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.

Herman Edwards

We have to have a different mind-set - that was established today in our meetings, ... I think our players took hold of it and did a good job of practicing. It was a pretty fast practice, guys moving around where they were supposed to go.

Meles Zenawi

We have no intention of playing fast and loose with this document, with the OAU process, ... We only hope that this time around the other side really means what it says.

Scott Skiles

We were too fast on offense, our spacing was poor and we missed some shots.

Monique Currie

We usually get a lot things going with our fast break. We weren't able to do that tonight.

Giorgio Armani

The products that are moving out of the stores the fastest are those that are most expensive.

Craig Forman

The process is very seamless, and allows us to handle more loans with the same number of people. As we go forward, we can give the brokers a faster response.

Thierry Mugler

Hindu sages say that you should concentrate while eating. But, we don't have time anymore. Fast food is not quick enough for me. I would like super-fast food in the form of pills.

Dan Hawkins

We know he is a really good player and he's a fast and physical guy and as he gets more reps and gets more comfortable, you are going to see him be much more productive.

Jose Oquendo

Vazquez was working too fast and he was pitching a little too high in the strike zone.

Carol Leifer

Growing up, it was always, 'If you buy kosher meat, they're killed humanely.' But I've seen so many horrible videos. What we thought was humane 100 years ago is not humane anymore. The ways animals suffer, I just couldn't be a part of it anymore.

Aaron Sorkin

I don't want to analyze myself or anything, but I think, in fact I know this to be true, that I enter the world through what I write. I grew up believing, and continue to believe, that I am a screw-up, that growing up with my family and friends, I had nothing to offer in any conversation. But when I started writing, suddenly there was something that I brought to the party that was at a high-enough level.

Alan Titchmarsh

I wish we could grow up about it, I'm sure we are contributing to global warming, and we must do all we can to reduce that, but our climate has always changed. The Romans had vineyards in Yorkshire. We're all on this bandwagon of 'Ban the 4x4 in Fulham'. Why didn't we have global warming during the Industrial Revolution? In those days you couldn't have seen across the street for all the carbon emissions and the crap coming out of the chimneys.

Charles Dickens

... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably a bitterly disappointed woman. A game of chess will cure such a conceit forever. The woman that knows the most, thinks the most, feels the most, is the most. Intellectual affection is the only lasting love. Love that has a game of chess in it can checkmate any man and solve the problem of life.

Sherri Shepherd

Growing up, we didn't have any money - we shopped where you picked your shoes out of a bin. When I was little, I said, 'When I grow up, I'm going to have nice shoes.'

Ricky Gervais

I had great memories of growing up in a working class estate. I remember it being sunny all the time. So we're putting that on screen. It's not people wallowing in degradation.

Ricky Gervais

Americans are brought up to believe they can grow up to be the president of the United States. Brits are told, It won't happen to you.

Susan B. Anthony

... God allows the wheat and the tares to grow up together, andthe tares frequently get the start of the wheat and kill it out. The only difference between the wheat and human beings is that the latter have intellect and ought to combine and pull out the tares, root and branch.

Alan Abramowitz

The population is growing and there could still be impacts from the hurricanes last year,

Janet Jackson

I don't have a lot of friends.

Kate Winslet

With a bright-red party lipstick, just go with lots of mascara and keep everything else clean.

Jerry Clements

We respond to lots of things; that's why it's interesting. You're not doing the same thing every day.

Parry Aftab

Lots and lots of parents want their kids' profiles down.

Russell Crowe

Lots of people noticed me, they just didn't give me up.

Hamid Karzai

Lots of people had much misinformation. The second report, the official report, will be much more accurate,

Rose Fong

Lots of people come in and tell us this is where they had their first date.

Patricia Green

Lots of people are moving out, ... I'm not the type to move out. I won't move out. Where would I go? Where will I go with these two old men?

Michelle Tea

Lots of my writing can be accurately called lesbian, but I myself am queer and date people of all genders.

Charles M. Schwab

Don't be reluctant about putting on overalls!

Austin Eguavoen

I was satisfied with my team's overall performance.

Cathy Cook

I don't know what the overall stimulus was.

Waisale Serevi

But rugby is the overall winner in the end.

Willie Randolph

When you don't get calls, then you don't pitches where you want them to be. But overall he pitched pretty well.

Dennis Kelly

We were flabbergasted by the overall size of the market. It's incredible.

