Famous Quotes & Sayings

They really hurt us on the boards in the fourth quarter when we needed a rebound.

They really haven't had any strong breeze. These boats are capable of speeds in excess of 30 knots, so they have a lot up their sleeves.

They're big, they can leap and they're good shooters. They killed us on the boards with 23 offensive rebounds.

They're a very good rebounding team. In the second half, they went to the boards hard and we couldn't stop them. They're playing really well right now.

They're not in the same boat as everyone else, but they're sticking a couple of toes in the same boat. They are feeling the same pressures as everyone else.

There's a whole industry of people who work all winter long on people's boats so that they'll be in shape for their owners to go out and play all summer.

David Stern

I fully expect to be visiting Seattle in the relatively near future to weigh in on that subject and I'm quite on record as saying that Seattle has what is the least competitive lease in the league, which is a decided economic disadvantage. I think if that situation is not ultimately improved ... I think that the board of governors at the expiration of the lease would be inclined to listen to their partner's request for an opportunity to be in a place where there is a good lease and a good facility.

If you have a big drop in the number of boats, that is going to be an effect, but specifically on the kinds of businesses that supply those boats with what they need to go fishing.

If you push back the clock 25 years, a family enterprise could take the heat. But these days, if the enterprise is genuinely failing, the drumbeat that the board of directors will feel to bring in outside management will become irresistible.

Dan Wilson

If you go down there in June at 10 o'clock at night there will be boats everywhere. It's amazing.

In the summer, there are buoys out there to stop boats from going any further.

In the first of what will be a series of steps, ... the board has established an executive compensation committee to strengthen C.P.B. governance, with the guidance of outside counsel to ensure that appropriate changes are made in C.P.B. operations in this area.

In some school divisions, you have strong commitment on the part of the board members to their constituency.

In some instances we've petitioned the zoning board for variances.

Chris Campbell

In order to provide the state board with a more complete response to the audit, they have hired me to do an investigation of the facts.

I pretty much told the board somewhere between $140,000 and $240,000 would be the figure we would be looking at.

Jason Mitchell

In the past, when gas got real high, it helped us, ... People can't justify owning their own boat or driving from a long ways and hoping they catch fish.

Kevin Johnson

In the olden days when you walked into the post office or the country store, there was a bulletin board there ... I think we're missing that these days. So my sense was to put it online and create a virtual community bulletin board.

In terms of a country making its case in the context of compulsory withdrawal, there have been few cases where compulsory withdrawal has actually come to a head. But I do believe...it is established under our rules that the representative of the government can and indeed has the right to speak to the board, or come to the board of governors, in certain cases to make their case.

I really can't say right now, in all honesty. Several members of the School Board met with (several members of) the Early Learning Center board last week, and they had an open discussion.

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If you talk to boatyards up and down the coast, they can't hire enough qualified people in good, well-paying jobs. People who are training boat builders, they can't fill their classes. There's something wrong there.

Marc Roberge

If you spend all your time reading these message boards and things, you listen to the folks who say: 'I loved the old stuff - it had an innocence to it. It was really bad, which is why I liked it.' People don't want you to change. I'd be miserable.

William Bligh

I gave directions that only nineteen tons of iron should be taken on board instead of the customary proportion which was forty-five tons.

If you were on the board of directors of a company and you got results like this, ... you would lean on the managers to fix the problem or get rid of them.

Jaime Lerner

A system of bus rapid transit is not only dedicated lanes. You have to have really good boarding conditions - that means paying before entering the bus and boarding at the same level. And at the same time having a good schedule and frequency.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

We're all in the same boat, and we're all seasick.

Gil Meche

I called the folks on Sunday when there was talk the storm would be a big one. I wondered about boarding up my house. They said the storms aren't much when they get to us, and the prediction was this one would turn east once it hit land.

I don't like to keep going back to this subject but I feel it's important enough to bring up again. As residents of this county, I think we should have spoken up much louder to the last board and I'd like to make sure we're heard this time.

I don't oppose the boat ramp; I actually personally support a boat ramp if it's properly sized and designed.

Charles Dickens

I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday - the longer, the better - from the great boarding school where we are forever working at our arithmetical slates, to take, and giv

Aneurin Barnard

I do my own stunts; that's something I'm very passionate about. I spent a lot of time on boats as a kid, so it's just nice to be able to put that into use in the job that I do.

Carver did a nice job on the offensive boards early.