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.

George Domenech

Many of the skippers said it was more like sailing in a real regatta. Rarely do you get to use all three sails, but we did this time. The wind created havoc as all boats came to the line for the starting gun.

Paul Taylor

One of the stranded mariners even told the sailors that other boats had passed by without stopping to help.

Britani Dunbar

My Dad used to draw boats all the time and I've found his drawings in my grandparents' attic. I found one picture he drew of hockey players.

Chip Foose

My dad used to design cars, boats and vans, ... I would sit next to him from the time I was 3 and copy what he was doing. I continued doing that until eventually it was easier for him to tell me to draw it than have him draw it.

Mark Helvey

We won't have enough observers for all the boats to fish at the same time.

Alan Johnson

When the tides come in, all boats rise. Thousands make $1 million or more, and then there are lots of people who get $10,000. Everyone gets something, but it is by no means equitable.

Henry James

On moonless nights, they would hide with lanterns to get boats to ram into barges so they could steal from the ships.

Claude LeMere

Because of the size of muskie, from 36 to 45 inches, carrying them in the live wells of boats would result in death for the fish.

Bobby Carter

I hate that we ended up with 71 boats, but we did the right thing. I can understand why a lot of guys didn't want to go. We've got a lot of custom-built boats that cost several million dollars (and fishermen) who just didn't want to risk it in 11- to 14-foot seas forecast for later in the weekend.

John Cornyn

means we're in for a roller coaster ride.

James Vincent McMorrow

My first record was made in Termonfeckin, which is a small town on the north-east coast of Ireland. I had been in London, but it didn't click. So, at home, I didn't think about making something, just whether something could be made. There was no grand plan.

John Williams

Obviously we're not a coastal city, but we felt (the fair) could be a nice service to the community. We saw that people on the Gulf Coast were not prepared.

Henry Louis Gates

No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco was a black city in the 1870s. And the Veracruz Coast on the gulf of Mexico and the Costa Chica, south of Acapulco are traditional black lands.

Mike Stamper

Now we have more than 400 teams competing and can draw upwards of 20,000 people into the area. With teams coming from eight states on the East Coast we're one of the largest national competitions.

Rusty Wallace

I feel like I'm going on my first roller coaster ride.

Aaron Gelobter

I can't speak for what's going on at the Coast yet, because I'm not there yet, but I do know that from what I do know the same kind of trend is happening, and the country needs to be united at this time. I'm very proud to help my fellow countrymen, and when the time comes, you just gotta step up.

Kyra Sedgwick

We do spend time talking about it and we puzzle through it together. We ride the roller coasters together - the high highs and the low lows.

Vera Wang

New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.

Alexandra Paul

We say the United States is a rich country, but how can we be rich when millions of poor American children go to bed hungry?

Alexandra Paul

The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country.

Alexandra Fuller

How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it, if you have to.

Robert MacNeil

But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally and every other way. And the country had invested enormously in me.

Robert Klein

I have what we call a 'symphony act.' I'm the only comedian, I think, in the country that does it.

Malcolm McDowell

I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.

Tony Blair

Let no one be in doubt that the rules of the game are changing, ... If you come to our country from abroad, don't meddle in extremism.

Mark Gottfried

LSU is one of the better teams in the country. Their front line is tremendous.

John Ashcroft

making it the country with the fourth highest rate of legal immigrants.

Dave Zagorac

Lighting shines on all the hatches. The Police Department drives by all the time.

Tessa Hafen

Senator Reid's office has not been contacted by the Justice Department at all.

John Searles

My first day as an intern in the books department at 'Cosmopolitan' also happened to be the day the O.J. Simpson verdict was announced.

Ranjit Singh

No one seems to know for sure how much is raised and how the money is used. Not the IRB, not the ROS neither any government department nor agency.

Rick Kaufman

On Feb. 2, Mr. Bates was called into the (Lakewood) police department and confessed to the incident.

Eric Dietz

My department supports this but we support it for specific public safety reasons because we felt it will enhance and improve public safety.

Marc Lumpkin

Now that this letter has been sent to us, we will investigate (the allegations). Our legal department will get involved and investigate it.

Arthur Levin

Now the Health Department needs to publicize its existence wherever it can. Otherwise you have a hotline nobody knows about.

Terry J. Lundgren

I had 13 job offers out of college. I went to Bullock's department store and had a fantastic interview, but was skeptical. I knew retail didn't pay much.

Zhang Yimou

Love that can be explained is not love.

