Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Schickel

First of all people have to tune in and stay with it no matter what the format is. And this is a year in which none of the contending pictures are big, across the board hits.

J. Taylor

Fishnets aims to make a major impact on improving quality of life for older people across the county - increasing the number of people who can be helped to live at home, while reducing the need for emergency hospital treatment.

Fisher's already apologized for that statement. What we're talking about is speed. There's speed that cuts across black, white, gray, blue, whatever. It was just an inappropriate comment and you all know it was an inappropriate comment.

Folks within over there know how a lot of those things are handled are somewhat of a shame, but you can't really just point fingers to say it's the Green Bay Packers because it's an issue all across the league, ... There's not enough minority coaches in the league across the board. So, just to pinpoint that one, that just so happened to be an issue that I kind of experienced first-hand from my relationship in Green Bay as well as with Coach Washington.

Folks are concerned about losing the small town flavor. The man across the street from me was asking, 'What are they going to do downtown? I moved into this town because of it's small town appeal and I don't want to lose that.' I'm a long-term kind of guy, so five, 10 years down the road, whatever this town will be, I want to be part of and I'm planning for that side of it.

Duncan Hunter

Fences would be a hindrance to terrorists should they decide to come across a land border between the U.S. and Mexico and to California.

Everything went the right way. It was a strong quarter across the board.

Evidence at the scene indicates (Green) was distracted, ... He went across the double dividing line without touching the brake.

Every year, millions of vaccines get wasted due to inadequate storage facilities. India is a focus for us, as this is a very big challenge for the country as well as other countries across the globe.

Every year it takes less time to fly across the Atlantic and more time to drive to the office.

Everything is just firing on all cylinders right now-we're really clicking. We're getting runs across the plate and our pitching and defense are keeping the other's teams off. We're doing what we're supposed to do.

The results of this survey are critically important for employers across America. Even though more and more employers have enacted gay-friendly policies because they know it is good business, many employees are still without protection and experience anti-gay harassment and discrimination at work.

There's still a lot of property to develop. We'll be expanding things across the bypass, and we'll be adding things at what you call Broadway at the Beach proper.

There's something with Broadway Across America's size ... (their) reach has hampered them (from) being nimble, and we're able to be much more nimble.

There's a greater demand for energy across the board: coal, oil and natural gas, all of which North Dakota is a major producer, so we're reaping the benefits of that energy sector.

There's a good chance our investment volume could be more diversified across the region this year.

There's a good case to be made that there's a need for a cash component for the oil industry as well as a cash component for other sectors. We would like to see a cash component across the board.

There's a general upside bias for the dollar right across the board, but that inclination is tempered a little when you come up against big events like the trade data.

Sometimes one comes across an especially odd trading day when nothing much makes sense. Yesterday's session was a case in point, with the action in the natural gas complex being particularly puzzling.

Rust spores can be carried by wind currents hundreds or even thousands of miles, even across oceans. They are eventually brought down to earth by rain, and a leaf that's been wet for several hours is needed in order for a spore to germinate and infect a plant.

Ruffian's story is one of the most poignant of her time. This project will continue our strategy to make content available to consumers across multiple platforms and serve fans with superior programming.

Sadly, infant abductions happen. Not with a lot of regularity, but they do happen across the country,

Joe Biden

Romania can be a linchpin in delivering gas to its neighbors and even become an energy exporter for its neighbors across Central and Eastern Europe.

Right now we're tight across everything we make, ... We can meet a seasonally strong second half, but we have not commented on if the demand is stronger than expected.

Scott McCloud

Right now, we only have three customers without power and that's across three states. So we're not being affected by snow or ice at all." ()

Right now we have an upper-level disturbance tracking across us from the southwest, and that's responsible for the current round of showers and thunderstorms. (Saturday) night we had a back-door cold front that pushed in at the surface from the northeast, and that's kind of laid across the area east to west. It's increasing the coverage of showers and thunderstorms.

Kevin Brady

Right now the urgent needs in these communities are ice, fuel, water and power. The delay in generators is a major, major problem across Southeast Texas.

Rob Enderle

Pretty much across the board people are saying that Microsoft is dysfunctional. They are not cooperating across business groups, ... The end result of this reorganization is to fix that ? to get it so people who should be cooperating are cooperating, so they can start focusing on competitors instead of competing against themselves.

Samsung continues to develop the premium mobile handsets that give consumers the ultimate multimedia experience and allow them to fully realize the power of mobile broadcasting. Our impressive line-up of mobile TV phones here at CES illustrates Samsung's success at working across multiple platforms to deliver products that can truly serve as personal multimedia portals for connected consumers.

San Francisco Bay has been hit hard by organisms hitchhiking from across the Pacific, ... They're talking about setting up very stringent rules for San Francisco Bay. If a ship has to change its whole operation to go into San Francisco Bay, it's going to reflect on the economy of the shipping line.

Sallie's departure is a great loss for the guild. For two decades, she put her boundless energies and considerable talents toward protecting and enhancing the welfare of performers across America -- bettering their contracts as one of our chief negotiators, strengthening their pension and health programs as a trustee of those plans and fighting for their claims as the head of our contracts department.

Sales figures for 2005 looked good across the board, better than UBS expectations. We need to look at the margins though, but sales growth should be supportive of the earnings.

Tom Stoppard

Schepisi is the sort of director who could, would, and frequently did phone me whenever he came across a textual problem.