Famous Quotes & Sayings

Easter this year isn't in March, it's in April, so we always knew that March would be a minus figure. If you allow for the fact that is Easter is normally worth about 1 to 1 1/2 percentage points, then the underlying trend is flat and we expect that to continue.

Ben is very creative when he has the ball. He is an intelligent player, and as he develops, he will be one that will allow us to keep possession of the ball. His club coach, Rob Weaver, has helped develop him as a player, and I feel confident taking any one of his players.

Robert Zemeckis

Beowulf is a timeless, epic tale of heroism and triumph. Digital rendering will allow us to depict this incredible story in ways we would never have dared imagine.

Denis O'Hare

Between New York and L.A., and all of us who are actors, I feel like we're just one big, cast repertory company, all running back and forth between the coasts and between different shows. There is a wealth of great character actors, who show up, here and there, on different shows. I love the fact that we're allowed to do that.

Believe me, no one in the SPD will allow Merkel to win the elections. There's no chance that we will make this woman, with such radical economic views, chancellor.

Robin Cook

Belgrade had better take note -- the outside world is not going to let this one go, ... The EU is going to make sure ethnic confrontation is not going to be allowed to continue in any part of Europe.

Being a partner at Goldman Sachs, ... is the highest accolade on Wall Street. It is something people aspire to. It has allowed Goldman Sachs to recruit and maintain the very best people in the industry. Because there is nothing else like it.

Ben Vereen

Bob Fosse was one of the greatest creative taskmasters I know; applying discipline and hard work he allowed the artists to express his creative ability.

Bob and Harvey hope for an amicable resolution that will allow them to continue to be productive members of the Disney family,

Dick Thompson

Bird flu is a disease among animals; it's very difficult for this virus to move from poultry into humans. Our concern is that it will change in a way that will allow it to easily move between humans, and that will trigger a pandemic.

Boris Yeltsin

Bill Clinton hopes that Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic will capitulate, give up the whole of Yugoslavia. We will not allow this. This is a strategic place.

Bill brings a strong operational skill set which will allow Source Technologies to scale more quickly. His technical and management background is ideal as Source Technologies enters the next phase of its growth cycle.

Ciara Bravo

'Big Time Rush' was a great show, and I had some great experiences. It allowed me to become more of a comedic actress, which is also a great skill to have. But there wasn't a whole lot of tragedy in there. Not quite as dark as 'Red Band Society.' So I've been very lucky to have been able to grow in that sense, just through moving to FOX.

Richard Engel

Bhutto's regime is remembered for having one of the worst human rights records in Pakistan's history, and her government did not allow the media freedoms she criticizes Musharraf for crushing.

Every time at the Olympic games it's always something. Today, in the second run it was smooth but first run, people who should not be allowed at the start are at the start trying to do something, I don't know what. This isn't right. I needed them. It shouldn't be this way.

Byron Leftwich

Everything starts with their four guys up front. They don't allow you time to attack them down the field.

John Paxson

Everybody tried to make this an ethical employer-employee issue, which we never thought about. We wanted to do everything we possibly could to safely put him back on the floor. We were never allowed to do that.

Everybody talks about starting a new season, but this is a rivalry and it's gonna be tough to come back and play 'em again. We don't allow (overconfidence). We respect all our opponents.

Everyone sits on the floor to have food, whether you are a king or a pauper. You are supposed to be eating a holy meal with your brothers and sisters and don't need the luxury of eating meat. It is not necessary here. So why do it? We are allowed to eat meat at home. It is not forbidden.

Sam Mendes

Everything about that war seemed so far away, ... The media never really was allowed in. All you'd see were these tiny little bombs like they were hitting toy towns. There was no sense that this was actually a war, that there was a human toll.

Every question to Roberts is obviously a question to the next nominee. They are sending a signal to Bush about where Democrats will engage in a strong fight and where they will be willing to allow the next candidate to flow through.

Peter Dinklage

Every job leads to the next open door, hopefully, ... The good thing 'The Station Agent' did, if anything, it allowed people to think outside the box about someone my size in what some people considered a leading-man role, which nobody had seen before. That's not why I did it. I loved the part and the people involved.

Jeff Smith

Foodservice companies know they must do everything possible to protect both their customers and their brands. We provide foodservice manufacturers, distributors, and operators with tools that allow them to improve the management of all aspects of the quality equation, including supplier approval processes, complaints, audits, recalls, employee training, product specification management, and control of important policies and procedures.

Mike Fratello

The number of fouls by both teams didn't allow the game to have much of a flow. It broke up runs. ... But then our execution got much better. We ran plays better.

Eric Peterson

It's the soldiers, not the protestors, who protect our rights. He (Doyle) died for freedom, and they're allowed freedom of the press, religion and speech. They have every right to protest, but not at soldiers' funerals.

John Ridley

It's not that white guys shouldn't be allowed to engage in discussions on race in America. But there's nothing more exhausting than white male liberals' dogmatisms on race that were clearly formed during a conversation they had with that one black guy they met back in college.

It's one of the best things that's come out for a person in a long time as far as giving them independence, ... It's allowed me to be a really totally independent person and you can't ask much more than that from a tool.

Maria Sanchez

It's not very often parents like us can sit back on the sidelines. The Special Olympics allow us to do that.

Richard Adams

It's now in the winter and we should try this out to see if some of these concerns are right on or if we allow this we should monitor it. We should take the opportunity to review the concerns outlined.

Bob Stoops

It's one thing to give up some plays and get beat when you're in position or if you execute properly and you're just not quite able to make the play. It's another when you put yourself out of position and allow someone to convert on you or make a big play just because of your own doings.

It's only been within the past decade that women have been allowed to join. This is a big deal.

John Sweeney

It's not these locals' fault that their national unions left the A.F.L.-C.I.O., and it's not working people's fault. They shouldn't have to bear the brunt of a decision by their leadership. Solidarity charters will allow unions to work together and let working people still benefit from a united grass-roots movement.

It's obviously troubling for the United States because if violators are allowed to stay on, and it's not a permanent body, then the human rights soap box is not a soap box at all,