Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Yankovic

Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.

Over the last couple years, chains have tried to do something different -- they're trying to give consumers a different look, a different style.

Over the past two years, we've made solid progress further strengthening our supply chain organization.

Over the past two years, we have developed an innovative system and process for the mass production of specific DNA sequences with the polymerase chain reaction (PCR).

Our supply chain is geared up to meet the need of 30 million Canadians, and we don't have the scale of operation to be able to respond to the likely demand of the U.S..

Diora Baird

'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' is just one of those movies that's like a page of history. You can't really go wrong. It's a prequel. It's not like number three. Which is really cool, to be the before as opposed to the after.

Mystery shopping is a chance for companies to see how employees do when they are not monitored. They are a valuable link in the chain of measuring and providing good customer service.

It is a trend because national chains are looking at destinations. Obviously, the mystique, the uniqueness, the ambiance of the River Walk pulls them into this.

Geraldine Brooks

I write while my son is at school. At about 7:45 A.M., I walk him there, with the dogs, then walk them for another forty minutes or so, go home and chain myself to the desk a little before 9 A.M., and try not to be distracted until I hear my son plunge through the front door at about 3 P.M.

I think a seasonal factor is part of the issue here, but you can't discount it all. Look at what is happening with chain store sales. They've been pretty weak. Some of it (weak retail employment) is real.

I think a lot of the problems they've been having with?supply chain bottlenecks?look like they've kind of worked their way through the system.

Pat Roberts

I think ultimately you have to go right up the chain to the secretary of defense or to the civilian leadership of the military,

Voltaire

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Tim Purpura

I think you'd have to chain him down to keep him from starting.

Restaurants are a difficult business. But you don't necessarily have to be part of a chain to be successful.

Barry Long

Reason does not need thinking. If you observe yourself making a plan you will notice that having fixed the object, the facts just keep coming, linking up into a chain of proposed action.

Our research shows that 83% of leading companies indicate field service optimization is core to improving their competitive positions. True field service optimization requires service organizations to maintain the most cost-effective, productive, and profitable service chain at all times -- especially in the face of a myriad of constraints and interruptions.

part of a chain of international terrorist operations.

Giving customers transparency of where their delivery or tradesman is in the supply chain enhances the value of what a company can offer customers.

I would like a chainsaw to do some work in the back yard,

Herman Edwards

I thought he stepped up in the pocket and made some good throws. He moved around, he was much more animated. He can make the chains move.

Just because people were extremely concerned in the first days after Katrina hit does not mean that spending has fallen apart. Indeed, the weekly chain store sales results suggest that the impact so far has been surprisingly modest.

Pat Burke

Maybe it's a chain reaction. But you know what it is, a lot of times when you're tired, tugging down on your shorts, you look down and see your socks, and it's just a reminder to stay hungry.

Asa Hutchinson

We do targeted outbound inspections, we look for shipments that would be illegal and we are concerned with that part of the supply chain as well.

We pushed the supply chain as hard as we could to sell as many as we could. We haven't yet reached the positive position of having supply equal demand, because to some extent we continue to see very good demand.

which could have triggered a chain of events, structural damages, a fire and an engine breakdown.

Adoniram Judson

O, my past years in Rangoon are spectres to haunt my soul; and they seem to laugh at me as they shake the chains they have riveted on me.

Dominique Swain

I take my part in the food chain very seriously.

The fact that this is an FDA-approved product, we feel it is difficult to justify being the country's only major pharmacy chain not selling it.

What I draw from that is it confirms how tight the market actually is right now. To us, the big picture is we are in a situation globally and here in the U.S. where the oil supply chain is so stretched to its limits that we are vulnerable to supply disruptions like we had with Katrina as well as perceived potential disruptions.

Tim Harford

The supermarket chain Whole Foods has quite a radical employee empowerment program, where employees get to decide whether another employee can work in their team or not. If they think this person's a slacker, doesn't have good ideas, they can vote and say, no, we don't want this person to be working with us on the vegetable aisle.

These missions must remain separate with separate chains of command. The only thing they have in common are that they are in the same country,

The sell-off in oil damped demand for some metals yesterday in London and New York. Traders in China are worried there might be a chain reaction of funds selling metals to take profits.