Famous Quotes & Sayings

Duane Ackerman

Reducing workforce is the toughest business decision a company has to make. We have worked hard to avoid it, but many companies our size and particularly our competitors operate with lower overhead and fewer management layers.

Jewel

Records have never really been my strong suit. I've always been a much better live act. I didn't understand the language of the studio. You sing differently in a studio. The language, the craft - it's just a whole different deal. I avoided the problem on my first record by doing a live album.

Carol Bellamy

recognizes that economic sanctions are an instrument intended by the international community to promote peace and security ... but our concern is that whenever sanctions are imposed, they should be designed and implemented in such a way as to avoid a negative impact on children.

Mark Stahlman

Previous management understood what needed to be changed, but they were unable to make it happen, ... To actually make these changes is a massive challenge. It can't be done quickly. There will be people who will resist. There's no avoiding a good deal of internal conflict.

Robert Wood

Our research shows that for some children, however, lifelong avoidance of these nuts, found in countless food products, may not be necessary.

Doug Smith

Parking was totally disorganized on Monday. We left extra early (Tuesday) to avoid another rush.

Shinya Yamanaka

Patients' lives are more important than embryos. I do want to avoid the use of embryos if possible.

Nancy McBride

Our message is that children should recognize and avoid certain situations, rather than certain people.

Juan Lubroth

People need to be informed about the importance of basic hygiene notably washing hands after touching poultry and disinfecting boots or shoes before entering or leaving a poultry farm. They should also be aware of suitable farming practices such as ensuring that poultry are roofed-in to avoid any contact with wild birds and not mixing chickens with other species, such as ducks.

Bob Ulrich

Our sales for the month of December were at the upper end of our expectations, driven in part by a higher mix of promotional sales,

Philip Turner

Our goal is that we will have 18 graduates in December 2006 and they will stay in the community.

David Greenlaw

Overall retail sales growth in December should be robust.

Marshall Cohen

Retailers have recognized that December has 31 days.

Douglas Porter

Manufacturing posted a solid rebound in December from weakness the prior month, but it is far from out of the woods.

Charlotte Jones

I think there has been a pick-up in the last three months of the year, even though December is not yet done and dusted.

Jim Press

I think December is going to be a great month, ... There is a lot of inventory coming, new products. We will have a December to remember and forget October.

John Ryding

I think it's much more likely that Greenspan gives us a quarter-point cut, and then comes back at the November or December meeting with another quarter-point cut.

Richard Foreman

I think that should set up a very positive picture for the December quarter, subject to execution.

Dan Corridon

Reconciliation is huge with us. It's a mantra.

Lee Raymond

Our numbers are huge because the scale of our industry is huge,

J. J. Johnson

Some people are doing it, but there haven't been huge numbers yet.

Bill Cleary

Our schedule was very tough this season and it's been a huge success largely because of the strength of our schedule.

Bryce Fisher

Rocky made a huge play, and the next thing you know, we've scored 14 points in (30) seconds. That's how you win in this league.

Miss Robinson

Representing Maryland agriculture, our state's No. 1 industry, has been a huge honor,

Matthew Henderson

I think the speaker's work, the governor's work and our work made huge headway.

Rob Wheeler

I think there is a huge need to get the word (out).

Alan Davidson

I think there are huge land mines with wireless ahead.

Charles Bass

Refineries and distributors could have predicted January would be cold, ... There is much more to this than just the cartels.

Chris Matthews

Our trading statement in January showed 8% sales growth, but we feel this is the right time to move into the fast-growing online market. We are doing this from a position of strength.

Pat Ryan

Playing in Muskrat Hole, Saskatchewan, in the middle of January is a little lower on my priority list now. I think I need to do other things with my life.

Rachel Steer

January just sucked, you know? I was just sapped.

Terry Hartle

I think it's unlikely that most of these schools in New Orleans will open before January -- if then.

Paul Bloch

Lisa Marie Presley was married to musician and producer Michael Lockwood on January 22, 2006.

I. Stone

If only all that January rain had been snow.

Jeff Reed

If this was January or February, I would already have 3 to 400 people out here. It's winding down.

Marty Heires

We've been told we would get some shipments in December, they would not be dependable, and that in January we would get all we need.

Casey Stengel

We are in such a slump that even the ones that aren't drinkin' aren't hittin'.

Jim Harrison

Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn't comprehend how I had almost drowned it it.

Mike Piazza

One thing anyone can go through is a slump. Unless you're Greg Maddux, it's going to happen to everybody.

Richie Ashburn

To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better.

Tom Waits

I've been riding on the crest of a slump lately.

Les Dawson

Slumps don't bother me.

Ving Rhames

I'm from New York, and yet I've done only one film executive-produced by Spike Lee and have never done a film that Spike Lee directed. I've never done a film that Keenan Wayans has directed, or Bill Duke.

Gordon Kettle

As this transition has taken place, it's taken away the summer spike in unemployment.

John Hull

Our starting point then was trying to find a way to incorporate mean reversion into the HoLee model.

Wilson Alvarez

I'm here trying to do it one more time. I'm doing it for my kids. I'm doing it for my wife. I'm doing it for my teammates. So they can all say you've still got it.

Bebe Neuwirth

Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.

Beck

With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to.

Beck

I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I wrinkled my nose, trying to figure out what he smelled like. Not cigarettes. Something richer, fouler. Cigars.

B. B. King

I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

Billy Corgan

I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.

Billy Corgan

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.