Famous Quotes & Sayings

They have a limited ability to move over land in wet weather, but the ability of red swamp crayfish to get from Lake Mead to Beatty is probably pretty limited. We assume people are moving them.

They don't have the ability to get the synergies out of this that MGM does, particularly at the high end.

They don't have the ability to do a full restaurant, but at least you can get a cup of coffee, doughnut or Danish.

They don't have an abundance of ability to create offense but they skate well and defend very well.

They don't do that by accident. But at the same time, you have to be confident and know that your ability to play the game is what got you here, and that's what we're going to try to do, just play our game.

They had some ability here. Every NFL team has ability. We came in and changed some systems. We decided to do something a little bit different. Maybe all of the pieces here don't exactly fit, but we added some guys to the team who we feel will help us build this team to where we want it to be.

They had no ability to make those decisions whatsoever. They were just following orders.

They displayed superior midfield ability and did a real good job to keep us from being able to mount an offensive attack. They possessed the ball at midfield way better than we did.

This concept possesses the heritage and classic forms of the original Dodge Challenger. However, the ability to use the Dodge Magnum, Dodge Charger and Chrysler 300 series architecture as the concept's foundation allowed us to bring a new level of quality and fit-and-finish to a muscle car icon.

This colt has a lot of ability and tonight Victor drove him perfectly, ... He's got the Kentucky Sire Stakes at Lexington the next two weeks and then we'll have to see where he goes from there. I never raced with Wayne Smullin, but I heard a lot of great things about him from my dad. It's an honor to win a race like this.

Mark Shapiro

This club has the ability to have a better record than they have. This club has a chance to win a lot of games over the next two months and make it very interesting.

This fundraising is consuming us. It's impossible to overstate, I think, what it's doing to members and their ability to just focus on the job that they were elected to do. The collective concentration of the institution is being undermined every day by the need to fund-raise.

This forces family businesses to sometimes sell off under fire-sale conditions to come up with cash. Sometimes it causes them to go into a decade or more of very, very deep debt, which takes away their capital and their ability to grow as they had been growing, to provide more jobs and employment opportunities. Sometimes they end up having to slice off parts of the business or farm to come up with the cash.

This financing gives us the ability to fund our business plan, which includes making the capital improvements required to continue providing our customers with top quality and innovative products.

... This filing represents an opportunity for Dana to reorganize and emerge as a stronger company. We're positive about our ability to do so. As far as the people there (in Longview), they really would probably see very little day-to-day change.

This feels so good right now. I just hope that we make it all the way. We have the ability to make it.

This exercise will give General Franks and the battle staff a front line opportunity to learn new lessons and improve the command's ability to be decisive on the modern battlefield.

This exceptional third-quarter momentum, combined with our outlook for more modest earnings growth in the fourth quarter, reinforces our confidence in our ability to deliver $1.50, or more, in diluted earnings per share in this year's second half,

Boris Yeltsin

This example showed me that the ability to step back is also among the political tasks of a president,

This bothers me a great deal. This goes to the safety of the firefighters and their ability to come to your home and do their job properly. The vehicles, in my opinion, are not maintained the right way.

Newt Gingrich

This is a critical intersection for the president and his ability to be effective for the next three years,

This improves our ability to deter, detect and apprehend individuals conducting illegal activity, including smugglers, terrorists and people attempting to illegally enter our country,

It's not like we turned a hunk of coal into a diamond. This is a guy who had ability, but in junior they didn't allow him to play a positive role. We've just told him to work hard, do what we tell you, and the sky's the limit.

It's not just the number of officers, it's what the reduction in officers has done, ... It has compromised the ability of the police department to do modern, effective relationship-based policing.

For a government to maintain any credibility, it has to have the ability to pay people's salaries, turn on the lights, be able to have desks, telephones ... etc.

It's too early to get a full sense of his leadership style, especially behind the scenes. But his line of questioning, his ability to move the discussion toward his own ideas of the case, seems very much like our old boss.

There must be a balance between your ambitions and your resources but I think in the case of London they certainly have the resources, the people and the technical ability to achieve what they have promised.

It's a good possibility. We still want him to go through camp and make sure we're making the right decision. The progress he's made in game-calling and his ability behind the plate has been tremendous. The question was his bat, and he put up good numbers. His makeup allows him to make that jump. He's one of those players who can handle it.

Gregg Williams

I told him we can get David Copperfield if we want a magic act. He needs to make sure the damn ball gets back there every time like it's supposed to. We're not keeping him just for his ability to do tricks and entertain the guys.

I told the guys that I'm going to miss them. I told them I love them. I also talked to them about next year ? go out and get to the NCAA (Tournament) because they have the ability to do that.

Ted Kennedy

This legislation removes the unfair barriers that currently hinder the ability of battered immigrants to escape domestic violence safely and prosecute their abusers.

They're a great hockey team, so it's going to be a challenge. Obviously, we both ended up tied in the league for a reason. We're both very similar hockey teams in ability and it will be a challenge to go in there... Winning four games on somebody else's ice in a season is a challenge.

They have the ability to throw the ball and they've got a talented corps of receivers. That's a little different than the traditional Dolgeville team. They have speed and quickness and that big-play threat, and they're not a one-man show, either.