Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karen Miller

The collective bargaining process has worked at Delta for 60 years without third-party intervention, ... Reaching a settlement is the only way to end uncertainty for the public. A PEB would only delay the uncertainty by 60 days so now we'd be facing a strike in the middle of the summer.

Antawn Jamison

The first half was unbelievable. He knew in order for us to win, he had to initiate the offense, look to get guys involved and then in the second half, he took over. Those are things you see him evolve, day-in and day-out and it was good to see him do the things he did tonight. But I think everyone understands the type of player that he is. The scary thing is he's barely scratching the surface.

The fire escaped the barrel and the conditions were such, very windy, very hot, very dry, that the fire just literally exploded and took off.

Joseph Stanislaw

The figure depends on how the cuts are delivered. No one is really expecting the full 2 million barrels per day to be delivered, but somewhere around three-quarters of those cuts is what the market is looking for.

The company and the CAW bargaining teams are working hard to find solutions to a number of issues.

The concern I would have is that General Motors may have given away their bargaining chip without necessarily getting the concessions (from the UAW) they need at this point.

Felipe Alou

The concern is the knee, and the knee is big-time strong. I expect Barry to come back after the weekend and play.

Ayman Nour

The emergency laws have stood has a barrier to our rights. We do not need our security forces to protect Egypt from its own people.

The Elephant Sanctuary exists for two reasons. To provide a haven for old, sick or needy elephants in a setting of green pastures, old-growth forests, spring-fed ponds and a heated barn for cold winter nights. And to provide education about the crisis facing these social, sensitive, passionately intense, playful, complex, exceedingly intelligent and endangered creatures.

David Lodge

The electric barrier is crude but it's the best thing we have now. The irony is the barrier was first proposed to keep round gobies (another fish invader in the Great Lakes) from colonizing the Mississippi River watershed, but by the time the barrier was built they had already passed it. Now the motivation is to keep the carp from coming from the other direction.

The ethanol industry is growing so fast, I think it's hard to set the bar too high.

Omar Vizquel

The guys who are hitting behind Barry are going to be a little busy.

Janet Yellen

The growing capacity of foreign countries to supply goods and services to the U.S. market has impacted the structure of wages and the bargaining power of workers.

The greatest thing is, it gives you a barometer of where your season will shake out. That first week will show you where you stand . . . We always love playing in the Showdown.

Sven Eriksson

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.

Jared Bernstein

The inflation bar is very high right now, ... doesn't get you over.

The important thing is that what happened today is what we've been saying all along, and that is, it's better to be at the bargaining table than on the picket line.

The IEA have only predicted losses in refined crude production for September, and the reality is that 4 major US refineries with a total output of 900,000 barrels are still down, and they are expected to be for the next 2-3 months.

Campbell Newman

The idea that we are not going to look after the Great Barrier Reef, which is just a wonderful tourism resource that it can be just for one example - we are not going to look after it, we won't have tight environment regulation, is frankly just not true.

The idea of turning over thousands of detainees to a system that's barely got itself together, much less has shown itself to be reliable, would be frightening.

Mike Mitchell

A lot of men today are getting more corporate jobs, men are more relaxed, most guys today are going to the bar and drinking instead of going to the gym.

A lot of local rivers are inundated with pinks, and I'd try the Upper Snohomish. Lower Skagit was dirty, but I was able to fish it using a bare pink marabou jig. I also did the Lower Samish, and hooked a nice king I broke off in pilings, but only saw a couple caught for 50 guys.

Gary Matthews

A guy like Alou hitting behind him won't take kindly to Barry always getting a free pass. If they're both healthy, those two guys make that whole club.

John Whittier

Ah, that I were free again! Free as when I rode that day, Where the barefoot maiden raked the hay

John Whittier

Ah, that I were free again! Free as when I rode that day, Where the barefoot maiden raked the hay

A honeymoon should be like a table: four bare legs and no drawers.

Bucky Covington

A great bunch of guys. If I was back in Rockingham, I could picture them coming into a bar and we'd have a good time.

You want to be going into their barn with the two points. We've done that, but we know how important the next two points are. We don't want to lose what ground we gained, so we're going to have to come out hard.

You watch him walk and it's like he's walking barefoot on glass.

Jason Bay

You want to keep improving every year, and I've obviously set a very high bar for myself after two years. At some point, though, that's going to stop. You're not just going to keep getting better and better forever. That season I had last year, I look back on it and see the numbers, and I do realize how they stand out in most offensive categories.

You won't find candy bars in vending machines in our schools anywhere.

You've got to raise money when you think you can get it, not when you need it. If you wait till you need it, your bargaining power is less and it's no fun.

You've got to measure up in every way. They set the bar high.