Famous Quotes & Sayings

We watched videotapes of exorcisms and we saw for ourselves how scary they can be, ... It allowed us to get away from some of the ways that Hollywood has portrayed exorcisms.

We watched the fallout some of the national providers went through. We may not experience that problem since we own our own network, but we also determined a price under $20 a month wouldn't be profitable. We had to come up with a price point that would work and still allow profit.

We want to win. Will that make it a success? Absolutely. But there are other things that certainly would allow us to point to this year as a very successful year, and I think we're already on the way.

We have 120,000 actors in our system. We've only been allowing the video to go in since May 2004. Starting it up was slow; we now get in about 10 to 20 videos a day.

We'd done damage there. Speaking to her allowed me to want to come here at the same time, wanted to do it all over again. We're living a dream right now.

We are excited to be moving on to the team finals. It's unbelievable. The flow of the meet was incredible. There was a lot of energy and excitement on the floor. We were able to do the job on all four events, and that allowed us to move on.

We are elated to continually receive the community's support. Fundraising events such as this allow Eagle County to have one of only 250 shelters in the United States that does not eliminate any of its animals.

The port's success has allowed us to grow our business a lot in the last 10 years.

James Comey

Unfortunately, changing forms of Internet communication are quickly outpacing laws and technology designed to allow for the lawful intercept of communication content.

Barney Ross

Two-thirds of the crew was allowed to go to the shore because they had weekend passes. The only ones aboard were those who had the duty.

Doug Wilson

Two things really impressed me, ... The coaches had great structure. And the fitness level of the players allowed us to get a real high tempo right away.

Mike Richards

Two short-handed goals is unacceptable. You're not going to win any game if you allow that.

Andy Kennedy

Two of our senior guards allowed the ball to be taken from them. To me that speaks to a will to win.

Michelle Smith

When she ran our offense, she hit some 3s and pulled them out. That allowed us to move the ball around and get good shots.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Based on the Gaza precedent, Israel should not simply be expected to withdraw from territory and let it devolve into a state of anarchy. The West Bank is simply too close to Israel's major population centers and infrastructure to allow it to become another launching pad for rockets.

Gary Johnson

I was opposed to the government mandating that restaurants not allow people to smoke, believing it becomes the customer's choice whether they go in or not. But then, I thought, 'What about the employees? Aren't they hostage to a smoking environment, even if they don't smoke?'

Gary Johnson

I would have never signed the Patriot Act. I would have never signed the National Defense Authorization Act allowing for arrests and detainment of you and me as U.S. citizens without being charged.

Uta Hagen

They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know.

Edward Lampert

I was very clear why we put these companies together and what our goals were. It was really to allow both Sears and Kmart to compete in what I thought was going to be a more challenging but evolving industry.

Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.

Francine Rivers

My job is to allow the character to live and breathe - and become as real to the reader as he or she is to me.

Colin Farrell

What my first son James did was allow me to care for something in this world when I couldn't care for myself. James saved my life.

Conan O'Brien

If you watch a lot of television, the pacing, the quick cutting is so frenetic, but it doesn't always make it funnier. What I'm noticing is that when things are allowed to unspool more slowly, younger crowds really like it. They really appreciate it.

Whether you are Republican or Democrat or liberal or conservative, we should never, never, never allow ourselves emotionally to interfere with another person's right to express themselves.

Adam Green

I was lucky enough to have an older brother who shared the splatter flicks with me, and I had parents who were cool and involved enough in my life to allow me to see them. I think my folks appreciated that I looked at these movies as a creative outlet... almost like magic shows, if you will.

When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar, you mustn't behave as if you were throwing a bone to a dog. You must give humbly, and thank him for allowing you to have a part in his hunger.

Gina Rodriguez

I love telling stories that allow people to be less afraid to tell theirs.

Gene Luen Yang

We have to allow ourselves the freedom to make mistakes, including cultural mistakes, in our first drafts. I believe it's okay to get cultural details wrong in your first draft. It's okay if stereotypes emerge. It just means that your experience is limited, that you're human.

Thalia

The darkest experiences in a human being's life allow that person to either go deeper and stay depressed or get the strength to stand up stronger than ever, and that's my case.

We have convinced many schools around the state to allow waivers for veterans who are not receiving their benefits. Most have been more than willing to accommodate, after they realize it is a problem.

We're trying to rewrite the ordinances to allow for modular housing in areas where it's not now allowed.

We're trying to piece it together. No one's allowed on those sites at the moment.

Alan Bennett

Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; otherwise, teaching loses all sense of wonder and excitement.