Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karl Hobbs

We had the ball inside and they took it from us. Pops had a couple of shots inside -- dunks he usually makes and he missed them. That really affected our shooting percentage. A large part of that had to do with their defense.

We will not be surprised if we see more people affected either in college context or as students spend time with their families or with their community friends. We will continue to see an extension of this outbreak into the community level.

Richard Gephardt

We will work to make the broken places right again. We will rebuild New York. We will work on a bipartisan package to strengthen the economy, ... will help unemployed workers in the airline, aerospace, tourist and other industries affected by the attack.

We are calling off any trial test runs scheduled at the end of the month until such time that we are fully assured of the safety, not only of the area affected by the collapse, but of the entire terminal.

Steve Williams

We got some key pieces of legislation passed that will help school districts affected by Katrina, ... We're happy with what was accomplished given the volume of issues taken up in that short period of time.

We are very deeply affected by the loss of one of our best students. Losing one of the most promising students is devastating.

B. B. King

We're very pleased to see both the shipping lines and the union recognize Alaska's unique dependence on shipping, ... Everything from the Sunday funnies to election pamphlets were affected by this lockout. There is no rail line and only one highway, and it would cost about twice as much and take considerably longer.

The last 22 years, it has affected me.

Their pressure really got to us. I didn't think we would have that much of a problem with it. We did not see the open person. The ball was going to the wrong person, and it really affected us.

The insurance industry's profitability and healthy surplus in the wake of record catastrophe losses through nine months may turn out to be good news for insurance buyers who have been bracing for possible rate increases. With the price of insurance being determined by the law of supply and demand, and supply being determined by profitability and capacity, countrywide results through nine months may mean that rate increases could be largely limited to those lines and states directly affected by this year's hurricanes.

The fed was very aggressive with cutting rates, and that affected rate-sensitive areas of the economy, such as housing and autos. That leaves us with a problem, which is a lack of pent-up demand in the recovery phase.

Frank Bruno

The CCVC is of tremendous value to all of us. There is so much going on. There are two major impacts: first is the quality of life and secondly is the economic impact. All parts of the county are affected and the results are quite good.

I'm not sure how much that affected us, being down. I think it might have put a little bit of fire in us coming out in the third quarter. People started realizing the season could be over if we didn't get something done.

I'm not going to say (ticket sales) won't be affected because, of course, they will. But the important thing is for Davis to get healthy and, if that means not competing in Greensboro, then that's what needs to be done.

in-house reviewing our processes, comparing the donor records relating to the affected bags, reviewing records on our storage of the empty bags, full bags, you name it.

Charles Scott

In common with other bookmakers, the group's results in the period were adversely affected by sporting results, compared to generally more favourable results and the Euro 2004 football tournament in the first half of 2004.

In looking for our historic town square, we scouted in a lot of states. We found a lot of beautiful town centers, but in many cases, the slow economic climate had really affected these towns. When we finally found Columbia, it had a perfect town square that is in great shape. Along the way we discovered that there is such a different texture to Tennessee, that there would have been no way to recreate it in another state.

In Kenya, the food's fragile situation have affected to about 3.5 million people and in Somalia to about 1.5 million people.

James Cromwell

It's our children and our children's children who will be affected by this technology, and it is up to us to stop it. I hope you will join us.

Derrick definitely affected all of us. The first couple days of practice, when he didn't know anybody, he wanted to be the first to go into a drill. He wanted to prove from day one he was the best. He made me better.

Consumers need to know how affected they really are.

Mitt Romney

Consulting offered me an opportunity to see a lot of different businesses in different regions of the world, to see how textiles were being affected by foreign competition, how technology was changing.

George Steinbrenner

The New York Yankees, in heeding the President's call to help the people devastated by this hurricane in the affected areas, are going to donate $1 million to the relief effort, ... This is one of America's greatest natural disasters and tragedies, and it is the responsibility of the American public to step up and help those in need.

The news staffs of the newspapers affected have all been pretty fat by industry standards, ... The cuts don't leave these newspapers in what I would call a weakened condition.

Michael Stipe

The news cycle has moved on and I don't want the public to forget about those who were affected by Katrina or to believe that everything is fine now.

That means millions of IE users are affected by this design flaw.

John Schuerholz

That's really sort of the unique aspect of it, ... I don't think them being from Atlanta affected us winning, but it just makes the story a little more compelling. It's a wonderful story. And our fans have really taken to them.

The biggest thing is Katrina. Everybody got affected by Katrina in one way or the other.

The boat's been good to everyone equally, but not everyone has been affected by the boat equally.

The book was very much a part of my continuing growing sense that I should go into the ministry. It was just that kind of sense that God was using the words of the book in some way that was unfathomable because it affected people's lives in an amazing way.

The bigger distributors have been driven to the larger customers and therefore have been disproportionately affected if a customer moves overseas.

Bill Hemmer

Not to be affected would be a robotic response, ... We're human beings. Now, having said that, there's a necessity for reporters to get the facts.

Ron Hill

The bank stocks are affected by what the Fed does. If the Fed's going to be pushing rates up aggressively, it's going to hard for bank stocks to significantly do better than the market, ... But I think some of the stocks are cheap enough that they're worth at least nibbling on at this point.