Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Jones

Most contracts should be easy to understand and written at an eighth grade level.

Bob Bowlsby

Those contracts are usually about the worth of the ink they're written in (though).

Bill Stoneman

Those are some of the players we have discussed offering multiyear contracts to.

Ron Ishoy

We do not encounter lobbyists trying to entice us to sign huge contracts for goods or services.

Tom Wychor

To gut our contracts when you don't know what the future fleet plan is going to be is irresponsible.

Jim Caswell

One of the reasons that they feel like they can reduce the exclusive-use contracts . . . is that they've got higher-speed, more mobile and larger-capacity payloads in the contract stream now.

Julien Pain

What we want is from now on, these companies, these contracts should be monitored by the Department of Commerce. That's the only way to make sure they don't collaborate on these kinds of human rights abuses.

Terry Ryan

He's creative. He finds ways to get contracts done.

Robert Goldstein

I take pride in putting together contracts and providing a full range of services. I tell all my members, 'Distinguish yourself with services.' I'm not worried about it at all.

Yotam Ottolenghi

What makes maftoul worth celebrating is that it's so easy and forgiving to cook.

Walter Savage Landor

There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.

Carrie Fisher

Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing.

Bethenny Frankel

If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn't seem like such an elusive prize.

Caroline Haberfeld

The airfares are less expensive, and it's very easy to get there. It's very convenient. It's English-speaking and the value is good.

Saddam Hussein

The American government made several errors ... one of which is how easy it would be to get rid of Saddam and how hard it would be to unite the country,

Austin Kearns

That was the worst wind I've ever seen here. It wasn't easy out there by any means.

Steve Goff

That will be the toughest match of the day (for us). We're planning to serve them tough and keep them from getting an easy pass.

Andriy Shevchenko

The 1-1 from the first leg is a good result, but we must think we are starting from zero. We must not think that Bayern can be an easy opponent.

Bobb'e J. Thompson

I'm in the eighth grade and am not the height of the rest of my class. But I don't worry about that. I'm just me!

Ross Mathews

I played football in eighth grade, and even though I had a passion for it, it turned out I'm no good at playing it.

R. Ingram

We just did not shut the door. Every time you put them on base, you give them life, and then they?re a hit away. It?s just a shame. It?s disheartening to play so hard for seven innings and then just hand it to them in the eighth and ninth.

Eric Chavez

You can go back in the year and look at the seventh, eighth and ninth inning; we played well enough to win. We should have won those ballgames. ... Hopefully (the poor performance of the relievers) will be addressed this offseason.

Russell Baze

Just inside the eighth pole, he had nothing.

Dan Peitz

Like I've said before, I can't get to a mile and an eighth fast enough.

Becky Emrich

I was thrilled for them (after districts) because when they were in eighth grade, they had potential. Seeing that I had a small part in helping them reach that potential is special to me.

Eric Ligtenberg

I was happy with our eighth graders. They have never competed in a match like this. I am sure it was a little intimidating for them. It was a learning experience.

Casey Nicholaw

I was in eighth grade when I did my first Junior Theatre show. I was in 'Annie Get Your Gun' as a dancing Indian.

William Christopher

I've often wondered about people that come to the profession late in life. I've wanted to be an actor since the first grade. I watched a play being performed by the third grade class, and it was... magic.

Sandra Ford

We're very pushed to have our grades on target so we can play. We have to make sure all our homework is done.

Gil Brandt

Usually they're in the ballpark. Seldom do you have a third-round grade and the guy is picked in the first, and seldom do you have a second-round grade and he's picked in the sixth.

Xiao Yaqing

The quality of the bauxite is lower than the top grades in Australia, but it's much better than those in China.

Sean Hayes

We are really pleased with our results and 69% of students received A to C grade passes.

Eric Johnson

I was terrible my first year. In 10th grade I was still bad, but the team needed someone that small. I knew that I just needed to stay off my back for the team.

Michael Keaton

My first day in grade school, I was plain scared. I left the comfort of my run-down house, which I loved, and went to school where it was cold, it smelled, the lighting was bad.

Mike Davis

We're moving more than a grade level a year. That's way more impressive than anything we've done so far.

Gov. Carcieri

We are going to know what is going on with learning in grades 3 to 8, and we are testing for that, so the light will shine.

Barack Obama

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right?

Carl Sagan

We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world.

Bill Buford

The most important knowledge is understanding what you can't do.

Rick Wakeman

I always say that it's about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.

Riquena Farmer

Why would someone do this to him? I don't understand why.

Karen Clay

Why would she take off? ... I don't understand that.

Vince Young

Just interview. I don't feel like I have to show a lot. I think they understand me, have been watching me for a long time.

Stephen Hawking

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

Emma Stone

I was very lucky with the parents I was blessed with. I don't think it could have worked out any better. They've always been so understanding of me and understanding of what I want to do.

Van Morrison

I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.

Victoria Justice

I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.

Wole Soyinka

I've always written plays for the purpose of getting something out of my system.

F. Sionil Jose

I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs.

Russell Smith

The only thing that makes a book YA is that it is about teenagers, and it is written in a very conventional, non-artsy, non-pretentious way. YA is not the place for the oblique or the cryptic. If it is in any way experimental in form, it is not YA.

Rainbow Rowell

I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

Mark Sheppard

When something is written for you or handed to you, sometimes there's a very interesting dance as you discover what it is that's required.

Thomas Schaaf

We haven't written off the title. If they stumble, we will go after our chance.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Nothing is written in stone, as a career is an unpredictable journey.