too quickly. You have to make your pitches.

Tim Johnson

Mr. Oxley bases his legislation on the substance of the arguments, not on political contributions or social acquaintances.

Terry Cornett

One inning she walked a couple batters and loaded the bases with one out. Then she struck out the next two. She was really it today.

Lorie Smith

My concern is that we're growing, and we've got to try to establish some vision for where we want the city to go with the growth - and we've also got to try to strengthen up the bases from which we're beginning to grow. We've got to get the infrastructure sound. We've got to go back and pick up some of these things where we've regressed so that we can provide a vision, and we can work from a solid place.

Reggie Sanders

When I come back, I want to be able to help this ballclub, ... Not just be a body on the field. So I've still got to run the bases (in practice), and I've still got to do a couple more things.

Joaquin Andujar

If I was crazy, I'd throw the ball into the stands with the bases loaded. Now, that's crazy. If I was stupid, I'd throw the ball into center field with the bases loaded and a 3-2 count on the hitter. Now, that's stupid.

Brian Sabean

From what I saw today, I'm beyond pleasantly surprised. He's done a lot of work, you can tell. He's strong. Having said that, he hasn't run the bases yet or played the outfield.

Stephen Burris

When they walk the bases loaded we don't have much left to do.

Chone Figgins

I was shooting for a more important number -- 100 runs. It means I've been getting on base. Stealing 50 bases is a great accomplishment. I'm pleased with my work ethic to get here.

Elizabeth Edwards

You know, there are no guarantees on prognosis.

David Nicholls

No matter how predictable, banal and listless the rest of my life might be, you can guarantee that there'll always be something interesting going on with my skin.

Dannel Malloy

Indiana houses the home offices of most fraternities and sororities in the country. If Indiana doesn't pass a law that guarantees people that they'll be free of discrimination, those fraternities and sororities need to move out of Indiana.

Sepp Blatter

We could not have 12,000 people on the pitch for the gala and then use the same turf for the match on June 12. The problem was that not a single provider would give us guarantees for the proper turf replacement. Nobody would give us these guarantees.

Charles Dickens

A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.

Benazir Bhutto

The U.S. came to understand that Bhutto was not a threat to stability but was instead the only possible way that we could guarantee stability and keep the presidency of Musharraf intact.

Charles Schumer

This bill [Immigration Reform and Control act of 1986] is a gamble, a riverboat gamble. There is no guarantee that employer sanctions will work or that amnesty will work. We are headed into uncharted waters.

Elizabeth Loftus

To be cautious, one should not take high confidence as any absolute guarantee of anything.

Demi Moore

The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees.

Dirk Becker

Many investors are speculating on a takeover offer.

Hideo Mizutani

Share prices were weaker as many investors are keenly awaiting the machinery orders (figures).

Hugh Johnson

Momentum investors are looking for something that works. What works is technology.

Alan Ackerman

Traders and investors feel more comfortable with the value sector of the market, ... What we're seeing is a two-tiered market.

Frank Quattrone

Respect public investors and treat them as partners and important constituents.

Aaron Patzer

I pitch Mint to everyone from investors to engineers, young and old, and I do it pretty much the same way: Here's the problem in the market place, here's how we solve it, and here's how we make money.

Joe Osha

We'd love to tell investors that we anticipated Intel's problems, but we did not.

Robert Scoble

Investors can see that Facebook is feeling old and tired and isn't seeming to be that innovative.

Chris Shilakes

With the stock trading at premium multiples and momentum investors exiting the stock, it may take some time ... to re-establish an upward trend.

Mikko Hypponen

Online crime is practically always international, because they almost always cross traditional national borders.

Mystikal

I did my thing with Jive. I was a national recording artist, but I had run into a wall.

Emma Udwin

From now on, there will be no more payments through the National Palestinian Authority.

Foster Friess

On the national security front, Rick Santorum is superior to any candidate I know.

Paul Wolfowitz

If we're not true to our principles, we're not serving our national interest.

Charde Houston

She has two national championships under her belt. She has to be like that.

Mark Souder

If this is a cohesive national policy, it is embarrassing,

Tom Golisano

If we go by the National Popular Vote, we'll get more people voting.

Shinzo Abe

A robust economy is a source of national strength for Japan.

Siv Meisingseth

One of the three stewardesses did not have the necessary qualifications to work on this plane.

Tim Jones

When this occurs we have to start investigating and if necessary start a search.

Bob Poole

If we can get it into the township and get the necessary approvals, we can get it under way as soon as possible.

Francis Lockier

The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that.

Jim Lewis

Yeah, that's awful. That's not necessary at all.

Lynn Woolsey

unless we take all steps necessary for nuclear disarmament.

Javier Solana

We have not been able to reach agreement. A precondition to constructive confidence, which is necessary now, is stopping all uranium enrichment activities.

Ron Dittemore

We're satisfied that the necessary precautions have taken place or we wouldn't launch.

Carl Elliott

We are going to make the necessary adjustments to him not being around.

Rig Veda

May the truth protect me in all ways.

Mark Davies

Now we know even that remote possibility makes protection cost-efficient.

Aslan Maskhadov

to protect the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Bob Rue

I got to protect my eggs. I've got food, I've got toys, I'm having the time of my life.

Michael Essien

I don't know why (Lauren) should make out I elbowed him on purpose. All I was doing was protecting the ball... For me, it was not even a foul.

P. J. Harvey

Ideally, you want to protect all of the important pieces, as much as you can.

Daniele Audetto

We are only trying to protect our investments.

Francis G. Slay

Violence is not a constitutionally protected right. Damaging property is not a constitutionally protected right; inciting violence is not a constitutionally protected right.

Eve Ensler

It's a weird thing about the truth: It protects you. What really makes you vulnerable is when you're lying because you're going to get caught. When you tell the truth, there's a strange relief that comes.

Debbie Smith

No one should be doing this to another person, regardless of whether they're students.

Alex Newell

Singing is my passion, regardless of anything else that I've ever done. That's the one thing that no one can ever take away from me is my voice, and that is what I really want to do.

Luke Hudson

I didn't want to get better any more just because I was out of the rotation. I wanted to get better regardless of where I was.

Pat Roberts

I know there is moral outage in regard to Mr. Milosevic, and that is certainly justified. But what about our response?

Dominic Cooper

I'm not going to pre-empt anything regarding how my career's going to go because I'm always prepared for the worst.

Thomas Nelson Page

She had been dying so long that I had almost come to regard her as immortal.

Tim Tebow

Regardless of whatever I do, I know what my purpose is: to make a difference in people's lives.

Aesop

Do nothing without regard to the consequences.

Donald Johanson

Regardless of what we look like on the outside, genetically, on the inside, everyone is an African.

Danys Baez

We didn't seek this out, but after an in-depth exploration, it made sense for us.

Cynthia Kenyon

I was a little truth seeker as a child. I wanted more than anything to understand myself and also other people.

Charles Miller

My understanding is we were seeking what keywords are put in and URLs. Nothing personal.

Julie Myers

I will seek to work with those who are knowledgeable in this area, who know more than I do.

Mahatma Gandhi

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

Robert Hamilton

We are seeking any new work we can get.

Joel Klein

the time has come to seek new challenges.

Abu Bakr

If anybody seeks your advice, offer right and sincere advice.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

We are commanded to seek out those who are lost. We are to be our brother's keeper.