Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eddie Fierek

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

Miguel Olivo

Ramon's the man here, ... I just try to take advantage of the opportunity when they call on me.

Marquis Daniels

Of course, you've always got (San Antonio) in the corner of your eye. Phoenix, too. Home-court advantage is very important in the playoffs.

Ira Glass

Often they don't take advantage of the latitude they have. They spend a lot of their early career trying to be the - official version - of a reporter. It's all about replicating a kind of stodgy form that already exists.

Doug Evans

Normally we make that big run and run off and hide, but Serena would have no part of that. Serena played hard and they have a lot of seniors who play with a lot of pride. They came at us hard, but we expected that. But there was no doubt that we wanted to take advantage of our size advantage and pound it inside ... and I thought that was the difference.

Jim Christian

A game like this, you've got to take advantage of your opportunities.

Ricky Williams

Once we get through the mental part and get on the field, it will be fun. We don't have any Monday night or Sunday night games this year, so it's a chance to take advantage of the national attention and make a name for ourselves.

Candace Combs

The more I learned, the more I became broadly talented, and that worked to my advantage over time.

Norman Williams

The more he communicated, it was an advantage for law enforcement.

E. B. White

As long as this economic environment stays intact, the market can grind its way North. You pay a lot of attention to valuation and you have to keep your eye on the long term. If you have funds that you need in the short term, I think you probably need to take some money off the table.

Erik Cole

Actually, I'm not sure we're paying attention to that. I'm just paying attention to doing whatever it takes to help this team.

Michael Johnston

Definitely there will be more attention paid on Wall Street to natural disasters and global warming.

Damione Lewis

Coach really paid attention to the players' bodies and listened to what guys had going on with them, and pulled off a lot when he needed to. But when we hit, he had us hit at full speed, and I kind of like that.

Keith Murray

Colgate has to pay attention to these kinds of people. This still needs to be seen as a 'pure' brand.

Tod Nielsen

Developers will always play an important role in the application lifecycle, but the ALM and IDE markets are very different - requiring distinct business models, different operational and marketing structures and a focused R&D team. Both markets are important, but Borland can no longer give both the resources and attention they require.

Sherry Cooper

Despite slowing job growth momentum, the Fed is going to pay attention to the diminishing slack (the 5 per cent unemployment rate could be as low as 4.8 per cent if not for the hurricanes) and the pickup in wage pressures,

Maryann Gregory

And that's a healthy response. If you are hyper-vigilant all the time, you are not paying attention to your life.

Newt Gingrich

are really helping us make our case by drawing clearly the attention to the way in which they would write the tax cut bill so actually it is an increased welfare bill from their standpoint. We are directing the tax cuts to taxpayers.

Rob Sumner

Our defenseman couldn't get there because he was getting blocked. There was a scoring chance created off of it and they scored.

Al Wolski

The monkey is kinda off our back. The first win is always the most important. To be so close to it so many games prior, it gnawed at their insides and finally they got a chance to win. It's great for them.

Don Watson

Defense was the major flaw of our play. We never gave the offense a chance to shine because of poor passing and serve receive.

Joe Tucci

Dell had a great model, a different model. If we had a chance to replay the record in this industry, there would be a lot more people following this kind of strategy.

Brian Winter

Delisha Milton-Jones is a heck of a defender, and so is Charlotte Smith-Taylor. They did a nice job on (the play), but we had a chance to win the game and that's what we wanted.

Drew Brees

Definitely a game we should have won. To have the momentum we did, to be down on the yard-and-a-half line when we were up 14-10, we felt we had a great chance to put them away.

Mark Nash

Dee had played Blanche for us in A Streetcar Named Desire back in 2001, ... When I heard she was doing this show, I jumped on the chance to import it to our theatre.

Robert Dozier

Coach said ... we're way more talented than they were, and we've got an even better chance of making it to the Final Four. He preaches it to us. We hear that at least one time every day, that it shouldn't be as tough for us to get there as it was for them.

Jim Sandusky

Coach Ross invited us and I thought it would just be a good chance for our players to see how football is played at the next level. I want them to see how college players prepare, how they run drills, how seriously they take it.

