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.'

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.

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 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.

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.

Mark E. Smith

I thought in the second half we adjusted pretty well, but we gave up way too many baskets. We got killed at the free-throw line. We didn't attack the basket or come out strong.

We found a large plane to our left, 50 kilometers ahead of us. When the U.S. spy plane spotted us, it adjusted its course ... and we readjusted ours to the same speed, same direction as the U.S. plane.

I think she just wasn't loose. But what was most important was that she adjusted her game plan and persevered. She wasn't quite at her best, but she still came up big for us.

We finally adjusted and set off the net much better in the third and fourth games. We only made seven serving errors in the match (80-for-87), but they all seemed to come on critical points.

Because of that rash of injuries, other players have had to step up and fill the void and we're just getting adjusted to those new roles.

Chris has good hands and did very well setting during practice, so we decided to give him a chance. It will take time for Chris to get adjusted to his new role, but I'm sure he'll do a fine job.

Martha Stewart

I have adjusted and am very busy, ... The camp is like an old-fashioned college campus -- without the freedom, of course.

Louis Armstrong

I felt bad at first. I'm like, what are we doing in Utah? I thought we were going to San Antonio like the National Guard told us. Man, we wound up far away from the south, but I've adjusted and I'm about to start my life over here in Utah.

For the third quarter, analysts are bringing their estimates down again, but not by as much as normal. Analysts have caught on and adjusted their models accordingly.

Going forward, we expect the economy to show positive year-on-year and seasonally adjusted rates in the quarters ahead, but the 1.8 percent Central Bank estimate appears to have more downside than upside risk at the moment.

Julie Bowen

He met me when I was doing 'Ed,' so he adjusted to that schedule.

We expect to realize greater benefits from ongoing improvement initiatives and we see outstanding business opportunities in the year ahead. We remain confident in our full year 2006 EPS outlook of $5.78-$5.92, including the estimated ($0.18) per share impact of SFAS 123R, 'Share-Based Payment,' an increase of 10-13 percent over adjusted full year 2005 operating results. Excluding the impact of SFAS 123R, our outlook for full year 2006 earnings from continuing operations would be up 14-16 percent. We expect Q1 2006 EPS of $1.18-$1.22.

He doesn't need a microphone. He uses it and it's an instant headache. After a while your head gets adjusted to that thing but it's ridiculous.

He (Duke) has been doing a good job for us. He is starting to get adjusted to the level of play and as a result is being more productive.

He gave us some problems early on. But we started dropping our guards back on him as well and negated him. That's really where I thought our guys did a good job tonight. They adjusted when they needed to. Brubaker played hard for us. He was all over the place and getting a lot of loose balls.

If they applied for, and obtained another job with our Waterloo facility, their service would be adjusted for the time that they have already been with us and their time away. If one of these former employees did want to move to Troy, I'm sure the general manager of that facility would consider the employee for an available position, however, we're not planning to offer relocation at this time.

Staffan Kronwall

I feel really confident and I think I have adjusted pretty well to this league and the speed of the players. But I also know I have a long way to go to become a better hockey player.

Tyler Hansbrough

I didn't have any individual goals, but I would say it's a good accomplishment. I thought there were some things that I struggled with at the beginning. I tried to improve on those. With this team, I got a lot of experience early, and I think I adjusted well.

Danny Clark

I can't put my finger on what we need or how many players we need -- I think we have the players here to get it done. There needs to an attitude thing that needs to be adjusted somewhat. But I love the character of this team. And I'll never turn away from that.

Michael Beschloss

Given the experiences he had, for him to reach adulthood and be pretty well adjusted and be thought of almost universally as a pretty nice and graceful guy, that is not a bad accomplishment,

Given the continued higher growth trajectory, the risks remain that interest rates need to be adjusted further up.

Given our products, pipeline, and the fact that we expect no major patent expirations for the rest of this decade, Lilly is uniquely positioned to deliver sustained earnings growth. For 2006, we anticipate earnings per share of $3.10 to $3.20, which represents 8% to 12% growth compared with expected 2005 adjusted earnings. This growth rate is nearly double the average Wall Street consensus forecast for large-cap pharmaceutical companies.

(Friday), she threw her fastball very well inside. So she went outside early. They adjusted and got tight on the plate. But as they adjusted, Ashley adjusted also.

Greg Biffle

We wanted to win here tonight, ... Kyle (Busch) got a great restart, great job by those guys tonight. They deserve it. Just a great job by my guys in the pit. We adjusted the heck out of that racecar tonight.

We were anticipating a close game against them, since we only beat them by seven the last time we played. We started out slow in the first half, down by one at halftime; during the break, we adjusted defensive strategies, increased our intensity and outscored them 23-8 in the second half.

We altered a lot of shots. The shots we did not block, I think they (Kennedy) were, I don't want to use the word intimidated, but they had second thoughts in their mind and adjusted their shots.

We've adjusted really well to the pitching these last two games. If the top of our lineup is struggling, then the bottom half is strong, and that's a good thing to have.

We've adjusted our practice thoughts. We're having a lot more full-contact practices. We hope it helps with the conditioning and that type of thing.