Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Halpin

You have to give Modesto credit. They had girls in foul trouble and we couldn't take advantage of that. They deserved to win.

Zwelinzima Vavi

This (the China deal) is an example of how things should not be done. We have been told that the draft agreement will work to the advantage of China and be bad for us.

David Ricks

We're taking full advantage of the area, so there's no dead space at all.

Calvin Baisley

(Tonight) was a good game. We made two bad pitches, and they took advantage of it. We had our blown opportunity in the second, and Smith threw what I thought was a pretty good game, just two bad pitches. Ironically, this was probably the best game he's thrown.

Nick Saban

We had a great first drive. We looked like a good football team, but we've got to do that with consistency. We just have to take advantage of field position when we get it.

Jason Stevenson

We have a definite advantage at home. Teams have to walk through the big front door and then wrestle in the spotlights.

Eric Harris

We had to come out hungry. We didn't have home-court advantage and Collinsville did. Coach told us, 'The team that executes the best will win the game,' and that's what we tried to do. We tried to come out and execute in all phases.

Rob Blake

This team in the past hasn't taken advantage of some of the leads we've had in a series. So we have to force the issue, not sit and wait and see what's going to happen. (The Stars) are a veteran team with guys who have won Cups and their best game is going to be (tonight).

Arul Chinnaiyan

This was a discovery study that established the concept of taking advantage of the immune system to detect cancer.

Shaun Pollock

To protect a defeat and still go down 1-0 in the series is pointless. We've got to give ourselves a chance to win.

Albert Pujols

It's not how you start the season, it's how you finish. If you wind up helping the team make the playoffs, that's what you play for. You don't play to put up your numbers, but to try to get a chance to make it to the World Series.

Cal McCombs

We've got a chance to play for a conference championship and a chance to play for a winning season." ()

Trent Strickland

We've got a chance to come out and keep flying. As long as we're winning and still have this feeling, then I think we should stay airborne.

Sam Cassell

We've got a chance to be special. We've got a chance to be very, very special.

Steve Lynn

Everybody we have competing has a chance to do something. I'm excited about the group we've got.

Walt Jocketty

Everybody deserves a second chance and we're here to provide that. That doesn't mean we're going to let things slide, either.

Patricia Wright

Everyone who wanted an opportunity to speak, got a chance to speak. These are people who had an opportunity to interface with policy makers in a matter that they might not have otherwise had. They were looking at the problem of poverty from so many angles, but they were of one accord.

Bill Gates

Everyone who has been in this industry has had a chance to participate in something very exciting. It is kind of like early steam engines or factories or something. The timing was right for the people who got to do it. And that is a lucky thing for t

I think college administrators should encourage students to urinate on walls and bushes, because then when students from another college come sniffing around, they'll know this is someone else's territory.

Tom Rose

Once he adjusts to the college game, he's going to be a very good player. He's already very strong.

Brian Jeroloman

This is their College World Series. That's why you see that celebration.

Charles Hamilton Houston

The individual college youth cannot wait forever until the problem of his education is decided.

Elizabeth Warren

Going to college and finding a good job no longer guarantee economic safety.

Max Mutchnick

We are like college students. You don't really get the final version of the paper until the night before.

Mike Barber

We're college-prep focused, and education means a lot to us. Wesley's life is about more than sports. One play and sports can be gone, but education goes on.

Charles B. Rangel

I went to college and law school with the help of the GI Bill. That experience moved me so much, I dedicated the rest of my life to serving this great country and helping others succeed.

Mark Pocan

More than ever, a college diploma unlocks economic opportunity, provides students with a wealth of new skills and knowledge, and encourages innovation and growth. But more than ever, it also comes with a mountain of student loan debt.

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Ambrose Bierce

PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.

If I ever get real rich, I hope I'm not real mean to poor people, like I am now

I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.

Madeline Albright

I hope very much the Serbs will see it in their interest also to sign on,

Laura Gunn

I hope very much that there aren't other victims. I just don't know at this point.

Jane Harrison

I hope to run toward the end of the season,

Sean McManus

I hope to prove these people wrong very, very quickly.

Daniel Sullivan

I hope to prevent one of out students from getting sexually assaulted, kidnapped or I suppose the worst would be somebody panics and kills somebody.

Demi Lovato

As a kid I'd play with homemade recipes, like putting pineapple on my face to exfoliate my skin and doing facial steams with lavender or peppermint oils. I just loved doing stuff like that. It's what motivated me to launch my skin care line.

Alfonso Cuaron

As a kid, I wanted to be an astronaut. And my own passion was that I wanted to be a film director. I realized that being an astronaut was not going to be an option, so I said, "Well, I'm going to be a director and do films in space."

Alfonso Cuaron

A lot of the films I like are more than fantasies - they're movies fascinated by the technology of space exploration, and they try to honor the laws of physics. I watched the Gregory Peck movie 'Marooned' over and over when I was a kid.

Alfonso Cuaron

When you work with kids, people tell you to be very delicate, but that's the last thing you should do with kids. They feel patronized if you're like that. They just want you to be normal.

Alfie Kohn

How we feel about our kids isn't as important as how they experience those feelings and how they regard the way we treat them.

Andrew Garfield

America always seemed to me this foreign land that I imagined I could escape to if I needed to get away - and I think that came both from the fact that I was born there and from watching so many American movies when I was a kid. I was brought up on American films.

Andrew Garfield

As an adolescent, Spider-Man was what got me through tough times in terms of being a skinny kid.

Amy Stephens

We challenge our kids to be close around the 2:00 mark. If we can do that we can win games.

Amy Schumer

I feel like you know what you're going to be good at when you're older based on what you like when you're younger. When I was younger my best friend was Tony, this kid Tony, and he loved rocks. He was always playing with rocks, counting them, and now he's a crack head.

Pat Murphy

They're always looking to throw it downfield. We've got to get them to punt and get some turnovers.

Alan Watts

Breathing is important in the practice of meditation because it is the faculty in us that is simultaneously voluntary and involuntary. You can feel that you are breathing, and equally you can feel that it is breathing you. So it is a sort of bridge between the voluntary world and the involuntary world — a place where they are one.

Bob Ross

Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.

Nick Swisher

It's been like that all spring. It's just that balls decided to hang up there. It's hard to catch it when you can't see it. But that's how it's going to be in Oakland in the afternoon anyway.