Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paula Creamer

My main goal is to be the No. 1 American and the No. 1 player in the world. If an American is on top of the leader board every week, it will bring more people into the game of golf.

Nodding the head does not row the boat

One of the things the board has to do is be nimble. They have to be able to turn on a dime. Being able to be nimble and responsive is going to be one of the primary characteristics of the board.

Paul Taylor

One of the stranded mariners even told the sailors that other boats had passed by without stopping to help.

Obviously when the boat has gone over it has taken in water and then it has taken in more water - enough to sink it.

Mike Fitzpatrick

No one has come to any conclusions, and certainly the school board has not considered all the possibilities and the cost. For that reason, these working numbers should not be considered final or even that it will be the cost. It may be much lower.

No one on this board knew what was going on,

One year gives the board a chance next January to decide if they want to go outside.

Julie Miller

One thing that I have learned from this (negotiations) is that I would like better communication between the board and staff.

My experience is that entrepreneurs who have taken the step to form a board of directors are serious about growth.

D. J. Cotrona

I did the 'Justice League' thing the wrong way. I read too much on the Internet. You can't do that. The Internet is the devil. Or the Internet is not the devil - the comment boards are the devil.

Karen Finerman

I have been able to have a family and to dedicate quality time to my two sets of twins and my husband, as well as to serve on the boards of The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research and Montefiore Medical Center.

We are here to communicate with the board members, who we don't think are listening to us. My personal opinion is this is a power play.

We are hearing that boats are considering not doing USVI drop-off or pickup. That revenue could be lost.

We are hearing that boats are considering not doing USVI drop-off or pickup, ... That revenue could be lost.

William Scranton

We did not decide as a board to expand any of the lands for industrial use in South Wallingford.

We did everything we could to keep the boat relatively upright. We kept trying to drive forward.

We developed a team to select a board and took it to the commissioners and that's how the library (at its current location) got started.

Lynn Johnston

People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing.

There is a push to make boards more diverse but people without large corporate salaries, such as academics, would be reluctant to become directors without guaranteed payment.

David Stern

I am quite on record as saying that Seattle has the least-competitive lease in the league and is at a decided economic disadvantage. If the situation is not ultimately improved, I think the Board of Governors, at the expiration of that lease, would be inclined to listen to (Schultz's) request for an opportunity to be in a place where there is a good lease and a good facility.

Bill Bryson

I am taking this very seriously and I am honored to be appointed. It's not every day that an immigrant more or less fresh off the boat gets invited to help run a national institution.

I am sure the respective boards will manage their program in the right way to ensure full participation.

carefully consider the submarine design construction life cycle support capabilities inherent with Electric Boat and the unique synergy between Electric Boat and New London Submarine Base....

Dorothy Height

But we're all in the same boat now, and we've got to learn to work together.

But we have an opportunity with the new board and a new structure to take this event to the next level. But that depends on where we fall on the schedule.

But we couldn't get 60. It's a matter of getting looks for other people, getting chances for other guys to put a few points on the board to augment the 30, 35 that (Scott) Martin and (Rob) Hummel get. They've pretty much gotten their points all the way through.

Paul Ford

But what they did not know - and what the Canadian government did not boast about - was that Canada had fallen to 35th place in the world in the number of troops it had committed to peacekeeping missions.

Jack Johnson

Buffett came and sat in with us the other night in Chicago. That was fun. He and I played 'A Pirate Looks at Forty,' one of his songs. We actually know each other pretty well now. We're definitely from the same breed -- guys who like to go on boats and surf and have a good time, so I don't mind being compared to him at all.

Bryan's a competitor. He hates to lose. He does whatever he can to help the team. He does whatever the coaches ask. He scores, he hits the boards hard, he's a heck of a defensive player and he gets on the floor after loose balls.

Bulletin boards are sort of the garage bands of cyberspace.

Basically, he has to go back to the drawing board ... to have another go at it, ... It's not a crisis or a complete disaster. It's a mess and it's a humiliation.

David Wallace

Because this is not a race all boats, regardless of their engine size can enter, the winner will be determined by the draw of the card and not how fast your boat can run.