James Mulva

As an industry we feel it is not a good precedent to fund a government program.

Emily Hall

As a group, the funds have shown that you can do about as well in a screened universe as in a non-screened universe. But that doesn't mean all socially screened funds are good.

David Hale

Back when I gave that speech in March, some of my hedge fund friends thought it would be a big issue by the third quarter. But here we are, it's July, and it just hasn't seemed to register.

Tim Kaine

Often, money is taken out of that fund for other projects. I'll make sure that stops.

Steve Robertson

Cocaine trafficking, the profits involved that are immense and terrorist organizations, just like any other organization, have to fund their organization.

Cathy Nixon

Any win is a good thing for us. This was one of the goals we set, this is something we wanted to accomplish. I'm proud of the kids, they played well and it's fun to see the reward of their hard work.

Dale Mitchell

The state does not provide any funding at all,

Joe Jones

The Second Injury Fund seems to be advantageous to a very small number of people.

Russ Guffey

The team's been really light recently. They've been in a really fun mood. Sometimes that's good, sometimes it's bad. Fortunately for this game, everything turned out well.

Michael Bennet

Often times, political games prevent senators from even beginning to debate some of the most important issues.

Brian Buchanan

And then I see them at the games, and they just go, go, go. I never hear them complain. Heck, they're always so happy to be there. And it reminds me how lucky we are to have them.

Dennis Erickson

Now, it's just a matter of competing, winning some games and working your rear end off. There is no magic wand.

Jake Voskuhl

Sometimes, you have that night when one team is rolling and it doesn't matter what you do. It's just one of those nights and when you play that many games in a season, you're going to get one of these nights. It's about moving on to the next night and the next city.

Mack Brown

So often in games so heavily hyped like this, it doesn't live up to the hype. I thought it was better than the hype.

Ron Hoyt

Sooner or later, we just told ourselves that we're going to win one of these games. We knew we would come out of it.

Andy Zavorek

Romero has throw two very good games back-to-back. And we did a good job defensively but two hits is not going to get it done in this league.

Jason Cain

Practice is hard. That way the games are easy.

Ken Lathen

Pretty amazing. There have been a lot of pretty good Ashland teams. And we should shatter that thing with all the games we have left.

Stephanie Scalessa

As a runner, the mental toughness Steven has is amazing.

Leroy Foster

The motivation wasn't there. I don't know if it was the layoff, but they just weren't ready to play. The mental mistakes, the turnovers, everything just showed they weren't prepared.

Megan Callahan

Roose has tremendous physical and mental toughness, leadership, skills, and experience.

Carol Hutchins

Samantha's one of the most mentally tough people I've ever met,

Sam Blank

It was a little different. I think its all about warming up and staying mentally focused.

Tony Russa

That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him.

Wendy Watson

Elena was very consistent. She's very mentally tough.

Samuel Butler

Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it.

Jonathan Papelbon

When I was starting I would start getting mentally prepared before the game. Now, I'm getting mentally ready during the game. There really isn't that much of a difference.

Argus Hamilton

The Columbus Day Parade was held Monday in New York. Columbus was the world's first Democrat. He left not knowing where he was going, arrived not knowing where he was, went home not knowing where he had been, and he did it all on government money.

Darrell Waltrip

We usually couldn't do it on Sunday. We had to wait until Monday because were about ready to kill each other.

Mike Bianchi

What is Monday the day the recycle bins are picked up at Isleworth?

John Whiting

We will be in the talks process on Monday morning,

Holly Hatton

We're going to be racing Monday and Tuesday to regroup. We have to get past this big letdown this weekend.

Amy Poehler

President Bush on Monday defended U.S. interrogation of terrorists, saying 'We do not torture.' He added, 'We freedom electrocute.'

Amy Poehler

President Bush threw out the first pitch Monday at Cincinnati's great American ball park. 18 Iraqis were killed.

Amy Poehler

Hey, guess what? Turns out the free market? Not so free. Wall Street was hit hard Monday when Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, Merrill Lynch was sold to Bank of America, and insurance giant AIG neared a collapse of its own. Basically, if your commercials air during golf tournaments, you're done.

