Famous Quotes & Sayings

California's drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners to suburban residents, and everyone has a role to play in using precious water resources as wisely and efficiently as possible.

Catherine Asaro

The year in school of a student is another factor that affects how an instructor interacts with his or her class.

When a bank calls in a loan, it obviously hurts the customer in question. But it also adversely affects other banks that have lent to this borrower. They are now less likely to be repaid and so can't as readily lend to their own customers.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Every single person in every single company is either in sales or affects sales. Every single person in every single company is either in service or affects service.

We are concerned about the decision's effect on the rank-and-file. Anyone who does this for a living and says they don't care how it affects people's lives is lying. But we have to move this company forward.

Thomas Friedman

When the world is flat, all these global institutions are really exposed to any kind of global or Internet campaign that affects their image or brand.

N. Scott Momaday

The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects the life of every Indian person in one way or another.

Edward Kennedy

Today, President Bush is faced with a decision that affects each and every American and has the potential to impact every facet of constitutional law and the freedoms this country was founded upon.

William Banting

The great charm and comfort of the system is, that its affects are palpable within a week of trial, which creates a natural stimulus to persevere for few weeks more, when the fact becomes established beyond question.

Alexandra Stoddard

You can sometimes avoid costly mistakes. Paint a corner of the room a certain color to see how the light affects it. Or buy just one yard of an expensive fabric to see how you like it in your room.

We don't know yet how all that has happened in Mississippi really affects the company's balance sheet.

Even though loneliness affects so many of us, it has gotten scant research attention compared to related conditions like depression or anxiety.

Aung San Suu Kyi

We are not out to boast that there is so much percentage of growth per year. Our real concern is how it affects the lives of people, the future of our country.

Emmanuel Jal

War destroys people's souls. Most people focus on physical injuries, but the invisible injuries can take a lifetime to heal and affects the lives of generations to come.

Ralph Brown

Wal-Mart will provide a source of low priced goods and services that students need, and it will provide jobs for students. The shopping situation we have right now is pretty meager. That may be a factor that affects students' decisions into coming to Vermillion.

Kat Graham

To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world.

Larry Coker

We're not going to let this be an excuse. We're not going to let this set us back. We're going to do whatever we need to do to be ready to play. Probably the most disappointed, upset guys it affects more is the coaches. The players, they're going to do whatever we ask them to do.

Cameron Crowe

Making a big Hollywood film that really affects people is as hard as making a small movie on a credit card.

Colm Toibin

You have to keep writing. It's almost like practice, almost like tennis, that actually after a few days of not writing, first of all it makes you slightly depressed and uneasy, but it also affects the style when you start up again. You need to get the show on the road.

Dallas Roberts

I find that with any good run on a show with good writers, they put something on paper, and you put something back on film, and that affects what they put on the paper the next time.

Pat Conroy

I still get weepy when I see a father being nice to his child. It so affects me.

We pride ourselves on clinical and home assessments and doing appropriate instruction in the home. That affects the clinical outcomes and the complaint rate.

Simon Cowell

I can't admit things; that's why I can't go to funerals and stuff like that. I find it very, very difficult to deal with that kind of reality. I shut myself off totally because it affects me so badly.

Scott Weiss

Developing a good, healthy culture is extremely important at a startup. Culture reflects the essence of a startup's operation because it directly affects the success of a company's hiring practices and overall strategy.

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 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.

Andy Garcia

I love to cook, and my wife loves to cook. Sometimes it's the appeal of the simplest of dishes - things you've grown up with in your life. Your emotional memory - something that not only affects your taste buds but that you've got an emotional attachment to.

Arnold Palmer

When you lose the ability to step up and hit the ball as hard and as far as you want, that also affects your ability to will the ball to go where you want it to go, if you know what I mean.

We still cry, the kids still cry. It still affects us all no matter how longs it's been.

We are contributing to this as energy consumers, so residents should know about it. It affects them.

We're excited about the prospects. Our community realizes that there's a good return on our investment in tourism promotion - and that affects all different industries.

Bindi Irwin

After losing Dad, there was the idea that none of us have forever. It really affects you. It makes you want to live each day as if it's your last.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

In Afghanistan, life is so fragile; who knows what the next week will bring? That fragility really affects the way you're able to report, and the kind of stories people will tell you.