Famous Quotes & Sayings

Megan Schwab

Whenever we get those opportunities (to score), we want to capitalize on those situations.

Gary Sinise

You learn from things that don't go well, and you try to capitalize when they do. You build on those strengths and try to make your weaknesses stronger.

Rodney Pratt

We did not capitalize on our lead enough. When they gave us a push we didn't push back.

Jeanna Mastrodicasa

We are a unique community because of the university. We should capitalize on the opportunities with the university.

Gary Capaldi

We still wanted to get an inside game, we thought that was our strength tonight. But they made plays and Tory Jackson found the open man's hands. ... They had the momentum, they had that run and we just couldn't capitalize on anything.

Flip Saunders

We've won 22 of our last 24. You play 82 games, and you don't like to say you didn't have it, but we didn't have it tonight. We didn't capitalize on our opportunities down the stretch.

Scott Parker

When we got a good offense going, we would lose it on defense. We couldn't capitalize when we would get a steal and run it down the floor. We're a Jekyll-and-Hyde team.

Janice Min

She will have to find a way to reinvent herself, and the public is ready for that. People are fascinated still, and there is a way for her to capitalize on that.

Mark Wagner

We're going to have to play three complete periods (today). We'll see a better team (today), a team that will capitalize on your mistakes and jump all over you.

Phil Zepeda

We have never seen an outpouring of support like this in our existence. It's just tremendous, and the outpouring of support just continues to come.

Rodell Mollineau

The fact is that per-capita income in Iowa continues to grow.

Parris Glendening

The fact is, if water consumption continues at the current rate, there is only a 35-day supply in these reservoirs.

Michael Carty

There are a lot of good things happening right now, but the market continues to focus on Iraq, interest rates, the presidential election, and particularly right now, the high-profile earnings misses.

Aaron Swartz

Senator Wyden continues to be the Senate's truest champion of an open Internet.

Claes Fornell

The outlook continues to look good, especially growth in emerging markets.

Elon Musk

I'm trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me.

Kara Swisher

The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.

Stephen Baker

The powerful collaboration of industry leaders HP and AMD continues to yield successful results, as demonstrated by the HP Special Edition L2000 Notebook PC. With its rich feature set and distinctive branding, this notebook has proven to be extremely popular throughout the North American retail market.

John Thain

We have to focus on the revenue side, we have to focus on the expense side and make sure we can earn to justify the current market value.

David Olson

We want MCHA to remain the insurance of last resort. It shouldn't be less expensive to go to MCHA than to stay with my current plan through COBRA.

Ian McDonald

We have resources that can help India develop its steel industry and in the current scenario resource security is the most important aspect.

Roy Lind

The facility is just too old, and it doesn't meet all the current standards.

Andrew Fisher

We shall look for more detail on the group's cost-cutting programme and on recent acquisitions. Overall, we expect the outlook statement and current trading to be the main share price drivers.

Scott Howell

I strongly support extending current student loan interest rates and increasing the college tuition tax credit for students and their families.

Thomas Bangalter

There's a confusion sometimes with the laptop being the current tools and where electronic music initially comes from.

Thomas Woods

Discussions of the economy, especially during times of crisis, are often framed in terms of lessons we supposedly learned during the Depression of the 1930s. If we are not to endure terrible times like those again, we are told, we must support whatever form of state intervention is currently being peddled.

Akhil Gupta

We are hopeful that with economies of scale, we will be able to hold margins at current levels.

John Rymer

Ultimately it comes down to the market and developers voting with their dollars.

Kent Beck

There is a strong movement towards increased accountability for software developers and software development organizations.

Bernard Haisch

We're hoping outside developers will come in and give it capabilities we hadn't even thought about ourselves.

Rob Cheng

With the move toward more open source, involving larger groups of developers and outsourcing, collaboration has become more difficult. We can now offer virtual collaboration, enabling each developer to share what others are doing and to work on a project together in real-time, regardless of geography.

Jose Gonzalez

When those projects started, the builders, the developers could not find the labor force. And as the word got out it traveled fast, and so people started coming. As people started coming, they said, 'Hey, there's a lot of work here,' and so that's what sort of triggered it.

Jon Evans

Basically, a manager's job is to make other people more productive. What's one really good way to do that? Do the work that is getting in their way. Which means find out what kind of important work your developers dislike the most, and do it for them.

Michael Reed

New developers really have to do something special to get people to see what they're doing. It doesn't surprise me at all.

Castor Pang

Gains on Wall Street and Tokyo provided support to the local market. Properties led (the gains) as many developers will launch new projects for sale.

Anita Sarkeesian

Developers need to start moving away from the entitled macho-male power fantasy in their games. They need to recognize that there are wider stories that they can tell.

Mickey Levy

We're looking for increases in employment, but because the labor force is growing 1 percent a year, we need 125,000 new jobs per month to stabilize the unemployment rate. We see the unemployment rate drifting slightly higher and lingering higher for the next year.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The more we treasure the words of the prophets and apply them the better we will recognize when we are drifting off course-even if only by a matter of a few degrees.

Harbhajan Singh

It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.

Bill Simmons

We don't realize how much the NFL is quietly drifting towards flag football. During the '80s, part of the defense's goal was to put the fear of God into offensive players... that's fading away.

Donella Meadows

No expectations, no tension between goals and performance, no outrage, resolve or intention, no action, no results. There's only one way to get a government - and a nation - to stop drifting to low performance. That's to wake up and insist on higher standards.

Chris Linder

We were drifting kind of frozen in the ice for a week. There are some parts of the world where you really can't do everything you want. We're really not in charge.

Eleanor Catton

I can feel the public side of my life and the private side of my life sort of drifting away from one another.

