Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pete Townshend

I saw the Internet as being something which would allow power mongers to control us, and that we would willingly go to that if it promised us salvation - if it promised to show us who we were and let us find ourselves as we had, uniquely in our generation, through rock music.

Pete Rose

A lot of these catchers don't understand that they are blocking the plate and they don't have the ball. You're not allowed to block the plate without the ball.

Peter Roskam

Cutting edge technologies have allowed us to utilize coal's diverse potentials. Not only are we using coal in cleaner and more environmentally sound methods, but importantly, we can turn coal into gasoline and diesel.

Peter Morgan

I have no directing ambition whatsoever. And as long as I meet filmmakers like Tom Hooper, Stephen Frears, and others who allow that collaboration, I can't see why I would ever want to direct.

Oscar Isaac

If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves.

We have had an enquiry from Livingston but it isn't enough of an enquiry for us to allow Derek to go.

We have allowed to exist the idea that only the poorest Americans shop at Wal-Mart. Shame on us. We have people from all walks of life who shop at Wal-Mart stores.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

We have allowed ourselves to be defined by our consumption instead of by our ability to move beyond it.

We have allowed ourselves as much flexibility as we can. We believe it's in our shareholders' interest for us to have that flexibility.

We have a machine that will allow people to vision things . . . with very high precision in very small spaces. Our goal is to sell NanoArrayers to entrepreneurial researchers who will do exciting things with it.

We have always said we will protect this from the plight of horrendous situations at other clubs who have gone into administration because they borrowed money and built up debts. They wake up one morning and the bank manager says 'I want my money back' and you go out of business or into administration. We would never allow that to happen at Birmingham.

We have already started to discuss this issue with Chinese oil companies. We would like to have a firm in the People's Republic of China that would allow us to operate on the retail market. We would be more eager to make much larger shipments to China if we had an opportunity to sell oil products in that country.

We will allow and help demonstrators to make their point as we always do in London, ... What we will be firm about is people who are here to make trouble.

Steve Ballmer

We need to have service offerings associated with each of our products that allow us to feed innovations that are appropriate to the market on, let's just call it a six-, probably more realistically a nine-month cycle,

Paul Hewitt

We couldn't allow him as many touches as we did before.

David Trimble

We can't have a situation where people are turning a blind eye to violence or allowing people to participate in the talks on an entirely false basis.

We can't guard (Pleasant leading scorer) Brad Martin on the block and they've got a couple of good shooters, so we could not allow them to get the ball to the quarter court. We got into passing lanes and we got deflections.

Glenn Greenwald

We know that U.S. voters, and world leaders, allow Obama extraordinary leeway when it comes to deadly drone strikes, precisely because of his politics, character and background. (We are talking about a man, after all, who won the Nobel Peace Prize while ordering the automated killing of suspected Muslim terrorists around the world).

We know that teenagers aren't going to be swayed by dire warnings, but we know they love music, and maybe they will protect their ears if they realize it will allow them to enjoy music for many more years.

We have worked very closely with the engineers on this project and they have kept us up to date on every aspect. They have been on schedule, which has allowed us to anticipate when the bridge would come down and so we can plan bus route detours that will take the least amount of time out of our riders' schedules.

We have two guys as talented as they are and they make a big difference. The practices leading up (to the NIT opener) allowed us to get our chemistry back.

We believe (the increases) are needed to allow Citizens to continue to pay for future hurricane claims. The last two years have been tremendous loss years.

We came out of the chute like gangbusters. Our lack of concentration on the defensive end allowed them (the Trappers) to hit some threes ... in the first half, we basically got outplayed.

We came out flat and allowed Southern Miss to control the tempo early. Southern Miss came out with a lot of energy and played like they had something to prove after the results from the fall. It was an evenly played game in the first half, but we weren't winning many of the 50 percent chances.

Lindy Ruff

We came out and played well, skated well, we generated a lot of opportunities, we just didn't finish. We let them hang around. We took a careless penalty late that allowed them the opportunity to tie the game up.

Reggie White

I've often had people ask me, would you allow a homosexual to be your friend. Yes, I will. And the reason I will is because I know that that person has problems, and if I can minister to those problems, I will.

I eventually grew into a pre-teen Marilyn Munster, that being the only option I could find that allowed for a) blonde hair, b) a fondness for frilly pink things and wearing ribbons in your hair, and c) hanging out with monsters.

There is a list of things I'm not allowed to discuss at the dinner table! I am extraordinarily passionate about the Black Death, which is not something most people are into.

Sebastian Horsley

If I want to dislike women, I should be allowed to. As it happens, I love them. Women to me are privately worshipped and publicly disdained.

Sebastian Horsley

Why shouldn't I be allowed to say stupid, outrageous things?

Sandra Lee

Raising myself and caring for my brothers and sisters allowed me the benefit of a lot of information that I wouldn't have otherwise gotten. I had to be frugal, thoughtful, resourceful. I didn't have anyone to tell me, 'You can't.'

Rodney Stark

Theology necessitates an image of God as a conscious, rational, supernatural being of unlimited power and scope who cares about humans and imposes moral codes and responsibilities upon them, thereby generating serious intellectual questions such as: 'Why does God allow us to sin?' 'Does the Sixth Commandment prohibit war?'

Rosamund Pike

Actresses generally aren't allowed to have haircuts, because short hair isn't considered as versatile.