Aldous Huxley

One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.

Charles Singley

Ruth was my girlfriend's name at the time.

Brett Favre

Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.

Arthur Adamov

What is there? I know first of all that I am. But who am I? All I know of myself is that I suffer. And if I suffer it is because at the origin of myself there is mutilation, separation. I am separated. What I am separated from -- I cannot name it. But I am separated.

Jamie Farr

It makes you famous, you get money from it, you go on and do the best you can, but it really is dreadful that people don't know your name.

James Van Der Beek

I've been through quite a few hurricanes. I worked in North Carolina, where there's a housing development whose name was Landfall.

Jane Smiley

Charles Dickens was an avid seeker of names - he read directories and looked for odd names on gravestones.

Asa Gray

This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm.

Brian Wilson

I earned my famous name.

Brie Larson

I have a sister and her name is Mimsy, like from 'Alice in Wonderland,' so we've got some strange names in our family.

Scott Peterson

I've seen them on every national broadcast. It's pretty amazing.

Josh Pastner

We're here to win a national championship. This is not a rebuilding stage. It's not a question of talent. We've got pros on our team.

E. Helm

We're playing in a tournament where somebody's going to the national tournament. It's that simple. And we'll compete.

Alfonso Scanio

The problem of railway safety has by now become a national emergency.

Rod Smith

Those are tragedies that have to be addressed on a national level.

Martha Stewart

I haven't been to Tasmania. I haven't been to the South Pole, and I haven't been to the North Pole. I want to see the polar bear migration before there are no polar bears. I want to see Glacier National Park before the glacier melts.

Jim Moran

because the National Rifle Association is opposed to it.

Larry Diamond

How can we communicate effectively if you risk being intercepted by the National Security Agency?

Aaron Smith

I don't know. I haven't even absorbed this. Winning those two national championships, those were special teams, too. I've been very blessed.

Ben Okri

It is easy to forget how mysterious and mighty stories are. They do their work in silence, invisibly. They work with all the internal materials of your mind and self. They become part of you while changing you. Beware the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.

Art Garfunkel

They say in the darkest night there is a light beyond

Brian Jacques

So here is my story, may it bring Some smiles and a tear or so, It happened once upon a time, Far away, and long ago, Outside the night wind keens and wails, Come listen to me, the Teller of Tales!

Jane Fonda

In spite of the incident, my experience in Kansas City was wonderful and I thank all the warm and supportive people, including so many veterans, who came to welcome me last night.

Jamie Farr

The entire behind the scenes of Saturday Night Live are all Canadian.

Caprice Bourret

It's like night and day... to do business, in Europe, there is no bull, they are pretty straightforward.

Carroll O'Connor

We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show.

Jane Austen

When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.

Jane Austen

Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the person who interests you at this present time, more than all the rest of the world put together.

Miley Cyrus

I try to not work too many Sundays. At least on Sunday nights, I try to chill out a little bit. I call it Sunday Funday.

Catherine McCormack

Sunday evenings often feel like the weekend is over before it's even begun.

Craig Finn

The Catholic influence just comes from being raised Catholic, going to church every Sunday, being confirmed, going to church on holy days. So it's coming from where I am. It serves the purpose of having people who have a base or foundation where they know what's right.

Brian Clough

You don't want roast beef and Yorkshire every night and twice on Sunday.

Brit Hume

People realized that they could come on Fox News Sunday, and they would be well and fairly treated.

Susan Orlean

When I still lived in Manhattan, people-watching was my hobby, and I spent many Sunday afternoons eating up the scene from a window seat at a Starbucks on Broadway.

Marlene Dietrich

Champagne makes you feel like it's Sunday and better days are just around the corner.

Alexandra Adornetto

I have church on Sunday.” “Of course you do.” “You’re welcome to come along.” “Thanks, but I’m allergic to incense.” “That’s a shame.” “It’s the bane of my existence.” - Beth and Jake

Eugene H. Peterson

The most important thing a pastor does is stand in a pulpit every Sunday and say, 'Let us worship God.' If that ceases to be the primary thing I do in terms of my energy, my imagination, and the way I structure my life, then I no longer function as a pastor.