Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Sykes

There's no family allowance on the first child, you know.

John Tavares

There's obviously going to be attention since I'm the youngest guy in the league and the first guy allowed in under the exceptional player rule, ... I don't go into games thinking about the pressure, that everyone is watching.

Braden Looper

The trade gave me a chance to pitch and grow. In retrospect, it worked out well. It allowed me to establish myself at the major league level.

Dan Devine

The township has done everything within its power to allow the developer to be successful. But we can't force a developer to be successful.

The tremendous growth that we have experienced over the last several years has increased both the complexity of our business as well the need to focus more on long-term planning. Mr. McCourt's assumption of leadership of the day-to-day business will allow me to focus on the long-term strategic challenges facing our business.

The Transit Authority makes announcements saying safety matters to them....How come they allow dangerous conditions like this?

The transaction would violate the antitrust laws by allowing two firms, Gerber and Heinz/Beech-Nut, to control 98 percent of the U.S. baby food market.

Paul Thomson

The transaction will allow greater economic efficiency in the build out and upgrade of our digital platforms.

The United States can no longer allow China to use predatory trade practices to destroy U.S. jobs and factories.

Ray Anderson

The unions will never allow another ambulance to be placed here.

Jessie J

I started to look like a cartoon character with the fringe and the catsuits. Yes, I want to change and mix it up. I want to change my hair, change my style. I want to be allowed to grow.

Walter Smith

I spoke to Jackie last week. If you look at the possibility of him coming away to play two international games then it is better for him and the type of injury he's had that he's allowed to finish the season, get the summer over with and get a good pre-season.

I snow blow my driveway at 10 p.m. at night if it snows. I think there needs to be some allowance for snow.

Joss Whedon

I spent a ton of time alone. I was raised by a feminist; I had a terrifying father and oppressively scary and mean brothers. We had a farm. The rule was between breakfast and lunch you weren't allowed to make a sound.

Paul Molitor

I spent a lot of time thinking about it. I decided to allow myself more flexibility in my personal time with my family and other issues. I took a lot of time and went back and forth, trying to go through the schedule and try to make it work. Then I started thinking about things I wanted to get done.

Jodi Kantor

I spent a lot of time in the White House in the public areas where reporters are allowed to go, but I spoke to people about the private quarters as well. Some of the things I learned were small, novelistic details. For example, the fact that there were still pet stains on the carpets from the Bush cats when the Obamas moved in.

Norm Coleman

Is it going to become a vehicle for global taxation of domain names? Are you going to allow folks who have demonstrated a pattern of suppression of content, are they going to be put in charge of running this thing?

Elena Dementieva

I should've played more risky in that game but I was too passive and allowed her to dominate,

Chad Coleman

I served at the Pentagon and at Fort Leavenworth - my job was video cameraman, and that allowed me to travel to places like Korea, Japan, Alaska, Germany and the Netherlands.

Gurinder Chadha

I've been wanting for a long time to create a show which allowed me to show the British Asian community in a truly three-dimensional way, exploring the relationships between generations and what it means to be British and Asian as values become fluid.

Christine Gregoire

I've been very honest rather than allowing it to come here and meet a veto, part of it or all of it, when it's fundamentally a good bill.

I've been thinking over the last couple of years of a home-based business that I could do that would allow me to work flexible hours and do something that I love.

I've been here for five years and I think there's more cooperation in our region than there's ever been. We have a regional economic development consortium. It has allowed for regular communication and shared ideas to develop between our counties.

Tom Cruise

I've been...chased by paparazzi, and they run lights, and they chase you and harass you the whole time. It happens all over the world, and it has certainly gotten worse. You don't know what it's like being chased by them. It is harassment under the guise of, you know, 'We are the press, we are entitled.' When people are having a private moment, they should be allowed to have a private moment

Carol Wright

I've been away from college a long time, and this has allowed me to hear some real scholars. It's invigorated and inspired me.

I've been known to flunk teams who allowed the crime scene to be contaminated. You don't let anyone get inside the crime tape.

Bobby Johnson

We were ready to kick, and they had their regular return team on the field, ... They were allowed to substitute their whole team before we were allowed to kick. That's why I was upset.

Josh Jenkins

We were ready for them (FC). We made a few mistakes on defense and allowed them to score once, but we had a good game, a very good game.

Scott Evans

What that does is allow us to have end-to-end control over product quality. It allows us to function more efficiently as a business servicing the needs of our customers.

Gary Smith

What that allows you to do is to make an investment in an architecture that today might be carrying Ethernet and IP ports, but tomorrow might need to switch to T1, TDM, or storage technology. I think that's one of the things we're very focused on: Allowing the carriers to be wrong. What this technology does is take some of the guesswork out of planning.

What's understood is that the newspapers are allowed into the building to take photos for news purposes. We are more than happy to have them take pictures. It's good for us and it's good for them.

We might identify some of the projects we're working on now for the fund. It would also allow us to do some larger projects than what we have on the map right now.

Mike Rogers

We have to find a way to allow (Hispanics) that want to come here and work to do so as long as we can keep up with what they are doing when they are here,