Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marco Brambilla

Being able to make work - if it's on your terms, and it's a good fit with the people who are supporting it - can be a very interesting exercise. When it doesn't work is when an artist just connects with a brand, and they try to take advantage of each other.

Man has been exploiting the energy of fire to his advantage since time immemorial. Had it not been for this natural source of energy, all the progress mankind has witnessed would never have been possible. Not a single factory could run without it.

MACHINATION, n. The method employed by one's opponents in baffling one's open and honorable efforts to do the right thing.So plain the advantages of machination It constitutes a moral obligation, And honest wolves who think upon't with loathing Feel bound to don the sheep's deceptive clothing. So prospers still the diplomatic art, And Satan bows, with hand upon his heart. --R.S.K.

Lying is cognitively complex. It is not easy to lie. It is certainly more difficult than telling the truth. Some people have a biological advantage in lying. It gives them a slight edge.

Lying is cognitively complex, ... It is not easy to lie. It is certainly more difficult than telling the truth. Some people have a biological advantage in lying. It gives them a slight edge.

Making public the conditions of special contracts that utilities are allowed to enter into when recruiting industry would give other states and their utilities an unfair advantage and jeopardize Mississippi's economic future.

Madison and Natalie played (Pickerington Central's girls twice during the regular season in singles. They won both, so we had a mental advantage over them. UA was the bigger match. I wasn't even worried about the finals. The UA match is the one we wanted because anytime you can beat UA, it's big.

Lots of teams in the Big East have been giving us wide open 3s and taking away the backdoor. They did the opposite, and we really took advantage of our cutters.

Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. As soon you apply yourself to orison, you will at once feel your senses gather themselves together: they seem like bees which return to the hive and there shut themselves up to work at the making of honey. At the first call of the will, they come back more and more quickly. At last, after countless exercises, of this kind, God disposes them to a state of utter rest and of perfect contemplation.

Aristotle

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

Man, you've just got to take advantage of any situation that favors you. There's no doubt the guy is talented or they wouldn't have taken him so high in the draft, but it don't matter who's trying to keep away from their quarterback. My job is to take down the quarterback, not to worry about the guy standing in my way.

Edward Kennedy

Many of us are hoping that he will take advantage of it, ... Whether he will or not, I don't know.

Haley Barbour

Many will see the vote on shore-based gaming as the first defining vote of where Mississippi is headed, ... Will it be business as usual; the same old, same old? Or are we going to lift our horizons and take advantage of this opportunity to have something better?

Many are taking advantage of first-month-free offers at apartments, not knowing what their plans are going to be.

Scott played hard right from the tip. We might have had an advantage inside, and we hit more shots, but hats off to their coach and kids.

Scoring the first 11 points straight was a huge advantage, especially in Madison. We know both teams were going to come out hard with this being (the possibility) of their last game and all, so we were just happy to get hot right away.

Mobile technology is the way forward. The costs are not overwhelming and the benefits are substantial. When we looked at how much time it would save our engineers and how much we'd save in administration, travel and fuel bills, it was clear that the advantages greatly outweighed the costs.

Scott Skiles

Mike will get another chance now. He just needs to play better; the minutes he's got he hasn't taken advantage of. It would be nice for him -- and it would be nice for us -- if he could perform at a high level.

Momentum is good when you're at home but we have to make the plays to get the momentum. It doesn't just start right from scratch. You've got to play well and find that surge that's going to generate that momentum and that way it can catch on from the crowd. You're not just going to have it. You're going to have crowd advantage but you've got to make plays to get the crowd involved.

Milton is a very good shooting team, so we'll have to play strong defense. They're very tall with players 5-8, 5-10, so they have a little bit of a height advantage and we're going to have to keep them off the boards.

Mr. Prime minister, take advantage of this opportunity, because your government is unworthy to continue functioning.

Mr. Wright took advantage of his position as a volleyball coach to form these relationships with his players that we felt were inappropriate and became sexual. He victimized these girls sexually.

Sam Altman

Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large competitors.

Mr Brown will clearly look to take advantage of the budget to further his credentials to take over as prime minister from Mr Blair.

Most zoo employees are passionate about their work. When you see someone take advantage of that, boy, that hurts.

McKinley was here tonight scouting us and I'm quite sure they saw some things they felt they could take advantage of.

Megan is a great example of someone coming in and really taking advantage of her opportunities. She came in and didn't waste any time. Hitting the ball right away really has proven that she deserves to be in the line-up. That's exactly what you want as a coach, someone that makes you make those tough decisions.

Medicare Advantage to us doesn't look that great, but I suppose some may have thought it could look even worse.

My main concern is the negative effect this will have on students who take part in college courses. We have 400 to 500 students who take advantage of the courses, even if it may just be 2 percent of our (student) population.

Andruw Jones

My last three at-bats, I didn't really feel good. I started getting some back spasms and it kind of affected my swing a little bit. It's no excuse. We had opportunities to take the lead. We didn't take advantage of it, and that's what happens.

Bill Belichick

One of the things we wanted to do today was play competitively against a good football team. Obviously, it came right down to the last play. I was proud of the way our players fought. We had a lot of opportunities for a lot of people to play. This was really our last opportunity to do that, so we tried to take advantage of that.

Julie Gerberding

One of the advantages we have is that of time,

One of the advantages to the new plant was that we've promoted people and moved them down there for positions. We provided them opportunities down there, and in the meantime, opened up sale territories for people in this area. More employment to local area was created as a result of promoting people here to the southern plant.