Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fran Gow

Just look at what they've done by calling penalties for obstruction and just allowing the freedom to be able to skate. Look at what the style of play in the AJHL is right now - it's night and day (from the NHL). It's frustrating for players and it's frustrating for coaches. It's a rodeo out there, getting to the net.

Bob Young

Keeping Microsoft decent is allowing companies to offer our products to customers,

Chris Shipley

Kaboodle.com is a great example of people-powered search, allowing the work of one to be leveraged for the benefits of others.

Randy Cunneyworth

Just when you think you have it under control and that they won't pull that off again, they pulled it off. It's a very crafty team. It comes down to being aware in the lane and being on top of people, not so much on the long end but the short end, and not allowing that pass. If you give a guy like that room to make that play, that's the risk.

Dan Henning

John allows people to do their jobs by not micro-managing. Yet, at the same time, he stays on top of everything. He allows and encourages people to be creative. There's a great deal of dialogue and discourse that takes place among the coaching staff about the way things should be. Some people have a tendency in the way they manage to mute that. John does a good job of allowing healthy confrontation, because it brings out better ideas and decisions.

Bill Russell

John Jones is a great initiator for us on the defensive end. He and Marques Jones did a good job of allowing us a time to get some guys with rest and also maintained the high intensity level.

Ken Bacon

He delayed for a long while participating in the oil-for-food program, which has actually been one of the hopeful and helpful measures that the U.N. has brought to Iraq, allowing it to import more food in return for the oil it sells,

Sue Kelly

Half a million didn't get us anywhere near the level of improvements that we'll need, but it's allowing us to do these three projects,

Fernando Alonso

This was a good, fighting win. I just concentrated on making no mistakes. The competition is closer than we thought but this is the perfect start for us. The start was good, the second stop perfect, allowing me to come out in front of Michael. Very nice.

Bruce Lanni

Knowing that the oil sands projects are capital-intensive, companies are signaling that oil prices will remain high and that supply and demand will remain tight.

Justin Hott

Kimberly did not miss, so we expect investors will gain more faith that other companies yet to announce, such as P&G, Colgate and Alberto-Culver, will also have some more optimistic news to share with the market.

Steven Hall

Know the market, know what other people are offering for your job position. Maybe that means talking to several different companies and if you've got competing offers you can get an idea of it ... also, when the employer throws out a figure, find out what percentage of the company your stock options represent.

Christine Benz

I would say it's a dueling trend that retail mutual fund companies are starting hedge fund like vehicles to retain that talent. That is a weapon in a fund company's arsenal.

Matt Ferguson

Job satisfaction levels have improved significantly compared to this time last year as employers step up employee retention efforts in the face of an increasingly competitive labor market. However, nearly three-in-ten workers still say they plan to look for new opportunities in 2006 and 41 percent plan to leave the companies by the end of 2007.

Hugh McKellar

ISYS has been an integral part of the knowledge management industry for a number of years. The company continues to demonstrate its relevance and success in enterprise search software, despite formidable competition from large, well-known companies. For these reasons, we continue to recognize ISYS as one of the 100 companies that matter.

Hilary Rosen

I think it's a great thing when companies experiment with different models.

Michael Farr

I also like Microsoft, and I particularly like EMC, ... These companies are going to come back.

Matt Asay

Half the companies that raised venture money in 2005 won't be able to raise money in 2006.

Jim Sullivan

Just recently I worked with Van Morrison and I came to realize that money can't make a decent human being out of you.

Charlie Coles

I think it hurt us on the offensive end a lot. He not only scores for us, he's one of those guys that's always active. He's always doing something. He's a decent passer; he really moves and gets things going.

Travis Biggs

He was a decent football player. He was an offensive lineman for us. When he got older he went straight to baseball.

Harold Vogel

He did it the honorable, wise and decent way,

Grant Heslov

There are films that cost a lot of money that might be decent films. But if they don't perform in that first weekend or two, they're gone.

