Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

We were two points away from making it an even game. But in the second half we didn't get those stops and convert those points in transition like we did in the first half. That was the difference.

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.

I converted Ethiopian Birr into dollars, ... and spent 32,000 dollars for one, 12,000 for another.

I converted C2K at the Venetian from a showroom into a club.

Our pressure defense really started to work. We didn't let Morgan settle into their offense and when we forced a turnover, we converted on the other end.

Our press has been good to us most of the year. We used different types of presses ? we used a diamond-and-one and a we switched to a 2-2-1 ?Êand I thought our kids read it real well. What was really big off the press was that we converted some easy lay-ins. Those were some big points for us.

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.

For Jews, the paradigmatic convert is the biblical Ruth, who sought not only a new relationship with God but also a new nationality.

Tom Hollander

My father was ethnically Jewish, but his family converted to Catholicism.

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.

Zubin Mehta

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

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.

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

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 need to convert more birdies when we have wedges in our hands.

Tom Ford

We wanted to get off to a good start, ... The third quarter we just couldn't convert any third downs. As an offense we really need to get better, but a win's a win and we'll take it.

Francis Parkman

Few passages of history are more striking than those which record the efforts of the earlier French Jesuits to convert the Indians.

It is not possible that one man can convert another into a piece of property, thus at once annihilating all his personal rights, without the most flagrant injustice and usurpation.

We only had 12 turnovers tonight, but we're going to have to convert a lot better (against Woodland). But we're in district and it's a new season.