Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kelly Slater

When I started surfing, I'd forget about everyone and everything and just go out and surf, ... I surfed by myself, but surfing has allowed me to have friends around the world. It's an exciting time for me and I'm having fun. That's probably why I'm surfing so well.

We got ourselves into a little bit of foul trouble early, but I thought we did a good job defensively and that allowed us to get things going on offense. I was really pleased with our play in the first half, but for about six or seven minutes in the second half, we just didn't do the job.

We got our Certificate of Need in June of this year. The state has allowed us to go forward as a pilot project.

Bill White

We feel they are trying to intimidate and insult people who are going to our demonstration. We don't feel government should be allowed to do that.

Daniel Alfredsson

We controlled the puck pretty well. We got off to a good start start, and obviously that gave us the win. It put them back on their heels. That allowed us to play a lot smarter.

We saw some stuff in film that allowed us to get him out on the edge more. He presents so many problems for defenses because they have do decide, 'Are you going to let him get the edge and run?' or 'Are you going to come up and let something happen over the top of you?' So he gave us a lot of that today and it was really a nice weapon for us.

The kids really stepped up to the plate and played extremely well on both sides of the floor. We switched to a half-court defense, and that slowed down Johnston and allowed us to get some transition points.

The lack of information and liquidity in the shares today has allowed speculators to push the valuation to unreasonable levels.

The lack of emigration rules and regulations allowed Japan to argue for a temporary halt to emigration to Hawaii in its quest to prevent passage of a Japanese exclusion act.

The metro Phoenix housing market is returning to normal after an extraordinary year that allowed housing prices to rise much more rapidly than at any time in history.

Their press really hurt us. We just made too many mistakes. We are getting close to where we want to be but give them credit they forced us to make mistakes and the turnovers allowed them to get into their offense.

The issues are now in the hands of the state, ... The state system must be allowed to work. But the county in a previous administration has taken care of its responsibilities.

Their defense never allowed us to get in a rhythm. We were playing a little fast, a little nervous.

Their inside game allowed them to get things done. We had too many scoring opportunities that we didn't respond well to.

The Internet has allowed people to invade our own homes, to have conversations with our children in the privacy of our own homes without us ever knowing about it.

The family is disappointed at how the crucial evidence was not entered or allowed to be entered.

David Anderson

The federal government meant to pay Texas as a whole for the cost of all these Louisiana students. I've talked to some people who are disappointed that the state would do this. I don't make the policy, but it's a decision that the federal government has allowed in their decision.

The fans must be allowed to speak out and criticism is welcome but when the game starts, they must all stand behind the team.

I?m doing what?s allowed under our First Amendment rights. I?m standing up for the right to assemble and free speech.

Mike Gordon

I'm not really allowed to talk about the Dead though. I think when we are at our best, we definitely do things that the Dead or no other band could do. We explore things and take things to the extreme.

Judith Guest

I'm glad I'm successful at it, because it's allowed me to live very well financially, and give my kids a lot of things. It's enabled me to do stuff that I otherwise wouldn't be able to do. But it's not who I am.

Justin Chon

I'm gonna be pretty honest; there wasn't a lot of improv allowed on 'Eclipse.'

Gia Coppola

In California, where you're allowed to drive at 16, you get so much freedom with that. It's a freedom to get outside of your parents' house and to do bad things.

In both of those areas in which residential customers have been allowed to participate, rates have declined 15 to 20 percent.

In many senses, 'Borgen' was a very democratic show. I was always invited to hear the writers' thoughts for the next episodes and allowed to comment on them.

In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.

Gigi Hadid

In middle school, I wasn't allowed to wear makeup. I secretly bought Maybelline's SuperStay 24-hr. concealer at CVS. I thought it was the coolest thing in the world.

Donald Trump

In a nutshell, Freedom Tower should not be allowed to be built, it's not appropriate for downtown Manhattan, it's not appropriate for Manhattan, it's not appropriate for the United States and it's not appropriate for freedom,

John Rhys-Davies

I'm not actually sure that actors or artists should be allowed to have a family, because the focus you need, the egotism, the myopia, is just taking away from the relationship.

Bonnie Blair

I'm not allowed to talk about him. His mother sent me an e-mail and told me not to talk about him. So I can't talk about him.

I'm not allowed to ring him until 9pm to tell him,

Chad Johnson

I'm not allowed to do that anymore, ... Coach Lewis took me out of the guaranteeing business.

I know the score makes it look like a one-sided meet, but I think a couple touches could have allowed us to come close, if not win.