Cricket cannot afford to throw up meaningless games before its benefactors, which is what spectators and television audiences are.
Every place where I played or managed is special to me because of the memories and the friendships that each afforded me.
Fame & fortune come with a price that fame finds insulting and fortune can't afford to pay back.
This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare.
I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me.
Dennis Nedry: [scrambling on the ground] My glasses... [getting up] Dennis Nedry: I can afford more glasses!
Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.
Once I'm satisfied and I've made enough money where I can afford to live in Malibu, because it's very expensive, I will definitely be back there.
The most important thing however is the money. What use would it be to us, to have a a mighty stadium but a useless team, because we couldn't afford anything better?
The American people need to know that money is being used effectively because frankly, the nation can't afford careless spending, no matter how well-intentioned.
There are very few groups that really stay together. The leaders of groups make enough money to be able to afford to work a maximum of 35-40 weeks a year.
I had been accepted to film school, but my parents couldn't afford it, and yet they made too much money for me to get a scholarship.
We can't afford big symphonies but we commission works that sound rich and symphonic because of the nature of the instrumentation and the people we work with.
Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.
Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course of development, but also to afford to physical science itself powerful assistance.
From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of greater importance.
Without true medical liability reform, our doctors will continue to leave, and young doctors coming out of medical school $100,000 to $200,000 in debt will not be able to afford such onerous costs.
Jack Twist: Do I look like I can afford a fuckin' ropin' horse?
When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.
I don't wear diamond necklaces. I'm not against it but I never could afford it, so now I just wear gold. I wear bracelets, rings, anklets.
I didn't decide I was crazy until 1952. That's when I began making a steady salary and could afford to be crazy.
