Famous Quotes & Sayings

The purpose of entertainment is to get away from the mundane daily grind that affects all of us. We get our release and our escape from being entertained. I think it makes people feel a lot better.

The people who are most affected by the hurricane won't be the means test candidates anyway because they will earn way below the median income. They only have the clothes on their backs.

We talked about putting the ball in play and battling against Cedric. Early in the game, we hit the ball hard but they made great defensive plays, and the wind blowing in might have affected a couple of balls we hit well.

We try to install the new valves on the weekends because that's usually when Sailors are either traveling or ... less likely to be affected by the steam outage.

We've been very affected by this defeat, we've been a bit depressed but now we must win the league and the Cup.

Larry Davis

We've been trying to treat him in between his starts and get him out there so he can pitch, and with limited success. It affects his throwing because you need to use your front side in order to help your arm come through. And we just can't get it loose enough to where that can happen normally.

We took that as a sign that the rebound in the economy is affecting charities in a positive way.

We took a really tough draw. But they all came here to do battle. They didn't let the draw affect them at all.

We're not where we want to be, but we have more games to play. These are games we should have won. But if we keep dwelling on it it's going to affect us the next game.

Frank Bruno

When he went off the rails, I know that definitely, definitely affected him mentally,

Just like the Internet has transformed the media industry or the e-commerce industry, the software industry is also being affected dramatically by the Internet.

Katie Leung

'Wild Swans' showed me there are Chinese traditions that still affect my life. For example, it's not that women are inferior, exactly, but my dad and my brother are the most important men in my life and I would do anything for them. I feel like I should be the one cooking and looking after them.

Joe Paterno

Here, I have an opportunity to affect the lives of a lot of young people - and not just on my football team. I'm not kidding myself that that would be true at the professional level.

John F. Kerry

Young people have so much more power than they tend to think to be able to affect politics. And if people will organize and get involved and go out and knock on doors and hand out leaflets and make a change, then they can determine the future.

John Eldredge

Just like sunshine affects others, when the life of Jesus invades your life, you become a loving person. The effect on others is amazing.

When you're an engineering student, you have a lot of stress in your life. For someone to live this way, with a condition that affects their life, for them to be committed to something and want to live life to the fullest, it really puts things in perspective.

John Oates

When you really can't affect something, you almost don't wanna wish too hard, because it's just frustrating.

When I was a teenager, I used to love the Bronte books, 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Jane Eyre.' In those books, the women do usually manage to heal the men, but in life, I've found it's often the woman gets wounded. Instead of healing a man, she gets affected by his cruelty.

We had chances all night long. We made a couple of mistakes that affected the outcome of the game, but that's baseball. And that's baseball against the Palm Beach Cardinals.

Tom Verducci

When the guy with the most talent on your team plays with no heart, I think that affects other people on the team.

Octavio Paz

When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.

When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.

Most historians and other writers of what we now consider 'primary sources' simply didn't think about women and their contribution to society. They took it for granted, except when that contribution or its lack directly affected men.

Issues to do with disability, mental health and not being neurotypical often affect many genuine teenagers but are rarely reflected in the fiction they read.

Tao Lin

I don't think music affects what words I choose to type in what order, within what punctuation, at this point, because I'm rereading and editing each sentence, at this point, in my published books, probably 100-150 times each, on average, and listening to probably 20-60 different songs in that time.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost.

Mr. Jackson is continuing to reach out to artists who would like to work with him on this project, which he humbly hopes will make a tremendous difference to all individuals who have been affected by this tragedy,

Mould (on plants) can irritate asthma, increase upper respiratory problems, cause headaches and affect concentration,

Mr. Doolittle is not concerned about the media's irresponsible speculation affecting his leadership position.

Maybe when you lose the best player in the world it does affect you. I was a little surprised at the way they played after that.

Mentally, it's obviously affected us. But we're going to try to work harder and try to play for her this season.

Jim DeMint

Meeting with tomorrow's leaders of Iraq was both an honor and an incredible experience, ... These are the guys that will be leading and making the decisions that will affect the future success of an Iraqi democracy.

My knee has been bothering me a little bit but not enough to affect me. It's just one of the many things that's not going well for me right now.