Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Crawford

Regarding the lack of atmosphere a Premiership grounds, it is staggering that this comes as a surprise to anyone. What do you expect when a ticket costs an average seven minimum wage working hours, or one day's work? When only lawyers and bank managers can reasonably afford to attend matches do not expect the camaraderie of the working man's club in the stands

Jerry Flanagan

Recent mergers have given the industry a strangle hold over the health insurance market. With fewer pressures for efficiency and no government oversight of rates, insurers have been given free rein to spend more of our health care dollars on overhead, profit, and administration. The last decade of HMO mergers has taught us that when fewer HMOs dominate the health care market, quality goes down, premiums go up, and patients get short changed. Already, 45 million Americans are uninsured because they cannot afford to pay the insurers' ransom.

Mark Cunningham

Reliable, efficiently delivered crude oil supplies are needed by area refineries to maintain affordable gasoline prices for the residents of Utah.

Tina Fey

President Bush unveiled his new economic stimulus plan this week. It was reported that if the plan passes the president himself would save $44,000 in taxes, Dick Cheney would save $327,000, and you could afford to take the whole family down to Burger King to pick up job applications.

Tracey Schmitt

President Bush believes that the promise of Social Security fulfilled over the last 70 years ought to be a promise we keep for future generations. Scoring political points by shirking responsibility for tomorrow's seniors is not a birthday party Americans can afford to attend.

Diane Terry

Our parents cannot afford the resources wealthy parents have such as books, magazine and newspaper subscriptions, computers or educational games.

Nicolas Retsinas

Our own sense is that a lot of this (trend) is driven mostly by economics. In certain markets where affordable housing is scarce this is much more common.

John Leonard

Parrish has all this nice stuff. Of course, they can afford newer stuff if they don't have to pay $70,000 for a new chief.

Joan Miles

Parents who think that affordable health coverage for their kids is an impossible dream should explore CHIP as a solution.

Richard Midgley

Regardless of whether we won or lost last Saturday, there would've been a lot of pressure going into this week.

Jackie Williams

Recovery is a miracle. It lasts for a life time.

Sam Burns

Recessions usually last about a year. That would place the end around March or April.

John Buchanan

Our record over the last while has been pretty well exemplary, with just the odd incident.

Samuel Johnson

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Roger Short

Part of the time we do go around in pairs, but these pairs don't last a lifetime.

Jay Bly

Our line play versus the run is going to be a key. We're going to have to play disciplined on defense. No matter what offense someone plays, if you get whipped up front, you're not going to win. We saw that when we looked at last year's tape, but we've made some adjustments.

Lee Salem

Our only regret is that it didn't last longer. That was Bill's decision.

Patrick Stewart

Our last words were, 'Be safe. I love you,' ... He said, 'I will.'

M. Wolfe

I still think we could be better, though. We showed signs in the first inning of being very good. We let up after that.

Peter Scobie

There are tentative signs things are slowing. It's not a foregone conclusion.

Rosette Lerias

There are no signs of life, no rooftops, no nothing.

Kevin Earley

Now there are no street signs and no landmarks. It was really tough trying to navigate.

Franz Kafka

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Saul Williams

The MC has to be just that, a master in control. They can show no signs of weakness.

Bill Engvall

I hate stupid people. They should have to wear signs that just say, 'I'm stupid.'

Jon Alterman

There hasn't been a 'peace process' for some time, and I don't see any signs there's going to be one resuming.

Olivier Gasnier

There are really no encouraging signs in this survey.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.

B. F. Skinner

A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.

Billy Corgan

I was part of a generation that changed the world, and it was taken over by posers.

Big Pun

When you awaken, your manhood will be taken.

C. S. Lewis

Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least importance had taken place?

C. S. Lewis

Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.

Cecelia Ahern

She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.

Cecelia Ahern

Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn’t care about so that I couldn’t lose anything I really loved ever again.

Carrie Brownstein

I think one of the reasons I haven't been doing music is because I think that some of my performance, like, needs are being taken care of in other mediums.