James McTeigue

He's a decent guy and he's about making your film better and not about what it will do for Hugo Weaving.

Stephen Kaufman

He's a good man, he's a decent person, and his reputation has been tarnished, but his life should not be destroyed.

Barry Hyman

I think the market had a decent week but without any fundamental backing, the rally doesn't really have tremendous upside.

Mike Fergus

I think their defense had a lot to do with that. That's a very good team that we lost to, very well-coached. We had some decent looks in that stretch and we just didn't make them.

Ken Zimmerman

Keeping the matches just may be therapeutic for everyone.

Joe Schmidt

keeping pressure on the ball, controlling the opponent's set plays and team defense.

Jack Dean

Just to be within one shot of Beaufort, I'm ecstatic. When were not keeping up with Beaufort is when I'm not happy.

Stephnie Weir

There are so many examples of people who have flourished by keeping their nose to the grindstone and doing their thing. Be persistent and don't give up.

Drew Stanton

Having that (run-and-pass) threat is really nice in keeping people off-balance.

Larry Smith

It didn't make sense keeping the property industrial. It would have been underutilized that way.

Don Dunn

I was disappointed in him because he has a lot of potential. He was not playing up to his potential. He was lazy. He wasn't keeping up with his academics.

Margaret Spellings

We're on the way to keeping that promise.

Brad Ranson

I think we got the cobwebs out in the second quarter. At first, we were a little nervous. I thought the key was the second quarter, getting up by a big 10 points and just keeping the lead throughout the game.

Jeff Cohen

The only thing I think really needs to be addressed by Microsoft is biometrics.

Jeff Johnson

He was saying, 'Look what I did at Microsoft and look what I can do for you.

Rob Enderle

There's always been a belief that Microsoft would respond punitively if you did something they didn't like. You were afraid of Microsoft's reaction, .. That belief has been pretty much destroyed. Vendors, clients and customers feel pretty much free do whatever they have to do in their Microsoft relationship.

Johannes Ullrich

In this case, Microsoft is taking too long.

Bruce Perens

If Microsoft turns out to be the aggressor, that does not help. The pool unfortunately turns out to be spitting in the wind.

Chuck D.

The migration path to anything but Microsoft would require a forklift overhaul.

Paul Saffo

The idea of fiddling with Microsoft applications will evaporate,

Richard Williams

This is a glaring, embarrassing problem that Microsoft has to fix.

Eric S. Raymond

Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft is the symptom.

Rob Portman

I would say unless we see offers from other countries, particularly the EU, on ... reducing tariffs, we will not be able to see a successful round,

Rebel Wilson

I wrote my own play, 'The Westie Monologues,' about where I'm from in Australia, and it was very successful. From that, I started getting offers from television.

Dennis Lillee

Just the other day he told me Dougie Walters had phoned. I thought, 'that's good' and he said, 'yeah, he offered me his liver. I said no thanks, I'll take my chances.

John Richardson

There are so many different ways they can do it, we're offering as much as we can.

Pao Xiong

He offered me a lot of cash. I just called my supervisor, and he ran off.

Carl Shapiro

I think it's a very thorny issue, ... I didn't feel that I could offer a clear, strong opinion one way or another on it.

Noah Geary

What more powerful testament than her turning that offer down.

GM Howson

We submitted another offer and we'll see where it goes.

Steve Shields

I think we put a pretty reasonable offer on the table this week and they objected to it.

Shane Robison

With managed services, we have a lot of products we can pull through.

Richard Segal

We think cross-selling is important, but we're not obsessing about whether one of those products is sports betting.

Werner Herzog

I am a product of my failures,

Robert G. Allen

Ultimately, the product you sell is love-manifested and materialized.

Bert Hochfeld

Informix has strong products in a strong market.

James Inhofe

I am a product of the draft.

Ogden Nash

A lady is known by the product she endorses.

Courtney Boone

It makes it so the rest of the West can remain reliant on American products ... rather than going abroad.

Marco Arment

Making a product better often requires removing features.