Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. O. Wilson

We certainly have indications, increasingly so, that units either can't carry out a mission which is assigned to them because of fuel shortages, or are reluctant to plan a mission which can't be carried out because of fuel shortages or have to call a mission short because of fuel shortages,

Van Orden has really come on. He came over from soccer and has worked hard and is blossoming into a strong defensive end. Paski is, too. We don't want to try and do too much, just play assignment football. If he gets out of the pocket, he's scary.

Brian Mitchell

We feel pretty good about our ones. There's some guys there that may not have the experience, like a Kayle Buchanan or a Quinn Gooch, but the effort is always going to be there. They're going to be assignment sound.

It's hard to keep them interested. They want to be more active. They like to read different things than are assigned to them in school. They might need role models for reading.

It's not a great idea to rent a car. They drive a lot differently. Taxies are cheap and the trains are really comfortable. If you take a train in the peak season, you may want to think about getting tickets in advance. There is assigned seating.

It's not a great idea to rent a car, ... They drive a lot differently. Taxies are cheap and the trains are really comfortable. If you take a train in the peak season, you may want to think about getting tickets in advance. There is assigned seating.

So a good homework assignment for everybody, take a screwdriver, unscrew your screws to your strike plate, if they're less than three inches, replace them. It's a very simple fix.

Executives will talk about the importance of passion, but what they really mean is finding somebody who will work nights and weekends on their assigned task but predictably and reliably follow orders and just work harder.

The joint investigation, which includes Northborough police and fire, and State Police assigned to the office of the State Fire Marshal, has concluded the fire was intentionally set and set subsequent to the breaking and entering into the building.

They will push the ball nearly every time down the floor. They will push on a make or a miss. When we miss they have a better chance of getting into their fast break. Defensively, we will have to communicate because sometimes we won't be guarding our assigned man.

Once polymorphisms (or alleles) have been discovered, study groups can be held to consider the research required for assignment of allele frequency.

Patrick Fitzgerald

A CIA employee assigned to provide daily intelligence briefs to the Vice President and Libby has handwritten notes indicating that Libby referred to 'Joe Wilson' and 'Valerie Wilson' by those names in conversation with the briefer on June 14, 2003.

I'm glad I went on rehab assignment to see some live pitching and get some at-bats. I said there were no excuses, I was seeing the ball well at Triple-A and I was able to come back and get it going.

Taylor's provisional counsel was assigned as of yesterday. He chose someone from the list of qualified counsels.

Bill Snyder

It will be very competitive. All four candidates are doing well. Now to qualify that, we don't have a Darren Sproles. But they're all doing well. They're assignment sound, they work hard and they have capabilities.

They decide by drawing a marble from a leather bottle until they've all been assigned an opinion. That assures a random, even distribution of the workload for the judges. It's an important practice because it takes away the notion that opinions could be assigned for any other reason.

They are very perimeter-oriented, much like they were last year. We can't sleep at all. We have a very small margin for error, because if we miss an assignment we're likely going to give up a 3. Everyone needs to know their assignments.

They were not going to let Bo get a good look. The player assigned to Bo just stayed on him like a glove wherever he was.

They will be assigned a job, and that's what they'll earn. Every prisoner must work, in the laundry, in the kitchen or somewhere else.

It was measured and copied and photographed, and then someone would get the assignment to replicate a part, like an altimeter.

No matter where he's assigned opening day, he's made an impression. He came into camp with a good attitude and he's impressed the coaching staff.

Spencer Boldman

I love to read. I was in AP English in high school, and we were assigned books every few months. 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' are two of my favorite ones.

Julia Quinn

In college, I was a researcher/writer for 'Let's Go: Europe,' assigned to Crete and Cyprus. I was supposed to go to England, but at the last minute they transferred me, despite the fact that I spoke not a word of Greek. I learned the very basics, and to this day can say 'oil,' 'vinegar,' and 'boyfriend in America.'

It's very simple. The question is who owns the copyright. Ed Condren and I say the instructors do. So do UCLA Extension and OnlineLearning.net -- now. But in the bundle of rights which is called copyright is distribution rights. And the legal owner of the copyright has to have somehow assigned that right to someone -- either directly to OnlineLearning or indirectly via the university -- in order for OnlineLearning to have that right. In other words, how can two things be true: The instructor owns all the rights and OnlineLearning has some rights?

Brian Mitchell

It's very wide open. There could be changes. It's whoever is going to step up during two-a-days and then make the players and be assignment sound.

Right now, there is no product assigned to the plant beyond its current product.

Can you imagine how you would feel just to design the mood for the film ? he not only took the assignment but he pulled it off.

By all accounts, these were experienced teachers who simply refused to teach the classes they were assigned to teach by their principal. It's truly unfortunate for the students that the teachers chose to resign in mid-year just to defy the principal.

Willie Randolph

He's the only second baseman we have and we have to get him going. He's been swinging the bat pretty well (during a rehab assignment for Norfolk), and we'll get him right in there. ... We wouldn't call him up if he wasn't ready.

Jerry Sloan

If you're supposed to be on a certain place on the floor defensively, you've got to get there. You can't just go crazy. And if you've got a certain assignment on the offensive end of the floor, that all remains the same. But if we break it down because we've got something else in mind, then the other four guys don't have any idea what we're doing. It's just basketball. But we have to play it together.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea

Edmund White

In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.

Andrew Clements

I had a high school English teacher who made me really work at writing. And once, when I got an assignment back, she'd written: 'This is so good, Andrew. This should be published!' That made a big impression on me.