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.

Andre Johnson

The other teams just seem to take advantage of their opportunities, and we don't. Once we get up on a team, we all take turns breaking down.

Jim Mitchel

The potential is there for him if he wants to take advantage of it. It just depends if he wants it or not.

Robert Borosage

The potential for him to be a leader of significant reform in the wake of this corrupt Congress is very great. We want the parties to fight over who has the best reform. It will be interesting to watch and see if he takes advantage of the opportunity.

Maxine Clark

We are pleased with our performance and progress in the first quarter, especially since the first quarter of last year included sales generated by the Easter holiday. This year, the Easter holiday fell in April and is in our second quarter.

Randy Zanatta

We are pleased to open five new stores in April as a part of our planned 14 to 16 new stores this fiscal year. We look forward to continuing to bring Golf Galaxy's unique interactive store concept to so many new markets and to continuing our expansion into the greater New York metropolitan area.

Roland Thornqvist

We've all been around the block enough to know that you don't win championships in January or February. You win them in April and May. This team has worked hard all year long to be the best now. Right now we're playing about as well as we can.

Don Phillips

Way too much is made of the slowdown of money into funds in December. For the last several years, there have been countless articles telling investors 'Don't buy a fund in late November or early December' because you might be buying just before it pays its dividend and then you'll have to pay taxes on the dividend next April Investors are doing what's rational and right.

Karen Miller

We want our pilots to focus on contract negotiations. We want them to prepare emotionally, financially, for a potential strike on April 1.

Huston Street

We're going to really play it by ear and be cautious. We're not out of April yet -- that's what I keep getting told. There's a lot of season left. ... Talking to Larry, he says these things can take five to 10 days.

Kathleen Stephansen

What this, in conjunction with the April unemployment report, shows is stabilization in the labor market and timid improvement. By no means are we talking about a roaring improvement in the labor market.

Lynn Anderson

We felt it was best to decrease the prices when it helped our customers the most. April is the month when those changes typically occur, but we didn't want people to have to wait that long.

Larry Watruba

We feel that we have some things to negotiate. They gave everybody full pay up to April 11. I guess this is their 60-day notice of plant closing.

Graeme Souness

The other pleasing points are that we've got through and won a tie 5-1 when we've played, first after only two weeks, and then after only 17 days of training.

Robert Kabushenga

The posters are depicting government in a negative light and this comes only a few days to the polling day.

Rick Michaels

We are pleased that we were able to reach record production levels, despite losing several days due to the holidays.

Dusty Baker

There are days when you don't have your premier stuff,

Donna Wisniewski

There are days they pick up two or three, but there's days that they come in with over 40 of them.

Walt Harris

There are days the offensive line looks like they're putting it together. At times we see the light at the end of the tunnel. They're starting to respond, but they've got to grow up fast.

Jody Conradt

There are days it's really been fun. And there are days when it's really been, well ... trying.

Karen Allen

There are days he just reads my mind.

Nicky Byrne

There are some days when you just want to push Shane off his chair.

David Nail

I love barbecue, its my favorite thing to eat.

Marisa Miller

One of my favorite things to do is cook. I love taking the time to plan and prepare meals. I try to use all organic ingredients and make everything from scratch.

Noah Gray-Cabey

I went through a period of time when math was my favorite subject. Then math wasn't as fun so much.

Ed Helms

Probably my favorite thing about watching a movie that I'm in the first time is to see all the things I didn't know were happening in a scene around me.

Peter Warrick

We like being the underdogs. Whether we're the favorites or they're the favorites, we still have to go out and play like we're the underdogs.

W. Hull

Mandy... that's my favorite song of all time. Man, oh, man.

Anna Kendrick

My favorite movie is 'The Women' from 1939. It's been my favorite movie since I was like 12 years old. I love the dialogue, really. It's just a lot of really strong female performances. Rosalind Russell kills it, you know.

Talisa Soto

I eat healthy and don't even get on a scale. I have my favorite jeans that I wear, and if they are getting too snug, I watch what I eat for a week.

Brian Posehn

Metal is easily my favorite thing - Exodus and Anthrax and Megadeth - so it just kind of organically came through in the standup act.

Al Jarreau

I came here with something in me that I inherited from my folks. So I'm going to do something called life and times.

Matt Rosoff

There are some folks who have been there for a long time and who will resent the way things are being run as a bureaucracy. And maybe they were there for the big stock run-up and they're seeing the stock not move now.

Brian Bosma

There are some folks up in northern Indiana who are waiting for public opinion on this matter to be reinforced.

Shelly Grice

There are some folks sitting on the sidelines.

Charlie Adam

What do folk always say about Arsenal? They can pass you to death.

Ronald McDonald

We're managing to get by. We're lucky enough. We've got transportation. We can go get something. A lot of these folks can't. They're just stuck in.

Brian Niceswanger

We're getting a lot of calls. Our folks are staying late and will be here (today) for those who want to verify the information they received.

David Stockert

There are lots of those folks in Austin.

Melissa McHenry

We're sending all the folks we can spare.

Chris Johnson

We struggled last weekend at Jacksonville. Hopefully this will jump-start us to have a strong end of the season.

Amy Hill

We always get a lot of last-minute registrations. Hopefully we are on target to reach our goal.

Bruce Steinbecker

We have to have a short memory and be able to come back ready to play (today). We have to learn from our mistakes, and hopefully we'll get it fixed.

