Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
Henri Matisse

The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.
Charles Babbage

Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.
Nicolas de Chamfort

The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.
Kofi Annan

Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Arsenal have won that advantage, nobody gave it to them. By playing fantastic football and by winning matches and by winning trophies, they won that respect that the opponent has for them.
Jose Mourinho

Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted with the rest of the world. America is the only place you can do that, but we don't have sense enough to take advantage of that.
Erykah Badu

Sure, the home-field is an advantage - but so is having a lot of talent.
Dan Marino

The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation.
James Monroe

Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.
Sri Aurobindo

I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.
David Attenborough

Of course, I do have a slight advantage over the rest of you. It helps in a pinch to be able to remind your bride that you gave up a throne for her.
King Edward VIII

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
Graham Greene

Home advantage gives you an advantage.
Bobby Robson

I have a name, I have to take advantage of it.
Pierre Cardin

There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race.
Emil Zatopek

My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage.
Joshua Chamberlain

Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.
Robert Brault