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.

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.

Rick Price

At the beginning of the week I thought this looked like it was made for me. Because of the tightness there's really no huge advantage of being a long hitter because there's no place to hit it.

Jodie McClain

At 5-9, I do have an advantage and have had the privilege of playing the point all four years (of high school). They want me to do that, so that's an advantage because (other) schools wanted me to move to the (No.) 2 (shooting) guard.

Michael Ostrovsky

At the very least, we want to educate advertisers about the fact that in some sense they are being taken advantage of. Under the current mechanism, if they don't think carefully about their bidding strategies, they can end up paying a lot more to the search engines than they need to.

Mark Mobius

Commodity prices are being supported by healthy demand from countries such as China and India, but one must remember that it remains a cycle. Currently it looks like the cycle remains in the 'stronger for longer' position and South African companies are taking advantage of this.

Leon Esterhuizen

Commodity funds took advantage of the one-way bet offered by a weakening dollar.

Amani Toomer

Conceptually, it's an advantage for us. But you never know how it's going to turn out when you play the game.

Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered that they were not Indians at all but only dirty-clothes hampers.

Stan Magee

There is a lot of wisdom at this table and we all bring something good to the table that will allow us to made a decision amongst ourselves without committing taxpayer dollars to do it.

Piers Handling

To allow Canadian filmmakers to stand shoulder to shoulder with their international counterparts.

Matt Silverman

With Fan Fest comes the unofficial start to the baseball season. We are pleased to welcome our fans into a new era of Devil Rays baseball. We hope to offer many more opportunities to allow our fans to interact with our players.

Kelly Lamrock

We in opposition are not prepared to allow this government to legislate its way to more votes or more seats or power than the people chose to give it.

Lynn Reaser

We don't think we are going to have another recession ... We think there is enough stimulus in the pipeline, enough positive news in there to allow the economy to keep on a growth track for the next year.

Seth Sulka

We certainly couldn't compete with that type of money. The economics of the WNBA would not allow for that type of deal.

Marty Brown

We think it's appropriate for the state to allow King County and Seattle to make these decisions in any way that they decide.

Ernesto Zedillo

There's great participation, there's great enthusiasm and there's a great calm in the country ... ... It will strengthen our democracy, and that will allow the country to continue forward.

Christopher Bell

We're in here for the long haul. We've got a successful and strong company ... and we intend to keep make it even stronger.

Sanjay Gupta

We want to take a much more proactive step and give our customers further peace of mind.

Richard Skaggs

I'm not willing to give up on the Nasdaq today. It is only down a few points and we're not seeing a lot of weakness.

Peter Hain

I'm now going through, and indeed have been over the past week, a process in which I will be making an announcement in the next few days.

Simon Clarke

I'm happy where I finished and I'm looking forward to the next few months of racing.

Greg Puhalski

I'm sure teams will try a few wrinkles here and there, but I think you just have to go out and play hard.

Jovan Vavic

The Gaucho Invitational is the toughest tournament of the year because it includes all the top teams from the Stanford Invitational as well as LMU and a few other top teams in the nation.

Chris Gomez

It's more weird than I thought it would be, ... But after a few starts you get adjusted.

Ron Gideon

It seemed like the longer he went, the more he got settled. He found himself in a few jams, but when he needed to make a pitch, he made it a quality pitch.

Brendon Gale

It's what we work out over the next few weeks.

Janina Gavankar

I want to see what technology's going to be like in a few hundred years, if the human race hasn't completely obliterated itself by then.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Bobby Lutz

We're a better team right now, the way we've played the last 10 games.

Bobby Lamb

We signed 23 last year, and this year we signed 12. This year we were very selective because we were looking at taking one at every position, basically.

Nikola Tesla

The last 29 days of the month are the toughest!

Rabindranath Tagore

Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.

Octavio Dotel

What I saw today, it made me feel good. It made my work for the last nine months look good. I've been waiting for it.

David Akers

It's not going to be easy, but I think things were encouraging. It's better than what it was last Sunday, by far.

Bobby Knight

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

Scott Walker

My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer.

Dave Barry

When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy.

Charles Stanley

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

Alan Autry

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

Al Oerter

So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.

Al McGuire

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

Al McGuire

I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.