Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

That was the turning point, for sure. The rebounding gave us second and third chances, which we converted into points.

That was the final dagger when it was 60-56 and we were not able to convert a couple times. They are a mature team that got a second life in the NCAA to make some things happen. We had to play at the top of our game to win this.

Michael Perry

The 10-0 run put the game away for us. We got some transition opportunities and converted on them. It really ignited our play in the game.

That was a crucial score for us before the half. I kind of stuck my neck out there by going for two, but once we converted it put them in a position where they had to score twice.

That's what it will take to move, but that's not even counting the estimated $500,000 it's going to cost to convert the station into a museum.

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.

We expect to convert congressmen and their staffs to our own view point in trade policy,

We were two points away from making it an even game. But in the second half we didn't get those stops and convert those points in transition like we did in the first half. That was the difference.

We couldn't find the groove for our shooting tonight. They out hustled us and we couldn't convert their turnover into points for us.

We did a nice job defensively, with stop after stop after stop, but we couldn't convert at the other end.

We didn't make our free throws. It's pretty simple. We didn't convert at the free-throw line - that's the equivalent of a turnover (each time). It's about making shots you need to make. You have got to make free throws to win games. And without defensive rebounding you're not going to win.

We had several one-run losses. Had we been able to convert half of those into wins, we'd be in the playoffs right now.

Our defense was pretty good. We just couldn't convert on the turnovers we created.

Luis Aragones

Of course we have always had good players technically but in recent years we have not been able to convert that talent into international success,

The movies have helped some. We're seeing a new generation of readers. We're seeing a lot of kids. We're hoping to convert them to readers.

Engineers are the 'go to' people for the solutions to many of the today's most challenging problems. Engineers are true transformers because they convert scientific discoveries into real products and services that can improve and enrich our lives and increase environmental sustainability.

There's particular opportunity through 90-day prescription refill programs. If a patient can get it at a retail pharmacy rather than through the mail, that offers another opportunity to convert the patient to a generic when available.

Public funds were being used to fund a road show, really, to convert teens to Christianity.

Shawn Amos

At the height of his popularity in 1977, Cat Stevens converted to Islam and dedicated his life to educational and philanthropic causes.

The way yogurt works is you take the old yogurt culture and you put it in milk. You have to put enough of the old culture in, and then that old culture will convert the milk into yogurt.

They were converted to a larger-size tank but they just can't get it right. All of a sudden it starts cutting out.

It seems like she is kind of a recent convert to being the fiscal watchdog.

It's fairly easy to see how you can convert the chromosomes from the macaque to the human.

The team was crashing the interior and fighting for every loose ball. Unfortunately, we only converted a handful of those opportunities, and when fouled,we didn't do well from the stripe (12-for-30).

Michael Williams

(The tenant) understood it was a single-family (house) converted to a two-family dwelling without permission to do so,

The thing is, when you have an inside game you have a greater tendency to draw fouls and contact. Honestly, we don't have an inside game. We don't have back-to-the-basket guys. Our '5' guys are really '3s' and '4s' and I've converted them because you have to play somewhere inside of 10 feet. It may not be fair to them, but that's the situation that we're in.

Jim Lee

I want all my stuff to be converted into digital format so I can have my reference library to carry with me wherever I go.

So much irony in this story. We the leftists converted suddenly and started to pray for Sharon's health.