Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamie Dixon

What we were able to do more in the second half was contain their quickness and ability to get penetration. We just had to stay with our game plan.

What we have is the ability to take this essential item -- electricity -- and place its creation on an individual's shoulders rather than on big corporate shoulders. We have taken it out of the realm of being a commodity that we purchase to something you can grow.

Henry's a little bit more of a shifty guy. He's still got quickness and speed, but he has a little bit of cutback ability that Brown may not have. Doesn't have quite the same power that Brown has. So they've got a great change-up going on.

Henry's a little bit more of a shifty guy, ... He's still got quickness and speed, but he has a little bit of cutback ability that Brown may not have. Doesn't have quite the same power that Brown has. So they've got a great change-up going on.

This will not be an instant book, ... This event touches upon so many important issues that it deserves thoughtful treatment from someone, like Horne, who experienced it first hand and can vividly capture each moment, but also has the ability and access to provide the critical long view.

If national safety - the ability to respond to hurricanes, terrorist attacks, earthquakes - depends on the execution of explicit plans, on soldierly obedience, and on showy security drills, then a decentralized security scheme is useless.

Eric Balfour

The amazing thing about technology is that people have power. We are seeing it all the time in that innocuous people you would never know are having their voices heard because of this ability and technology we have.

Eric Holder

This is going to be a very transparent Justice Department. But I'm not gonna sacrifice the safety of the American people or our ability to protect the American homeland.

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

Laura Wade

Old Etonians are the most charming people in the world. It's not just the analytic ability and the great education; there is a really easy confidence to them that draws people to them and makes their passage though the world a little easier.

Bernie Bickerstaff

We want to build a team that has ability to sustain itself, not just an ability to win a few more games right away. We've studied all the expansion teams. We're working under the idea that it's a marathon, not a sprint.

We want the ball in Ray's hands at the end of games because he's such a terrific free throw shooter. He's a lot stronger than he looks and uses that physical ability to create.

We want the ability to take them, if we need to.

Lindsay Whalen

We did everything we could. At the end of the day, you couldn't say anything more about our staff, ... Everyone did what they could to get the swelling to go down and get it back. ... Basically, it's just all about my ability and making sure I can't hurt it any worse.

Lizzy Caplan

I have a special ability to spot TV shows that don't go past two seasons; that's my gift.

What we really like about the European companies is their ability to expand east.

Eric Ross

There is a lot more to the processor business than selling processors. Controlling the supply chain and controlling product offerings is almost more important. And it's not just the supply chain, it's their manufacturing ability. They are way ahead in terms of manufacturing ability and economies of scale.

There is coming the time, sometime in the next decade, during which our global ability to produce conventional oil on a daily basis will hit a peak. It will probably not be directly recognizable at the time, owing to ongoing improvements driven by technology, economic factors, and a gradual improvement of production of unconventional oils and other sources of energy.

There is no doubt Benji has the ability to have a career in television and Eddie did say something to him.

Mark Richt

When I'm looking for a quarterback, the first thing I look for is the ability to throw the football. That's something that most people take as a given, but it's something you've got to have. From the film I saw on Matthew, he makes every throw you can ask a guy to make.

When I met him I saw a well-mannered kid with raw basketball ability who at the same time was struggling with everyday life skills. At first to me it was a challenge to help this kid because he was so likable. I wasn't thinking he'd be a big player or anything. I was trying to change the kid's life around for him.

We used to have the ability to generate our own foreign currency and now we are borrowing. We need to revive our export sector to be able to get back on track.

Tom Shales

Jerry Seinfeld is amazing in many ways, not the least of them his ability to find humor, and convincing us to find it, too, in the million-and-two details about modern life that under different circumstances might send us into paroxysms of rage.

Tom Scholz

Music doesn't have to have lyrics; it doesn't have to be a particular type of music - it has the ability to bring out really strong and hopefully good emotional reactions in people.

The thing I really love about film is there's a really big sense of teamwork, and everyone has to do their job to the best of their ability to make the film work in the first place.

Ashwin Sanghi

My greatest qualification for writing fiction was my ability to lie with a straight face as a child.

Thomas J. Stanley

There are lots of things about millionaires that make them pretty ordinary, but what's not ordinary is their ability to accumulate wealth, how hard they work, and what they do for a living.

Actors should be better poker players. But I think there's actual skill and crazy guts that you need to play poker - this ability to put all this money on the line inside of that game of cards. There's this whole different set of skills that doesn't apply to acting whatsoever.

Thomas Woods

Communism brought out the worst in human nature and crippled people's ability or ambition to participate in a market economy.

Thomas Pogge

The cost of research, development and testing of a new drug is vastly greater than the cost of each dose produced. How should we pay for new medicines? Innovators should be rewarded according to the impact of their medicine, and people should contribute to these rewards according to their ability to pay.

Thomas Jane

I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.

Negative emotions will challenge your grit every step of the way. While it's impossible not to feel your emotions, it's completely under your power to manage them effectively and to keep yourself in a position of control. When you let your emotions overtake your ability to think clearly, it's easy to lose your resolve.

Tim Tebow

I think number one is what my mom and dad preached to me when I was a little kid: Just because you may have athletic ability and you may be able to play a sport doesn't make you any more special than anybody else. Doesn't mean God loves you more than anybody else.