Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alex Honnold

I suppose being a bit of an antisocial weirdo definitely honed my skills as a soloist. It gave me a lot more opportunities to solo lots of easy routes, which in turn broadened my comfort zone quite a bit and has allowed me to climb the harder things without a rope that I've done now.

Mary Quant

I saw no reason why childhood shouldn't last forever. So I created clothes that worked and moved and allowed people to run, to jump, to leap, to retain their precious freedom.

I see more and more small businesses running servers, even one-person offices. They allow you to get more bang for your technology buck.

I said I didn't think people as young as 16 should be allowed to vote. Apparently, they took points off for that.

Jim Calhoun

I said coming into the game that it was going to be a battle of ... can they keep us away from the paint. And generally speaking, they were able to get us on the outside, keep us there with double teams, and certainly the way this game was called and played, it didn't allow us to be a factor in the paint.

I sat in the last (IIHF) directors' meeting and the words I heard in the last directors' meeting were exactly what I wanted to hear. They were going to allow players to hit and they were going to call the hooking and the holding. Now the players are confused. We have to get this much more consistent, not for Team Canada, but for every player in this tournament.

I returned from my last L.A. visit to find myself tipping the scales like Homer Simpson when he tries to gain enough weight to qualify as disabled to be allowed to work from home. All I was missing was his kaftan and Fat Guy Hat. So, I decided it was time to diet.

Kate Beckinsale

People are controlled to varying degrees but it will still make people think - for example Chris actually says to Marian: 'I've seen you walk down the street, you are allowed out' - so to all intents and purposes she's free. But Bernie has brain-washed her to believe her only purpose in life is to serve him.

People are constantly coming in and saying we're not sure you're open or if we are allowed to come in here,

Hal Turner

People are allowed to protest in North Bergen when they get a permit to protest from the police department. There have been other protests in front of my home, but those people filed for permits. But no one told the police of any activity. They didn't know anything about it. You can't protest without a permit.

Our kids assigned to stop him got in foul trouble. We tried to get physical with him, but (the officials) weren't allowing that.

Our goal was not to allow the press to get to us; we accomplished that goal.

Our intent is to mount a protest drive along those streets that our president will not allow us to march on.

Our hospitals are taking a hard line on that. The law is sufficiently vague on that point to allow them to do that.

Our group of men pulled together and found a way to handle their pressure. They picked up their pressure; they were scramble-trapping us and rotating and our guys found a way to handle it with Anthony in foul trouble. I was very proud of the way our guys pulled together in that situation and allowed us to keep the lead.

Kenneth Cole

Our goal with this project was to create a high-efficiency banking office with fewer staff but more technology to facilitate routine transactions. The self-service technology will ultimately allow our customer service representatives to focus more on value-add services.

Allan Houston

Over the last two years, I have done everything I could possibly do to get back on the court, but injuries to my knee would not allow me to do it.

Palestinians are more excited to visit the United States (because) they are not allowed outside the country. When kids are leaving (the country), everything is documented.

Pakistan should not allow such decision by India as it is detrimental to the ideology of Islam and Pakistan.

Paige did a nice job, striking out 13 and walking only four allowing one hit.

Oscar Wilde

Pardon me, you are not engaged to any one. When you do become engaged to some one, I, or your father, should his health permit him, will inform you of the fact. An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant, as the case may be. It is hardly a matter that she could be allowed to arrange for herself.

Pallets are no longer allowed because they have too many chemicals in them.

Shepard Smith

Over there, there's hope. Over there, there is food and water. But you cannot go from here to there. The government will not allow you to do it. That's a fact.

Our purpose, as we face these challenges, remains clear - fair and orderly markets that allow for efficient capital formation, while protecting the interests of investors.

That definitely hurt us. It allowed them to get momentum, tie the game up and then they put hits together with runners on base. They left three runners on base and we left five. Their clutch hitting paid off.

That changed that this year to allow the men an opportunity. If he couldn't be around at all then why keep him on the team? I think the NFL realized that and wanted to help the players recover to give them a chance on the team. He'll serve his suspension and we'll look at it in four weeks to see if we need to keep him or want to keep him.

That basically sets up a chain of events that will allow a blood clot to form near the hole or in it and then be pushed into the brain by the prime minister's own heart beat.

Trevor Manuel

That announcement will allow us to take the whole process forward.

George Davis

That allowed the Canadian dollar to basically move back toward the 14-year high that we saw in early March.

Jim Calhoun

That allowed Lewis and Thomas to do what they wanted. We got beat good in the post.

Samantha Shannon

My silver cord - the link between my body and my spirit - was extremely sensitive. It was what allowed me to sense dreamscapes at a distance. It could also snap me back into my skin.

Sebastian Coe

My overwhelming concern will always be the well-being of the athletes. In Olympic sport, it is rare for competitors not to devote half their young life to this. Their families will have given up all sorts of things to allow them to do that.

Jay Wright

My original plan was to allow Curtis to come back, practice, see how he feels and decide game by game what he wanted to do. But this has become such a distraction to our team. There have been some national reports that, I just don't know where they're getting this information, and they're false ... so it's kind of sped up this process.