Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendell Berry

If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.

William Kamkwamba

I want to bring clean water to people who do not have it. What I'm trying to do now is think of ways to build a well-drilling machine that is low-cost so people in rural areas can afford it. People in rural places could use the water for irrigation or for drinking.

Vivienne Westwood

I don't feel very comfortable defending my fashion except to say that people don't have to buy it. You do have to consume. You have to live. If you've got the money to be able to afford it, then it's really good to buy something from me, but don't buy too much.

Clive Thompson

Politicians or pundits can distort or cherry-pick climate science any way they want to try and gain temporary influence with the public. But any serious industrialist who's facing 'climate exposure' - as it's now called by money managers - cannot afford to engage in that sort of self-delusion.

Emmitt Smith

If I didn't have a scholarship to go to the University of Florida or any school, I probably would have considered the military because my family could not afford to send me to college.

Elizabeth Warren

It is easy when you are successful to think that you did it all by yourself and to forget that you didn't. You got here because a lot of things broke your way. You were lucky enough to be born into a family that could afford to take care of you well.

Chen Shui-bian

We must unify Taiwan; we cannot afford to have our society being divided in half.

Charles Pena

The political atmosphere is charged. Democrats can't afford to be seen as soft on defense or terrorism. They're going to have to fight the social cuts without bargaining on defense.

Pat Donahue

The overall goal is to use wood resources and technology to drive economic development around housing. It's a high-quality affordable housing option that could drive as much as 90 percent of the labor costs out of a traditionally built house.

Tammy Faye Bakker

I wish people could have seen what they called our mansion. They would have been so disappointed, because it was just an old house that we fixed up, and I love the old house.

Jenifer Lewis

Saturday night is when my hair would be fixed up and that was my memory.

Bill Wyllia

When you're on a fixed retirement income, having to suddenly to pay for insurance takes a chunk.

Lars Richters

Unfortunately we're in the habit of being a second-half team and we've got to get that fixed or we're going to learn the hard way.

Grover Norquist

Tax increases slow economic growth. Why would you raise taxes? We need to reform spending, the tens of trillions of unfunded liabilities can never be funded by tax increases, that can only be fixed by reducing spending.

Justin McCareins

We'll get it fixed up for when it really counts. We'll save it for later.

H. Hunt

We want to travel, and we haven't had time to. And we have to get our house fixed up for our old age. It's been sad and it's been happy. It's been emotional.

Dan Hawkins

We're going to have to get this fixed (by Congress),

Scott Stevens

We're getting hit with a double-edged sword, the higher seasonal increase and Hurricane Katrina. The folks I feel for are those on a fixed income.

Theophilus London

I want to wear something that's not perfectly matching; there has to be something unorthodox about it. I want to create this mystery.

David Schwimmer

To be perfectly honest, I feel I have a duty to use my celebrity status in a positive way.

Elsa Peretti

I hate that impeccable, perfectly perfect look, all matched and prearranged.

Megan Fox

I think it's perfectly acceptable not to run with cliques.

Michelangelo

Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.

Steve Graves

We need to toughen up a little bit. When we play a team that is physically better than we are, we have to play perfect football.

Ludwig von Mises

The living is not perfect because it is liable to change; the dead is not perfect because it does not live.

Simon Cowell

You have the perfect voice for that kind of song. There's nothing more I can say.

Jimmy Lawler

We're not swinging the bat. I think at times we are too selective and waiting on the perfect pitch.

Bill Johnson

Sometimes our breakthrough begins when we refuse to be impressed with the size of our problem.

Dick Cavett

I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn't include someone the size of the Hindenburg.

Edwin Moses

I overcame size with mechanics.

Delta Burke

Eve wasn't a size 6 and neither am I.

Lamar Alexander

Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.

John Sayles

The less money and time you have, the more you haveto plan ahead and be careful about your coverage. It's like a gas:it expands or contracts depending on the size of the container.

Helen Fisher

You size up someone physically in less than one second - too tall, too short, too fat, too thin, too old, too young, too stuffy, too scruffy.

Peter DeFazio

Given the large size of the illegal harvest, ... I find it difficult to understand how this could have been a casual oversight.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Bodybuilders' cocks are the same size as everyone else's.