Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Bana

He was very generous to me. It was extremely beneficial because you can always learn some things that are not on the page or not expressed - things that he might say, or things that he might not say. It all sits in your subconscious and affects the character in the end. So being able to meet with him was very, very interesting.

Tim Duncan

He did what he usually does. He affects shots around the basket ... He came out and played with a lot of energy.

He has the mentality. He's been a closer his entire career, and nothing affects him a whole lot. But he's got good pitches. He's got the tools to make it happen and he's got the mentality that he fits in.

For us it's about family. It affects my family.

Tara VanDerveer

If that's true, it affects everyone, and we just have to play better defense and rebound better. It's a good thing we've been beating that horse all season long, because it will put more pressure on our rebounding.

If the housing market collapses that definitely affects everybody.

If we don't have the right dealers in the right markets, it affects our volume.

If we don't get rain in the next two weeks, we'll see some long term affects on the wheat.

If they can't hire teachers, that affects class size and class availability. The budget cuts have been tough on everybody.

Gloria Steinem

In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women.

Bryce Dallas Howard

Getting to have an opportunity to tell a story that is about mental illness and how it affects one's self and one's community was really something that really meant a lot to me.

Don Lemon

Any atrocity that's committed against one person affects us all, and we are becoming more of one society, of a global society, so something that happens in the Middle East or something that happens in Africa, something that happens in Asia, affects all of us.

Cherie Blair

I strongly support not just citizenship classes but also teaching children how the law works and the many ways it affects their lives.

Suze Orman

Your credit score affects the interest rates you're offered on credit cards and loans, can be used to vet your job application, and in some states may influence your insurance premiums.

We're in a bear phase here, and certainly any kind of negative news out of the Middle East that affects oil prices is going to be another issue that the market is going to have to deal with. Obviously, some people are very concerned that one thing leads to another, and then you get a bad news one day, and worse news Saturday kind of thing.

Rick Carlisle

We're talking about it, we're trying to deal with it. I think we'll get there. It's just important for any player in this league not to let his competitive juices distort clear thinking and have something happen that affects the team.

Peter Milligan

'Red Lanterns' is obviously about rage, but more it's about how rage affects people - alien and human. I'll be getting into the characters of some of those insane Red Lanterns whom we've generally only seen spitting vomit in the background.

What kind of jets and what time they fly affects noise.

When we talk about teen driver safety, it tends to be viewed as a problem that affects teen drivers. I don't want to de-emphasize the importance of (teenage) casualties, but your mother might be in a car hit by a teen driver.

We believe that when a person goes missing, it's not just the family in pain. It affects the entire community.

We don't need him there to know he is a part of this team. He thinks he can't do anything to help us, but with him in our minds it affects our game more than he knows.

Alan Greenspan

We don't look at stock prices and say, 'If they are rising we have to raise interest rates,' ... To the extent that the stock market affects the economy, we will respond to that.

We are coming off our worst defensive effort in my five seasons here. We don't expect our press to get a lot of turnovers. But we normally see that it affects shooting percentages late in the game and wears on people.

We have found a very common determinant of obesity that's present in populations of different ethnicity ? affects men and women equally and also children.

We wanted to reveal the mechanism behind central sleep apnea, which most commonly affects people after age 65,

Bill Gates

We also had the tragic events of September 11th, and I know for everyone that's caused us to step back, think about our priorities. It's a tragedy that affects us personally and affects our businesses. For the computer industry in particular, I think it highlights the importance of security, giving that far more importance than we've had in the past. We don't want our digital systems to have weaknesses that allow for tragedies, exploiting the weaknesses that are there. And so there's a renewed sense of focus on that.

Tom Gordon

We all want to be out there. Still, you have to use a little common sense. The more he pitches, the more he has to monitor himself. Making so many pitches affects your stuff. Once it affects your stuff, you can give up runs, and then you're kicking yourself. Your body has to tell you. Your arm might feel good, but then your legs might not feel so great. It's a delicate balance.

We all have voices in our heads which talks to us on an almost constant basis. Our voices give us messages continually, and what they say to us affects us.

There is always a domino effect with a player like that that affects a lot of teams.

Michael Flynn

There is still a lot to learn about how exercise affects the immune system, because it's difficult for researchers to assess the many layers of protection within the system. Strenuous or prolonged exercise seems to suppress the immune system, leaving athletes more susceptible to illness for one to six hours following a hard workout - the so-called open window.

We're not hitting the ball very well right now ... we're in some kind of a funk that we just can't get out of. We've been making contact and hitting it right to (opposing defenders), and when you're not getting hits it affects everyone, including the pitching and defense.

We had a tough time shutting down their offense. And we missed a lot of foul shots the first three quarters. When you do that it affects your offensive execution.

Weather affects everything we do. We have a live radar that monitors everything from rain to lightning.