Famous Quotes & Sayings

What you're finding in the automotive business is the products you design today affect your profitability three to four years down the road. What we are seeing today is some pretty good changes at General Motors, but nothing like that at Ford, and I think Ford is really going to be in dire straits in five to 10 years from now.

J. Taylor

What you're doing is compartmentalizing so it doesn't affect everybody.

What we want to do is negotiate with citizens, pay them fair market value and do the right thing. But on the other hand, we have to move quickly, because this particular project, while it'll affect individuals pieces of land, it's much bigger than individuals, it's part of the public good.

David Stern

Have you been around South Beach? Most of the people I see with chains are elderly Jewish gentlemen. I don't know what he's talking about. There's no rule we have that doesn't affect several hundred young African-American men. You can't play the race card here without having it flipped back at you.

Dick Durbin

Having the strategic petroleum reserve, sadly, puts crude oil in the hands of refineries that can't refine it quickly enough to affect the market, ... With this gasoline and jet-fuel reserve, we can have an immediate impact on the market.

Hawkeye will definitely be affected for the next game as we have to get replacements from England.

Having an arena and a hockey team will have an affect on the entire economy of the region. Another thing that has to be recognized is how much the Penguins support high school hockey.

Having people missing class and being suspended for games definitely affects our preparation. I don't think it's going to be hard to turn it around. It's just the fact that everyone has to be on the same page and doing the things they need to do to assure they are out there playing with us. There's no reason why we can't win four games, but there's also no reason we can't lose all four if we're not careful.

Johnny Thunders

Heroin doesn't affect my musical life at all.

David Mitchell

Here you have three levels of government working together on an issue that the community, or the group most affected by that issue, . . . is left out. We have the expertise within our community.

Gold prices are rising against almost every major currency, ... So the run up in gold prices here has not affected the dollar to the benefit of other currencies.

Go find somebody who's life hasn't been affected by a drunk driver. It pretty much touches everyone.

God only knows the player with the most determination and fight is Katie, and seeing her go down early because she can't move is tough on everybody. It really affects (the team).

Kevin Towers

(Good defense) affects you in a lot of ways. It prevents your pitcher from throwing too many pitches in one inning. It gives your bullpen a rest because your starter may be able to go a little deeper into games. Cameron is going to save games with his glove.

Mark Zandi

He said housing has turned increasingly speculative, and a correction in the market is coming, ... But he also said that the correction won't affect the great bulk of homeowners.

Trot Nixon

He's just easygoing. He doesn't let things affect him. I think he's done everything the organization's asked of him.

Rick Carlisle

He's here to play, he's here to win, ... His moods are much more affected by winning and losing than anything else. I love having guys like that.

His other knee could also be affected and surgery is definitely an option.

I think it's going to affect all the small business in the local area; those big companies like that, that's kind of what they do.

I think it's good for us to get an idea what '06 might look like. If we don't play these guys this year, then we don't know and we have question marks that affect all the offseason plans.

I think it's already affecting his play. He's hitting a bigger ball, he's taking the ball earlier, he's attacking more. We worked out individually today for about an hour, he and I, and I see a difference in the balls he's hitting.

It could also affect her when she gets back home.

It could affect our setup, but not so much the football setup as the whole school, and the way kids go to school. You want to put kids in successful positions, but I really don't have the answers for that. Time will tell.

It could affect it bad, if the dust gets blowing or the concrete gets blowing.

It could mean a substantial reduction of global trade. That could lead to new energy shortages and affect a wide variety of imports and exports, particularly manufactured goods from the Pacific Basin.

It could mean a substantial reduction of global trade, ... That could lead to new energy shortages and affect a wide variety of imports and exports, particularly manufactured goods from the Pacific Basin.

It could have cost us our contract. It affected our relationship with the schools, for one thing.

It clearly affected his performance in Athens and we just wanted to make sure he has the best chance to come here and box the best he could.

It certainly set the tone for the second half. I surely don't want to say that was the only play that affected the outcome of the game, but we've got to be able to get off the field on third and long.

It certainly rippled through and affected a lot of companies.

It (consumer sentiment) was a little higher than expected, but the stock market has come back, gasoline prices have come down, and the weather has been beautiful and that has to affect consumers somewhat.

I thought we started out with good intensity. We got great shots and they just didn't go down. Then that affected us defensively.

Dom Capers

I thought we ran the ball well and our first- and second-down passing was much improved. It seems like you have something you have to go to work on every week. That is just kind of where we are right now. Our third down was affected by our pass protection. We are trying to look at a couple different combinations to hopefully help us move forward in that area.