Famous Quotes & Sayings

Whereas in past years there has been a hundred dollar deductible and then you have to subtract ten percent of your adjusted gross income. That's not the case anymore for the hurricane victims.

Noah Baumbach

It's going to start really interfering with your quality of life, your health, if you don't adjust to life as it's happening to you.

Daniel Yergin

When you adjust it for inflation, a year ago we were looking at gasoline prices that were cheaper than they had been during the Great Depression. So it was an extraordinary bargain.

Bill Rodgers

When you adjust for the weather, it's the same effort required by every runner-or racer, so the more you understand the conditions, perhaps the more mental preparation plays a role.

When you adjust for selling days, auto sales are essentially flat compared with this time last year. We anticipate May will be more robust.

River Phoenix

We were constantly moving to different countries and adjusting to new things. It was such a free feeling. I'm glad I didn't have a traditional upbringing.

Greg Norman

You know, like I said, I'm not going to adjust my Senior Tour schedule.

As we decipher our biology and learn to modify and adjust it, we are learning to modify ourselves - and we will do so. No laws will stop this.

Tom Waits

If you're in the middle of the ocean with no flippers and no life preserver and you hear a helicopter, this is music. You have to adjust to your needs at the moment.

We were a little sluggish in the beginning. But we started the five seniors (it was senior night at Union). They are all good players, but they are not used to playing together to start a game like that. We started in a zone defense. Heck, everyone who watches us knows we don?t do that a whole lot. But I thought we made some adjustments. Offensively we started to attack some more. I thought they adjusted well to the game.

We don't know exactly what they're going to do. If they stay with what they've been doing, Bernie will be fine. If they don't, then we felt that Jimmy would be our guy to start with so that we'd have some recall. Once the game starts, we'll see what they do and kind of adjust from there.

The defendants are relying on a statute of limitations that applied to the Memphis board of adjustment that went out of existence 35 years ago. We believe that statute does not apply. The Tennessee legislature specifically enacted a 60 day statute of limitations that applies to boards and commissions and that statute of limitations should apply to this board.

The deficit will widen further unless we adjust the price.

Jack Black

It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.

Mike Thibault

We're excited to finally have Erin with us. I think she is one of the best young point guards in the world. This signing will give us the opportunity to play both her and Lindsay together. While young, I expect she will have a learning adjustment period, but I expect her to be able to adjust at a fairly rapid pace.

We're doing some things new, and it's taking the backs a while to adjust to the offensive line. Once they feel comfortable knowing exactly where the holes will be and the different cuts ... that's what they're starting to get in practice.

Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you.

Anna Lindh

This is not bad, but the pace of globalisation has surpassed the capacity of the system to adjust to new realities of a more interdependent and integrated world.

The one thing we see repeatedly is that once a consumer owns a high definition television, he or she immediately notices the difference -- so much so that viewing habits adjust in order to watch high definition content.

Tip your hat to them. They did a good job inside. We need to learn how to defend better with fouls. We can't become liabilities out there. We need to adjust to how a game is (being called).

Paul Goodman

To translate, one must have a style of his own, for otherwise the translation will have no rhythm or nuance, which come from the process of artistically thinking through and molding the sentences; they cannot be reconstituted by piecemeal imitation. The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.

Camille Paglia

If colleges and universities are really concerned about women's rights, then they must adjust to a far more flexible structure to allow young women students to take leaves of absence if they want to have children early.

We play pretty straightaway (defensively), and we try to adjust as the game goes along. (O'Bryan) hit that ball right on the nose. So, that was a big out.

We played with a lot of heart. Sometimes there's going to be one-run games. This lets (us) know we can win them. We didn't adjust well to their pitcher. She's a freshman and she's going to be really good for them.

Chris Chelios

We played a patient game, and we were fortunate to get a couple at the end there. They spread you out, they play pretty offensive, those first two lines, which sometimes puts you on your heels, and I think instead of going after them in the transition game, we kept turning the puck over. But as the game went on, we adjusted to that.

We played a good game. We were solid on defense not making any errors. We just were unable to adjust to the better pitching.

We opened lower ... on the increase in the ending stocks figure in the U.S. and the increase in the world ending stocks. We digested that report and really didn't generate much as far as any follow-through trade. The world ending stocks were a little bit of a surprise being up that sharply, though an adjustment to the Brazilian numbers and then also an increase in Chinese production.

Bikram Choudhury

I fix the human chassis, I tune up human engines, I recharge human batteries, and I adjust human transmissions.

I thought we played real well. They came out in a box on us and it took us a quarter to get adjusted to it, but once we did, we started playing well. Once again, we won with our defense.

I thought we grew a lot mentally. We were challenged to make sure we adjusted mentally.

I thought we matched up really well with these girls. We just couldn't adjust on defense.

I thought that we really adjusted well from the first half to the second half, which is a good indication of how well these kids do at adjusting. We did a much better job of defending penetration and we got on the boards a lot better.

I thought we came out and got intimidated early on. It was a physical game and the officials were letting them play and we didn't adjust in time.