Famous Quotes & Sayings

Retail is competitive, so we have to keep up with those changes. But our brand, our characters give us an advantage that no other retailer has.

Retailers just have a closeness to a great mass of people that no investment banker on Wall Street will ever have, ... In a tragedy like this, nobody wants to be misunderstood as taking advantage of the situation. That would be gouging.

RESIGN, v.t. To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage.

Please give yourself plenty of time for transit. Be flexible and take advantage of the Capitol Hill Transit Program.

Playing with the wind blowing out we knew anything hit to the left side would be hard to handle. I decided we weren't going to have a lot of signals and just take advantage of the situation by swinging away.

Playing Western Mennonite at our place is an advantage. They're a good basketball team. But we'll be in friendly confines and I think we can compete with them. Everybody has a shot on any given night and if we want to get to Pendleton, we've got to win two games to get there.

Reggie Brown

Playing well last week makes it a lot easier, building confidence and letting the team know that they can rely on me, ... I'm just trying to go about my day, not trying to get any special attention. Just try to stay to myself and do what they expect me to do. I mean, I'm just going to take advantage of the opportunity. I'd be a fool to blow it.

Pirro's advantage is that she's comfortable in front of cameras, she'll appeal to women voters and she'll do well in the suburbs. She's got a real opportunity to give Hillary a real fight.

Playing at home is a huge advantage for us. This is a different course on the back nine.

Robert McCullum

Players on the all-league team usually have the benefit of playing on wining teams, and Solomon has not had the advantage of playing for a winning team." ()

Derek Jeter

Physical mistakes happen and they took advantage with their speed. I've made errors to lose games before. I'll probably do it again and he'll probably do it again.

Kirk Ferentz

Maybe one of the marquee schools can operate a little differently. But to me, it's a great advantage to have consistency with your coaching staff.

James Hogan

Many airlines do not own such a facility and, therefore, Gulf Air is at an advantage with its own simulator and presents a unique opportunity for other airlines to use our facility.

We've talked a lot about defending our home court. That's one advantage we will have.

Chan Gailey

We've talked about that game in situations other than this week. We've stressed the need to play 60 minutes and taking advantage of opportunities when we get them. We need to score touchdowns and not settle for field goals in the fourth quarter. That's the type of things we've talked about and that we've used from last year's game and applied to other situations the past 12 months.

Chan Gailey

We've talked about that game in other situations other than this week. We've stressed the need to play 60 minutes and taking advantage of opportunities when we get them.

We noticed they leave the backcourt open when they go to the boards. They have rebounding guards and we were able to take advantage of that.

We normally don?t get to practice outside in January, and our first tournament of the spring is usually the first time the guys see grass. I think this is a huge advantage for them because now they feel more confident about their swings going into the first tournament.

We'll also discuss the advantages of having a high-speed light rail system. Discouraging cell phone use while on I-95 will be supported too.

We live on the edge as a modern society, and terrorists can take advantage of that, ... What Katrina has told us, Mother Nature has told us: 'You live on the edge, and if you don't make prudent investments, lots of lives and property can be unnecessarily lost.'

I was able to hold my serve fairly early and when you can do that you can take advantage of that by being more aggressive against your opponent's serve.

I was able to get a couple of steps on my defender a couple of times, and I tried to take advantage of that.

Rasheed Wallace

I was just taking what they were giving me - open shots. I just wanted to take advantage of it.

Roger Clemens

I was just sitting back and letting him enjoy it over there, ... I mean, what else can you do? It was a very hittable pitch. Guys on this level, whether they're 21 or 41, are going to hit that. And he took advantage of it. I've given up some home runs, I'm sure, in my career. But it was probably pretty exciting for that kid.

Patty Schnyder

I was just off, and she was all over me. She just took advantage and didn't let it go. I had the feeling when I rally with her, I was getting tired and pushed back too much, just too much power. It's really one of the rare ones where there was no match at all. I don't really know what happened to me.

Tatiana Golovin

I was kind of ready for how she plays. I could pick up a few things about her game and just had to take more advantage of the chances that I had, but I got tired and made some unforced errors. I tried not to give her too many angles but she can get to every ball with her long arms and legs. I tried to hit to her body and keep it deep.

Barry Zito

I was kind of lethargic mentally. But that works to my advantage. It helps me not freak out because you're not attentive to every little hit or what a fan is saying. It's better just to be in a little bit of a daze.

B. F. Skinner

I think they use it as an advantage for them. I think it allows them to maybe be a little more aggressive than a guy who is a little bigger and can't be as aggressive. (Officials) are willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.

I think they came out a little complacent. You can tell by the way they came out in the second quarter. If they had played like that right out of the gate, it would've been a different game. We just took advantage of it.

I think these markets are pretty resilient. We're seeing individual investors really taking advantage of the long term ... filtering out the short-term.

Josh Smith

I think the third quarter beat us. We came out kind of flat, and they took advantage of it. Chucky Atkins knocked down some threes early and got the lead to 20 real quick.

I think the whole key to the game was how we executed on offense. We seemed to become a perimeter team early in the game and that's just not our style. Ripon was able to take advantage and start to pull away. When we decided to play solid defense and attack the basket on offense, we were able to make a run.

Judd Gregg

it is apparent that the oil companies have taken advantage of the trust of the American people.