Kevin Bentley

We're starting history, and we're getting this thing rolling. And hopefully we'll be able to do that for years to come.

Maureen Brunt

We're going to soak it all up and hopefully we'll do well.

Robert Shivley

We're going to reevaluate him in 10 days, two weeks, and hopefully he'll be ready to go by then.

Jack Rio

We're going to keep him out this week, then hopefully get him back as quick as we can, ... This is not a season-ending injury by any means.

Joe Thornton

We're better than we were yesterday, and hopefully we're getting better every day. We're getting used to each other the more time we spend on ice.

Jeff Zickafoose

We're a young team. We're getting better. Hopefully our pitching will pick it back up. They've got to keep us in the game.

Al Sharpton

We blacks had problems in the '60s and we solved them by marching. We've still got problems - let's march.

David Brooks

Fundamentalism is still on the march.

Rudy Cruz

We're making up for winter now. March is December.

Avan Jogia

Before I forget ...Beware the Ides of March.

Efren Barajas

Let's push for 20,000 people marching that day.

Jim Steiner

We still have some very serious negotiating to do between now and March 3.

Chris Vos

Now we are getting ready for the March 6 strike.

Tony Bryant

I don't know anything about it. I'm just working out to get ready for the season. ... When I get back to New Orleans on March 20, I'll find out what's going on.

Barbara Boxer

I would love to see a march on Washington that says 'Save our Social Security'

Alan Rickman

You can act truthfully or you can lie. You can reveal things about yourself or you can hide. Therefore, the audience recognizes something about themselves or they don't -- You hope they don't leave the theatre thinking that was nice...now where's the cab?'

Alain Robert

Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice.

Alan Alda

I don't really worry about the size of the part much any more. It's nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there's something playable there, and if it's interesting to do, then that's nice.

Al Neuharth

Be as nice as possible and as nasty as necessary.

Chris Claremont

I'm the best there is at what I do but what I do best isn't very nice

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I am aware that I have been incredibly fortunate in my life to work with the people that I have worked with and pursue the projects that I have been able to do. There are so many films that I have done that I really, as a film person, as a film fan, that I like. And that is a nice place to think of a career in.

Chet Baker

I don't believe that jazz will ever really die. It's a nice way to express yourself.

Dave Franco

Recently I've been looking for something new. The past few projects I've worked on, I keep getting cast as the asshole. I promise I'm a nice guy and not the asshole that everyone keeps seeing.

David Schwimmer

I think I'm a very very nice director. Very supportive, very nurturing. I definitely try to challenge my actors but I think I'm very supportive.

Warren Miller

The best thing about skiing backwards is you can see where you've been.

Charles Caleb Colton

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

Dave Barry

I now realize that the small hills you see on ski slopes are formed around the bodies of forty-seven-year-olds who tried to learn snowboarding.

Dave Barry

Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.

Cary Fukunaga

In snowboarding, you're constantly aware that people are so technically brilliant at what they do, and you feel like, "Ugh, I'll never be able to do that."

Catherynne M. Valente

...snow is the beginning and the end of everything...

Daymond John

Whether people know it or not, I'm a big nature guy. I like snowboarding, I like fishing, and those are my ways to wind down.

Denis Waitley

Life is like a field of newly fallen snow. Where I choose to walk every step will show.

Eazy-E

A solution to stop gang banging: SNOW!!

Charles Simic

Only brooms Know the devil Still exists, That the snow grows whiter After a crow has flown over it

Charles Dickens

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is an elasticity in the human mind, capable of bearing much, but which will not show itself, until a certain weight of affliction be put upon it; its powers may be compared to those vehicles whose springs are so contrived that they get on smoothly enough when loaded, but jolt confoundedly when they have nothing to bear.

Charles Caleb Colton

Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we sacrifice one kind of self-love to another.

Charles Dickens

If the parks be "the lungs of London" we wonder what Greenwich Fair is--a periodical breaking out, we suppose--a sort of spring rash.

Charles Dickens

In the Destroyer's steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light to Heaven.

Charles Spurgeon

From all the afflictions, Your glory shall spring. And the deeper the sorrow, the louder you'll sing.

Charles Spurgeon

A genuine revival without joy in the Lord is as impossible as spring without flowers, or day-dawn without light.

Charles Spurgeon

You shall find books and sermons everywhere, in the land and in the sea, in the earth and in the skies, and you shall learn from every living beast, and bird, and fish, and insect, and from every useful or useless plant that springs from the ground.

Charles Spurgeon

Calvinism did not spring from Calvin. We believe that it sprang from the great Founder of all truth.

Charlotte Bronte

Rapidly, merrily, Life's sunny hours flit by, Gratefully, cheerily Enjoy them as they fly!

B. C. Forbes

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

Mike Hunter

We wouldn't be winning necessarily if it were all sunny days.

Stephenie Meyer

But on a clear, sunny day? How would she know to flee when she couldn't see any place for danger to hide?

W. H. Auden

We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Charles Stross

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

Charles Spurgeon

If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.

Alanis Morissette

I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.

Alan Watts

...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.

Alan Mulally

Although the quality of the vehicles is tremendously improving year after year but the underlying reasons that people are buying cars have really gotten focused. It's for high quality vehicles, reliable, fuel-efficient, and safe of course.

Alan Moore

I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

Alan Moore

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.

Alan Moore

It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.

Alan Hovhaness

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.