Famous Quotes & Sayings

Based on what I heard him say yesterday, I'm highly encouraged for our area and specifically for the people in Picayune. I was able to speak with the president and tell him we are the first high spot not affected by flooding, though we did have a lot of wind damage and debris. I told him we had one of the best locations to begin the recovery process he had alluded to - getting industry and business back to work, ... As we all know, there would be more stability, hope and encouragement if could get this done.

China's overall crude oil consumption is about 8% or 9% of world consumption and per capita consumption is a little less. So we are affected (by high prices) but the degree that we are affected is limited.

China's environmental conundrums will not be solved by changes within government alone. New mechanisms are needed to allow the communities which may be affected by a given plan, and citizens concerned about the environment, to join in.

I had a stroke in December of '99, and it affected my left side - my fingering side.

Stella Young

I have a condition called Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI), which has affected my growth and bone strength. In short, people with the kind of OI I have generally experience hundreds of fractures in their lifetime and use wheelchairs for mobility.

I hate to say it out loud, but I feel down deep in my heart that the LSU game had a profound effect on what we did. It affected us physically and mentally.

It could have cost us our contract. It affected our relationship with the schools, for one thing.

It clearly affected his performance in Athens and we just wanted to make sure he has the best chance to come here and box the best he could.

It certainly set the tone for the second half. I surely don't want to say that was the only play that affected the outcome of the game, but we've got to be able to get off the field on third and long.

It certainly rippled through and affected a lot of companies.

I thought we started out with good intensity. We got great shots and they just didn't go down. Then that affected us defensively.

Dom Capers

I thought we ran the ball well and our first- and second-down passing was much improved. It seems like you have something you have to go to work on every week. That is just kind of where we are right now. Our third down was affected by our pass protection. We are trying to look at a couple different combinations to hopefully help us move forward in that area.

I think the injuries really affected us last weekend. I think we are a better team than the other teams, but we need to be more consistent. I think it will all come together when it really counts.

I think the people who will be affected the most will be the younger guys. Early on we will be able to find out how it will affect us.

Stewart Cink

I thought he'd be hitting balls Monday morning at the golf course, because it's a tough course to finish on and it's a major championship. If anything, just him being there at the clubhouse and being seen might have affected the way they played on Monday.

I thought Arkansas did a good job of defending. I don't think it was one particular person. I think their zone affected us and allowed us not to get the ball inside to where we were capable of getting it.

Gordon Brown

I think you've seen that ministers around the world have been affected by the strength of public opinion, churches, faith groups, and it does have an impact.

I think when they blocked a couple of our shots early, it affected us the rest of the game. We let that bother us. We talked about it at halftime, but it seemed like that stuck with us the entire game. It made us change our shots.

I think the difference in this game was two things. I think their size. We were one and done for most of the evening. And our inability to hit shots, both in the paint and on the outside. Their defense is good but I don?t think their defense affected our missing shots.

John Gibbons

I think the baseball world is not giving them as much credit as they deserve. They're a good ball club, they proved that last year, just too many outside influences affected them.

Labor market weakness isn't spreading from the hurricane- affected areas to other areas of the country. We are starting to see hurricane-related claims drop off, and more important for the economic outlook, jobless claims excluding the hurricane effects remain low.

I was affected in the first round of cuts that they wanted. Now it affects even more guys.

I was affected because I was thinking how I had worked so many years for that. I was thinking to myself how it was better than for it to happen in college, until...

Hawkeye will definitely be affected for the next game as we have to get replacements from England.

David Mitchell

Here you have three levels of government working together on an issue that the community, or the group most affected by that issue, . . . is left out. We have the expertise within our community.

Gold prices are rising against almost every major currency, ... So the run up in gold prices here has not affected the dollar to the benefit of other currencies.

Go find somebody who's life hasn't been affected by a drunk driver. It pretty much touches everyone.

Rick Carlisle

He's here to play, he's here to win, ... His moods are much more affected by winning and losing than anything else. I love having guys like that.

His other knee could also be affected and surgery is definitely an option.

He's a stud. One of the first games of the year he hurt his thumb, but played through it. That affected his shot, but he's turned it up.

Carol Bellamy

I don't think we know at his point the numbers killed, but 800,000 people are already affected and at least half of those are in urgent need of food aid and assistance.

If a band of strong wind and rain is coming into the Western Isles of Scotland, with its population of 25,000 or 30,000, then that is significant for them. But if the major urban areas are not affected then it is a good idea not to focus on that first if the majority of the country is fine and settled.

Given the severity of the storm, we expect that stores in the affected areas could lose up to two days of sales as roads were nearly impossible to navigate.