Famous Quotes & Sayings

Losing Chris was a tough break and I really didn't know how the team was going to react. It took a long time to adjust to playing without Chris, but the kids have bounced back and that's a credit to their hard work and determination.

Randy Johnson

Last year was a good learning process. I learned a lot about what I need to adjust to this coming year. That's why I'm coming into this year feeling a lot more relaxed.

Deborah Tannen

Many of us dismiss talk that does not convey important information as worthless - meaningless small talk if it's a social setting or "empty rhetoric" if it's public. Such admonitions as "Skip the small talk, " "Get to the point," or "Why don't you say what you mean?" may seem to be reasonable. But they are reasonable only if information is all that counts. This attitude toward talk ignores the fact that people are emotionally involved with each other and that talking is the major way be establish, maintain, monitor and adjust our relationships.

Sean and I butted heads quite a bit. I'm pretty strong-willed and competitive and so was he. He had a hard time adjusting to not playing a lot, and his frustration came out in ways he probably didn't want it to.

Greg Nickels

Seattle has not adjusted the tax threshold since 1994, ... The raised threshold offsets the effect of inflation since that time.

Seasonally adjusted net mortgage lending fell back to around the recent trend in January and the level of approvals, in particular for equity withdrawal, held up well in what is traditionally a slow month.

Sellers are stubborn. It takes a long time for sellers to adjust their expectations.

Sellers are beginning to show that they understand what's happening and they're adjusting to the marketplace. As there's more inventory now, the condition of the property comes into play even more.

So far, we have 10 different players who have scored goals for us. And most of them have had multi-goal games. We took some positive steps in improving last weekend, and I'm happy that the players adjusted to the moves.

John Beck

So many of these plays are set plays, where it's five guys running their specific route and the quarterback throws the ball to whoever the defense dictates is going to get the ball. Whereas in the past, it was each receiver would do certain things to adjust his route to try to get open.

She started really slow, and her opponent is a very hard hitter who dominated the 'T' for a while. Once she could maneuver the ball into the back corners, she got better looks and adjusted to the pace. She did quite well from there.

She started off slow but she's really come around lately. She's taken a little longer to develop and adjust to the different track.

Mark Johnson

She's taken advantage of her opportunities. She played well last week at North Dakota for us. The big thing is she's adjusting well to the college game quickly and is building confidence each time out on the ice. I hope she continues to improve. She's a smart player.

Marc Faber

In the 40 years I've been working as an economist and investor, I have never seen such a disconnect between the asset market and the economic reality... Asset markets are in the sky, and the economy of the ordinary people is in the dumps, where their real incomes adjusted for inflation are going down and asset markets are going up.

Jim Jordan

Like every campaign, we'll be adjusting our campaign schedule on an as-appropriate basis. We're certainly not suspending all of our activities, but we will, of course, be sensitive to tone, to taste, to the national mood, and making scheduling decisions accordingly.

Maintaining a predictable routine is critical to helping your pet adjust to changes in life. Most issues that come up between babies and pets can be prevented with a little advanced planning.

Raina Telgemeier

Making comic adaptations means making a lot of choices - you need to adjust the pacing, the dialogue, and in this case, a lot of the cultural references.

Levi can play multiple positions, he's a fierce competitor and he has adjusted to his new role of coming into games. He held down the fort. The guys were a little flat and I was concerned about the amount of games over the past week and a half.

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.

David Zayas

Part of an actor's job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how he tries to work.

When a regular camera focuses physically, what the regular camera is doing is adjusting the lens relative to the sensor to bring different parts of the scene into focus.

Richard Preston

When a parasite moves to a new habitat, it can find new hosts through a process called the trans-species jump. Often, the new host has no resistance; it and the parasite haven't had time to adjust to each other through natural selection (it is frequently not in the best interest of a parasite to kill its host quickly).

We have made an adjustment to the product to help protect users.

We go to great efforts. As long as they know what's going to happen when, most people make that adjustment very nicely.

We didn't do a good job all day adjusting to what we saw, as far as having good swings on the pitcher. We were swinging at bad pitches and taking good pitches.

Noah Baumbach

I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.

The implication is that this basic idea we have that we are controlled by our genes is false. It's an idea that turns us into victims. I'm saying we are the creators of our situation. The genes are merely the blueprints. We are the contractors, and we can adjust those blueprints. And we can even rewrite them.

Carrie Fisher

You knew how humiliating that is as an experience for celebrities to be less of a celebrity. There's no class to adjust to being less famous, and you don't think you have to worry about it. But you do.

Ernie Els

Contours on the second half of a long putt have more impact on how the ball rolls because it's going slower. Adjust your speed if that last part is playing uphill or downhill. Don't get fooled by an early slope or break.

We are definitely starting to see change. Everyone is talking about it, but it will take time to adjust to the plug and play office environment,