Famous Quotes & Sayings

To get a big fire, you need high temperatures, low relative humidity, dry fuels and winds all aligned on the same day. We haven't seen that much this year, yet our overall acreage burned is much higher than in the past.

to ensure that our costs are more closely aligned with our business strategy.

Ed Stoppard

It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.'

We're extending our strategic alliance with IBM in order to drive innovation deeper into the marketplace. We think with this alliance our organizations will be more tightly aligned and in an optimal position to help our customers succeed with their business-intelligence and performance-management initiatives.

We've been close before. If the stars are aligned and it's high tide, maybe we've got a shot.

While these payments may seem eye-popping, it seems more closely aligned with the company's performance and is less likely to raise the ire of shareholders than in years past.

Grace Gealey

Once I started to get aligned with the God in me, something hit me hard: I learned that our worth, our validation, our purpose and our acceptance don't stem from what we should do. They don't stem from what we have. They don't stem from what we've done or who we were. They stem simply from the fact that we are.

The voters of southwest Virginia, when they compare the records of both, will see that he (Kilgore) is not only from southwest Virginia but also is more philosophically aligned with them.

We teach what the state curriculum tells us to teach. We have our aligned our curriculum to the state's.

This is very exciting news. Obviously we've got a lot at stake. It's very exciting that we seem to have all the stars aligned and we've made our case in such a way I think it's clear, it's understood and appreciated. We're going to be able to continue to work to protect this Napa name.

In wireless, we're aligned well with the players taking share. That's certainly benefiting us.

If you wind up with a company that is so closely aligned with one individual, like it or not, the virtues of that company are tied to the virtues of that individual. You're usually much better off with CEOs who are under the radar and just work at doing a very nice job for shareholders.

In fact, their motivations are perfectly aligned with ours?that is, as broad a penetration as possible.

John Abizaid

Clearly, we understand that we've got an enemy that's in for the long term, al-Qaida and the associated groups that are aligned with it, ... We know that they've got a long-term strategy to fight, to gain ground, to gain influence. And it's very very clear that we've got to have the same sort of long term strategy to contest it. But the keystone to this strategy is helping the people in the region help themselves.

John Collins

The focus of confusion is that, since the ICI does not represent shareholders, we must somehow be contrary to their interests. But at the ICI, we believe fund management companies' interests must be aligned with those of shareholders.

These investments are aligned with our extensive queue of projects that are scheduled to come on line between now and 2008, bringing significant new supplies of energy to U.S. and global markets.

These groups are basically a family of people that have been traditionally supporters of, or closely aligned with, trial lawyers nationally and in Illinois.

Any evaluation of Robertson would be fairly mixed. If you're in the White House, you wouldn't want Robertson on his TV program attacking you. On the other hand, you probably wouldn't want to be closely aligned with him.

The business model associated with what we do with blade network technologies has to be very closely aligned with how server vendors operate, how they get products and how those products are supported. That is very different to how networking vendors operate.

Projects that were not aligned with compliance and corporate governance were delayed or cancelled, and SOX efforts inhibited the purchase of large amounts of software related to building new technologies and deploying new projects. However, by the second half of 2005, increased interest in IT solutions to ease the burden of compliance has begun to drive new spending.

Adjustments are being done through normal performance management, identification of overlapping or redundant efforts, removal of excess management layers, and ensuring we have the right skill sets aligned with our business priorities and growth objectives.

B. F. Skinner

Strategic initiatives aligned behind McDonald?s Plan to Win are strengthening our competitive position and delivering positive results worldwide. Performance for the first quarter reflected more customer visits and enhanced profitability as we continued to connect with our customers and increase the relevance of our brand.

Lisa Jones

Somebody was smiling at us tonight. The stars were definitely aligned for us in this game.

The moons were aligned and the stars were aligned, ... It was probably one of our best quarters in many, many years.

The way the knee is aligned in the female, ... they can have a different angle at the knee joint because the hips tend to be wider.

This cost restructuring initiative is part of the comprehensive transformation of Novell's business that the management team has been designing and implementing over the past year. While it is a difficult decision to eliminate positions in our talented and dedicated workforce, this move is necessary to ensure that our costs are more closely aligned with our business strategy.

Thomas Frank

For decades Republicans have made policy with a higher purpose in mind: to solidify the GOP base or to damage the institutions and movements aligned with the other side.

They are so demanding that Chinese products are not very successful on that market. That is why I foresee a good future for our products, as we have similar quality to that of the Europeans and North Americans aligned to competitive prices and excellent services.

Leo Hindery

There will always be people who were so closely aligned to other candidates that they're exhausted. We're finding, in general, that the reaction has been very positive.

You would find it hard to find two companies more closely aligned from a cultural perspective, a technology perspective and a heritage perspective.

There was a lot of attention given to continuing the character of the historic Third Ward, and we aligned with certain courses and rhythms in which the structure expressed itself that are reminiscent of things. But it's not a replica of anything, and it's a very contemporary expression of an old idea.

Borland is an innovator with software development. And our emphasis today is entirely aligned with that.

Roger Avary

Bret Easton Ellis is a social satirist; I consider myself aligned with how he does things. Bret doesn't write about that which he loves about the world, he writes about what disgusts him. You'd be a disturbed individual if you came out and said, 'I love these characters'.