Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arne Duncan

At a time when going to college has never been more important, it's never been more expensive, and our nation's families haven't been in this kind of financial duress since the great depression. And so what we have is just sort of a miraculous opportunity simply by stopping the subsidy to banks when we already have the risk of loans. We can plow those savings into our students. And we can make college dramatically more affordable, tens of billions of dollars over the next decade.

Diablo Cody

You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories - just to express human experience from a woman's perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point. I'm all about representation.

Denny Hamlin

It's just all about opportunities, knocking doors down and see who answers.

Derek Fisher

My parents didn't have the opportunities that my wife and I have now, from a quality of life standpoint.

Derek Jacobi

Every person who is offered a knighthood has the opportunity to say yes or no. You get a letter from the Prime Minister saying you've been recommended for a knighthood and there are two little boxes, one says yes, one says no.

Derek Jeter

This is why you play -- to get an opportunity to play in the playoffs,

Denzel Washington

I think that if there can be considered racism it's to do with the lack of opportunities for writers and producers and the people behind the camera.

Denzel Washington

A part of me still says, 'Maybe, Denzel, you're supposed to preach. Maybe you're still compromising.' I've had an opportunity to play great men and, through their words, to preach. I take what talent I've been given seriously, and I want to use it for good.

Greg Nickels

We've all had a lot of opportunity to work on the idea of preparedness.

We started off slow and we just had to turn things around. We had a perfect opportunity for the playoffs and we couldn't let it slip away.

When you've got something special like that, you want to make sure they have every opportunity to get it. I was proud for her to get a perfect game. So many things could go wrong.

What you think is going to be a big break or opportunity can sometimes turn into the opposite, and vice versa.

Josh Billings

Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer.

Mark Cuban

Information is power, particularly when the competition ignores the opportunity to do the same.

Mark Cuban

There is very little knowledge that can't be obtained through effort. With knowledge you can determine the state of any business or opportunity and find a course to gain an advantage.

Mark Cuban

Focus on building the best possible business. If you are great, people will notice and opportunities will appear.

Madeleine Albright

One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.

Nate Parker

The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.

We'd like to be 6-0, but we are 5-1. We had every opportunity to win it, but we didn't.

Tommy Amaker

We're going to review those situations when we get the opportunity to do so.

Bob Stoops

We're going to give Rhett Bomar an opportunity to start and see where he takes us,

Bob Stoops

We're going to give Rhett Bomar and opportunity to start and see where he takes us,

When we get it right, it has been a big opportunity for us.

Caity Lotz

Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.

C. Northcote Parkinson

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.

Bryan Batt

Until everyone is free, the experiment of America is not succeeding. We all want opportunity.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Economic opportunities will win the women's vote.

Casey Neistat

Every time I took these bigger risks, the opportunity for a bigger payout was always there.

Carl Jung

Conflict exists strictly as an opportunity to raise our consciousness.

With this organization, we have an opportunity to set standards.

Billy Sheehan

I love a lot of reggae, but Ive never had the opportunity to play with any reggae guys.

Bill Nye

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

Bess Truman

I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.