Donald Selkin

We're drifting, and we're probably going to keep drifting for the next few weeks. But that's OK, there are positive developments out there. Oil prices seem to be under control, and I'm more encouraged about the second-quarter earnings than I have been in a while.

Matt Ruane

We're really in a trading range, drifting sideways for the time being as the market waits for its next catalyst.

Hank Hargraves

We have had a harder time in the playoffs than I expected this year. But the tough road that we have had this season has only helped us prepare for the regional tournament.

Liv Tyler

When I finally saw the film, I was floored because it was more than I even expected it would be, and I already had very high expectations.

Therese Fowler

My stories seem to always in some way explore mistakes and misapprehensions and the possibility of redemption - though that redemption doesn't always occur in expected ways.

Eric Bosshard

Walgreen did a better job than expected in expense management, something we had not seen in prior quarters.

Richard Smith

Version 3.0 has all of the functionality that everyone expected in 1.0.

O. Winston Link

I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.

Thuy Trang

We never expected the show to be this great. We think it is successful because kids can identify.

John M. Smith

We did it just before the half. Our offensive coordination expected us to down there and score.

Dan Larson

We did better than a lot of people expected us to, but we still could have done better.

Jose Rizal

The Spaniard is gallant and patriotic, and sacrifices everything, in favorable moments, for his country's good. He has the intrepidity of his bull.

Gene Green

We're seeing more practices with multiple locations. ... Interest rates have been favorable for ownership.

Kent Richland

She feels the outcome will be favorable to her.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

Walt Czaicki

While this market is starved for good news, it is still nervous -- if we don't see favorable numbers tomorrow it could be a negative.

Ed Miller

We have a favorable outlook. We think it will serve us well.

William Lerach

We can't predict the future, we don't want to try and predict the future, but this development is obviously very favorable for our side of the case.

Bill Richardson

I think it is important that we get a favorable vote. I think it is doable. If we don't ... get approval, and we do go, we're going to lose some international prestige.

Jamie Jackson

We've generally become favorable of shorter-dated (agencies) inside of five years as of December. Spreads widened out, more so in the front of curve.

Carlos Fuentes

By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word.

C. S. Lewis

Here at last is the thing I was made for.

C. S. Lewis

Ah, poor Pole. It's been to much for her, this last bit. Turned her head, I shouldn't wonder. She's beginning to see things.

Jimmy Johnson

We have to find some speed and turn things around. Thankfully, we had a strong start to the season, so this last month we really didn't have to race our way in. But we've got to find it in a hurry.

Agnetha Faltskog

Abba's last tour was a success but awful for me.

Joe Minucci

We were at the lowest of lows last year. We couldn't get any lower. This year we are looking to make a playoff push, and trying to win the division.

Alan Rudolph

It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.

Charles Dickens

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Charles Simmons

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Mike Black

We were trying to maintain where we were at (down by 10), but when you can't score it makes it really hard. Chesterton started playing better on offense, and we played worse.

Al Crellin

Ultimately, we only need one operations center, but for now we will maintain two.

David Heymann

We still maintain that travel is not to be interrupted in the world at this point of time.

Eli Broad

I've never been one who enjoys maintaining the status quo. I'm always pushing for new ideas, whether it's in business or philanthropy.

Deng Xiaoping

Observe calmly; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at maintaining a low profile; and never claim leadership.

Tim McKee

We would rather not maintain the new stadium if we didn't have to.

David Rockefeller

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

Dick Cheney

We're going to maintain our optimistic pro-growth pro-entrepreneur pro-jobs strategy in Washington, D.C.,

Katrina Kaif

I'm here to work.. not to like or dislike people. Neither am I here to win a Miss Congeniality competition. I maintain professional relations with my co-stars.

Carol Leifer

There are so many opportunities that I could've gotten before if I had just took a little more of a risk.

Carlos Fuentes

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

Duncan Fletcher

We want to rest Freddie whenever we can. We saw this as an opportunity the other day.

Fran Dunphy

When your opportunity comes, it's not what you do right as much as it's what you don't do wrong.

Abba Eban

Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

Aasif Mandvi

When my family decided to leave England I could not have been happier. I was sort of like - America seemed like the land of opportunity and, you know, it was Hollywood to me.

Alan Stern

Naming celestial objects is usually done by astronomers and professionals. Other people who are interested in space never get the opportunity to do that kind of thing.

Alan Rusbridger

There is this ferocious digital revolution coming along and we're in the teeth of that at the time of maximum economic disruption. There are huge opportunities there. I made the point in my supplementary statement that the Guardian is now a very considerable global player, but there are huge challenges in terms of making, of finding, the convincing business model, so I want to see Guardian journalism continue and thrive, although whether and to what extent that is in print or in digital is a sort of second order matter.

Alan Shepard

So everything turned out fine, and we were given the opportunity to go to Washington and be briefed on the project of man in space, and given the opportunity to choose whether we wanted to get involved or not.

Ruby Rose

When I was younger, I didn't know television presenting was a thing, which is how I totally got my foot in the door. But I didn't really know that was a job. I never really had a TV or watched TV, and I really just wanted to be an actor.

Tom Shea

We have been very thoughtful about presenting a multipronged agenda.

John Whalen

We are going to be presenting proposals that tip the scales a little more toward pedestrians and bicyclists.

Clint Hurdle

The top of their lineup was presenting problems.

Larry Spell

I really like what you're presenting to us here tonight.

Mark Langan

This rates up there as one of the worse we have ever seen.

John Kline

Let's get one thing straight: No one wants Stafford loan interest rates to increase.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Bill Gross

It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up.

Elizabeth Warren

Homeowners refinance their loans when interest rates go down. Businesses refinance their loans.

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

Charles Nelson

Overall, the story is that uninsured rates are relatively stable.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

Chris Perry

We don't know the rates of (reef) growth.