Famous Quotes & Sayings

We want to pitch it, pitch it, pitch it. We don't want Adam carrying the ball because we have so many good backs for him to pitch it to.

It would mean a lot if we could all get together and play together for a long time. I understand there are a lot of question marks about the corners. I can understand the questions, especially about me and Adam LaRoche. We're going to have to go out and silence the questions.

Joe Sakic

The winning goal was bad luck, ... I knew Adam was there, but I didn't know he was changing. It was just bad judgment, I guess.

Debbie Allen

The screenwriter's role was very instrumental, because it's difficult to take a stage play and adapt it for the screen.

What we are seeing is that, in the specialized nature of information economy, a college degree is increasingly important for employers. What's interesting is that even liberal arts majors are finding significant opportunities, since those are the folks who are best at critical thinking skills. They can adapt to any number of professions.

What this is, is taking the technologies that we already have at our fingertips, and making them adaptable to people once they're in the car.

Herbert Simon

What a person cannot do he will not do, no matter how much he wants to do it. Normative economics has shown that exact solutions to the larger optimization problems of the real world are simply not within reach or sight. ... the behavior of an artificial system may be strongly influenced by the limits of its adaptive capacities.

Stephen Jay Gould

What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality.

Whatever we do with the two, it will be what Wayne feels is appropriate and Paul feels appropriate. We have a foundation for it all but we can adapt to create a magic moment quickly.

Clarence Day

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways

We somewhat subscribe to the adage that you don't build the church for Easter Sunday. One of the best experiences is to have a ballpark be as intimate as it can be. We believe there's a connection between intimacy and the number of seats that are occupied.

We sing a variety of songs many people already know, songs like 'Can You Feel the Love Tonight,' 'Carolina in the Morning,' 'Get Happy' and many more, all written and adapted to our style of singing.

There's no question Adam is swinging the bat well. I think the biggest thing is with that, he came into this tournament pumped, excited, wanted to play. But not just with Adam but every other guy on this team, they wanted to be here.

There's not a lot of happy campers around here with just the way things have been going. The old adage is 'hard work will get you out slumps.' It's certainly not a lack of effort on our part. We've got to get a win or two to get the confidence back.

There's no cuddle corner anymore, and Germany is adapting to what's already common in Anglo-Saxon regions. It's surprising how quickly this has been happening.

There's nobody on this team that I pull harder for than Adam Witter. He works hard and good things deserve to come to him. I just felt like he was going to do something good there.

Paul Gleason

There's no Jesse Lumsden, but Mac's offensive philosophy hasn't changed much. Their quarterback, Adam Archibald, is a big guy. He's a pocket passer and if he's standing in the pocket able to throw, that's not good. It means we're not getting to him.

Tex Williams

There's no way we'll make any kind of decision until we sit down eye-to-eye with coach Smith. That's the only right way to do it. At this point Adam is still at Kentucky, but it's an open deal. We'll see where Adam's heart is and what coach Smith thinks. It will be a very respectful meeting.

Craig Johnson

There's nothing fundamentally wrong with the business of selling recreational items. But kids today are moving away from traditional toys and toward electronics at a much younger age. Toys 'R' Us has to adapt to this shift and explore new areas of the business.

The transmissibility of avian viruses may increase as the viruses adapt to humans.

I should have caught the first ball and (shortstop) Adam (Davis) was right there (to turn the double play). To have a second chance, I like that a lot.

David Schwimmer

I've commissioned an adaptation of 'The Jungle', by Upton Sinclair, a story of a young immigrant from Lithuania to the meat-packing industry of Chicago in 1904, and the rise of the unions in America.

Drew Gooden

I've been coming doing my job and going home. That's what this has become for me. I've been in so many different awkward positions every year. I can adapt to my surroundings.

Gary Kemp

We monitor all of our burns in the park and have been working with Los Alamos National Lab to develop some projects cross-boundary, ... Fire has been here for thousands of years and there are many species ecologically dependent on fire. They have adapted to it and are dependent on it.

We have to do a better job on boards than we did today and make more shots. The adage is to survive and advance. We start fresh tomorrow with a new team.

What's going to be very interesting in '08 is how they adapt using the lessons that they learned from this one with regard to not only these problems, but also something else, which was actually a bright spot - their coverage of the Olympics through nontraditional media was actually very encouraging. They got a lot of Web-site hits. There were a lot of people consuming these Olympics one way or the other over the Internet and on high-definition television.

We will obviously keep a close eye on what the situation is and adapt to that as well.

Derek Bok

Apart from finding a first job, college graduates seem to adapt more easily than those with only a high school degree as the economy evolves and labor-market needs change.

The kids, the ones that are stars, good players, it doesn't matter. They adapt to it, but the kids that play National every day are going to be shocked when they go to the other courses.

The military constantly has to adapt to the society it recruits from.

Josh Wise

The midget has such a short wheelbase and it is such a momentum car. I'll get out of the sprint car some nights and get into the midget and it feels like something is loose on the midget because it wants to twitch all over. It is fun to test how adaptable you are in a race car from one to the next.

I'm not sure how many people were aware that 'Othello' was black, so when she did that play, she opened everyone's eyes, ... Her adaptation of that play was very fresh when she did it. It was something new that people had never seen before, which was typical of her personality.

I'm not sure adaptive management will protect wilderness.