Famous Quotes & Sayings

Simon Cowell

I can't admit things; that's why I can't go to funerals and stuff like that. I find it very, very difficult to deal with that kind of reality. I shut myself off totally because it affects me so badly.

Sam Harris

We should reserve the notion of 'morality' for the ways in which we can affect one another's experience for better or worse. Some people use the term 'morality' differently, of course, but I think we have a scientific responsibility to focus the conversation so as to make it most useful.

As an agent, I functioned like a guy. But the fact that I was a woman affected everything.

Seth Berkley

When AIDS first appeared, people didn't know what it was. You'll remember that it affected mostly young gay men - it was actually called GRID for a short period of time: Gay-Related Immunodeficiency Syndrome - and people thought it actually might be recreational drugs or other types of toxins.

Scott Weiss

Developing a good, healthy culture is extremely important at a startup. Culture reflects the essence of a startup's operation because it directly affects the success of a company's hiring practices and overall strategy.

Tyler Oakley

All the money that's donated to the Trevor Project provides resources that directly affect the youth that actually watch my videos. It's a cool thing to see them basically provide resources for each other.

Tony Fernandes

I'm not cynical or bitter in any way. Life's too short; you get ripped off, but if you hold a grudge, it's going to affect you. You take it on the chin, you learn, you try not to make the same mistakes.

Stephen Covey

When the external factors over which one has no control in a way start to become negative, it starts to affect our creative juices.

Stephen Covey

You're not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

Virginia Postrel

In mid-July 2007, after a routine mammogram, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. As cancer diagnoses go, mine wasn't particularly scary. The affected area was small, and the surgeon seemed to think that a lumpectomy followed by radiation would eradicate the cancerous tissue.

I thought their zone affected us. It kept us from getting the ball inside the way we're capable of getting it.

I thought they did OK. I thought they missed some calls, but they missed calls both ways. I don't think it affected the outcome of the game.

Steven Gerrard

I think we know the manager really well now, we've worked with him for a long time. We know he's desperate to win this World Cup and I don't think the relationship with the players has been affected by what's happened recently.

I think we kind of hung our heads after we missed a couple of shots early on. It affected us on both ends of the court.

I think that our size affected them. When they wanted to run their offense, we put a lot of pressure on the ball.

I think we've had a lot of distractions and I have no doubt in my mind that has affected our performance,

Martin Frost

I think what's happened is everybody's kind of gotten beyond all this business with the president, and now they're focusing on issues that directly affect their lives: education, health care, the future of Social Security.

I think what we've shown are that contrails are capable of affecting temperatures. Which direction, in terms of net heating or cooling, is still up in the air.

I think that consumers' psyches are in remarkably good shape, particularly having come off a year where we had natural disasters that filtered through to affect virtually every household.

Ken Scott

I think by and large, people understand that bird flu is an ailment that affects poultry, and it is almost impossible for humans to get it. You've got to be in direct contact with bird feces and feathers and so on, and in a farming and wet-market situation, and that doesn't apply to 99.9 percent of tourists.

I think both teams were a little bit tired and that affected us.

Michael Gregory

I think a lot of people's perceptions are still affected by the bubble years. If you take away that four-year period when the unemployment rate was lower, you have to go back some 32 years to find an unemployment rate lower than it is right now.

I think a lot of it had to do with pressure. A lot of those girls are under severe pressure from their coaches and their family and their supporters, and when it comes to the Olympics, a lot of people just get nervous and it just affects them.

I think anyone in the House who voted yes or no has the same goal: to make sure the people affected by the storm have all the available help necessary,

Bonnie Langford

I'd never gone as a kid to an ice rink. There was always that fear that I'd break my leg and it would affect my career.

will.i.am

Everything affects hip-hop. The question is, how does it affect the money that corporations are going to invest to put out different kinds of hip-hop?

Andy Garcia

I love to cook, and my wife loves to cook. Sometimes it's the appeal of the simplest of dishes - things you've grown up with in your life. Your emotional memory - something that not only affects your taste buds but that you've got an emotional attachment to.

Arnold Palmer

When you lose the ability to step up and hit the ball as hard and as far as you want, that also affects your ability to will the ball to go where you want it to go, if you know what I mean.

Mike White

There are over 1200 students from counties that were affected by Katrina at MSU,

We still cry, the kids still cry. It still affects us all no matter how longs it's been.

We are contributing to this as energy consumers, so residents should know about it. It affects them.

This sale will not affect the management or business operations of the Times company or the family's continuing commitment to the company,

William Hazlitt

We affect to laugh at the folly of those who put faith in nostrums, but are willing to try ourselves whether there is any truth in them.