Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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 adjust to what the defense dictates. We like to run. We had the short field against Toledo and didn't throw it much.

Chad Campbell

We adjust pretty quick to courses. You know, without any wind out here, you can make some birdies. The guys (at the Classic Club) on Wednesday and Thursday kind of got the bad end of the deal with the wind blowing so hard. It was a totally different course that we played (Saturday).

We adjusted well. I think we just saw openings and ran with it. ... You've got to give them a lot of credit too. They're a really good team.

Mike Powell

We adjusted well as the game went on. Our primary goal before Friday is to work on the little things, the fundamentals.

We adjusted to the weather and played our game in the second half.

We adjusted the man-to-man defense. We got a little more aggressive and were playing the passing lanes a little more. We were trying to take away the slice down the lane.

Mark Patterson

We adjusted the belts, the seat, and stuck our number on the side of the car. I had no idea how the car was going to feel, what the set-up was like, and how the Pontiac was going to be to drive.

We adjusted quickly, ... We listened well when the refs told us what they were going to call. I thought we moved the puck well and skated well.

We adjusted our defense and started picking up their tips. We kept our heads in the game.

We adjusted on the fly. They started with just one forward up top and five players in defense, but then they came out in the second half with (two forwards). But we quickly adjusted to that.

We adjusted defensively, but it comes down to blocking and tackling, and when he got a full head of steam going, that's a load.

We adjusted a little at halftime. We slowed down on our side of the court.

Richard Gephardt

We are locked into a process that is based on a tax proposal that was put together a year ago, when the economy was very different than it is today, ... There is a lack of willingness to adjust and modify and respond with an economic plan that is in tune with today.

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.

Norv Turner

You have to adjust to each opponent. Kansas City is considerably different than New England, so there are things we have to approach and handle that they do that New England doesn't do.

Thomas Arnold

You have to adjust accordingly, ... Slow down and always have your vehicle prepared for any weather.

George King

We're not so short-sighted to think there's no adjustment needed (for the new umpires); of course there is. But there's a tremendous reservoir of umpires beyond the 28 we have normally.

Zac Goldsmith

If you tell people, 'that old banger of yours, we're going to tax the hell out of it,' they'll rightly tell you to get lost. But if you tell people that when they next buy a car, the tax will be adjusted so that the cleanest ones will cost less and the polluting ones will cost more, most people would say 'fair enough.'

Wen Jiabao

China is a main energy consumer and, therefore, is also a big greenhouse gas emitter. We must use energy resources rationally and must conserve. This needs us to adjust our economic structure, transform the mode of development, to make economic development more dependent on progress of science and technology and the quality of the work force.

Wesley Clark

People make mistakes. And one of the mistakes that the United States consistently made was that it could intervene and somehow adjust people's governments, especially in the Middle East.

Donatella Versace

You can never forget the time you're living in because the past is the past and it will never come back. So to adjust your philosophy and creativity in fashion to the time you're living in is the most important thing.