Famous Quotes & Sayings

Uncle Brett had a definite vision that he was after, I don't think having a famous father affected him much.

Uncertainty over Congress alliances is affecting the market. If it is not resolved -- if the president stays without allies there -- the market reaction may be quite strong.

John Donne

Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name; So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us oft, and worshipped be

Twenty degrees is perfect for us. When it gets into the high 20s and the sun is out, it starts to affect the ice.

Together with Brown University, we will create new ways of combining the pen and the computer to positively affect not only the educational process, but our working methods and our culture.

You have to know the importance of this operation with three cabinet members coming to the site. If this site is that critical, then I suggest they provide the money to make sure the power supplies to the two pipelines will not be affected by the next hurricane.

You have a lot of home construction that will be affected by that. How much remains to be seen.

You can hear this gasp coming from the community at large, just a sense of disbelief. I think it's a wake-up call...that domestic violence affects every community that we know. There just isn't some magic way that some community is somehow immune.

Florentino Perez

With his appointment we have found a rapid solution to a situation that should not affect the aims of Real Madrid, because the institution is always the most important thing.

With small schools and declining enrollment, two or three kids can dramatically affect test scores. We tested 75 fewer students district wide than last year.

Mick Foley

With respect to our audience and our concern over inappropriate material for our WWF viewers, we do, however, ask Mr. Gore to keep his public displays of affection to a minimum.

John Dryden

With ravished ears / The monarch hears, / Assumes the god, / Affects to nod, / And seems to shake the spheres.

This year, most of the strong growth will be in the first half of the year and then it will taper off. Higher interest rates will start to kick in. That will affect companies' (ability to) borrow, it will affect the housing market and all the various industries that are related to that.

This year, Intel is being affected by an ever-aggressive AMD, a roadmap that continues to have glitches and, most importantly, a slowdown in the PC food chain that has started to show signs of exhaustion after 14 months of robust growth.

When I was their age, I never got tired. Their bodies are used to it, and it doesn't seem to affect them. Two games in two days is tough, but these guys will be ready to go.

We've really begun to look at the base of coaches and tried to broaden that. Coaches are going to go back and affect 20 or 30 boys and girls a year.

Al Sharpton

What happens in New Orleans will affect voting rights all over the United States.

What goes 'round, comes 'round, ... We have a real opportunity with DB289 and other drug candidates in the pipeline to help solve some very difficult health problems affecting millions of people in developing countries.

What could be a single relatively minor problem for one train can wind up affecting the entire morning service for all the trains behind it, because there's no way to work around it.

We sincerely apologize to those guests whose vacations have been impacted by these voyage cancellations, ... This inconvenience ... will provide desperately needed housing for thousands of individuals affected by this tragedy.

We tried to get as much input from the public to make this decision as we could. Which I felt like its gonna be something that's gonna affect everyone, its gonna affect everyone in the future.

We just lost to two great teams ... but I think people are looking at our record thinking we're on a downslide. Because Maryland is such a great team, I don't think it should affect our seeding.

We just want the kids to play as hard as they can. It doesn't matter if we're playing the New York Yankees or the Bad News Bears. We can't let the opponent affect the way we play. Anybody who comes in here is going to want to beat us.

We weren't getting some calls, and I think that bothered us in the first half. But we didn't let that type of stuff affect us in the second half.

There's no question that Maria will bring much needed attention to the major health problems affecting Hispanic families. Our research indicated that she was the ideal personality to make health and wellness front burner issues in America's Hispanic community.

Chris Hunter

There's no question that low salaries are affecting us. We manage to get some good people despite the salary levels because of our location, but that's not always the case.

There's no question that it will hurt him and it will hurt him significantly. He's still getting the solid support from his base. The question now is whether his performance with the hurricane begins to affect his performance with his base.

Steve Lyons

There's no question that demand for traditional sport utility vehicles has been affected by rising gas prices,

There's no question that affected us. I think we had some really good looks. We had some clean looks; we just weren't able to knock them down.

Bill Belichick

There's no situation I've been in, before or since, that even would remotely approach that one for negativity and affecting the overall focus of the team. Not within 100 miles. It touched every single person in the building, every secretary, every ball boy. I felt badly for everyone involved.

There's no single factor on the road that would affect execution.

There's no doubt that the planet's warming, but who knows how it's going to affect the coastal systems, ... It certainly was an odd year. If we could figure out what might have caused it, then maybe we could predict it in the future.

There's no agreement in the industry on this. It's shocking to me that a public official would craft and deliver legislation that directly affects an industry without engaging its leaders.