Famous Quotes & Sayings

We'll have to adapt to that and look at our run volume and get to the responses in an adequate time.

To many employees, Vista, the Windows update, exemplifies the company's struggles. When the project was conceived half a decade ago, it was envisioned as a breakthrough: an operating system that would transform the way users store and retrieve information. But the more revolutionary features have been dropped, and Vista will arrive three years after researcher Gartner Inc. originally predicted that it would ship. Worse yet, they say, nobody has been held accountable. 'People look around and say: 'What are those clowns doing?'' says Adam Barr, a program manager in the Windows group.

The Oracle Fusion Architecture provides the foundation for our vision of Information Age applications. Our singular mission is to help our customers drive business excellence through the blending of superior insight and adaptive processes. Oracle Fusion Architecture is both the architectural roadmap and the enabling technologies that allow us to do that.

Clarence Darrow

The origin of the human race is not as blind a subject as it once was. Let alone God creating Adam out of hand, from the dust of the earth, does anyone believe that Eve was made from Adam's rib...?

Debbie Allen

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

Ernie Els

It would be a huge confidence booster to win here. I wish I'd played like this last week. I would have given (Beijing winner) Adam Scott a bit of a go.

Jamie Langenbrunner

It was a little tighter than I thought it would and what you're used to, but I think we adapted pretty well and played with some discipline.

The steak and chicken fell out of the diet. It's like going to the grocery store and (seeing) there are only a few yucky things in the store. You adapt by using what's there.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The stronger the vote, the more it says that New Yorkers endorse the mayor's way of managing the city and its problems, ... And if the public says, 'we want his way to continue,' other elected officials may think, 'maybe we have to adapt ourselves to the mayor's way, too.'

The structured finance industry is enjoying unprecedented growth, undergoing rapid transformation as best of breed techniques begin to converge. Principia SFP is of tremendous value to our clients in that it cost-effectively meets the common, straight-through processing needs of structured finance operations, yet is adaptive enough to address the evolving structuring and workflow requirements of many different vehicle types.

The technology has been around for six or seven years, but the idea of people adapting to it has really taken hold in the last year.

The suites could either agree to keep (their policy) with the university's policy for the weeknights or they could adapt their own policy. It is up to the residents of the suite to reach a decision on that.

Jorge Rodriguez

The Suffrage Law would need to be adapted to the 1999 Constitution to provide for some defense of minority's representation.

The space that we build is going to need to be flexible and adaptable so that we don't build it and have to use it for the exact purpose for the next 45 years because we can't change it. We want flexibility.

The thing that Notre Dame does well is it confuses teams with the attack it runs. They move a lot of hitters around. We have to adapt to that.

Harmony Korine

I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.

Gordon Bethune

It's the old adage: You can make a pizza so cheap, nobody will eat it. You can make an airline so cheap, nobody will fly it.

He's the only guy on the team that really commands a double-team. ... That says something about a freshman. Now we have to be able to adapt when that occurs to take advantage of the double-team.

Garrett was in a terrific shooting zone. He continues to be our most valuable asset on the floor with his ball handling and leadership skills. Adam just gets better every game. His footwork around the basket is improving and he has a great shooting touch.

Adriano Galliani

Gallas still has one year left in his contract with his club. All I can say is we like French players because they are able to adapt better to our football than the rest of the Europeans.

Garth Brooks

Bury the hatchet, but leave the handle sticking out.

Amir Khan

I've adapted my footwork and my punches are a lot harder now. My first fight was like my amateur fights. I went in there with fast feet and fast hands but now I've slowed it down so I'm adapting to it and getting more power into my shots.

John Grisham

I've had nine of my books adapted to film, and almost all were enjoyable. I've been very lucky with Hollywood, and look forward to more movies being adapted. But I don't get involved in that process. I know nothing about making movies and I stay away from it and hope for the best.