Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cynthia Kenyon

There are lots of different strategies that an animal can use to survive. What a worm does is try to convert food into worms as soon as possible. In three days a single worm produces 300 progeny. So why put your resources into developing if you can make a brand-new worm in no time at all?

Nikola Tesla

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

We played with better intensity on defense in the second quarter. Plus, we converted on their turnovers. Overall, I'd say we played good defense.

When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.

I thought we got some good looks down the stretch and we just didn't convert them. We need to do that to be competitive. Give them credit. They have been here before. They hit big free throws and got the rebounds they needed.

Tyler Hansbrough

I think we just stayed within ourselves and didn't let any of the fans get to us. We got some turnovers and converted ... It is great.

We need to convert more birdies when we have wedges in our hands.

Tom Ford

We wanted to get off to a good start, ... The third quarter we just couldn't convert any third downs. As an offense we really need to get better, but a win's a win and we'll take it.

George Muller

I hope in God, I pray on, and look yet for the answer. They are not converted yet, but they will be.

Evan Goldberg

I can't wait for them to convert old movies to 3D. I am 100% confident I want them to convert 'Terminator 2' to 3D more than I want anything in the world.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

We just weren't very crisp. We have to convert on those turnovers. We forced a lot of turnovers and we only scored 45 (in the game).

We've converted a lot more than we did last year.

Ty Turner's running strong. He's a converted lineman to fullback. He's done a phenomenal job putting his head down and running the football.

Frederick William Faber

If I may use such a word when I am speaking of religious subjects, it is by voice and words that men 'mesmerize' each other. Hence it is that the world is converted by the voice of the preacher.

It is not possible that one man can convert another into a piece of property, thus at once annihilating all his personal rights, without the most flagrant injustice and usurpation.

We only had 12 turnovers tonight, but we're going to have to convert a lot better (against Woodland). But we're in district and it's a new season.

Francis Parkman

Few passages of history are more striking than those which record the efforts of the earlier French Jesuits to convert the Indians.

We just weren't able to convert key power plays.

We just want to play and put a really good show on. Since there's going to be a lot of different people there with different tastes, it's a good place to convert some people over to our stuff.

Chris Chelios

We just can't convert our chances. We had the puck up the middle of the ice a lot, and didn't get anything to show for it.

Paul Young

We dominated the first half and still did not convert chances. But we just have to keep on working hard and go on to the next game.

which could easily be converted into improvised explosive devices.

We played pretty well. There were some shots that we need to be able to convert that we didn't.

We fouled them as much as we could in the fourth quarter. But we failed to convert when they missed them.

Barbara Mandrell

When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!

Victor Ponta

How can I convert the enthusiasm of voters into a practical programme of action that meets their desire for economic security and greater prosperity?

The problem - the greatest inefficiency of the process - is that you also wind up with a substantial quantity of medium-weight products that are not useful and you are stuck with them. What we are now able to do with our new catalysts is something no one else has done before. We take all these undesirable medium-weight substances and convert them to the useful higher- and lower-weight products.

Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.

Madonna Ciccone

I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.

We have to work, we can?t rest on any possession, we have to give maximum effort. We got some loose balls, we got on the offensive glass. We were able to convert on those hustle plays.

When you shoot 11-for-24 from the free throw line, you're not brimming with confidence. It was the first thing we talked about in the locker room after the game. It's a different game if we knock down and convert some free throws. We have nobody to blame, that's us.

When you see our drives, we took them the length of the field, converted third downs and converted inside the red zone, which was something we struggled on in some of the other big games we have played this year.