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.

Billy Andrade

We all think about winning, that's why we are out here, ... Like I said earlier, you just need some breaks to go your way, and when that happens, you better take advantage of it.

Fadel Gheit

Every producer around the world is producing the marginal barrel to take advantage of high prices. Right now, OPEC is not holding back. But OPEC wants to have its cake and eat it, too.

Rick Price

At the beginning of the week I thought this looked like it was made for me. Because of the tightness there's really no huge advantage of being a long hitter because there's no place to hit it.

Jodie McClain

At 5-9, I do have an advantage and have had the privilege of playing the point all four years (of high school). They want me to do that, so that's an advantage because (other) schools wanted me to move to the (No.) 2 (shooting) guard.

Michael Ostrovsky

At the very least, we want to educate advertisers about the fact that in some sense they are being taken advantage of. Under the current mechanism, if they don't think carefully about their bidding strategies, they can end up paying a lot more to the search engines than they need to.

Mark Mobius

Commodity prices are being supported by healthy demand from countries such as China and India, but one must remember that it remains a cycle. Currently it looks like the cycle remains in the 'stronger for longer' position and South African companies are taking advantage of this.

Leon Esterhuizen

Commodity funds took advantage of the one-way bet offered by a weakening dollar.

Amani Toomer

Conceptually, it's an advantage for us. But you never know how it's going to turn out when you play the game.

Gary Owens

Presence is an important tool. There's no question that people understand now that we don't have officers out there 24 hours a day. If they knew we were out there are at 3, 4, 5 in the morning, I believe that would have an impact.

Darby Hector

School is really a big part of my life. I really believe in the things we do.

Jonathan Kozol

Schooling should not be left to the whim or wealth of village elders. I believe that we should fund all schools in the U.S. with our national resources. All these kids are being educated to be Americans, not citizens of Minneapolis or San Francisco.

Allen Iverson

Saying something won't mean anything. We're gonna have to do it. I can't tell you anything that's gonna make you feel like we can turn it around. All I can do is believe in that and realize we're still alive. We still have a chance to make it into another season, and that's the most important part of all of it.

Eric Ries

Prove to yourself that your business, in micro-scale at least, creates value. If you believe it, you'll find it that much easier to convince potential investors, partners and employees, too.

Rose Tremain

Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female.

Saleh Saaf

The search is still continuing in Jakarta ... We believe that he is still in Jakarta, and (there has been) no indication that he is out of Jakarta or the country.

Ewan McGregor

The script, I always believe, is the foundation of everything. And if you don't connect to that foundation, if you don't believe in that and feel that you wanna spend three, four months of your life exploring it, then all of the other elements are secondary.

Al Fernandez

I've taught children as young as 5 years old. Believe me they are easier to teach than these (let's say older guys).

Rabindranath Tagore

Man has a fund of emotional energy which is not all occupied with his self-preservation. This surplus seeks its outlet in the creation of art, for man's civilization is built upon his surplus... In everyday life, when we are mostly moved by our habit

Max Cobb

Historically, there was a difference in the percent back between the men and women, so we were trying to equalize that. That was the concept. ... But today, it doesn't look the same. Rachel built her case and we supported that, but the Olympic committee didn't feel like they could make a change.

George Rodriguez

There's the thought that even if the Fed comes in with a half-percentage-point hike, the market is already trading with that built in.

Robert McCullough

It's part of what we do at the University of Vermont, we teach the history of the built environment." ()

Jamie Dixon

It's something we're proud of. Our fans, our students, the Oakland Zoo, they've been a big part of our success. Our students are right on top of you. It's something we did four years ago when we built the building. It's a good situation.

Marvel Kellogg

It's stunning to be over there and see in just a couple of weeks how much can be built when the money is there. They have a labor force ready and willing and not tied down with a lot of bureaucracy.

Rod Lache

It's an exaggeration to say they took Neon guts and built a truck over it, but took a lot of things in that platform and modified it.

Kathy Sierra

It was actually a little platform they had built for tourists or people who come to see the place, ... We sang to some people there people from everywhere. Everybody liked it. A few people cried. It was real emotional.

Angela Kelley

It takes people who've been here since before January '04 and it gives them a conditional status that leads to nowhere. That seems like it's going to be a big slap in the face to the community that's been reeling from the wall that was built last year.

Daniel Lipman

The response we've gotten and continue to get from certain elements of the gay community is just startling to me.

Khalil Dulaimi

We have not been duly informed about any certain date for a trial.

Jennifer Ko

We are in the process of deciding whether we should send them one check, or donate the money to a certain cause. We have looked into some things that were missing, things that were destroyed.

Stephen Covey

If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.

Sue Kidd

She was very important in helping me form a certain sensibility about writing fiction. I read her 13 short stories over and over and over again. I studied them and I loved them.

Chris Landsea

One thing is fairly certain -- it's going to be a major hurricane.

Lynn Marmer

Certainly, having a dividend exposes you to certain sectors of the investment market that without it you are not exposed to.

Paul Gewirtz

Certain kinds of legal reforms are seen as excessively limiting the powers of government officials or the party. There are obstacles from tradition and history.

Andy Bryant

Certain industries have industry-specific requirements. Our warehouses feel comfortable to electronics suppliers.

Ban Ki-moon

Since problems spill across borders, security anywhere depends on sustainable development everywhere.

Rick Riordan

I prefer to be the noisiest thing in my environment thank you very much.

David R. Brower

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.