Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zubin Mehta

I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.

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.'

Gordon B. Hinckley

Every convert is a son or daughter of God.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Any investigator worthy of baptism becomes a convert worthy of saving.

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

That was the final dagger when it was 60-56 and we were not able to convert a couple times. They are a mature team that got a second life in the NCAA to make some things happen. We had to play at the top of our game to win this.

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.

We have to work, we can?t rest on any possession, we have to give maximum effort. We got some loose balls, we got on the offensive glass. We were able to convert on those hustle plays.

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.

We just weren't able to convert key power plays.

We just want to play and put a really good show on. Since there's going to be a lot of different people there with different tastes, it's a good place to convert some people over to our stuff.

Chris Chelios

We just can't convert our chances. We had the puck up the middle of the ice a lot, and didn't get anything to show for it.

We expect to convert congressmen and their staffs to our own view point in trade policy,

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.

Michael Burkett

Manufacturers must streamline the innovation engine with a greater collaboration and knowledge-sharing environment. They must ensure great research converts to competitive products by responding quickly to evolving market needs and do more than increase R&D spending.

We fouled them as much as we could in the fourth quarter. But we failed to convert when they missed them.

Barbara Mandrell

When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!

Victor Ponta

How can I convert the enthusiasm of voters into a practical programme of action that meets their desire for economic security and greater prosperity?

The problem - the greatest inefficiency of the process - is that you also wind up with a substantial quantity of medium-weight products that are not useful and you are stuck with them. What we are now able to do with our new catalysts is something no one else has done before. We take all these undesirable medium-weight substances and convert them to the useful higher- and lower-weight products.

Eric Heitmann

I think our problem right now is that we're not getting the opportunity to run. What we need to do is convert on third downs. That's something that's been our emphasis this week.

We couldn't find the groove for our shooting tonight. They out hustled us and we couldn't convert their turnover into points for us.

Paul Young

We dominated the first half and still did not convert chances. But we just have to keep on working hard and go on to the next game.

which could easily be converted into improvised explosive devices.

When you shoot 11-for-24 from the free throw line, you're not brimming with confidence. It was the first thing we talked about in the locker room after the game. It's a different game if we knock down and convert some free throws. We have nobody to blame, that's us.

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.

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

The purpose of zoning land for agricultural preservation is so that prime and unique farmland may be converted to urban use last,

When he threw the rock, I just converted on it.

We take all these undesirable medium-weight substances and convert them to the useful higher- and lower-weight products.

He was able to convert a great idea into a commercially viable machine.

Charles Sims

We have no plans to convert to an income trust.

Hines Ward

We started off fast. And for the most part, we made plays when we needed to make them, but we didn't convert third downs and were in too many third-and-long situations.