Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Billick

It's the logical choice. Kordell was great for us last year. A great team member, understands the role. Hopefully there's enough carry-over for him, verbiagewise, that he can adjust quickly. It's a nice comfort zone having him back.

Justin Smoak

It's like a totally different level here. It's a different game, you've just got to adjust to it. The hitting is the hardest part. But you've just got to relax and have fun with it. You can't really stress up there.

Ted Thompson

It's making me have gray hair. I think you just have to be prepared. And all 31 other teams are having to do the same thing. There's a couple different sets of rules that are going to apply come next week, but one set is going to apply and the other set is not, so you have to be ready to go. You have to go under the assumption for the time being, I'm going under the assumption that there's not going to be a collective bargaining agreement. If there is, then we'll adjust accordingly.

Andrew Bogut

It's kind of hard to adjust to their style of play. We tried to throw some different looks at them, but at the end of the day, it wasn't really up to us. It was up to their missed shots.

It it too soon to be sure, but we think there is a good chance that the industrial sector has now fully adjusted to the summer's steep decline in confidence.

Julian Robertson

It seems to me that the least deserving recipients of wealth are inheritors. Further, there are many indications that inheritors often have trouble adjusting to their unearned inheritance. An inheritance tax would de facto help remedy this.

Lauren Oliver

Direction, like time, is a general thing, the deprived of boundaries and borders. It is an endless process interception and reinterception, doubling back and adjusting.

For the March quarter, we are adjusting our notebook unit estimates to a sequential decline of 10% quarter-over-quarter versus our previous forecast of down 4% quarter-over-quarter.

For the European players, they get an opportunity to adjust to the North American style of play, the rink, and it's an opportunity to play against players their age. There's a lot of pressure on them as it is, coming over (from Europe) maybe for the first time.

There's clearly humor that goes too far and humor that is violative, and we are engaged in our humor in a complex call-and-response with one another. I'm telling you a joke to see if you think that it's funny... but if one of us violates some principle or touches on a particularly tender spot of the other, normally we adjust to that and move on.

Carlos Beltran

There's a period of adjustment he's going through. I know he's not satisfied with his performance. He knows he can do better, and he knows he will do better.

There's always that adjusted RPI that the committee uses in the back room.

There's always going to be an adjustment period when a guy comes off an injury.

There was a lot of new stuff they had to adjust to. It was a growing period for them.

At last, the market has entered into an adjustment phase, after bond prices surged in thin trading yesterday.

At first I thought there was some tension between us with the new guy coming in, but they've done a great job adjusting to my system, working with me and embracing me. I really love these guys and I'm sorry we ended this way, but they're great young men.

As we disclosed in December, unexpected cutbacks by retailers and our further adjustment to a just-in-time shipping pattern negatively impacted our results.

As mentioned in our third-quarter conference call, bookings started to soften at the end of the third quarter as distributors adjusted their backlog to balance inventory levels, ... Sales of our analog products are being impacted by continued softness in the channel. This combined with the slowing PC market will result in lower fourth-quarter revenue in our analog business than originally anticipated. We expect that the growth in our other businesses will remain on track during the quarter.

Allowing brokerages to launch warrants at any moment in a trading day may help adjust the derivative's supply to meet its demand. It has been proven in Western markets as a good way to combat fluctuation.

Lofa Tatupu

A big thing is to get off the field on third down. A couple times they max-protected and then leaked out a guy late (into pass patterns). They did a good job adjusting on the fly. They picked up some of our blitzes really well.

Seth Godin

Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you've got a shot at evolving and adjusting to turn your wrong into a right. But if you don't start, you never get a chance.

Margaret Mitchell

[T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.

I had great expectations going into the match this morning. We've been striking the ball well all week. I know the girls are disappointed because we know we are a better team than the score reflects. We just didn't seem to adjust to the course conditions.

Lance Armstrong

I had finally adjusted to the jet lag of the trip but woke up this morning with a sore throat that seemed to get worse all day,

Chauncey Billups

It helped us tremendously. That first game back from a West Coast trip is always difficult to get back into the swing of things and get adjusted to the time zone and all of that. Without that, you don't see us score 38 points in the fourth quarter.

It has been quite a time since I was last in a rally car and I was a little unsure about my pace on the high speed sections. I felt fine in the technical sections and through the small dunes, but judging distances at speed was not easy. It will take a little time to regain that confidence, but I am pleased and surprised to be leading. I need to train my eyes to adjust to the fast terrain over the next few days.

Henry Paulson

I think all of us know that what we went through in the last half of the Nineties is not sustainable. We're going to need to adjust ourselves to a period of more normal growth. How we think about managing our businesses in that environment is the tricky question we're all grappling with.

I think all of us are starting to adjust to the fact Armando's gone. Tyler is doing the job well. It's hard for us because nobody has specific roles, so it's about making adjustments.

Jay Wright

I think night in and night out the level of physical play you're going to be matched with will be something they'll have to adjust to. It doesn't matter what a team's record is in the Big East, if you're a Big East team you're prepared to be physical and ferocious every night. I don't know of any teams have a finesse style of play. It's almost like playing football, where you can physically get beat up. You're going to get physically challenged every night.

Brandon Cox

I just didn't get enough on it. The wind was blowing pretty fast. I should have adjusted to that, and I didn't.

By introducing noise, they hope the adjustment will be smoother.

C.J. has really raised his level of play. He's fearless on the court. He came in after football and I think there was a period of adjustment for him. The last couple of games, you can tell he's just more comfortable out there.

I'm pleased to report that our company once again posted strong results for the quarter. Revenues rose 4 percent and Adjusted Operating Income before Depreciation & Amortization (in short, OIBDA, the new metric that we are using to track profitability, which is roughly comparable to EBITDA) increased 11 percent.