Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles E. Wilson

A study of the history of wages back through the years indicates clearly that when the cost-of-living rises appreciably wages have shortly been adjusted upward also.

We thought we'd adjusted for those students. This is more than just that.

We altered a lot of shots. The shots we did not block, I think they (Kennedy) were, I don't want to use the word intimidated, but they had second thoughts in their mind and adjusted their shots.

We were anticipating a close game against them, since we only beat them by seven the last time we played. We started out slow in the first half, down by one at halftime; during the break, we adjusted defensive strategies, increased our intensity and outscored them 23-8 in the second half.

Neil Peart

Drumming completely eclipsed my life from age 13, when I started drum lessons. Everything disappeared. I'd done well in school up until that time. I was fairly adjusted socially up until that time. And I became completely monomania, obsessed all through my teens. Nothing else existed anymore.

In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.

When I was over there, I was quite surprised with how fast they adjusted because of their flexibility and their feet. I never saw a kid in pro ball with bad feet or bad hands. If you've got that, you can adjust from there.

We were impressed with the extent of margin improvement given flat adjusted revenues.

Greg Biffle

We wanted to win here tonight, ... Kyle (Busch) got a great restart, great job by those guys tonight. They deserve it. Just a great job by my guys in the pit. We adjusted the heck out of that racecar tonight.

We've adjusted really well to the pitching these last two games. If the top of our lineup is struggling, then the bottom half is strong, and that's a good thing to have.

We've adjusted our practice thoughts. We're having a lot more full-contact practices. We hope it helps with the conditioning and that type of thing.

Peter Rodman

Today, we would calculate the operational challenges in light of new military capabilities and technologies China has acquired, just as we have always adjusted to new realities.

We were in real danger of being blown out right at the beginning. We couldn't get anything going on offense, and we couldn't stop them. We were struggling, sinking quick. But we adjusted personnel and our defense.

While the price is high compared to last year, it's still low in real dollar terms compared to what it was. Adjusted for inflation this is by no means a record price.

So far, everyone's doing awesome. It's different than high school, but it's not overwhelming, and I think all of us have adjusted pretty well.

Smith Station defended our key players, but the girls adjusted well to counter the Smith Station game plan. Though we have scored high in recent games, team play has made this possible.

That's a tough gym sometimes to play in. It gives you a different perspective from the floor than a normal gym. We did a pretty good job, the kids adjusted pretty well.

The labs that are staying in business really have had to adjust. If they haven't adjusted by now, they're probably going to go out of business.

The issue is going to be what is the impact on the salary schedule? Is the rest of the scale going to have to be adjusted correspondingly?

Their whole team is good, and they have five that can play. They are no doubt the best team we have faced. I don't think our kids adjusted to their quickness.

Against Arkansas State, it was the first time our players stepped on the playing field to competitively play our new system. I'm pleased with the way the players adjusted to playing the different positions. Our defense was solid and the offense created lots of scoring opportunities.

In all my years of soccer I have never seen this many tough losses in overtime games in one season. This game is really going to help us the way we fought and stuck to the game plan. We adjusted very well to how this game was played.

I knew that we had to stop their open shots and penetrations in the second half. So we adjusted defensively and took away those opportunities. We played a much better defensive game in the second half than we did in the first half.

Erma Bombeck

I'm trying very hard to understand this generation. They have adjusted the timetable for childbearing so that menopause and teaching a sixteen-year-old how to drive a car will occur in the same week.

Allan Sherman

Nothing fazes Nancy. She's always laughing and singing and happy. She's popular and well adjusted and gets straight A's in school. Where did we go wrong? Why isn't she crazy like the rest of the family?

It was a disappointment but not a disaster. It was weaker than the consensus, but not everyone had adjusted for the charges.

It took me a couple of innings to get adjusted and I started to get in a groove about the fourth inning. My fastball and curve were really working well.

It takes you a while to get adjusted because L.A. is so much bigger than Nashville, especially being out here on your own, not having mama to get money from and things like that.

The two big plays in the first half put us in a hole, but once we adjusted we got our first score and got our confidence back.

Rex Grossman

They did a great job of blitzing and giving me different looks. It took me a while to get adjusted and see exactly what they were doing.

They came out with a no-huddle offense and it took us a good couple of series to get adjusted to it.

Kobe Bryant

They basically ran the ball down our throats in the first half, so we had to get adjusted to the tempo. In the second half, we were able to get a bead on them a little bit better.

They were okay. We knew they were good in the past, so it took a little while to get adjusted but once we did we pulled away.