Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Stephens

We got to the line 29 times, which is a real positive. But we only converted 17.

Bryant McGill

Through death all life is converted into food for the inconceivably vast maw of eternity.

Jim Ryan

They were converted to a larger-size tank but they just can't get it right. All of a sudden it starts cutting out.

Mark Ferrulo

This is why we really emphasize people getting at least a yearlong lease. Month-to-month is dangerous, especially in Florida, because so many rental properties are being converted into condominiums. That reality can really surprise renters and hit them hard.

Calvin Saunders

We played with better intensity on defense in the second quarter. Plus, we converted on their turnovers. Overall, I'd say we played good defense.

Saint Teresa of Avila

When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.

Rob Durling

The team was crashing the interior and fighting for every loose ball. Unfortunately, we only converted a handful of those opportunities, and when fouled,we didn't do well from the stripe (12-for-30).

Michael Williams

(The tenant) understood it was a single-family (house) converted to a two-family dwelling without permission to do so,

Alex Butler

The thing is, when you have an inside game you have a greater tendency to draw fouls and contact. Honestly, we don't have an inside game. We don't have back-to-the-basket guys. Our '5' guys are really '3s' and '4s' and I've converted them because you have to play somewhere inside of 10 feet. It may not be fair to them, but that's the situation that we're in.

Tony Hawk

I was a lot more cultured than the other kids in my high school. Because I traveled, I understood different cultures and had a more worldly view. Most of the people I went to high school with had never been outside of California.

Simon Van Booy

Every parent, no matter how cultured or sophisticated, will one day succumb to a child's pleas to visit Walt Disney World Resort.

Mahmoud Abbas

We must all be responsible and guard the land and the property because it will leave the impression on the world that we are cultured and deserve a state,

Ian Shepherdson

There are currently more than a million displaced people, and I don't expect many of them to be back at work by the time of the September payroll survey.

Wang Li

There are currently many problems at the policy level, the technical level and the administrative level.

Ed Churchwell

We're incredibly excited about this. No one, on my team at least, and no astronomers that I know, could ever in their wildest dreams have expected to find a single region like this with so many stars currently in the process of being built.

Hal Rogers

There is no question that mistakes were made; however, it is currently hard to separate fact from fictions and reality from rhetoric,

Mitchell Baker

With this reorganization, the Mozilla Foundation will look much more like the Apache Foundation than it currently does.

Dan Fogleman

Women's health is a high priority issue for Wal-Mart, and we are currently giving this issue a lot of thought.

Ross Norman

Were it not for that we might have expected gold to be $10 or even $15 higher than it currently is.

Helen Humphreys

A memorandum of understanding is currently being developed between DEP and federal land managers that will be relevant to the points in this agreement.

D. James

Also noteworthy, W&T is currently producing at 78% of pre-hurricane levels, and expects to return to pre-storm levels late in the second quarter.

David Draiman

I would like to thank a world that never understood or accepted me, family and friends that never believed in me, and a God with one hell of a sense of humor. You have all made me what I am today. Let that weigh heavily on your consciences.

Antonio Tabucchi

I live quietly at home among my family and friends.

Luke Bracey

I've still got to go and see the world, but I will come back to Australia in the end, when I have my family, in many moons to come.

Sizwe Kupelo

The outbreak response team is also providing members of her family with prophylactic treatment.

Mark Allen

We are providing a good place for everybody. We are trying to keep family units together and give them some privacy. They've had enough shellshock as it is.

Kristinn Taylor

We are preparing for as many as 20,000 people, just to be on the safe side. People have been fired up over the past month, especially military family members, and they want to be heard.

Kim Adams

We are praying for them and their family.

Lisa Stanford

We are a very close-knit family. Sara was worried about her grandpa, not herself.

Joe Leveroni

We strongly oppose the pending project. Our family has lived on and ranched this property for 85 years. Our property is not for sale.

Steve Huling

We have to find some high jumpers. We graduated two seniors who did very well.

Solange Knowles

We are already paying bills, having responsibilities most people don't have even when they're 24 and haven't graduated from college.

Tad Decker

This guy graduated with honors from Penn State in communications. We were very lucky to get this guy.

