Famous Quotes & Sayings

The acceleration of the past several months has been quite stunning, so it's not surprising to get a bit of a pause. After an unusually warm December, January was unusually cold and snowy. That may have affected production.

The affected states and the surrounding ones apparently made extraordinary efforts to get claims filed.

The American people saw unforgettably how federal, state, and local governments failed the people of New Orleans just three weeks ago. What the American people don't realize is how they've all been short-changed for the past three years. Minorities are much more affected by kidney failure than whites. There's a dialysis boom on Indian reservations.

The anti-war movement was started by people who were directly affected by the draft and by American over-involvement overseas.

Michael Cooper

Theater mirrors society, and this play reflects our society and our community. The cast and I have been profoundly affected during our time working with this material,

That was the easy one. We're taking these as they come. We have as good an understanding of how to deal with these as anyone because we've had so much practice. We're a small part of this story. There are millions of people affected by these hurricanes.

Bob Edwards

That was just thugs sitting there, not elected officials, ... somebody who affected everybody's life, not just the lives of other criminals.

I was proud of my athletes in that I still think they competed very well. And that's the most important thing. The weather certainly affected times and distances, particularly in running events, but a lot of athletes placed high and did well.

I wasn't myself this week, the game plan wasn't clear for me. It's over with now but I just feel what happened to me has affected this team, and that breaks my heart.

We haven't done all that we can do to help affected countries attack the virus in birds.

Zeljko Ivanek

Movie stars are doing TV series, and former TV stars are doing guest shots. Everybody gets bumped down the line. That's affected everyone in the industry. I've been lucky; I've stayed busy. I'll cross my fingers until it's my turn to be sitting around, not working. I'm sure that'll happen, too.

Victor LaValle

What's beautiful about Godzilla is, of course, it's in every way a symbol of Japan dealing with the aftermath of the atomic bombs being dropped on them, and their ideas of how they're affected by it.

Jim McCrery

those businesses, we hope, will be employing and paying residents of the affected area." ()

Weakness in overseas and regional markets affected trading, dragging down blue chips and H shares early.

Samuel Bodman

We are committed to doing everything in our power to meet the immediate needs of those directly affected by Hurricane Katrina. By utilizing the resources of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, we will help minimize any potential supply disruptions as a result of the hurricane,

Ann Veneman

We know that children under 18 are about half of the population in the affected areas. And therefore we think that about half of the victims, either injured or the dead, have been children.

We know people are affected by the prices they are paying at the pump, and they are concerned about our dependence on foreign oil. We thought this was a good opportunity to make sure people know about the choices they already have.

We'll never know how effective it was. ... Sununu won by a bigger margin than anyone expected. But that's not the point. It was wrong. ... We have 400 (state) legislative races. The intent may have been to influence one election, but it may have affected hundreds of races.

Those members have to represent their districts. They have to speak for their constituents that were so affected by this. As leader, she is trying to give them the strongest voice possible.

Those who are not in those areas will know that they're not going to be affected by the arena. Some of the property owners that are in those areas may yet still be unaffected, but we won't know until we do more study.

We were just so stunned at how this affected our relationship, and so much at a loss for finding resources to help us. We had made this promise to each other that if we got through this we were going to tell our story because we were so hungry to hear other people's survivor stories.

While we still haven't seen the full effect of gasoline prices, (consumers) know what's going on here, and that's probably affected some of their purchases.

Jim Crace

While we're having all these debates about how the book is being destroyed by the Kindle, we have to remember that narrative will not be affected at all because it's part of our makeup as a creature on this planet.

We continue to have people looking who are coming with BRAC. Some civilians affected by BRAC have already begun to move here.

We continued to see solid double-digit sales growth from the vast majority of our businesses in the third quarter, ... This has enabled us to offset the decline in business units affected by Asia.

We were missing a few that affected our lineup. We were focused on meeting our individual goals. The girls really competed. It's always good for the girls to to see what's out there, where they are trying to get to. We generally see a ton of improvement over the course of the season.

Tommy Haas

When I was able to come back after being down 40-15, I think that affected him mentally, ... I was able to step it up from there.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

When I think about growing up, I feel most affected by two travels that I made working in cargo boats when I was 16 and 18. One of them crossed through the Mississippi and Baton Rouge and Mobile, Alabama, and another went all the way to Europe.

George Moore

We do want to see international and American investment in Zaire, but right now, investment is going to be affected by the fact that there is a civil war.

We couldn't find a balance point during this game. It affected us a lot that we did not have time to train before this match and now we have to work hard for the future. This team is going to represent the United States well in the World Cup and today proved it is going in the right direction.

Jim Moran

We hope that this donation eases at least some of the deep suffering of all those affected by Hurricane Katrina, ... There are so many people who are hurting and in need. It's important that all of us do whatever we can to help.

Our 1 percent growth in Europe is affected by currency. In the quarter, the effect of the euro took about 9 percentage points of growth. That's still good growth. I'd love to see North American sales be higher than that. Our focus is to grow the top line, but profitably.

Billy Donovan

Right now so much changes, there are so many games going on, and different things happen during the course of the year. So much of your RPI is affected on the teams that you play, how they do against somebody else, how all those things happen.