Debbie Roth

My daughter's pretty upset about the moving. It's hard to explain it to a 7-year-old.

Hicham Guerrouj

My father told me it was not a job, that I wouldn't make a living at tennis, ... The toughest part was trying to explain to him that I could be the first one from Morocco to do it. But he didn't want me to play. We didn't talk for a year. That was when I knew I couldn't fail. I had to show him it was the right decision. It was a great motivation.

D. James

I can't explain what happened. I really don't know what to say.

Grant Laman

I can't explain the misses. That never happens. But something was on our side and we pulled it out.

Steve Ford

I can't explain that. I'm not disappointed. I'm really just a little embarrassed.

Lewis Carroll

I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, because I'm not myself, you see

Yelena Isinbayeva

I can't explain my feelings, I love the run-up and the stadium here.

Chuck Davis

I can't explain it. We've been through a lot together. I'm just proud of those guys.

Jim Stewart

Mentally, you just have to stay focused. The minute you let your guard down, you give up five, six runs.

Gina Jones

Now that the truth is out, I want justice. I want the guards and nurse to be arrested.

Mark Sulser

From guard to guard they're 260 each. It's going to be a tough game.

Doc Rivers

I would play him right away. 'There you go. Guard somebody.' And he can do that. I'm sure he'll play. I'd be surprised if he didn't.

Ed DeChellis

If we get those two guys going, we've just got to get some guard production.

Jake Palluzzi

(Barnes) needs to understand how to get open and our guards have to get him the ball, too. It was two-fold.

David Jacobson

She was there to save us. These people in uniform are there to guard us.

Alana Beard

She's our missing piece. We didn't have a point guard we could rely on. She can rock anybody.

Adam Barrett

She's one of the top point guards in the state.

James Frecheville

Luckily, I haven't been offered any $300 million movies that I hate. So I'm not in that predicament just yet.

F. Stone

Let's just say it would be in the millions of dollars,

Mike Burkett

So many millions of people don't feel like their vote has any meaning. There is no reason why younger people can't be a unified force.

Susan Ertz

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

William Stafford

One way to find your place is likethe rain, a million requestsfor lodging, one that wins, findsyour cheek: you find your home.

Kevin Wilson

Money's not everything - the volunteering professionals to get this thing done is worth more than anything ... that's worth a million dollars,

James Williams

No one thought - not a single person - that it would be this severe, this tragic. No one thought the levees would break. Not in a million years.

Erin Dawson

Never in a million years would I have thought that I would be where I am.

Andrew Bogut

I guess if you're a normal person and all of a sudden you're getting $10 million a year, it can go to your head.

Craig Benson

I don't think anyone's pushing for spending limits in the campaign.

Jack Morgan

If they end up spending 4 or 5 weeks there, it won't surprise me.

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

Leon Wieseltier

I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.

Dan Cooper

We'll look at the spending cap. We have to look at the legislation that was passed.

Alan Watts

What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

Al Sharpton

I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.

Jason Chaffetz

Federal spending is atrocious.

Bobby Scott

If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.

Natalie Coughlin

Ties are pretty rare. I don't think I've ever tied anybody.

Theresa Hamilton

We really want to make this an entire-valley event. We all know someone. We're all tied together. This valley is very interconnected.

Forel Davies

Another title, but we'll probably be tied with Vista, so it's not so great. That tarnishes it a little for me.

Matt Brown

I kind of tied the two together (music and art).

Dennis Potter

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

Dee Dee Myers

My job is to be a spokesman - the spokesman, I suppose - for the President, for the White House, to do the daily briefings, to manage the press corps in terms of travel, day-to-day needs, access, interviews, all those issues.

Earl Nightingale

When the days are too short, chances are you are living at your best.

Elizabeth Drew

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.

Elizabeth Bowen

Knowledge of Rome must be physical, sweated into the system, worked up into the brain through the thinning shoe-leather. ... When it comes to knowing, the senses are more honest than the intelligence. Nothing is more real than the first wall you lean up against sobbing with exhaustion. Rome no more than beheld (that is, taken in through the eyes only) could still be a masterpiece in cardboard - the eye I suppose being of all the organs the most easily infatuated and then jaded and so tricked. Seeing is pleasure, but not knowledge.

Elizabeth Bowen

Someone soon to start on a journey is always a little holy.

Elinor Glyn

I don't know how it is the most unattractive creatures of every nation seem to be the ones who travel.

Jules Verne

Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same!

Joss Stone

Basically, I was a freak show. This kid with this big old voice. I was a travelling freak.