Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Stillwell

We want to retain both as many employees and customers as we possibly can. We're fortunate we have 11 other properties that afford us great flexibility from an employee and a customer standpoint.

Scott Sanders

We have to have a popular price for this show so that anyone who wants to see The Color Purple, regardless of their income level, can afford to come,

Madeline Albright

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

Mike Herndon

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.

Nick Boynton

We have put ourselves in a pretty good position the last month or so, so we have as good a chance as anybody to make it. We should have gotten more points than we did in the last week, but we can't do anything about that now. We just can't afford to let points get away the rest of the season.

Joe McInerney

We have provided competitive salaries, affordable wages and good pensions to our employees and remain committed to do that.

Herman Walton

When you get to the playoffs, you can't afford to turn the ball over. Free throw shooting is always important too. That's an area that we need to work on.

Arnold Palmer

The fact is the Berger Foundation has afford us the opportunity to do this. You can't beat it. This is something that, I think as far as golf and golf-related things are concerned, this is the kind of thing that should happen more and more, and particularly in cities where they have golf tournaments such as this.

Deborah Dowdell

The reality is, today, in some communities, really just the big guys or the chains can afford to buy into the system. Our system has made it prohibitive for small operators to buy into.

Sergei Prikhodko

We have moved into an area of long-term partnership. French entrepreneurs appreciate the legislative measures undertaken by the Russian government.

Moises Camacho

What the park gives us is a place to relax, a place to relieve stress and, at the same time, to appreciate nature. In the urban center, all you see is concrete.

Vonnie Holliday

When everybody's coming off the field and one guy's coming on the field, it's kind of weird. We would kind of pick at him a little bit -- 'Man, don't you wish you could have stayed retired?' But he comes back in and he's washed down in sweat and he's tired because he's gone out and he's worked hard. As one of his peers, I certainly can appreciate that.

Anabella Hedman

We want people to do something to contact their government representatives and let them know that you're concerned that so many people are dying per day, and that you would appreciate it if they supported the Millennium Development Plan.

Agnes Repplier

There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.

Alan Titchmarsh

I've covered a lot of the British countryside and the UK from top to bottom and side to side. It's such a pity more people don't appreciate what's on their doorstep.

Alan Shearer

I'm lucky and I appreciate that. I love every minute of every day.

Mark Prince

We have people who not only appreciate coffee as a culinary experience, but want to really push the boundaries of what coffee is capable of.

Michael Stern

The fact is these great places are endangered. But they're not extinct. I think over the years, one of the things that we have seen is that we Americans have come to appreciate that kind of food as part of who we are in a way that we never did before.

Agnes Smedley

To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.

Agnes Martin

What I say is that we're capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.

Charlie Chaplin

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Charlie Chaplin

Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.

Charles Dudley Warner

There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as those that circumstances rudely hindered the development of.

Charles Caleb Colton

That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.

Toba Beta

When I feel the beauty in words, I am sensing the logic of heart.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I watched Muhammad Ali, how when he would speak, how it was such a thing of beauty. It sounded so wonderful. And I wanted to be like him.

Theodore Bikel

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.

Karen Johnson

We want everyone to come out and take part, because it's going to be a very exciting event, one in which families can participate together.

Rick Hartzell

There are a lot of exciting pieces to this game. I think it will be great fun.

Erin Horn

We're just trying to get people to come out and watch and Florida State will be an exciting game.

Byron Katie

When you discover that all happiness is inside you, the wanting and needing are over, and life gets very exciting.

Dita Von Teese

I really enjoy watching people like Madonna, or Cher, or Barbra Streisand on the red carpet. I want to see people wearing exciting things that are different and to know that they're not just looking for the latest, most normal thing.

John Updike

I must say, when I reread myself, it's the poetry I tend to look at. It's the most exciting to write, and it's over the quickest.

Michael Boulware

The possibility to play this game is very exciting and very motivating. The play I got hurt on, I played a little tentative, and I think it made me realize that if you played tentative you're going to get hurt.

Lexi Thompson

I love my sponsors. They make things so much fun for me. We do really fun and exciting things, so I always have a blast. It doesn't ever seem like work.

Noel Fisher

I'm just looking for good work. I just really love acting, and I'd like to jump on something that's really exciting for me.

Michael Behe

When you start putting constraints on science, science suffers.

Kourtney Kardashian

Nothing comes before my children. I find that putting everything else in order of importance also helps to get everything done.

Patterson Hood

We were supposed to be taking it slowly this fall, with putting together the album,

Brian Donahue

We're putting together a top-notch team of professionals.

Steve Davis

We're putting things in place this season to get us there.

Brian Dixon

We've stopped putting water on them and there is no smoking.

Steve Lemke

Now we're taking what we had and putting it on steroids,

Joe Humasti

From tee to green, we're great. But our putting killed us. We really have to do a lot of work on our short game.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgment.

C. S. Lewis

Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful.

Bram Stoker

How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.

David Quammen

Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.

Cesare Pavese

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

Eric Maskin

Through meteorology, we know essentially how hurricanes form, even though we can't say where the next storm will arise.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.

Louis MacNeice

I do not envy any animal, though I envy many of their capacities.

Chinua Achebe

When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

Chinua Achebe

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!