Famous Quotes & Sayings

Serge Payer

As a line we need to provide a little bit of offense. It's not a priority but, at the same time, we need to take advantage of every opportunity we have.

Kevin Burke

The Burke Administration continues to dodge going public with news of the City's newest arrival - a $4.8 million dollar 'structural deficit' - while, at the same time, using that bad news to its advantage in wage negotiations with police and fire unions.

Eddie Fierek

The bye is the advantage. Playing a L.C. team that's better than their record, that's not easy.

Bob Scott

The big thing is we have to finish around the basket. We've known all year that we need to (take advantage of our size). Sometimes we've done it, sometimes we haven't.

Andrea Jung

Avon also has an advantage in that we've always shipped small orders to individuals. So we don't have the back-of-the-house complexities and barriers faced by other traditional companies who try to get up and running.

Francesco Cece

A wicked way to hurt the heart of someone who loves you, is when you take advantage of their love, with lies and deception.

Jeff Carroll

At times, we were crushing it, but we couldn't sustain it tonight. We gave them way too much to take advantage of.

Karen MacNeil

A wine steward's job is to know about their list. It makes no sense not to take advantage of that expertise.

Karen MacNeil

A wine steward's job is to know about their list, ... It makes no sense not to take advantage of that expertise.

Don Lindburg

Between the arrival of the first Su Lin in our country in 1936 and the birth of the second one in 2005, history has not been kind to pandas, with only about 1,600 individuals left in the world today.

Marion Oettinger

We need something as mundane as a loading dock. We need to prepare, for example, for the arrival of the river, which is going to be transformative.

Norman Baker

The arrival of this spy center means that Big Brother is finally here. The balance between the state and individual privacy has swung too far in favor of the state.

Howard Moscoe

The arrival of these new buses would not be possible without the financial support from all three levels of government.

Todd Akin

The arrival of the Pope to the birthplace of the first cathedral west of the Mississippi was truly an honor and Americans poured into St. Louis to participate in prayer services, a rally and celebration mass.

Gary LaGrange

The arrival of the Delphin Renaissance marks the first step in the recovery of the cruise industry in New Orleans.

Kobe Bryant

The arrival of our new daughter ... is such an incredible blessing for me and my family. We are all full of beautiful emotions after such an incredible day.

Andrew Morton

The 1980s turned them into an international family thanks to the arrival of Diana and this bull's generation of young Royals - Prince Andrew, The Duchess of York and so on. And what happened was that they were rather like a stock, rather like IBM. Their stock went up and up and up and when the balloon burst their stock went plummeting to the ground.

Paul Swangard

They've realized that the next generation of fans wants sports delivered any time, anywhere. They're astute in remembering that in every arrival of new media, sports has always been second to porn as the most compelling content.

Bob Basel

As fragile as this market is, that could have really hurt. This doesn't seem bad at all.

John Dunford

A school's reputation can easily be lost through bad behavior on the buses. There is always a degree of uncertainty about the extent of power outside school and this will clarify that right.

Will Rogers

As bad as we sometimes think our government is run, it is the best run I ever saw.

Dave Adams

As bad as we played in the first half, ... you go in at halftime and say, 'Gosh, if we just played decent football, we could've been tied.'

Whit Cornell

As bad as we played at times, we put ourselves in a position to win the game. That's what good teams do.

Charlie Melancon

As bad as things are in south Louisiana right now, can you imagine how much worse they'd be without functioning local governments?

Bruce Vladeck

As bad as the situation is now. it can only get worse when the economy stops growing.

Antwan Peek

As bad as the season was, it shows that everything they talked about concerning our pass rush improving has proved to be true. We're going to continue to get better season.

Brian Riedl

As bad as the last five years have been, it's going to get even worse the next five years.

Jim Tracy

As long as he keeps his focus and continues to realize there is no real opportunity to be satisfied and he maintains that hunger, ... he could wind up being a real good pitcher in the Major Leagues.

Tony Tyler

As our schedule reliability continues to improve we are pleased to be able to resume services to (six) destinations.

Dr. Roberts

Randy has come through an unprecedented ordeal and continues to improve.

Douglas Altabef

Profit news continues to be good, and we are seeing some relief from the profit taking of the last few weeks. But there is an ongoing tug-of-war between 'we've come too far too fast,' and 'the economic recovery is strong' and you're seeing that played out on a day-to-day basis.

Owen Davis

Prime Office Products is a great fit with Staples, as Staples Contract continues its double-digit sales growth,

Mike Ortner

Our defense has been pretty strong during the season and continues to be consistent.

Ari Fleischer

North Korea continues to engage in provocations and now reckless acts.

Evan Olsen

Oil had a pretty big spike yesterday and that was negative. If it continues to go that way again, it could be something we start to watch again.

Timothy Ghriskey

Oil continues to be a big influence on the market, and the Fed is as well. As inflation goes, so goes the Fed.

Joe Torre

As a player, to me the Dodgers were the Yankees of the National League because... you either loved them or you hated them.

O. Henry

When it launched, it really got out of Dodge in a hurry.

Kyle Busch

This is a great way to start with a new group of guys. Our Dodge was fast today and hopefully it was still be fast on Sunday.

Dontrelle Willis

I tried to dodge it, but it was on me so quick, and I have a big backside.

Pat Taylor

As a result of the campaign, we've done 27 million dollars of construction on campus.

Tom Fitzpatrick

The broad-based picture of dollar strength remains intact and further gains look very much in the cards.

