Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zac Goldsmith

If you tell people, 'that old banger of yours, we're going to tax the hell out of it,' they'll rightly tell you to get lost. But if you tell people that when they next buy a car, the tax will be adjusted so that the cleanest ones will cost less and the polluting ones will cost more, most people would say 'fair enough.'

Wen Jiabao

China is a main energy consumer and, therefore, is also a big greenhouse gas emitter. We must use energy resources rationally and must conserve. This needs us to adjust our economic structure, transform the mode of development, to make economic development more dependent on progress of science and technology and the quality of the work force.

Wesley Clark

People make mistakes. And one of the mistakes that the United States consistently made was that it could intervene and somehow adjust people's governments, especially in the Middle East.

Donatella Versace

You can never forget the time you're living in because the past is the past and it will never come back. So to adjust your philosophy and creativity in fashion to the time you're living in is the most important thing.

David Zayas

Part of an actor's job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how he tries to work.

Noah Baumbach

I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.

Hines Ward

That was a rocket. I made an adjustment on my route. He had to make an adjustment and somehow he got the ball to me. That was amazing.

We couldn't adjust for the offense they showed in the second half because they hadn't shown it. They did a very good job of catching the football also but we showed we could move the ball too. We needed just one more first down.

We know the defense had to play hard because we were going with two different quarterbacks. We needed them to step up, and we're pleased with their effort, especially against a set we haven't seen. It was a great adjustment by our kids.

Jimmy Johnson

We know that you've got to collect points, ... Kurt (Busch) last year was very consistent and collected the most points. That's everyone's baseline. You go into the final 10, if somebody is on a tear and wins a bunch, everybody is going to have to adjust their game. But going into any series, you want to cover your bases and be solid. . . We'll go to Loudon and get our feet wet. We can spend our first two or three races just feeling things out to see where we need to be.

Jamaal Magloire

We just didn't play defense. The young players still don't grasp what it is like to play consistently. It's going to be an adjustment period before we get it together, but I think we're going to be OK.

Lawrence Summers

We believe the global expansion needs to be balanced up, not balanced down, ... An adjustment should take place in our countries through increased public savings. Internationally, there needs to be an adjustment through an increase in exports rather than reduced imports.

Joe Sakic

Today was just to get moving out there, get a little bit of a sweat, get rid a bit of the jet lag. We tried not to sleep today, we're trying to get adjusted as quickly as possible.

Roy Halladay

Today was a lot better. It's good to get a couple of innings and then to come in and talk it over between innings and to go back out and make an adjustment or two. For the most part, we're real close.

Today was all about adjusting the equipment, getting a feel for it. We did a really good job of that, and staying loose and having fun.

O. J. Simpson

Today there was a little bit of position adjustment from yesterday, with very little flows going through.

Today the market seems to adjusting downward because all the upward surge over the past few days was a little overdone.

Craig Jones

We have a good mixture of youth and experience, but the returning guys have adjusted and played really well with the new guys. They have a very good feel for each other. They know each other's range and arm strength.

We've got some very offensive-minded personnel and we've tried to make this attitude adjustment toward defense. I think that's helping us now.

We've lost a lot of close games, but I feel like things are clicking for us. It took us awhile to get adjusted to our new system, but we're excited about the second half of conference. We want to improve as much as we can and prepare for a good run in the conference tournament.

We have to look at the wherewithal to get the job done, and you can't do it with smoke and mirrors, ... It may require some adjustment of the tax structure - that's just being honest.

We have to learn to adjust to opposing teams tactics. They played very disciplined. Frustrate you get kind of down and then counterattack. Hoping that one kick will change the game.

Rick Carlisle

We have to help him get into some more positions where he doesn't have to use his off-arm to get open. We have to adjust. He's going to have to adjust a little bit. We've got to have him on the floor. We're not going to be able to win the series with him playing 31 minutes a game. There's just no way.

We're used to playing on a consistent basis, and it's a hard adjustment to make mentally and physically. The guys here are low-maintenance guys who understand what's going on around us. That doesn't make it easier, but we're not going to gripe about it. We're still going to be great teammates, but it's tough to swallow.

We're used to it being called one way for two games and then we have it called another way. We didn't adjust like we should have.

Usually we are pretty good from the line. We wanted to adjust and get the ball inside a little more in the second to get more of those chances.

Wages are really slow to move. The are really the last thing to adjust in a tightening labor supply.

We're still trying to figure out how to play without our best shooting guard. Nevada's pressure defense, they executed well. It's hard to adjust to. They do a good job of moving their feet and using their hands and it's hard to get through, but they're supposed to execute that well when you play at home. We had a couple lapses where we didn't do much right. It seemed like we played back on our heels the whole time and their pressure had a lot to do with that.

With the headwind, I didn't want him to open up too soon. I wanted Pat to tuck in and save some ground. I wasn't surprised the other horses went for the lead like that. They had no option from there. I talked to Pat about it, and told him to sit comfortable, not to rush him. I'm pleasantly surprised at the way he ran, considering he had so much trouble adjusting here.

With the US new home sales proving to be a positive surprise, traders who are still holding short dollar positions are likely to continue adjusting their positions this week.

Robert Wyatt

It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.

Mark McKinnon

When you look at the money spent by labor unions for Democrats, it comes as no surprise the Democrats crafted a campaign-finance 'disclosure' bill with the thresholds adjusted to exempt unions.

Most kids adjust to what we ask of them as long as it's fun and they know people care about them, ... At the same time, people learn at different rates and in different ways. We just want to help them prepare for future success as best we can.