Famous Quotes & Sayings

From age 16 on, I found school boring and failed A-level Physics at my first attempt. This was necessary for university entrance, and so I stayed an extra year to repeat it. This time, I did splendidly and was admitted to Sheffield University, my first choice because of their excellent Chemistry Department.

Dave Wannstedt

From a fundamental standpoint, particularly on defense, I didn't do a good enough job of getting the guys prepared. We hit adversity. We did not deal with adversity the way championship teams deal with adversity. We didn't handle it well.

From a financial point of view, this is a healthy development for the communities we serve and our shareholders. The bank will be able to continue to grow and expand, which allows us to continue to lend more money to families and businesses in our local areas. Our shareholders' investments should continue to increase in value in addition to providing a cash dividend.

From a facility standpoint, it was a big positive in getting hockey back. That gets a permanent tenant back here. And, getting the arena football team gives an additional permanent tenant. With the (Florence Symphony) Orchestra, that gives us three. So, 2006 will be an important transitional year.

From a customer standpoint, you pay a flat subscription fee, and we will keep adding services. There will be some interesting rewards for being the first mover (with .Net).

From a business perspective, I always advise my employers to tell their employees what's going on.

From a budget standpoint, we had allocated more this year into nontraditional advertising streams, organic searches. We are really putting time online in pulling up Capitals searches and targeting those people. If somebody is doing a search in Washington, D.C., and they type in 'Chinatown,' 'MCI Center,' 'things to do in Washington,' they are going to get Caps advertisements.

William White

From 40 to 60 percent of the presidential office is not in administration but in morals, politics, and spiritual leadership. He has to guide a people in the greatest adventure ever undertaken on the planet.

Theo Epstein

From a personal standpoint, I really admire Bronson. I have gotten to know him really well, and that made it difficult. From an organizational standpoint, we owe a lot to Bronson ..I think it?s safe to say we would not have won the (2004) World Series without him. He?s handled himself with a huge amount of class on and off the field throughout his time as a Red Sox.

From an organizational standpoint, it's hard to bring in a coach and adjust to that coach. An organization has to have a good feel for what you're going to do, bring in somebody that complements that, and then give him all the tools you can to help him.

From a name recognition standpoint, any candidate sizes up their opponents. And by running a number of times and not winning, it can give the opposing candidate an advantage as it relates to perception.

From my time at Harding I gained a perspective that I take advantage of to this day. You need to have a philosophy that is connected with everything you do. The things I learned were work hard every day and play as a team.

From my review of the legislation in place, I don't think they've exceeded the limits to meet the definitions of adult entertainment. It's no different than a restaurant or bar with entertainment -- comedians, a band, or magicians.

Nicholson Baker

From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from the Planets is 5/4. But if you speak lines of poetry in that pattern you just end up hitting the off-beats. It's only when you add a rest - a sixth beat - that it sounds as it surely should sound.

From that standpoint, there will be no adverse effect on us,

From that experience, I can promise you that the likelihood of a sale to qualified buyers who want to keep the team where it is, is hugely impacted by how few liabilities, long-term, are on the books. I know it's tempting to play fantasy hockey and say this player or that player would certainly add to the value of the franchise.

From start to finish we played a very inspired game. They took some early penalties and we took advantage of them. We just played disciplined. We don't want to go back to Toledo.

From simple to more sophisticated, we have always focused on offering the trading community a wide range of order types designed to meet the needs of a diverse client base. We continuously obtain feedback from our clients so that we can create tools that add real value and bring efficiencies to the marketplace.

From passing the city's first earned income tax credit to launching the structural unemployment initiative, Gifford has been a forceful advocate in getting results for the most vulnerable New Yorkers,

From our scouting reports and coaches I talked to, we only thought they had one player who was an adequate outside shooter. They really surprised me in how well they did with a variety of shooters from the outside.

Tracy Kidder

From my experience, sure, if you were a truck driver, you could be incredibly unlucky, ... But I had the feeling that I was safer than I would have been back here as a late adolescent with a car.

From here, we do the public campaign. We get the businesses who've said they'll give that haven't yet, to finish giving what they're going to give. And we go to the city commission again and say please get this on your agenda and adopt this.

For so many of our clients in New York ? everybody this summer wore flat shoes... then all the sudden autumn hit and everybody thought, 'Oh my, I am back in my high-heeled shoes and I have to adjust myself have to how I am going to be able to walk around the city.

For several years now, search engine marketing and optimization has dominated online marketing, and this data shows why: it's far more effective at converting visitors into buyers than most other acquisition sources taken as a whole. But as this data also shows, the best conversion rate still comes from good old fashioned branding and customer loyalty, where visitors either bookmark your site or type your URL directly into the address bar.

John Charles Polanyi

For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest.

From 1990 to 2005, we added 4,500 citizens in Haines City, and of that, about 4,000 or more were Hispanics.

Friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.

Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.

Further improvement in earnings and additional declines in the unemployment rate is likely to boost overall confidence and keep consumption strong.

Edward Kennedy

Future additional tax breaks for the wealthy do not deserve a higher priority than strengthening education or covering prescription drugs under Medicare or protecting Social Security or meeting other urgent national priorities,

Fujitsu is applying advanced process technologies to a set of complex designs that move the networking and communications industries forward dramatically. We are leading the industry in the migration of these processes, first to 90 nanometers and now to 65 nanometers, which generate the high-speed, low-power, high-performance semiconductor devices required by our customers.

Funds' buying continued to boost stocks. The underlying tone of the market is still firm. The market may consolidate at around the 15,300 level before gaining momentum to advance further.

Fund companies are having trouble justifying building up Web sites. It's amazing how few fund companies advertise at portals, Morningstar and online business sites.