Famous Quotes & Sayings

We made some turnovers early in the game, and we never recovered. Their aggressive defense got to us, and it affected our offense.

It's an open secret: Even now, in the 21st century, Korean executives often consult spiritual advisers before making major business decisions - decisions that can affect their employees around the world.

Craig Venter

How we understand our own selves and how we work with our DNA software has implications that will affect everything from vaccine development to new approaches to antibiotics, new sources of food, new sources of chemicals, even potentially new sources of energy.

Hurricane Katrina had no significant effect on first-quarter results, although the storm inflicted some damage to our facilities in the U.S. Gulf Coast region. Meanwhile, our operations have resumed in most of the affected areas except for sections of New Orleans.

Hurricane Katrina affected all prices. They ( pass this price increase along to universities and homes, the consumer. In just electricity cost alone, we are paying $3,120,000.

Humans will continue to change ecosystems, cause extinctions, and affect the very future of evolution -- either by default or design. The default scenario will surely include ever more pests and weed-dominated landscapes and the extinction of most large vertebrates.

Annalee Newitz

Humans have continued to evolve quite a lot over the past ten thousand years, and certainly over 100 thousand. Sure, our biology affects our behavior. But it's unlikely that humans' early evolution is deeply relevant to contemporary psychological questions about dating or the willpower to complete a dissertation.

Kenneth Williams

Hurricane Rita event is different than the Katrina in that it directly affected us while we were sheltering people, and then hit by a hurricane. So, it presents a unique experience for us and problems for us to solve.

Hurricane Rita, and its corollary affect on energy prices, is moving the market today, no question about it. Uncertainty is poison for the market.

Noam Chomsky

Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.

He was in and out at Los Angeles which is going to affect your confidence with the team. He's realizing what he's capable of.

Andy Reid

He was in a little bit of pain and I don't know if that affected the decision to run or to not run. It didn't look like there was a lot of room to run in the first place. But that other part might have entered into it a little bit.

He was here in my office, and he was jolly and happy and talking about things affecting the county. In my service on the Board of Supervisors, I can say Donnie Lowe cared about people.

It is premature to offer any conjecture on how this would affect us.

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,

I think it was a distraction because a lot of people let it be one. If you're a professional and you take pride in your job, you shouldn't let that affect what you do on the field. But I think guys were drained to a point where every day you look on TV and see something going on as far as 81 and Donovan or 81 and the organization. People got tired of looking at it. People on other teams got tired of looking at it.

Gary Sheffield

I think it was needed because at this point in my career my body needs to heal. I wasn't giving it a chance to heal. I think that's why the injuries affected me late in the season. Now I get a chance to get in shape at spring training and start off fresh.

I think it was excellent this meeting. Poverty reduction is vital and with the poverty initiative that we will take part in, it affects 22 percent of people in the county. That's 30,000 people.

George Carey

I think it's quite incredible how the community pulled behind the victims and the others who were affected by the hurricanes. I've never seen anything like it, besides here in the United States. And we've spend the last 17 years or so living outside the U.S.

It goes to show that something that happened in September affects how things turn out now.