Famous Quotes & Sayings

The most damaging bills were defeated. One bill that would have allowed any communication between elected officials to become private was taken out. It required a lot of work among the news media and public interest groups to stop this and all the work paid off.

Jim Calhoun

The more threes they made, the more reluctant we were to play the post with a big-to-big double (team). We couldn't double with a guard. Every one of those threes were like daggers. They allowed Lewis and Thomas to do what they wanted.

A climate of fear has been allowed to develop where parents are too scared to let their children attend school and of allowing them to play outside.

I guess the best thing about being a 16th seed is that it allowed us to play close to home. We should have a lot of support in Dallas. We'll be ready to play. We've won our share of games.

James Farrior

I guess we had them covered in the back end, because he was running around with the ball, holding it a lot, and it allowed our guys more time to get him. We did a good job in the back end covering. ... We mixed it up a lot. We didn't want to just stay doing one thing. We wanted to try to blitz a little bit, cover a little bit and just keep them off their pace.

If there was ever an injustice, it happened to the Filipino community. Not only were they exploited by farm work, but they were never allowed to become part of society.

It has been since 1994 that a single-car team owner has won a championship. If we allowed the current trend to keep going, down the road 10 years we might be saying that it has been since 2005 than a car owner with two teams has won a title.

Vince Carter

I think our defense intensity really helped us because we were able to get a lot of easy baskets which allowed us to get some confidence and for us to feel good about ourselves.

Darren Lockyer

I just think if you finish in the top four, you should be allowed a second chance. You've worked that hard all year, you earn the right to have a second chance.

I just tried to play with as much energy as I could, and tried to fly around the court and get rebounds. They went with a smaller lineup, which I guess allowed me to get a few rebounds.

Mikaela Shiffrin

I just - I fell in love with the sport when I started to ski gates. Once I was allowed to start training gates around 6 years old, then I really fell in love with it.

Donald Pleasence

I rather liked Death Line. All those zombies on the tube train thing was good fun, and it allowed me more of a comic turn than I am usually afforded.

By law, no judge or defense lawyer was allowed to be present in the grand jury room. Furthermore, the defense had no opportunity to call its own witnesses to rebut or criticize this one-sided proceeding.

Jason Alexander

I met the real George Steinbrenner on only one occasion when he actually came and played himself on an episode of 'Seinfeld.' He seemed to really enjoy himself. I did not get to know him, but the fact that he allowed himself and his beloved team to be satirized on our show is an indication to me of his true character.

If mom did survive, she will probably come and stay with me when she is allowed to travel. I could not go to school on Monday because of being so exhausted with worry.

Robert Krulwich

If I were king of the world, babies born in airplanes, balloons and blimps would, instead of choosing to be German, Maldivian or American, all get special heavenly blue passports with a stork on the cover labeled 'Sky Baby' - and they'd be allowed to come and go anywhere they please.

If I would have known, I wouldn't have allowed him in my car. Imagine, we get pulled over and I get caught with an armed felon in my car. Since I've been in the movies, it would have instantly drawn attention.

I have no reason to believe that he is not heeding the criticisms that have been made. It is important that he is allowed to get on with it.

Tony La Russa

I had started law school at Florida State University as a part-timer. I would go two quarters, and they allowed me to drop out to play baseball, and then I'd get readmitted in September. I was convinced I was going to be a lawyer and was using my baseball salary to pay my way through school.

I'm very thankful God allowed me to stay home with Vincent.

Jean-Marie Lehn

In 1998, I set up and directed a research group at the Nanotechnology Institute newly created in the Research Center of Karlsruhe. This allowed to offer to former post-doctoral coworkers the opportunity to develop and to progressively set up independent research activities in nanoscience and nanotechnology.

Helen Joseph

The children were allowed to sleep with her.

The case will be referred to the Immigration Court, and it's our hope that the monks will be allowed to depart voluntarily and go back to Tibet, which is what they wish to do.

Francis Maude

The chairman of the conference does feel very strongly that the platform speakers must be dealt with in a very neutral way with no one being allowed extra time.

The first half was us putting pressure on them. They were committed on defense, though. In the second half they opened up, which allowed our ball work to get through and get shots on goal.

Chris Watson

The first half was our half. The second half was their half. Fortunately for us, we had the lead and it allowed us to use a lot of clock up in the second half.

The first half was almost like a boxing match, trying to see what the other guy was going to do. In the second half, our conditioning allowed us to keep our intensity up and play at a pace that helped us extend the lead.

And 39 percent said they'd take a pay cut if they were allowed to telecommute. Even if they had to take that pay cut, ... our telecommuters might come out ahead, since several also told us that telecommuting has reduced their costs for gas, auto maintenance, parking, tolls and even clothing.

Scott Turow

The embrace of plot has allowed something like the Oprah book club phenomenon to emerge.

The endowment allowed us to not worry about the bottom line. We don't have to pack an auditorium with 200 people to make money.

The engineering and feedback processes in Windows Vista are different - and better - than they have been with earlier operating systems. The changes we've made have allowed us to deliver a more complete test version of the product to customers earlier than ever before and to incorporate more timely and relevant feedback faster, and they will enable us to deliver the highest quality operating system ever built.

Michael Josephson

The ethical person should do more than he is required to do and less than he is allowed to do.

Alice Lowe

The characters are not allowed to change if you write a sitcom; they're not allowed to learn anything. There's all these sorts of rules, and you go, 'I just want to be able to write one character and then leave that behind.' Also, as a performer, and I may regret saying this, but it would be my own personal hell to be trapped in the sitcom.