Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brad Shaw

Once you've played in the NHL, I think you get a little misunderstood sometimes. These guys, with the salaries involved now and the way they get treated, people can lose perspective that these guys are human, too. Unfortunately, the job they've chosen, you don't get to have a bad day. It helps that I played in this league; it gives you a legitimacy right away ... But I don't know if there's that much advantage to it.

Billy Andrade

We all think about winning, that's why we are out here, ... Like I said earlier, you just need some breaks to go your way, and when that happens, you better take advantage of it.

Eric Hoolahan

Everyone took their opportunities and took advantage of them.

Fadel Gheit

Every producer around the world is producing the marginal barrel to take advantage of high prices. Right now, OPEC is not holding back. But OPEC wants to have its cake and eat it, too.

Jason Shirey

Every chance we get we want to take advantage of it. It was a good league win.

Tony Fabrizio

Every front-runner stumbles and it's a question of who is best positioned to take advantage of that,

Michael Greco

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Tsutomu Soma

As the yen looks to halt its sharp gains in the past week or so, investors started to take advantage of the stronger currency to buy overseas assets.

Debbie Casto

At the end I told them how proud I was of them. We've been working on the strategy of how to use the clock and work it to your advantage and they did that tonight.

David Rakoff

I do not go outdoors... As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of living in New York City is indoors. You want greenery? Order the spinach.

Gary LaGrange

From a commercial and psychological standpoint, this is five stars. This shows the people of New Orleans their city is back in business.

Gretchen Mol

She finds herself in New York City and she is making a living posing for photographs. A lot of it was her not really crossing the line and looking at what people were doing with the photographs.

Mitchell Rasansky

I think Southwest needs to step up to the plate. We can't have the city of Dallas continue to subsidize Southwest Airlines.

William Jarvis

Jeff really has local Washington sensibilities. . . . He understands the city and demonstrated it when he put together a team with deep local roots.

Ronne Froman

Jerry very much wanted to have somebody who was sitting around his table advising us on the day-to-day stuff. We had no ethics person for the whole city staff, right down to the grass roots.

Tahmoh Penikett

L.A.'s a great city in a lot of ways. There's a lot of great weather here. I know some good people.

Pat Riley

I think every team has a prodigal son, probably. What he's given to the city as much as what he's given to the team, the fans, has been extraordinary.

Gary Boyd

I think everyone's excited about seeing those projects completed. I think our city is going to be better off,

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Bryan Price

We hope to see some real signs of the rotation coming to life in the last month. Or, inevitably, you're going to have to make a decision.

Peter Costa

Emotionally, there was a sense this week of people wanting to get home and be with their families. In terms of trading there was not a lot going on and the volume was really low. I think you'll start to see some money coming back in when earnings get started ... and when there is some progress with the Middle East.

Robby Wine

Even today with the rain we had last night, the field's playing 10 times better. We're just jelling. Our team is coming together. The defense will be OK if we keep water on the field and the hops true.

Rich Williams

Everyone wants to do the first one. You do it right the first time, runners will keep on coming back.

Lynn Franco

As the economic ramifications of Sept. 11 continue to reverberate in the coming weeks and months, and the number of layoffs continues to rise, the economy faces tougher times ahead. While consumers have managed to keep the U.S. out of a recession for several years now, that soon may no longer be the case.

Fabrice Santoro

At one point, it's great that it's coming so late. I've been playing since I was 16, and when your first quarterfinal arrives at 33, it's a long time.

Marty Simmons

At that point, you could just see the life coming back into our bodies.

Andrew Olvera

At 8:25 a.m. when they got there, they saw heavy smoke and fire coming from the second floor.

Dennis Smith

We talked to our doctor and had him tested and he said he definitely did not have ADHD.

Mark Rosenker

Learning how to drive while distracted is definitely a recipe for disaster.

Amber Starkey

She was one of the leaders of our team. I'm excited for her, and I think she is ready to play at the next level. Offensively, she's going to be tough to replace. She was so strong offensively and she played volleyball year-round, and we don't have a lot of players who do that. Those are definitely some shoes that need to be filled.

Brittany Davis

Obviously in the SEC, there's a tremendous emphasis on rebounding. That's definitely been one of our focuses in practice.

Spike Jonze

Obviously technology has become such a big presence in our lives and, I definitely know, in my life.

M. Thompson

Rhett's definitely a great quarterback. Nothing to take away from him, but at this time, they thought I would be a better fit for this offense.

Lovie Smith

Rex definitely showed some improvement. The offense put 24 points on the board; that's a step in the right direction.

B. R. Hayden

Ricky is just awesome. I think he's well and truly, head and shoulders, number one in the world ? on all surfaces and all conditions. He's definitely one of Australia's finest ever.

Ryan Hunter

Rice was around the strike zone all day and he kept us off balance. He definitely didn't do anything to hurt himself.

I think my new thing will be to try to be a real happy guy. I'll just walk around being real happy until some jerk says something stupid to me.

Stephen Rubin

I have never seen him so happy writing something.

Jim Roberts

I'm very proud of our kids, very happy for our kids. We're just trying to keep playing.

Derartu Tulu

I'm very happy with the time as I haven't trained since the World Championships,

Rocky Jarvis

I'm very happy with the results obviously. The scores are the most devastating we've had, and they really show how well we played. We've been working hard to win our serve more often and put the other team on its heels, and I'm happy every time we don't need to eke out a victory.

Paul Casey

I'm very happy with the game, it's right where I want it to be,

Jenson Button

I'm very happy with that as it's been a tough weekend for me,

Michael Rosa

I'm very happy with my time. I ran 3:30, I was right there.

Mardan Mamat

I'm very happy with my performance today. I putted very well today. That's probably my lowest score round here.

Azar Nafisi

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

Bertrand Russell

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

Charles Kettering

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Demi Lovato

When I look back, it saddens me to think that I was so hard on myself - when I was younger, I thought I had to look like everyone else, but I learned that beauty comes from how you feel about yourself. Once I started taking care of my mind, body, and soul, I realized that I didn't need to conform to what's "normal" and started to love myself.

Demetri Martin

I think it's interesting that cologne rhymes with alone.

Bernie Sanders

What the Des Moines Register said - you know, there were coin - I think there were half a dozen coin flips - a fairly chaotic type situation. At the end of the day, no matter how it's recounted, it will break roughly even. I love and respect the caucus process in Iowa. See, and I don't have to say it, because they voted already.

Donald Fagen

It's great to know that our old stuff still sounds good to our fans, just as it's wonderful to think that we've turned a few people on to jazz over the years.

Donald Fagen

We don't think of ourselves as being perfectionists, really. To us it's more about desperately trying to have it sound more or less OK.

Donald Knuth

I remember that mathematicians were telling me in the 1960s that they would recognize computer science as a mature discipline when it had 1,000 deep algorithms. I think we've probably reached 500.