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.

Phil Garner

Sometimes your offense picks up your pitching, and I do believe that our pitching will pick up our offense more often than it will let us down. Tonight we needed the offense and we had the offense. A win is a win.

Art Hogan

(Techs) had such a terrific run for the past two weeks that I believe some people are taking this opportunity to take some money off the table and invest it in the 'old economy,'

David Gibb

Terri is declining rapidly. We believe she has, at this point, passed where physically she would be able to recover, ... Face the Nation.

Bob Skubal

Some people still don't believe she's for real. If they have an issue to deal with they should get over the fact that girls should have no limits set on them. They should never hold themselves back.

LaVerne Knox

Sometimes people in this area, they just believe that one of us, if not both of us, should be in the Colonial Center every year.

Sathya Baba

Seeing is believing, I will believe in God only if I see Him; but are all things seen or heard or touched or tasted, as real as they seem?

Viktor Yushchenko

Russia is our strategic partner and we believe that in the course of this visit we will lay the groundwork for a new stage in the development of Ukrainian-Russian relations,

Russell Smith

Sadly, I don't really believe in the idea of timeless fashion. It's an oxymoron. If 'classic fashion' really never changed, we'd all still be wearing togas.

Phil Klay

Prayer in a combat zone serves exactly the same purpose as it does in peacetime. In war, the stakes are life and death, true; but if you believe in God and in the notion of a human soul, then we are always making decisions of tremendous significance.

Bruce Summerhays

The day started out kind of bland, then I made a couple of good par putts early and got things going, ... You always feel good when you play like this. I'm going to have to put up some similar numbers the next two days.

Nas

Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.

Joe Glenn

He tried hard and ran hard. There were a couple of plays where I thought he should have trusted the point of attack.

Terry Floyd

I don't know if it's emotional but I will realize if we play great or poorly that there is only a couple of weeks left.

Derian Hatcher

I don't know if you're supposed to love your coach. Right now I love him, but we'll see in a couple weeks.

Martina Hingis

My life has been very good the last couple of years. I'm very comfortable, and this is really hard work,

Tim Richards

We need all six players to play solid, ... Hopefully we'll get everyone here doing that in the next couple of weeks.

Dwight Taylor

That's the key for us ? play hard each night. It doesn't matter who we're playing as long as we play hard each night. I feel like, if we had played hard like that a couple of games earlier, we could have had a couple of victories instead of losses.

Derek Waugh

I was proud of the way we met physicality with physicality tonight. Karl Hollingsworth was fantastic and needs to play like that every time. Lipscomb is playing extremely well right now and we were just a couple of plays away from winning this game.

Beth Keating

I'm very excited about it, particularly for the summer. It's a lot of work. But it's great not having a boss. And I have some ideas.

Brad Meltzer

I'm excited just to start my new novel,

Dave Winker

I'm excited for two reasons. First, a rocket launch is always exciting. But in terms of my career, the real interesting, exciting thing is getting the data.

Dan Mahurin

I'm excited for those two guys. Those kids work extremely hard ... I'm happy for them.

Charli Turner

I'm excited for this weekend . . . to see how we'll grow from this, and to see how good we can be under these circumstances. I know this team and its character. I think we can prevent this from happening again. I really do.

Derek Jones

I'm excited for this season, with it being my first full season as a pro. I'm especially proud to be part of the National Guard team because of what they stand for.

O. Henry

I'm excited for the summer. Well, not excited for the summer, but I'm excited for the season, anyway.

Ozzie Guillen

I'm excited for the people here. They wait so long for this to happen. It was a lot of work but a great thing to get it done.

Mike McCoy

I'm excited for the kids. I think they're excited to be in a new building. Not only are they seeing friends they haven't seen since last year, they also have new surroundings." ()

Spike Jonze

Felt is not the easiest thing to animate. It's very flimsy.

Miles Teller

I've always felt like I can dance.

David Chase

Last year, we felt we needed more teachers. I'm troubled that we're not going after personnel just because we don't have the room for them.

Mark Rydell

So he was really a tortured fellow, ... He felt very lonely during that period. But he felt that it helped him. And it did.

Richard Miller

She was a businesswoman, and she was doing something that was not in sync with the times. She felt she had to treat everyone the way she wanted to be treated.

Kevin Burns

She truly loved them. I think they felt that.

Kent Richland

She thought it was very important to be there, but she wanted to do it in as low-key a way as possible. We all felt we didn't want this to be a spectacle.

Paul Graham

She was the type of person you just felt was going to succeed in whatever she did. She was quite lively and outgoing.

Josh Meeker

She was phenomenal. Beth felt like we needed a high performance tonight, and she gave it to us.

Marcelo Enriquez

South is a very good team and I knew they were going to be much more competitive the second round.

