Famous Quotes & Sayings

My ability in shot blocking and Debbie?s ability to take charges, I think it really made them think twice about coming into the paint. I think our guards did a good job of making sure their three-point shooters did get a lot of shots.

My ability gets overlooked because he's a four-time state champ and I'm a three. I know I worked hard to be on the top of the podium with him. He's probably the best wrestler in New Jersey but I can't count myself out of that category.

Debbie Harry

Music does not carry you along. You have to carry it along strictly by your ability to really just focus on that little small kernel of emotion or story.

Brian Billick

More than any defense we've had, this fits Ray's ability. That's scary. The 3-4 maybe didn't suit Ray as well as the other defenses, but he embraced it anyway. ... He's been asked to adjust because of what's gone on around him. That's asking a lot.

John Rogers

More than 2.3 million shoppers are already using Pay By Touch throughout the United States to make purchases, access frequent shopper programs, and cash checks at more than 2,000 retail locations. We've seen enormous consumer interest in Pay By Touch for its ability to enable a faster, more convenient and secure way to make purchases.

More student-athletes would be able to travel and to dress on the field, and it would give institutions the ability to bring more people along for the playoffs and for the title game. Making a profit is an individual institutional decision, but our motivation is to help them not spend as much money and be able to celebrate the event. This will hopefully allow people to do that.

More people can stay closer to home. There's the ability to stay locally and have a higher level of care as well.

Dirk Benedict

Months of working on The A-Team had not made me happier or more contented. It has challenged my ability to remain so. The hours of waiting, talking and thinking on the set needed to be balanced.

Montel has great hands, great speed, good height, excellent jumping ability -- all the qualities you look for. He does a great job of going to the ball.

Monte has the ability to make plays when they aren't there, and that's what I'm looking forward to seeing.

Moreover, we will have a bigger company, more flexibility and more ability to make good investments.

Carroll Quigley

More important than the Milner Group's ability to influence opinion in the Dominions was its ability to influence decisions in London.

Jonathan Reckford

More than Houses has greatly advanced our ability to serve more families around the world. Without the resources from the campaign, we would never have been able to expand this ministry as quickly.

Jeff Flake

My guess is that most states would gladly forgo 10 percent of their funding for the ability to make funding decisions,

Curtis Brown

My greatest asset is probably my speed and shooting ability. I work hard on my three-point shooting because everyone wants to be a scorer. I use my speed on defense to create turnovers and get easy buckets in transition, and on offense I use it to get an open look.

My hope for him is he goes to college and gets his degree. Whether he plays baseball or basketball is not a concern of mine. But I would love to go watch him play in college. He certainly has the ability to play either in college.

Steve House

My father had the ability to connect with many people on many levels.

Daniel Tammet

My family supported me. I wasn't hot-housed at all as a young child; I didn't go to any kind of gifted school. They didn't exist in the very poor parts of England when I grew up in the 1980s. I had a great time to learn, had access to libraries and teachers who were patient and enthusiastic when I showed ability in some subjects.

My family has been in Red Bay for over a century. I just want to do what I can to help make Red Bay a better place. I have the time and hopefully the ability to make a difference in the future of Red Bay. Every city has challenges it must meet. I just want to make a contribution.

Len Dawson

Maybe he went through what you're about to go through. You may not be on the greatest team in the world, but set your goals on what you want to accomplish. No doubt you have the ability to do that.

Maybe the expectations are more on the likes of Spurs and Arsenal. That could free us. Although we are happy enough to be in the mix, we are not content with just that. We want to make sure we do everything in our ability to get that Champions League place.

No one we saw in league even compared to him. He has great vision on the court and the ability to find his teammates.

Now we're seeing that the neuroD2-deficient mice, when compared to normal littermates, show a profound difference in unconditioned anxiety levels as well as their ability to form emotional memories. All of this matches very well with previous observations that the amygdala is responsible for fear, anxiety, and aggression.

Roy Barnes

Now, we are already in the process of developing tests that measure students' ability at different grade levels in reading, language arts and math.

Gary Bettman

Now the team's ability to compete is based upon its hockey, front office and team-building skills, not on the team's ability to pay, ... We have emerged as partners with our players and our fans.

Maurice Cheeks

Now, the margin of error is not very high. Mistakes have to be corrected right away. We have to eliminate everything that happened in the first half and start like this is a new season right now. I think we have the ability to do that.

Never assume the ability to walk means your ankle isn't broken or badly sprained. Putting weight on the injured joint can worsen the problem and lead to chronic instability, joint pain and arthritis later in life.

New England techies were more likely than others to think the best asset in self-employment is sales ability,

Natural selection has favored the ability to have culture, because many of these actions have to do with skills.

Never lose your ability to laugh at yourself, including within the world around you. And that adolescents are still adolescents. I don't think kids have changed that much. The troubles they have are universal.

Chris White

Frederick Jones has become well known in the Games Industry for taking radical ideas and applying them successfully. I have big goals for 2006 and Frederick becoming a member of our senior staff is going to help drive our ability to take things to a whole new level.

From a club's perspective, if a player doesn't reach your projections in terms of performance, it really will have a negative impact on your ability to compete in the future,

Charles Kennedy

Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.