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.

Olli Ahvenniemi

We had a size advantage, so of course they had a little advantage in quickness and speed, so we tried to press the boards.

Bob Wheeler

We wanted to be in the southern part of the country to take advantage of the growth and emergence of these markets versus what we're seeing in the northeast region. The company's intent is to bring local people on board and offer them the opportunity to join us as long-time associates. We're not here to fill 200 jobs from other places. We want to use local people.

Brad Blew

We wanted this game to be an up-and-down game. We felt like we were a little faster than West Fork overall, and they certainly have a size advantage over us.

Megan Baumgardner

We wanted revenge tonight. We used our quickness, speed and height to our advantage and came out with the win.

Gene Allen

We wanted to take advantage of our mismatches. We felt Darnell had not been getting the ball enough lately.

Terry Stotts

We wanted to take advantage of both those guys inside, they finished around the basket. They did a nice job of fighting when they were open.

Mary Lewis

We've grown up a lot. We struggled early in our careers here but we've learned a lot. Going into this year I thought we could do really well. I didn't think we'd make it to the dance. Now we're in it and we want to take advantage of it.

Joe Smith

We've had some tough losses the past couple games. This was a game we definitely wanted to come out and take care of our home games. Take advantage of some mismatches we had and just play basketball the right way.

Demi Lovato

Growing up in America, I never really appreciated my culture. I knew what being Hispanic was, but I thought that since I didn't look Hispanic, I was white.

Clara Barton

Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.

Alexander Herzen

We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to be a child. If we merely look to the end of the process, the purpose of life is death

Will Smith

You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.

Jane Gillette

I know orchids don't grow in the wild.

Jamey Bowen

I hope it wasn't a last hurrah. I'd love to see this team grow and stand by my words that we'll win a championship before (Portland).

Terry Boe

I haven't put (too much pressure) on her. My expectations are for her to grow and get better and do it at her pace and her style.

George Eads

I'm just trying to let everything lie and grow right now, I'm not going to pressure myself to do anything that it's right for the time.

Joe Horrigan

I'm sure he (Bell) had no idea it was going to grow into what it is today.

Ron Carey

This victory sends a signal that American workers are on the move again.

Todd Bradley

I feel the time is right for me to move on to another challenge.

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.

Ambrose Bierce

A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.

Ambrose Bierce

LAST, n. A shoemaker's implement, named by a frowning Providence as opportunity to the maker of puns.

Ambrose Bierce

PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To wrest the wealth of A from B and leave C lamenting a vanishing opportunity.

Ambrose Bierce

ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit.

Alicia Keys

Create the world you want, and fill it with the opportunities that matter to you.

Anne Lamott

I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.

Andy Pettitte

When you build relationships, you get to share your beliefs. It gives you the opportunity to share your faith with other people.

Judy Davis

It's like you're getting ready to go to Cinderella's ball, and then, when you lose, it's like you wake up and realize you're not Cinderella.

Jim Calhoun

It's one loss. It's nothing more, nothing less. It's not going to stop us from getting ready for West Virginia.

Greg Marsden

There's a long tradition of rivalry between our two programs, and I know they'll be ready for us.

Jeff Horner

They're going to be hungry. We have to be ready for anything.

Scott Andrews

It's a tight schedule to get two units ready in six months.

Troy Walters

It's a road game, so that's what you kind of expect. It kind of got us focused, like we've got to get ready to go.

Daniel Briere

It wasn't very hard. It was just to keep the timing and make sure we're ready to go.

Tomas Vokoun

On Wednesday, every play, every minute, every shift counts, ... That's what we're trying to get ready for.

Willie Randolph

Pedro will be ready. I trust Pedro that he'll be ready to go. That's what I go by.

Rajneesh

Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration.

Isaac Asimov

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

David Shuster

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.