Famous Quotes & Sayings

I felt the time was right for me to get off the treadmill for a while. I greatly appreciate all the opportunities David and the NBA owners have afforded me for personal accomplishment in this job.

I can't afford to recruit foreign kids. They don't qualify for federal aid money.

I can't afford to play like that on the road, how I did today, I just got out of my character. I don't know.

Brian Holland

I can't afford to pay the monthly $3,000 insurance bills on my boat when I can't fish a couple months of the year because of the grouper quota.

I can't afford to fill it all the way up. If I had to guess, it would be $50.

I can't afford that distraction . . . not going to let myself have it.

I can't afford parking. And now I can't afford gas. And the wear and tear on my vehicle ....

Edmund White

I can remember in the late 1980s and early 1990s how many men with AIDS I saw everywhere in Key West. There were hospices and medical supply stores geared to people with AIDS. It seemed that every sick man who could afford it had headed for the warmth and the tranquillity and the gay-friendliness of the island.

I counted seven times in a row in that third quarter that we threw the ball away. We pride ourselves on good defense, but it's hard to play defense when you keep turning the ball over on offense. We can't afford to be that careless with the basketball.

I do think Kurt deserves the right to see what he can do. Our room for error is not very good. We can't afford to have the interceptions and those kinds of things.

I don't think Daft or anyone would want to stick their heads out there now with the regulatory environment being what it is. This may have hurt him, but I don't think the board can afford not to rally behind him at this point.

I don't think, budget-wise, we could afford to start a program, ... But I can't say that even if we did have the money, that we could find the teachers.

I basically had 24 hours to decide. That's not a lot of time to figure out where you're spending your summer. (They told me) I would be interning at the Santa Cruz Sentinel in Santa Cruz, Calif., so I spent the next 24 hours researching the city ... Santa Cruz is definitely not affordable on $300 a week." ()

John Phillips

I am not a wealthy man. Yes, I am privileged, I do own a lakefront home. But I'd like to know where this mitigation fee comes from. I cannot afford it.

Kailash Kher

I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.

I am partial to plants that I can use. The herb garden affords a big palette to play with.

Olympia Snowe

I believe it is not a question of whether or not we support tax cuts, ... It really is a question of what we can afford to do now in the current economic and fiscal climate.

I don't want to schedule cupcakes. We can't do that. We can't afford to do that with our schedule. You don't get better by playing weaker teams. You get good by playing tough opponents.

I don't think we can afford to lose that kind of brainpower.

Lindy Ruff

I don't think they can afford it, first of all, to get back in the series. I think you might be surprised. It just might be totally the other way.

How this all came about was that I went to Charlotte in May for the 600 to see if Richard Childress was telling me the truth about his wine, ... He'd been telling me how good it was, but I guess he couldn't afford the postage to send me a bottle.

Robert Allenby

I couldn't afford to get delicate with it.

I couldn't afford a good saddle and, like any other kid, I wanted to be a cowboy. When I was 17, I had the opportunity to work in a saddle shop.

Chumlee

I could never leave Las Vegas. I can't really afford New York or Los Angeles. I love this town. We don't have that much. We have the Runnin' Rebels and boxer Floyd Mayweather. When Mayweather fights, it's good for the whole city. It's like the Super Bowl out here.

Hillary Clinton

Let's provide family leave that is paid and access to affordable, high-quality childcare.

Because food reserves have run out and mothers can no longer afford to feed their children, many decide that the only way out is to 'go to the street'. Many times, the girls are as young as twelve.

Chain stores certainly couldn't afford to pay that.

John Fleming

By starting earlier and building consistent and dynamic messaging around these key categories, we want to show our customers that we have the holiday merchandise they want, when they want it, at the affordable prices they trust from Wal-Mart,

Mike Wallace

By opening our streams up and getting obstructions out, it cuts down on water backup, and that affords us a little more protection and a little bit longer amount of time to notify residents.

Neil Gershenfeld

By not lobbing a few extra cannon shells, he could afford to make these community investments.

Paul Wall

I always wanted a grill, but I couldn't afford one. So I hooked up with the guy who made them. I brought him so much clientele that he had me open my own store and we ended up going into a partnership together.

Higher borrowing costs and rising prices have made home purchasing less affordable for many buyers and caused speculators to pull back.

Choose organic produce whenever you possibly can and if you can afford it.