Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susan Uhrik

We want to take advantage of the opportunity. This is a chance to do for others, and to grow in relationship with God.

Dan Fridgen

We want to take advantage of the opportunity that we're playing at home for the last weekend of the regular season against two very good opponents. What better way to get tuned up for playoff hockey? I see this weekend as being no different than how we're going to have to play in the playoffs. We want to finish as high as we can. We don't know what opponent we'll have, but we don't want to be complacent. We want as many points as we can get out of the season.

John Thomas

We want to take advantage of the opportunity.

Stephanie Reichert

We want to take advantage of playing on our home field. Columbia and Cornell are both great teams. Both squads have great pitching and great hitting and we're not underestimating that, but we can do just as well.

Ramona Cruz

We want to start the event a little earlier this year and take advantage of the warm weather.

Bruno Julliard

We want to see how we can take advantage of this power struggle that is now in our favor to garner new victories.

Dwight Howard

We knew they were undersized down low, so we wanted to take advantage of that. Tony played really big for us and was a big key in the win.

Debra Clark

We knew they (South Carolina State) were smaller. We wanted to get the ball inside and take advantage of our size.

Phil Stamm

We knew they had a size advantage on us. We wanted to run the floor.

John Wright

The people who enjoy classical music, opera, even classical ballet, would come to classical theatre if it were well-acted and imaginatively presented.

W. Hull

We still see the dominance of rap, R&B, alternative punk, and pop. But we are definitely seeing growth in jazz and classical music.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.

Todd Apo

What the public wasn't envisioning was a swim through, swim with the dolphins kind of thing. They were looking for a truer aquarium, so the plan has developed into a classic aquarium with of course interactive features.

Richard Hyung-ki Joo

We want people to know that classical music is for everyone. A parent or kid might be terrified of this music, but after they come to us, they'll never be scared of classical music again.

Charlotte Bronte

Reader, I married him.

Lesley Manville

I had this exceptional classical music voice. If I'd followed a true path for my talent, I would have ended up being an opera singer.

M. H. Abrams

Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture than Christian theologians were able to work free of their inheritance of classical and pagan thought. The process... has not been the deletion and replacement of religious ideas but rather the assimilation and reinterpretation of religious ideas.

Lionel Richie

It was very interesting in my world, because I grew up as a fan and I did not know that there was a thing called R&B, pop, country, classical - I just knew that I loved music.

Charles Dickens

Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.

Charles Dickens

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

Charles Stross

I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.

Alan Watts

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

Alan Watts

Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all.

Alan Moore

They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.

Alan Green

You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.

Al Alvarez

The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.

Al Alvarez

Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.

Floyd Irons

We knew they wanted to run and we tried to stop them from doing that. Man, those guards are good.

Josh Page

We want to pressure them and get some turnovers right away. Hopefully we can pressure their guards and not let them get comfortable in the half-court set.

David Reeves

We have security guards here and we monitor quite a bit.

Mark Turgeon

We guarded out tails off all day. We got every stop we needed until the very end.

Steve Fisher

We guarded better. We were the reason, in my opinion, that they were 5-for-20.

Tom Rossley

We're going to let those guards play a lot during the game.

Tim Ehresman

We're going to have to guard them very tough. And Joe (Kalb) will be guarding one of the post guys.

Lauren Hoisington

We usually get two or three fouls in the first half. I think we're used to it by now. Our guards played really well.

Francois Chereque

We shall remain on our guard until the very end.

Ama Dwimoh

We know who did it. We know what happened. Now we need to hold them accountable - and we will.

Dave Sanchez

We started today in third. We just couldn't hold on to that lead.

Jim Johnson

We're infiltrating runoff back into the water table, keeping pollutants out of the urban streams and holding the runoff back.

Joe Torre

We're in a situation where we can't be thinking about holding our own. We have to make an impact. The only way we can do that is by winning the first game.

Kevin Towers

We're not going to rush him. We're not going to hold him back, either. But I'd like to see him get more innings at the professional level.

Dwane Casey

We always hold out hope. Mathematically we're still in it. Every time we walk out on the floor, we're playing for something and we're playing for improvement.

Monica LeMoine

What the school hoped to do for these kids was to hold them accountable for their actions, which they'd never really had before.

Tyler Brand

We wanted to try and hold them under 15 points in the first half. We got out in the passing lanes, got some steals and were able to get our offense going off that.

Ertharin Cousin

We recognize that the majority of people who are food-insecure or hungry in the world live in rural areas. And most of them are small holder subsistence farmers.

Leslie Norwalk

There are hoops for industry to jump through.

Jake Haulk

They ought to be willing to jump through hoops to get that deal.

Walter Miller

There are a lot of hoops you have to navigate through.

John McDowell

In Texas, they make you jump through hoops to get on the ballots.

Tina Knowles

And, ... I always say, 'Why do you have to wear hula hoops in your ears?'

Rick Schmidt

More than preaching those things, he did those things.

Edward McKendree Bounds

The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.

Ray Henderson

It was big; we were preaching it all week that we wanted the shutout, ... so we went out and we did what we had to do.

Ray Henderson

We were preaching all week that we wanted to get a shutout,

Matt McCool

That's what we've been preaching all year: When the other team does something positive, we've got to do something." ()

Joe Burns

It was kind of like we were all preaching to the choir.

J. I. Packer

If one preaches the Bible biblically, one cannot help preaching the gospel all the time...

Giovanni Boccaccio

Do as we say, and not as we do. [Lat., Faites ce que nous disons, et ne faites pas ce que nous faisons.]

Jerry Bridges

Preach the gospel to yourself every day.

Todd Blackadder

Ulster seemed to get their tries effortlessly whereas we had to work for ours.

Russ Ortiz

I can't. I wish I could. Nothing seemed to be where I wanted it.

Elbert Higginbotham

We thought we'd take the scenic route. Every time we took a corner, it seemed like we took a wrong corner.

Mack Brown

He makes it look so easy, like everything is in slow motion. It just seemed like another workman day for him.

Firas Abouzeki

He never, never worried about it. He seemed comfortable about it.

William Adams

My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.

Jim Colborn

I was very impressed. He seemed to get stronger as he went along. He stayed in his delivery.

Lindsay Davenport

I was, today, trying to get a lot of just first serves in and not tried to go for too much, ... (It) seemed to work.

Quinton Ross

That was incredible. It seemed like he made every shot tonight. Every time he got the ball, he made a shot.

Chase Utley

I don't really like the spotlight.

Ben Gibbard

I've always had a soft spot for Phil Collins. He's a great vocalist.

Brian Eno

I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

Brad Thor

There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot.

April Bowlby

I wanted to be a ballerina so badly. You can be seen and take over the spotlight without speaking. I had a fear of speaking in public back then.

Bob Bathalon

The only trouble spot is parking, and we are working on that.

David Garman

We're approaching 7,500 megawatts. So, we're in a sweet spot with wind and there's more we can do.

Zeke Jones

I think in some spots we competed well and there were some spots where we could have done a little better.

Pete Carroll

I think, the more, the better. We've been in the spotlight so long, it's become normal.