Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fred Astaire

I just told my agent to forget all other projects for me. I was waiting for Audrey Hepburn. She asked for me, and I was ready. This could be the last and only opportunity I’d have to work with the great and lovely Audrey Hepburn and I was not missing it. Period.

Fred Durst

For someone in my position, there's opportunities to be anything you want to be, even if you shouldn't be eligible, and I think that's left a bad taste in a lots of financers' and studios' mouths. Just cause someone's popular at one thing, letting them do the other isn't always the right thing.

Every opportunity that comes along, you have to make use of it.

Stanley Fischer

Some see it as a threat, some see it as an opportunity and some see it as inevitable,

Some things work out and some don't. In this case, another opportunity presented itself.

So we better do more than that, because I think we have a big opportunity.

So think about that as an opportunity for intervention. Perhaps there were some cues that were missed.

Steve Forbes

Actually, I'm surprised somebody didn't see the opportunity sooner,

The thing I like about it is every player has the opportunity to run the ball, has an opportunity to score.

Thank you for the opportunity to serve in such an important role.

Tom Daschle

So on all of those issues, there is a real opportunity for all of us to work together,

Marcia Gay Harden

Sometimes in film and television, I don't have the opportunity to play roles that really stretch and challenge me.

E. O. Wilson

The students actually had the opportunity to play a variety of rhythm instruments together. There were instruments of all sizes; some that were played while straddling, some that are carried, and some that were three-feet tall.

Arlen Specter

a window of opportunity at this time to resolve the disagreement on drug-interdiction policies.

That opportunity made me realize I wanted to be a director,

We've got a lot of strong opposition, but we did have 66 votes three years ago, so I think we have the opportunity to get it passed,

This was an opportunity for them to keep the store going rather than starting up a new store or a new business.

Pete Carroll

This two-week opportunity for them really makes them dangerous,

Bill Belichick

We got a lot of people an opportunity to play and you never know when that's going to be beneficial.

We can now take this opportunity to reach for the stars.

Bernie Sanders

During the 1999 debate over Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China President Bill Clinton said, 'In opening the economy of China, the agreement will create unprecedented opportunities for American farmers, workers and companies to compete successfully in China's market. WRONG: Our trade deficit with China has increased from $83 billion in 2001 to a record breaking $342 billion in 2014.

We want to give visitors an opportunity to reflect upon what they've seen.

We want to give the opportunity (to take classes) to everybody.

We want to give Lindsey every opportunity to ski in the downhill.

We want to give as many pitchers as possible the opportunity to pitch.

Martin Millar

Through sites like MySpace, people coalesce into interest groups, and this gives me the opportunity to do vast mailshots to people who like similar things.

They are all here for a reason, because there is every opportunity here for a left-hander to win a job.

Jonny Lee Miller

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

Richard Hatch

When you meet someone with a vision, you have to give them a shot and an opportunity to see what they can do.

What this provides is a wonderful opportunity for a three-county area.

Elton Brand

We just had a tough stretch there where we couldn't make anything. Taking them to OT, that's one thing, but we had an opportunity for a victory here.

There's no opportunity for him to play at all.

There's no excuse. I would like to have an opportunity to play them again.