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.

Frederick Moran

The cable division came in with 13 percent cash-flow growth, which is basically the strongest we're going to see out of the whole cable industry this quarter, ... They're showing some real power.

Bobby Shelton

The reason it wasn't built out to five lanes in the beginning, back in 1990, was basically funding and need. There's probably no need at this point for five lanes in each direction. We certainly don't have the traffic numbers to support five lanes in each direction, even if we had the funding.

Harry Orf

We tell them about Earth science, astronomy, plant science and marine science. But what we don't do is explain what the four basic sciences are and what the building blocks are. We go too broad too early. We don't go in depth enough.... You've got to understand the big picture of what science is and how all the sciences relate to one another. If you don't do that, you'll never get it and you'll never get a real interest in science.

John Luther

We were looking at 2,500 square feet in a basic metal building there, and this is 10,000 square feet in a building that was designed as a hardened structure. There's no way a tornado could ever take this place out because of the design and location.

James Stokes

We went back to square one. We're starting with the basic fundamentals. We just had to choreograph every step, every movement.

Jay Lynch

We went away from our basic offense, which is shooting the three. They were giving us our strength, but we wouldn't take it. We made the extra pass, which played into their strength.

Donald Light

The public sector is by far the largest investor globally in basic research to discover important new drugs and vaccines.

Mark Scowcroft

We try to cover as many of the basic skills as we can. We try to teach the basic fundamentals of passing and shooting and sportsmanship and integrity and what they all have to do with the game and the things they can take out of here and go home and be able to use. The kids have really been learning and doing well.

Michelle Allen

We start out with basic things like 'milk,' 'more,' 'please' and 'eat' - things that are important to them and what they want. Then we just sign it as we say it to them and that allows them to put the word and the sign together. We've had really good success and we all get excited each time they do it.

Bobby Carter

They (Terre Haute North) execute so well. To be able to win 14 games in the conference they play in (Metropolitan Interscholastic Conference) shows how good they are.

Matt Watson

You don't want to lose any conference games. We're just trying to get some wins in the conference. We're going to try to turn it around.

Martin Amis

I sometimes feel I'm a sort of cult writer, rather than a mainstream writer, in that those who like my stuff like it a lot, but the appeal is not that broad.

Marc Maron

There was a period when I was getting a lot of banana bread, because I mentioned someone cooked me banana bread, and then everyone cooked me baked stuff, and I would take it to the hotel, and it was making me fat.

Lauren Bush

What interests me is seeing a problem and doing something about it, not all of the stuff around it.

Pauley Perrette

I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff.

Jonathan Banks

If you had told me in the Seventies and Eighties that TV would be as edgy or edgier than most films, and more intelligently written than most films, I wouldn't have believed it. There's great stuff out there.

Macklemore

The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.

O. J. Simpson

We have learn't a very valuable leasson today: it's better to watch stuff then to do stuff.