Joe Linta

Special teams will be his meal ticket. He's got good speed and good hands. He's a real good 51, 52 or 53-type guy on the roster who can do a lot of things for you.

Kyle McLaren

Special teams was good tonight, especially the penalty kill.

Kelly Wood

One good shot from the opposition (centre guard) and that's all they needed to win. We had to hit at least three-quarters and it hung straight. That's curling.

Thomas Fuller

One good head is better than a hundred strong hands

John Sharp

One can say all they want about politicians, but politicians to other politicians, their word is almost always good.

Rob Hermann

Once you get to this point, you just want to see the local guys do well. Dustin is a good kid, and we love to help as much as possible.

Chris Chambers

Once you wrap that screen around, and you get really good sound you get immersed, ... You mentally make the leap that you're in this game. It's really amazing.

Stephen Malkmus

One day I'm going to write a straight-ahead story. I really want to, but I can't at the moment. I'm not very good at it right now.

Tony Gwynn

Lots of guys took them. They were everywhere.

Jeff Kent

Last year we started 12-2, and you guys had us going to the World Series already. Now we're 4-4 and you have concerns. I'm kind of perplexed.

Rob Judson

Senior day is really a special day. I could tell at our morning shoot-around that these guys were really focused. Everyone went out there and made sure that NIU would get the win.

Luc Robitaille

Selling L.A. is going to be easy. Phil (Anschutz, the Kings' co-owner) should offer the young guys a movie role.

Jon Heacock

Obviously, there are some guys that can help us. How soon, I don't know.

Brian Cashman

Obviously it's something that's unique and difficult. We'll lose some guys for a period of time. Hopefully they produce at high levels for those clubs, stay healthy and get back to us whenever their WBC season is over.

Brodie Croyle

Obviously, as you say, there's the top three guys that probably go in the top three picks. There's a lot of quarterbacks to be taken after that. Hey, I'm happy to be here. A year ago today, I was still recovering from a knee injury and wondering if I'd have this opportunity. I'm loving every minute of it.

Lleyton Hewitt

Obviously, all us young guys have been playing since we were six or seven years old.

Scott Long

No. Haven't done much of that lately. Now it's telling guys why they can't do things like that.

Bill Hicks

How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again? ...Seventy percent. What the f-k? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor?

Barack Obama

Every single thing I`ve done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young people are able to go to college and get good job training, to what we`re pushing now in terms of sick paid leave,everything I do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal.

Douglas Coupland

MCJOB: A low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, no-future job in the service sector. Frequently considered a satisfying career choice for people who have never held one.

Adam Savage

That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.

Adam Carolla

The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.

Adam Carolla

Everything seems overwhelming when you stand back and look at the totality of it. I build a lot of stuff and it would all seem impossible if I didn't break it down piece by piece, stage by stage. The best gift you can give yourself is some drive--that thing inside of you that gets you out the door to the gym, job interviews, and dates. The believe-in-yourself adage is grossly overrated.

Anna Wintour

Go get a job. Whether it’s working as a designer or working in a restaurant and then doing your own thing in your own time, it’s a reality of life. In the end it’s going to be helpful to you and so many others.

Angus T. Jones

Committing yourself to some kind of job that isn't committed to God is going to bring so much trouble into your life. It's not good and not something I would suggest that someone seek.

Anish Kapoor

I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Richard Hatch

When you meet someone with a vision, you have to give them a shot and an opportunity to see what they can do.

Amy Tan

I began to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.

Rick Nielsen

I prefer to be an equal-opportunity offender of the guitar.

Thomas Paine

Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.

Thomas Schelling

I use game theory to help myself understand conflict situations and opportunities.

Thomas Sankara

Let there be an end to the arrogance of the big powers who miss no opportunity to put the rights of the people in question. Africa's absence from the club of those who have the right to veto is unjust and should be ended.

Thomas S. Monson

Our opportunities to give of ourselves are indeed limitless, but they are also perishable.

Thomas Sowell

Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw away in their twenties.

Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Bobby Scott

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

Bobby Sherman

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

Bobby Knight

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

Bobby Cox

This year is different, ... We have 11 for about four.

Adepero Oduye

I love that you can watch a film and 10 years later still be affected.

Anna Torv

I live by the sea in Australia and the weather of course is glorious all year round.

Andrew Niccol

Sometimes I'll be channel surfing or something, and I'll see a glimpse of something, and I'll quickly turn the sound down, and then what I look at, that's an interesting movie. But it's not me who made it. It's whoever that guy I was 10 years ago who made it.

Ann Coulter

According to the California Hospital Association, health care for illegal aliens is costing state taxpayers well over $1 billion a year. Eighty-four hospitals across California have already been forced to close because of unpaid bills by illegal aliens.