Simon Derrick

The big support that Fed rate increases had been giving the dollar is starting to wane and the minutes made that clear.

David Anderson

Prices are rising because of expectations. If we have it in our heads that oil is going to do well and we start putting dollars into it, then the prices will iron out.

Alex Beuzelin

Deteriorating market sentiment for the U.S. economy and yesterday's less-than-ringing endorsement of the strong dollar policy by Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill fueled the dollar's latest losses,

Michael Klawitter

The theme in the market remains interest rate differentials, it's not surprising to see the dollar come under some pressure.

Jens Nordvig

The thing to watch now, once the 15 minutes' 'noise' after the number is out of the way, is whether there will be a resumption of the weak dollar trend.

Paul Frost

(Strawberries) crack, just like cherries. You have to go out and strip them. It's like throwing away dollar bills.

Tom Barrett

Quite candidly, I think there are sufficient dollars to do both.

Jason Williams

As it stands, I have fired four rounds, killed four squirrels and been visited by four police officers. The first time, they SWAT-deployed. This is silly.

Ben Nelson

Some decisions, like opening a fire hydrant to put out a fire, are easy to make. Other decisions, like deciding how to best distribute a drought-limited water supply among urban, rural and recreational uses, require careful deliberation.

Jane Austen

You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking;— if the first, I should be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire.

Demetri Martin

If you happen to catch on fire during the show, do not panic or wave your arms around or scream or we wil give something to panic and wave you arms around and scream about.

Bobby Scott

There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.

Dean Kamen

To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions

Edmund Spenser

Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fire the greatest smoke.

Andrew Olvera

We've seen that in this fire in the Topanga-Chatsworth area. We lost one structure, but we saved thousands of homes because we had that defensible space. We're able to do our job much more efficiently because of that.

Ed Markey

It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.

Alex Rodriguez

You're representing 400 million (300 million, actually) Americans. That's a pretty big responsibility.

Bob Collins

You've got to say this was ill-conceived, poorly planned. We now have $1 million spent on a ferry that's going nowhere.

Chuck Pavlos

You're going to have a million people in this corridor.

Russell Perreault

There are more than 300 million people in the US, so we still have a lot of potential sales out there.

America Ferrera

They say 15 million people are watching the show, but what does that mean, you know? It's not until I'm accosted on the street that I understand!

Magglio Ordonez

We've got 25 million people in Venezuela. At least 24 million are going to be watching the games.

Martin Grove

could see these pictures go to $100 million or more worldwide.

Parker Palmer

There are a million 'oughts' in the world. There's a million ways in which I ought to be serving the world. But the ways I'm gifted to serve and the opportunities that come to me to serve are not a million.

George Pechtel

We wanted $3.4 million to get to Seventh Avenue.

Maria Muldaur

I am always most excited about the newest material I am doing, and other songs get put back on the shelf or dropped.

Tammy Cox

You say you are not going to watch the news but you do. You want to know what is going on there.

Jane Fonda

The news is not gender-neutral, but it's usually reported as though it's gender-neutral.

Arianna Huffington

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Brit Hume

We've had a series of major news stories that have brought in viewers who either were sampling to see what else was available or were normal news watchers. The Florida recount and the end of the election was a huge development. And then 9/11 came along.

Ben Harper

The good news is at this point as I get older, the load has gotten heavier but my shoulders have gotten wider because I've gotten happier so it's a damn good thing.

Elizabeth Edwards

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

Vijayraj Bhatt

Controversies can make news but can't produce results.

Art Hogan

Arguably, Nokia's news isn't good, ... If we were rallying on Nokia, it was a little questionable on its reasoning.

Patricia Edwards

There?s not a lot out there that?s new.

Eliot Ness

Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the task. After all, if you don't like action and excitement, you don't go into police work. And, what the hell, I figured, nobody lives forever!

Patrick Nieminen

At that point, I'm not thinking about police, I'm thinking about me.

Tim Read

At this point, they (police) still think he has a gun.

Bernie Sanders

I intend to introduce legislation that will make police accountable for their actions and limit uses of force in cases where it is unnecessary.

Mike Hanson

We don't see a lot of these in the Police Department. But we have to take it seriously because it's one person's allegation that it was an intentional act.

Claude Chabrol

We live in an era where pizzas show up faster than the police.

Donald Trump

We have to know what we're doing. Right now, our police, in many cases, are afraid to do anything.

Alexander McQueen

The police need to come down to street level.

Delmore Schwartz

I got married the second time in the way that, when a murder is committed, crackpots turn up at the police station to confess the crime.

Dave Bowman

As of now, no response from the public or business.

Dan Stessel

Some (drivers) have opted to switch to public transportation, and we're working to welcome them to the system.

Jim Bailey

public safety reasons and for your own safety.

Tom Bailey

We have a responsibility to the public to do the right thing, ... We've got 14-year-olds that read the newspaper.

Sharon Stone

My personal style and public style are very different. When I go out, I play dress up.

Ben Schott

The radio's pretty much always on, and I also listen to some American podcasts, such as for 'National Public Radio' and 'Newsweek'.

Darryl Strawberry

didn't want to make a public thing out of it.

Bob Elliott

We want a more comprehensive look at public safety.

Alicia Munnell

With public employees, the day of reckoning is more in the distance.

Theodore Sturgeon

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

Sam Phillips

I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.

Tim Powers

The wages of courage is death, lad, but it's the wages of everything else, too.

Jim Rohn

Profits are better than wages.