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.

Mark Maselli

The advantage is it would have the look and feel of a 401(k).

Taylor Dent

The advantage is going to be with guys taking those blocked returns out of the air. Mark my words.

James Harris

The advantage here is that we are not introducing any new materials into the silicon manufacturing process.

Yves Brun

The advantage here is that these bacteria live in water and so they bind to all sorts of surfaces in water. This means that this glue is very versatile.

Becky G

When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.

V. S. Naipaul

To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'

Wayne Fortenberry

That was the turning point, for sure. The rebounding gave us second and third chances, which we converted into points.

Michael Perry

The 10-0 run put the game away for us. We got some transition opportunities and converted on them. It really ignited our play in the game.

Madonna Ciccone

I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.

Kimo Oelhoffen

I think I've converted a lot of Washingtonians to Pittsburghers. (But) there will be some Seahawks stuff (on the walls). It's not just Steelers.

Generoso Senga

which could easily be converted into improvised explosive devices.

Andrew Connor

When you see our drives, we took them the length of the field, converted third downs and converted inside the red zone, which was something we struggled on in some of the other big games we have played this year.

Mike Cully

Just nine months ago we were living in this three-bedroom converted house, and look at us today.

Yanis Varoufakis

Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.

Wayne Rooney

As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

Viswanathan Anand

In Gujarat, we had the world record of largest number of chess games in a single venue - 20,500 - and in Tamil Nadu, I have been emphasizing on the positives of chess to the authorities.

Randy Petersen

The policy doesn't look overly generous, but right now this is the only game in town.

Age Hareide

The points mattered more than anything tonight. The results in the other games went our way, and now we can travel to Belarus knowing that we are in the play-offs. I hope our luck continues.

Malcolm Jenkins

The Penn State game was crazy. There were like 110,000 people there, and they were ready for it.

Ted Young

The pat on the back (for winning the regular season) is gone. The first do-or-die games for the girls are (today) and on Saturday for the boys. Everything you've worked for is gone on Saturday if you're not prepared for it mentally or physically.

Nolan Bushnell

'Pong' hit the fancy. It was sort of the perfect storm of a game which has two players highly social, a game that women could play better than a guy, and sort of an acceptance of this social nature of games in a bar.

Tony LaRussa

That was such a typical game that we played,

Bruce Anderson

The patterns we are seeing are similar to those witnessed in the last campaign, but the past is not always a reliable predictor of the future.

Victoria Osteen

Don't fall into the trap of putting yourself last on the list or not even putting yourself on the list. That's not balance; it's not even healthy.

Richard Daley

I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.

Nas

Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.

Cecelia Ahern

She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone.

Bertrand Russell

The saviors of the world, society's last hope.

Jim Edmonds

The always-important last at-bat. That's big, especially here.

Charles Hayward

The $5 million will not last us until the summer.

Thomas Carter

That was it, that was the last straw,

Bill Hader

When you're performing, you're playing to the back row. With acting, you have to be more nuanced.

Rosario Dawson

That was something that we really worked on, not repeating ourselves. But I was like, 'This is not going to be a problem because I'm playing a woman.'

Chris Masoner

That was really important for us. We really wanted it ... It's so important for us to go into the playoffs playing like this.

Tiger Woods

We need to keep playing more in Ohio. It's that simple. We don't have enough tournaments here.

Kobe Bryant

We have to understand that we're not playing for right now; we're playing for the long haul. It's important to be patient. It will come.

Paul Eenhoorn

I walk into a scene, and I do the scene. That's my job. I don't have an objective. I have the words, and I have whoever I'm playing with.

Landon Donovan

We were getting slaughtered, ... We weren't playing well at all yet we're up, two-zero. But that's soccer.

Kevin Williams

We were still playing for a title, because we were playing for second.

Colby Armstrong

Typical Devils-type game. They wait for you to make a mistake. They've been playing that way for a long time.

Malik Rose

We pushed it and got up the floor. Now we just have to get into something.

Albert Young

When you saw us getting pushed back over things that were non-existent ... come on. I don't know what to say about that.

Ted Ligety

My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.

Ricky Ford

Sri Lanka pushed us all the way. We've been tested and bounced back stronger every time.

Gordon Richards

But that's not to say they're not here - they just got pushed over the sides,

Jake Eakin

I got up to try to stop him, and he just pushed me.

Stansfield Turner

I think he's being pushed out or made a scapegoat,

Andre Patterson

I'm not getting pushed around as much, and I still have the quickness I've always had.

Chris Bostic

That pushed me to go in -- do something for my country.

Ian Mckellen

Actors don't, in fact, retire, do they? It took me a while to remember that.

Jim Snyder

That was huge, it took away that 2-0 advantage.

Raymond Bonner

I'm not the only foreigner who took up golf while living in Jakarta.

Andrew Griffin

We had everything it took this year to get over the hump. We just didn't execute.

Steve Francis

I was trying to get to the basket, but I took what was there. It was a tough shot. I got enough arc, but it was a little strong.

Kurt Thomas

We clamped down on him. We took him out of his game.

Neil Callaway

Basically, we took him just because he's a big kid.

Donald O'Connor

Going up the walls doing somersaults, that trick took a couple of days.

Kenoy Kennedy

I think I took off before he started to slide. I'll take a look at it on the film.

Mohammad Saeedi

We are in the transition state, and the inspectors will work under the NPT.

Bill Vaughan

It doesn't set off any alarm bells. As is typical with T. Rowe, no transition comes about abruptly; they tend to be planned pretty well.

Chaz Bono

When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected?

Alan Dundes

Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.

Brit Hume

It's perfectly possible for somebody to make the transition from politics to journalism.

Brandon Sanderson

It seems that the rebels found the chaos of transition more difficult to accept than the tyranny they had known before. They joyfully welcomed back authority-even oppressive authority-for it was less painful for them than uncertainty.

Alfred Rosenberg

We are the transition from one education to the other.

Ann Brashares

There was a moment in between, a moment flung free in the midst of the transition, when he made contact. That was the moment she would dwell on.

Doug Freeman

It's a little gut-wrenching for me for us to have to make this decision, but at least we were able to transition into something new.