Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.

Viswanathan Anand

Of course, you feel good to play in a familiar environment. I enjoyed Delhi 2000 a lot. But the advantage doesn't work during a game. There, only the moves count.

Annie Leibovitz

There were some advantages to being a woman photographer. I think women have more empathy with the subject.

Benjamin Franklin

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

Jeff Morris

The advantages of heavy crude processing and upgrade of the bottoms via high-valued asphalt sales fit our core strategy and our business model well.

Michael Budman

We have an extremely scalable and robust e-commerce solution that allows us to take advantage of the global reach in support of the U.S. Olympic Team.

Joe King

We have an advantage over other communities. At the conceptual level, can we do something with the plant?

Dieter Zetsche

We have an advantage by announcing this turnaround plan that we are already in the midst of implementing. Every bit of it has been discussed and agreed upon by the unions. I have a very high degree of confidence we will be able to deliver on all parts of the turnaround plan.

Chuck Todd

We can't ignore initial Democrat polling, which shows Ken Lucas already ahead of Geoff Davis. And the GOP brand is getting killed right now in the Cincinnati media market, which might offset the automatic GOP advantage this district gives to Davis.

Robbie Lawler

The past is the past. I'm just here looking to compete and no matter who it's against, I go in to fight hard and do what I have to do.

William Graham Sumner

We are to see the development of the country pushed forward at an unprecedented rate by an aggregation of capital, and a systematic application of it under the direction of competent men.

Liz Nash

That was a good win. We've been working toward this. For us to be able to compete with these big public schools that train year-round ... I'm real proud of the girls.

Jim Scheer

We have an exceptional team preparing to compete in these Games. We feel that this is, without question, the most accomplished team and perhaps the strongest team we have placed on the field of play in a Winter Olympic Games.

Bobby Perry

We have a lot to lose. We're here to compete for a championship. We're not looking at the seeds. We're looking at the opportunity to move on to the next round.

Steve Novak

We need to keep getting better. Rankings aren't what we can decide. Winning these is the only way we can impress these people. We need to win the Big East now. There is no next year. We knew we (could) compete at this level since the beginning.

Judy Shaubach

We can't hang our heads and tomorrow the sun will come up and we will still be in first place. We proved that last inning that we can compete but just need to get it going earlier.

Andrej Lemanis

We have to view it as positively as possible or we won't be in the right frame of mind to compete on the court.

Rick Ruffin

We just didn't show up to play. Defensively, this was our worst outing of the year. We didn't compete at all.

Glenn Tipton

I have a lot to do with the writing, and also the production, but it would be wrong of me to say that I'm the most important member of the band, because everybody is important the way I see it.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Everybody tries to score a great goal, and I am lucky I have netted a few.

Zadie Smith

It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.

Walter Smith

From my own point of view, I hope everybody would realise that people who work in Scottish football - referees included - are always under terrific scrutiny.

Marc Ratner

The police did a marvelous job. So did (ring announcer) Michael Buffer. He kept everybody calm. He told everyone to stay in their seats and that everything was under control.

Anna Nicole Smith

One thing about living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me.

Brian Van Holt

I'm very excited to work with everybody on 'The Bridge' - the cast, the writing staff, the executive producers - the show is really good. I'm very lucky to be a part of it.

Beeban Kidron

Vittorio De Sica famously made 'Bicycle Thieves'; that's the film of his everybody knows.

Bill Hader

I remember I could do - I did Bart Simpson once on the bus. I did, like, a really good Bart Simpson voice on the bus, obviously before I hit puberty. And everybody went, 'Whoa, that sounds just like Bart Simpson.'

Yotam Ottolenghi

You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.

Yanni

The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

Yanis Varoufakis

I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.

Thierry Henry

I've always loved New York; I've been visiting New York since 1996. People don't look at you like, 'What are you doing? What are you wearing?' There is also that thing that when people know that you have worked hard to get something, people have that respect for that here. You worked hard - good for you.

Iggy Azalea

I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

Ice T

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

Idina Menzel

I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?

Idina Menzel

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

Ivar Giaever

Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.

Yoshihiko Noda

China's development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.

William Shatner

If I'm given an opportunity to do something, I do it. Or else I fool around with it.

Frank Marshall

I'm a big fan of documentaries. I've always loved them, and I've just never had the opportunity or the time to make a feature.

Carrie Underwood

[When] opportunities present themselves, I take them. It's just how I roll!

Carl Sagan

Maybe it's a little early. Maybe the time is not quite yet. But those other worlds - promising untold opportunities - beckon. Silently, they orbit the Sun, waiting.

Ashton Kutcher

I guess I really haven't thought much about winning an Oscar, but if I had the opportunity, I'm sure I would like it.

Ashton Kutcher

Opportunities look a lot like work.

Arnold Rothstein

Some days I make 20 bets. Some days, I make none…so I wait, plan, marshal my resources. And when I finally see an opportunity and there is a bet to make, I bet it all,

Antoine Fuqua

I like the opportunity to make films.

Robert Maddox

That would be kind of an insensitive thing to do in a situation like that.

Pat Gillick

Usually, when you come into a situation like this,

John McNally

It hasn't been unsafe, but there are situations where it could be.

David Patterson

I think the teams struggled when we were in those situations too.

Derek Jeter

Those are situations we need to come through in. Those are big. This time of year, especially, you've got to take advantage.

Craig Thompson

I think our situation is we would probably be better suited to have somebody go 11-0 again. But two to three years from now, we'd be better suited to have two or three 9-2, Top 25 people. But right now we just have to keep pushing.

Jeff Francoeur

I think she's in a tough situation with what she's trying to do. I don't think she was worse than the others, I don't think she was better.

Derek Jeter

It doesn't matter, ... Every situation is a new situation.

Kamerion Wimbley

We have to put him into a more single-minded situation where he is just throwing the ball.

Wendell Berry

We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.

Ben Elliot

When you think about the word 'quintessentially', it's about trying to get to the very essence of something.

Becky G

It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!

David Selby

Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show.

David Friedman

I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.

Nayvadius Cash

I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.

Nick Carter

I'm trying to make myself better. But I don't regret anything that I've gone through, because it makes me who I am.

Cecelia Ahern

I guess when you’re trying to find all the parts of yourself, it’s difficult to be with someone who’s already fully intact.

Carrie Underwood

I try to stay away from carb-y things at dinner.