Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are so far down the road that with all of our planning and stuff ... it would be very disappointing if we were not allowed to complete the project.

TSA needs to take a moment to reflect on why they were created in the first place -- after the world had seen how ordinary household items could create such devastation. When weapons are allowed back on board an aircraft, the pilots will be able to land the plane safety but the aisles will be running with blood.

Brigitte Nielsen

I know I am the first female celebrity in the world who has allowed herself to be filmed like that in an operating theatre.

I read a book called 'The Tao of Physics' by Fritjof Capra that pointed out the parallels between quantum physics and eastern mysticism. I started to feel there was more to reality than conventional science allowed for and some interesting ideas that it hadn't got round to investigating, such as altered states of consciousness.

Irwin Redlener

No organization should be allowed near disaster unless they are willing to cooperate with some level of established leadership.

Without those inside players, it allowed us to spread them out. It helped tremendously.

Danny Elfman

Without the music it was kind of hard to tell. People were very confused whether you're allowed to laugh at the stuff that was happening.

Without the independent commission to understand what went wrong on 9/11, we are not going to be able to fix the problems that allowed these terrorists to kill 3,000 people a year ago.

Claudia Black

One of the difficulties of not knowing for so long whether we were doing a fifth season or not was that we weren't really allowed to go out shopping for work.

Clare Balding

If you look back at British history, women being allowed to play sport in schools meant they had to change their clothing. They couldn't be running around in their long skirts and corsets, because you can't.

My grandmother always used to tell me, if I had a problem, I was only allowed to complain for one second. Then I had to take action.

Cindy Crawford

I get the hypocrisy thing, but any human being is allowed to have a public and private face, and celebrities should have the same rights as regular people to decide what cards they lay down and what cards they hide.

Guy Ritchie

It's about not letting the internal enemy, the real enemy, have his way because the more he does the stronger he becomes. The film's about the devastating results that can manifest from the internal enemy being unbridled and allowed to unleash chaos.

Susan Cain

Originally, technology was pretty clearly on the side of introversion. It allowed introverts to connect with people, to express their ideas in a less stimulating way: you're sitting alone behind a computer. But I'm starting to think that the pressure to self-present constantly online is becoming so extreme.

Barry Ritholtz

In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.

We came out and I thought we were ready to play. After that 17-3 lead, we made some substitutions and our energy level completely dropped. We were gambling too much defensively, which allowed them to get some easy baskets.

Judy Gold

When Joan Rivers walked through the curtain on 'The Tonight Show,' nobody in my house was allowed to utter a sound. Her gait was full of pep and purpose and her voice unmatched.

Tommy Amaker

With a different group of players you have a different team. Two years ago we were fairly young with a youthful exuberance and excitement about our program. I think this year the kids have been mature. It has been a different set of circumstances that allowed us to get to this point.

With a 64-bit workstation, we're allowed to have more memory, and with that artists can get more images loaded. They're not waiting on rendering.

Robert Crais

I had wanted to be a novelist for so long, but I didn't have a story. That story came from the death of my father, and wrestling with how to help my mother. Writing it allowed me to work through my fears, frustrations and desires. I wanted control over the situation. And I wasn't sure I would have any in real life.

Sheldon Whitehouse

I think that it's very, very hard for the NRA to continue to defend the position that people who are on the terrorist watch list should be allowed to buy firearms in this country. That's their position. I don't know how they stand by it.

Stephen Kinzer

There is much to justify Turkey's reverence for Ataturk. He is the force that allowed Turkey to rise from the ashes of defeat and emerge as a vibrant new nation.

My wife is wonderful. She's one of the people who has changed my life around... or has allowed ME to change my life around.

Fifa states that I'm not allowed to get involved with players' contracts. I can be suspended.

Chris Cornell

First and foremost, it was a lesson in propaganda. We were wound up, thinking we might be under surveillance, there would be hidden cameras in our hotel rooms, our phone lines would be bugged, they'd go through all our stuff. As Americans, we really aren't allowed to know much about Cuba or the people there.

Both rich and developing countries have not delivered on their promises, and the proposed global network of protected areas has not become a reality. Instead, governments have put nature at risk and allowed it to become a private commodity.

Both teams played a great game. The girls really turned the tide in the second half. We turned up the heat defensively which allowed us to cause some turnovers.

Andy Serkis

Britain has enormous amount of talent, as we've seen from the BAFTAs. It's all here, and it has to be allowed to flourish.

Amy Chua

I was raised by extremely strict - but also extremely loving - Chinese immigrant parents, and I had the most wonderful childhood! I remember laughing constantly with my parents - my dad is a real character and very funny. I certainly did wish they allowed to me do more things!

Alexandra Stoddard

Being a decorator allowed me to see what about people's environments made them happy. And what things they could do to have more light and color and joy in their daily lives.

Peter Lerangis

SOPA has been described as hitting a carpet tack with a sledgehammer. But technology was a sledgehammer to the music industry, one that allowed digital distributors like Apple to grow rich.

John Bradshaw

As a child I was not allowed to express my feelings, so I had to go back through therapy and express the child's pain.

Clint Eastwood

Actors know, with me they aren't going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks.