Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dealing with young people, it's always a new experience. You never know if they're ready until they get out there. As long as they play with great effort, I'm happy. The injuries have allowed us to give some guys opportunities.

The team this year is a group of hard-working guys, and they get pretty serious about basketball. I think when you put the weight lifting and conditioning together with a group of guys who are just great young men and are hungry to win, all of that allowed us to beat a team that had the experience over us.

The team gave us a really good car despite the little practice time we had but we still don't have the straight-on speed we need. The rules still allow other manufacturers more of that speed. We could gain some of that back by taking off the wing but if you did that we'd have no grip - not a good idea. We're kind of stuck where we are right now; not bad but not great.

Richard Boucher

The Taliban say the detainees are well but have not allowed anyone to contact them, ... working to try to secure a swift resolution of these issues.

Peter Brimelow

The system won't allow special salaries for math and science teachers, who are sometimes said to be in short supply. It's hopeless.

The sweepers originated in the old days, to brush away debris from the ice. Now that the game is played indoors they are used to create friction on the ice, allowing the stone to travel further.

The threat of us being able to throw the football doesn't allow them to bring the secondary up to stop the run. They can't put eight or nine guys in the box. They have to defend us with seven, and with our line playing well and our backs, it's pretty difficult (for defenses).

Jay Inslee

The third goal of the new Apollo Project is to grow jobs right here in the United States rather than allowing job loss to go overseas.

Dan Glickman

The Supreme Court in its ruling sent a strong and clear message that businesses based on theft should not and will not be allowed to flourish, ... The clarity of the court's decision combined with this settlement provides the content and technology sectors a window of opportunity which I think ultimately will greatly benefit consumers.

The thing you try to do is create an atmosphere and a culture that will allow people to be successful, ... ... We've got great people in this organization who are really talented. I think the important thing in our position, in the front office, is to allow them to do their jobs and to be there to support them and help them.

The thing that touched me deeply, is that the officer really made a difference and allowed me to get to her five minutes earlier than I would normally.

Tim Burgess

The thing I'd hope all state employees keep in mind is that health care costs are going up dramatically. It's these kinds of modifications and changes to the plan that allow us to hold down the costs to the membership.

The thing about that is, I don't want the ball to hit him. If the throw wasn't going to beat him, I didn't want to allow the ball to ricochet off him and get away and score a run. I was trying to prevent that.

I've never been at a university where a student government wouldn't allow me to speak at one of their meetings.

Ted Stevens

I've made small investments in these things and some of them have been very successful. Others have been terrible, ... No one ever asks me about the losses, but they have really held up to public scorn the successes, and the scorn covered the people who allowed me to invest with them.

Jonathan Levine

I've been a huge fan of Hal Ashby forever. And I think that the distinctive thing about 'Coming Home' is the love story, and how - kind of emotionally real it is, and how these two characters allow each other to see their - kind of vulnerabilities. And it's great because it's a love story that's not really that cheesy, either.

Nick Cave

I've always been interested in both areas. For a long time, they were on a parallel plane, and I didn't dedicate myself to one or the other any less or any more. And then I just reached a revelation that it wasn't just about dance, it wasn't about fine art. It was about these two forces that were important to me, finding a medium that would allow me to investigate both.

Sally Field

I've allowed myself to be so busy with my grandchildren, my sons, and my family, and work, that I really don't know where I would fit anyone in.

I usually take the worst-case scenario. Me and God have a deal. I'm not allowed to be cocky. As soon as I get cocky, things go wrong.

Eddie Huang

I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.

Jeff Sessions

I want a classical judge who does not allow their personal views or social views to impact their decision-making process,

Dwight Phillips

I wanted to break the world record, but the conditions did not allow that.

Ricky Rudd

Thanks everybody for allowing me to compete with y'all. I'll come out here and check on y'all. I might even sit up in the stands and drink a beer and watch everybody.

E. B. White

Thank you ... I'm so grateful you're allowing me to be here. Thank you for sparing my life.

Sometimes you have to find the strength to forgive someone every time you think of them. It might get easier over time, but you have to allow the emotions to wash over you. It's almost like mourning the loss of someone who never passed. 

Siouxsie Sioux

So of course I found that 'Goth' tag very limiting and, rightly so, I didn't go along with it. Why would I go along with having two arms and a leg cut off? Why would I allow myself to be like Boxing Helena?

So, my plan is to somehow keep myself on the list; to allow myself some time every day!

Jake Johnson

Sometimes, when you work with directors who have done it a lot and are established in the business and know the game, there are all these rules that they have. First-time directors will allow you to come in with choices. They're not so jaded by actors that they're like, 'Ugh, just do your job, man.'

Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Brian Griese

Teams can't play man-to-man coverage as much because he's got so much speed, ... The presence of Joey Galloway has allowed us to get the type of looks that allow us to run the ball.

David Rose

Technology is opening up so many more things for us that just weren't around previously. These pieces of software allow us to manipulate the information and analyze it a lot more,

Ronald Coase

Technology is at a point where we should allow multiple parties to occupy the same spectral space.

Tell them allowing you to visit your family frequently is the best way for them to make you happy.