Jon Mattheiss

There was a lot of pressure on us tonight. We went up their last year and lost. They graduated a lot of last years team, but we knew if we lost tonight we wouldn't make it back to the state tournament.

John Husing

It was a very successful program at that time. Students graduated from that program and went to work in management positions for the local retail stores.

Rich Papirio

It was very exciting. Those guys that graduated last year had three outstanding years in a row. It was very enjoyable. It's nice to be able to put a lineup out there and watch them play to their talent level.

John Cena

My most string-beanish, I guess, is when I was 15 years old. From 15 to 16, I went from 155 pounds to 215. By the time I graduated from high school, I was between 235-250.

Greg Rigoni

Even though they graduated 14 seniors, they have enough talent and tradition returning to make another run at the title.

S. Hughes

Even though Talon graduated a year and a half ago, he was still well known. It's a school staff's worst nightmare.

Curt Miller

We were too perimeter-oriented. Toledo played a mixture of defenses and they really had us on our heels. We were just settling for 3s.

Billy Wilder

My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.

Dani Kubik

It was a mixture of a lot of things. She went out, and the crowd, and we just didn't play very well. But this is another chance, and we want to win it.

James Fenton

Sometimes I have thought that a song should look disappointing on the page - a little thin, perhaps, a little repetitive, or a little on the obvious side, or a mixture of all of these things.

Elizabeth Bowen

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

Stephen Jay Gould

No one should feel at all offended or threatened by the obvious fact that we are not all born entirely blank, or entirely the same, in our mixture of the broad behavioral propensities defining what we call "temperament.

Adam Savage

I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.

Davy Jones

My family is a part of my life and everything is all a mixture of enjoyment.

Annie Besant

I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.

Daniel Yankelovich

Americans are broadly uneasy about the quality of our relations with the rest of the world, especially Muslim nations,

Wissam Nasr

This is a teachable moment. When you see Muslims praying, it's not a terrorist act. It's not a prelude to terror.

Chuck Hagel

This is not how you win the people of the world over to our side, especially the Muslim world.

Brian Kilmeade

Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslim.

Stephen Colbert

I don't like the new president who hunts muslim extremists, I like the old president who is a muslim extremist.

Richard Engel

To be slapped with a shoe is a dirty insult in the Muslim world.

Maajid Nawaz

I really didn't grow up religious, and I didn't grow up acknowledging my Muslim identity. For me, I was a British Pakistani.

Otto Schily

The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.

Winston Churchill

Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

Larry Brown

It went great. We had probably between 150 and 175 people because that's what we set it up for. We had nieces and nephews from New York at the event.

Charles Dickens

And therefore, Uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that [Christmas] has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!

Charles Dickens

They whirled past the dark trees, as feathers would be swept before a hurricane. Houses, gates, churches, hay-stacks, objects of every kind they shot by, with a velocity and noise like roaring waters suddenly let loose. Still the noise of pursuit grew louder, and still my uncle could hear the young lady wildly screaming, "Faster! Faster!"

Charles Dickens

Christmas a humbug, uncle!" said Scrooge's nephew. "You don't mean that, I am sure?" "I do," said Scrooge. "Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? what reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough.

Charles Dickens

You can't make a head and brains out of a brass knob with nothing in it. You couldn't do it when your uncle George was living much less when he's dead.

Alanis Morissette

I think it's irresponsible when celebrities imply they're doing it all themselves. My son has aunties and uncles around all the time, and my husband is my hero. He's really full-on. I couldn't do it any other way.

Edward Gibbon

Theodosius was chaste and temperate; he enjoyed, without excess, the sensual and social pleasures of the table, and the warmth of his amorous passions was never diverted from their lawful objects. The proud titles of Imperial greatness were adorned by the tender names of a faithful husband, an indulgent father; his uncle was raised, by his affectionate esteem, to the rank of a second parent.

Ed Bradley

My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called my uncle. He was like a father to me. I was closer to him than I was my father.

David Walliams

I used to have a silk dressing gown an uncle bought in Japan and when I came downstairs in it, my dad used to call me Davinia. There was never embarrassment about that kind of thing. My sister used to dress me up a lot. She thought I was a little doll.

Louis C. K.

My uncles were all funny. My dad wasn't funny, but my uncles were all funny. Now I go back and I like him better than them, they were manipulative funny.