Famous Quotes & Sayings

One day, I was playing 'The Game of Life,' the board game, with a mess of kids, and I wasn't quite sure how, but it seemed different than the game I remembered playing as a kid. So I bought an old game, from 1960, and it was different.

One day, coming through town, I saw a for sale sign in the window of the former hardware store. I had members of the co-op board visit the location and we all thought this was a good place to try it.

Bryan Cupito

Now everyone's on board with Gopher football after we won a big game, but I remember just two weeks ago everyone bad-mouthing us, saying that we're not really that good.

Jeb Hensarling

Now, if most Americans want to go out and buy a car, they don't say, you know, 'I think I'll call the chairman of the board of Ford Motor Company and see what kind of deal we can make here.'

Now I want to focus my time on the residents as a board member. I am very concerned with the issues facing the village and want to see them be addressed without burdening the taxpayers.

Actually, I'm going to have a person on board who's going to be running the business.

Maika Monroe

Acting is such a crazy industry, but kite boarding keeps me grounded.

The money would have to come from the school board buying the land at the fairgrounds from the county.

Greg Smith

During preseason rankings, we weren't in there and that was OK with us. We like creeping up on other teams. The rankings in the newspaper - that's good bulletin board material.

Defense and rebounding win championships and those two things are hard work. I have it written on the board up there that offense sells tickets, but defense wins championships.

The teachers were just shocked and saddened and we tried everything we could. The board tried to see if we could get some sort of short-term infusion until we could secure money from grants promised for later in the year.

The taxpayers of the entire district have subsidized everything we've done for years. That is something the board does not want to make worse.

The 'Taste Revolution' is a movement for people who celebrate great-tasting light beer. Now we're taking the Miller Lite revolution to the people to spread the word to those who might still be settling for whatever is handed to them. We want even more consumers to get on board with Miller Lite.

The (symphony) board just decided we didn't have the cash to make payrolls at this point, and we'd better stop.

The sustainability of the American economic expansion is what the Fed is trying to achieve, ... And I think that technology stocks are going to do exactly what the Big Board has done; that is, establish a trading range. Gone is the rampant speculation in technology stocks. Instead, its going to be the cream rising to the top.

The three of them rented boards at the concession at the Hilton Hawaiian Village. Seeing no signs, they went into the water.

Scott Weiss

The thorniest business problems will surface at the board meetings, and the different, sharp opinions help to better explore the poles of the arguments to make better decisions.

The superintendent and the board and I have been listening to the concerns of the parents. It does not seem like the right fit for the school district.

Christopher Moore

The Sousa era was also the same time as the boarding-school era when the Oneidas were shipped off (to be educated in white ways, as opposed to the tribal ways). They learned the Sousa music and took it back with them when they were done with boarding school.

The TEST is a business-focus test and we hope that people use that as a spring board to generate some questions to talk to councilors about, ... I think many times that councilors react to citizens, but they also have a responsibility to businesses, to promote business and the to help grow the economy of the community.

The thing to stress is that the ultimate decision will be the responsibility of the management board and no decision has yet been made. As things stand at the moment it is our intention to go.

The thing that really hurt us was turnovers and shooting percentage. We didn't get much from our posts. We were out-rebounding them at halftime, and they just dominated the boards in the second half. This was a very disappointing game for us.

Patty Sheehan

I've made appointments with the board because I felt they haven't been strict enough.

I wanted a CFO with public company experience; I needed an HR department, new office space, and a board which could help me grow the business. Insight, the private equity firm I chose, helped me with all that.

So someone came on the floor and said if you can walk you should leave, ... We thought we were in serious trouble. None of us wanted to walk in the water. It looked like a toxic soup. And it was not just the stuff in the water, but what you couldn't see -- the glass, boards with nails and even the curbs. We decided if that's the way out, we'll have to walk through the water.

Sorry, you're on the no-fly list. You can't board the plane.

Teachers incorporate journal writing to expand comprehension. Throughout the month, the students are encouraged to draw pictures and write essays to decorate the bulletin board outside the principal's office.

I've never worked with a contract and feel very confident in my abilities and skills to do this job. If the board would decide they do not want me here tomorrow, I would probably be under the same impression of not wanting to be here. I just don't see that happening.

William Douglas

I've often thought that if our zoning boards could be put in charge of botanists, of zoologists and geologists, and people who know about the earth, we would have much more wisdom in such planning than we have when we leave it to the engineers.

It would be a pure embarrassment for Disney's board to do something like that, ... I doubt they would do that. They'd better not.

It would be reprehensible to us if they went back to being an all-white board. We understand that people are going to take issue with us pushing diversity but are those other 25 seats (on the board of commissioners) guaranteed to whites?

Joshua Slocum

It was the nearest to a casualty on the Spray in her whole course, so far as I know. The young man having come on board with compliments made the mishap most embarrassing.

It was very physical, but I like playing that way. They were a little smaller team, so we just tried to use our size, but they crashed the boards pretty hard.