Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Mikulik

Dexter has been getting some quality at-bats. He's very poised and confident for a 20-year-old. He took advantage of a fastball that caught too much of the plate and drove it.

Jonathan Kozol

Congress has an opportunity to take advantage of the opening created by Justice Kennedy later this year when it reauthorizes the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

Peter Hargreaves

When I fly to European destinations, I always fly economy; I don't fly business class - there is no advantage apart from a few more inches of room.

Justin Moore

To be honest, he didn't take advantage of his opportunity, and he'll tell anybody that. Being a big brother, he told me to take advantage of this opportunity, to enjoy it. Don't come out here and be too nervous, just take full advantage of it.

Gary Cooper

To take advantage of the system, the locals are going to have to have the technologies in place. The locals and the states have to find the resources.

Homi Kharas

To take advantage of these new export opportunities, the region's going to have a lot of job turnover. And most countries in the region don't have unemployment insurance. New mechanisms to help people as they move from one job to another will be important.

Paul Vogel

We are very glad to have been chosen by ITP after such an intense evaluation process. Improving communication and taking advantage of existing best practices will help ITP improve its collaborative efforts.

Kerri Gardin

We should have taken advantage of (their turnovers) more. We missed a few gimme baskets and had a few mental breakdowns. That's what hurt us.

Richard McGinn

We're disappointed with our results for the quarter, ... However, industry growth is strong, and we are well positioned to take advantage of that growth.

Henry David Thoreau

We often love to think now of the life of men on beaches,--at least in midsummer, when the weather is serene; their sunny lives onthe sand, amid the beach-grass and bayberries, their companion a cow, their wealth a jag of driftwood or a few beach plums, and their music the surf and the peep of the beech-bird.

Henry David Thoreau

They will tell you tough stories of sharks all over the Cape, which I do not presume to doubt utterly,--how they will sometimes upset a boat, or tear it in pieces, to get at the man in it. I can easily believe in the undertow, but I have no doubt that one shark in a dozen years is enough to keep up the reputation of a beach a hundred miles long.

Henry David Thoreau

But it is rather derogatory that your dwelling-place should be only a neighborhood to a great city,--to live on an inclined plane.I do not like their cities and forts, with their morning and evening guns, and sails flapping in one's eye. I want a whole continent to breathe in, and a good deal of solitude and silence, such as all Wall Street cannot buy,--nor Broadway with its wooden pavement. I must live along the beach, on the southern shore, which looks directly out to sea,--and see what that great parade of water means, that dashes and roars, and has not yet wet me, as long as I have lived.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

A kiss on the beach when there is a full moon is the closest thing to heaven.

Jessica Chastain

I don't want to be in my car all day. I love getting up in the morning in Venice and walking my dogs down to the cafe to get my tea, and then perhaps going to a bookstore and sitting and reading, then walking to the beach.

Jerry Doyle

I used to skip out of high school and go flying. It was just one of those things, I thought it was kind of a cool thing to do. I never thought about doing that as a profession, but I started checking things out and I found out there was a flight school down in Daytona Beach, called Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

Jhumpa Lahiri

The sky was different, without color, taut and unforgiving. But the water was the most unforgiving thing, nearly black at times, cold enough, I knew, to kill me, violent enough to break me apart. The waves were immense, battering rocky beaches without sand. The farther I went, the more desolate it became, more than any place I'd been, but for this very reason the landscape drew me, claimed me as nothing had in a long time.

Goran Ivanisevic

I must be the only player in the world who ever injured himself for a tournament by stepping on a shell on the beach. I don't know what I'm going to do.

Ian Somerhalder

It's one of those things that hits you when you're not even looking for it. It's a moment when you find those words surging through your mind - "I feel so alive right now." There's varying degrees of it. Acting definitely makes me feel so remarkably alive. Sitting on a beach or walking through nature makes me come alive always.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.

Jack Kerouac

Nothing ever happened - Not even this

Doug Duncan

The question in New Orleans is what will happen to the economy. The key to housing is jobs.

Craig Biggio

You know, it was going to happen sooner or later. We understand that. Whether it's another year, another two years, whatever, we know it's going to happen. We know nobody can play forever. But for now, the thing I'm happy about the most is that he's down here and he's getting the opportunity to play. And he's such a professional, if he can't play, he'll let you know it.

Harriet Harman

Actually, I don't ever think there will be a men-only team of leadership in the Labour party again. People would look at it and say, 'What? Are there no women in the party to be part of the leadership? Do men want to do it all themselves?' It just won't happen again.

Kelly Witte

We have to keep scoring when we have runners in position to score. That has to happen for the rest of the season.

Bonnie Mathis

We have to keep our waterways clean. We happen to have all these pumping stations because of all our lakes.

Robert Mercer

We're working on a fail-safe solution to be sure this doesn't happen again.

Peter Thonis

We're working around the clock, ... It will be incremental and will happen in stages. It will take some time before everyone is up.

Paul Taylor

I get like a melody that comes up and I try to write it down or record it. Hum it into a tape recorder or write it down on some manuscript paper. It could happen at any time, on the road or off the road, but mostly, you know, at home.

Doug Nelson

When we saw the site come up for sale, we said we've got to be part of this.

Orla Brady

If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.