Famous Quotes & Sayings

Whether it's New York or somewhere else, the metaphor of 'Avenue Q,' which is the place you live when you can't afford to live anywhere else - and we've all been through that in our journey. As I always say, at any moment I could be back on Avenue Q if I pick the wrong show.

Being young is an advantage. You've grown up with games as the dominant entertainment. You have a lot of experience of video games. So what do you want to see that's not been done? Innovation is really low cost for you. You can afford to take risks and fail to execute new ideas.

Kevin McCarthy

Every American, whether Democrat or Republican, agrees that job creation and affordable energy will be crucial to our economic turnaround.

Julian Baggini

If we now find ourselves looking down on the cheap and convenient, it is only because we now have better things which are affordable.

He can afford to tilt at windmills, because he's Warren Buffett. But I doubt he can really influence the Republican leadership.

HBO's a lot smarter than NBC. They can afford to be. They don't care if you're watching every show on HBO. If you're a subscriber and you're only getting it for two shows out of 10, they've still got your $17.95. And therein lies all the difference.

Health insurance scams are a huge problem. We've seen huge increases in health insurance premiums, and that makes consumers very desperate for affordable alternatives.

Health care is becoming less affordable every year. We'll continue to have to worry about whether lower-wage and even moderate-wage workers will continue to get good benefits through the workplace.

Herders realize they can't afford to be a single-product kind of business. They can produce dairy goods, make furniture, run gas stations.

Granted, it's a good facility, and they do a good job. But we just can't afford to be paying $50,000 more a season than our counterparts." ()

Herbert Lom

For one of my scenes, the Hammer people wanted me to smash my head against a stone pillar, because they said they couldn't afford one made of rubber.

For the average student to incur that kind of debt, with interest, boggles my mind. I don't know how a student, being on their own, could afford to go to college.

For people who can afford it, the insurance value of these drug plans is an important one.

Frank Robinson

If it bothered me, I wouldn't be where I am today. It's just like living in one area of town and you can't afford the things some of your friends can afford. Does that bother you? Subconsciously, it does a little bit. But you can't let it get the best of you and control your thought process. If you do, you won't have a very happy life.

Matt Long

If I buy a bigger home my taxes will go up 100 percent. I did the research. I can't afford it.

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.