Anthony Chan

The overall trend is that we're making progress,

Peter Morgan

The overall trend is still that the recovery is weak. I wouldn't say that this is a turnaround yet.

Dean Ornish

What matters most is your overall way of eating and living.

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

Lee Mendelson

There are so many segments that are appropriate today.

Francis Gannon

I think what you need to do in the technology segment between now and the end of the year is own the leaders,

Don Esmond

A play-it-safe-redesign of the Camry was out of the question. The market, and the segment in which Camry competes, is just too competitive.

Tom Libby

It's one of the, if not the most competitive segments. You have high-volume brands, and a lot of their entries in that segment are flagship models.

Joe Eberhardt

The mid-sized SUV segment is probably not going to grow, but will become even more fragmented. To survive in the segment, automakers are going to have to make a real difference.

Carol Leifer

Whenever I travel I like to keep the seat next to me empty. I found a great way to do it. When someone walks down the aisle and says to you, "Is someone sitting there?" just say, "No one except the Lord."

Agnes Repplier

We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.

Agnes Repplier

The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.

Agnes Repplier

The tourist may complain of other tourists; but he would be lost without them. He may find them in his way, taking up the best seats in the motors, and the best tables in the hotel dining-rooms; but he grows amazingly intimate with them during the voyage, and not infrequently marries one of them when it is over.

Agnes Repplier

Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.

Agnes Repplier

it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.

Agnes Repplier

When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.

Agnes Repplier

abroad it is our habit to regard all other travelers in the light of personal and unpardonable grievances. They are intruders into our chosen realms of pleasure, they jar upon our sensibilities, they lessen our meager share of comforts, they are everywhere in our way, they are always an unnecessary feature in the landscape.

Alan Turing

We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.

Britney Spears

Traveling around the world is really strenuous for me, being in a different bed every night, flying and everything.

Sara Rue

Traveling Wilburys was always played in my house growing up.

Christy Romano

I also never went there when I was little because I was too busy working and traveling on national tours.

Harrison Ford

Traveling through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, boy.

Conrad Sewell

Traveling a lot and touring, you're in and out of hotels, and you don't have any comforts around.

Ray Stevenson

Actors then were just louts, hangabouts and wandering troubadours doing traveling plays,

Peter Uihlein

I did some traveling as an amateur and always loved the different places I saw.

Donn Walker

We have to do what is right for the traveling public.

Robert Hathaway

It's traveling very, very fast. It can penetrate you pretty good.

Joe Manganiello

Well, being 6' 5', pull-ups are my nemesis. I have really long arms so I have to do twice the work of someone with short arms to get the weight up there.

Grace Gealey

I am very disciplined with my skin - I tone and I moisturize my skin twice a day. I also exfoliate, and I try to get a facial, like, once every two months.

Dave Lewis

We come up every year once or twice a year.

Rand Paul

Black unemployment is twice white unemployment and has been for decade after decade.

Phil Jackson

The win wasn't important for me, it was important for the team, ... But getting the win is twice as nice.

Vic Koenning

I've never had that before, in how many years of coaching? So we've had it twice in two games, so we've got to get that squared away, too.

Aaron Krach

It was 1989, and there was a big brouhaha that he was so old and so gray. Now, we wouldn't think twice about it.

Carol Leifer

I always say to women, 'Take advantage of the fact that you're in the minority, don't see it as a disadvantage. You're that much more unique when there's fewer of you.

Alan Rudolph

So one of the most unique things on screen in American movies today is everyday behavior.

Charles W. Pickering

The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies of the federal government as without exception, the people's voice.

Charles Taylor

[E]ach of our voices has something unique to say. Not only should I not mold my life to the demands of external conformity; I can't even find the model by which to live outside myself. I can only find it within.

Charles Edward Merriam

Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America.

Richard G. Scott

I encountered a large temporary sign declaring Rough Road Ahead, and indeed it was. Had I not been warned, that experience would have been disastrous. Life is like that. It's full of rough spots. Some are tests to make us stronger. Others result from our own disobedience.... Each one of us encounters unique challenges meant for growth.

Brenton Thwaites

Every movie has its uniqueness. You just do your best and go with it.

Dianne Wiest

Unless you are unique, your opinion goes out the window.

David Agus

I have developed a unique way of looking at the relationship of the human body to health and disease.