Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Williams

As soon as we found out that he was arrested, we moved into action. We told the school that he is no longer there, and I'm going to assign him somewhere there are no children available.

We didn't play assignment football at the end like we should have defensively to stop the option. We attacked the quarterback pretty well in the third quarter, but then the fullback got us on some bend-backs late in the ballgame. We had people in the right positions, but I'm disappointed in the missed tackles." ()

Suzanne Collins

I sort of half read Thomas Hardy's 'The Mayor of Casterbridge.' It was assigned in 10th grade, and I just couldn't get into it. About seven years later, I rediscovered Hardy and consumed four of his novels in a row.

I signed up for a tournament in Calcutta. It was called the China-Burma-India Theatre contest, and all the people assigned in that region could enter. I came in third from the top.

Chan Gailey

What they do is make you play assignment football. Somebody's got to take the running back. Somebody's got to take the quarterback. Somebody's got to take the wide receiver coming around for the hitch. Then, you have to be ready for the play-action pass. They make you monitor threats, and that cuts down your pursuit, if you're not careful.

Martha Stewart

The probation officer assigned to (Stewart) will basically be her CEO,

Isaac Newton

I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.

Women are being assigned to units that are supposed to be all male, that are required to be all male. That law is being ignored.

E. O. Wilson

We certainly have indications, increasingly so, that units either can't carry out a mission which is assigned to them because of fuel shortages, or are reluctant to plan a mission which can't be carried out because of fuel shortages or have to call a mission short because of fuel shortages,

Van Orden has really come on. He came over from soccer and has worked hard and is blossoming into a strong defensive end. Paski is, too. We don't want to try and do too much, just play assignment football. If he gets out of the pocket, he's scary.

Brian Mitchell

We feel pretty good about our ones. There's some guys there that may not have the experience, like a Kayle Buchanan or a Quinn Gooch, but the effort is always going to be there. They're going to be assignment sound.

I couldn't assign any blame to passengers, ... except there are not enough of them, and they don't pay enough.

Spencer Boldman

I love to read. I was in AP English in high school, and we were assigned books every few months. 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' are two of my favorite ones.

Julia Quinn

In college, I was a researcher/writer for 'Let's Go: Europe,' assigned to Crete and Cyprus. I was supposed to go to England, but at the last minute they transferred me, despite the fact that I spoke not a word of Greek. I learned the very basics, and to this day can say 'oil,' 'vinegar,' and 'boyfriend in America.'

Rashad McCants

I knew they were going to come at me. I took that as an assignment and shut him down.

It was measured and copied and photographed, and then someone would get the assignment to replicate a part, like an altimeter.

Bill Belichick

It's a combination of things. Sometimes we've missed blocks. Sometimes we've missed an assignment and didn't block a guy that we should have blocked.

It's a dangerous offense. They force a defense to be assignment oriented. You can't slide off and help because then you will get hurt.

It's hard to keep them interested. They want to be more active. They like to read different things than are assigned to them in school. They might need role models for reading.

It's obvious that the hurricanes will drag this number down, and because of that, separating the trend from the noise is going to be hard. When it's hard to assign a meaning to this number, the market will likely just overlook it.

Ed Orgeron

It's more of an assignment thing with Kendrick, but eventually he and Antonio will play. They aren't ready to play right now.

In the last system they were assigned for a number of days. Under this program they must complete the requirements. It could take students 45 days, but it could take a bit longer.

In our estimation, Iraq remains the most dangerous assignment for journalists today.

I'm hoping I'll pitch a couple of months and get picked up (by a major-league organization that would then assign him to a minor-league affiliate). It's been a while, so I know people are going to want to see me throw some innings, but I'm excited about the opportunity that's in front of me.

John Wallace

In the presence of the uncertainties in the measurements, we don't know how to assign weights to these two factors (natural and human). It might be all one, all the other or a mix of the two.

Jerry Sloan

If you're supposed to be on a certain place on the floor defensively, you've got to get there. You can't just go crazy. And if you've got a certain assignment on the offensive end of the floor, that all remains the same. But if we break it down because we've got something else in mind, then the other four guys don't have any idea what we're doing. It's just basketball. But we have to play it together.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea

Edmund White

In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.

Andrew Clements

I had a high school English teacher who made me really work at writing. And once, when I got an assignment back, she'd written: 'This is so good, Andrew. This should be published!' That made a big impression on me.

It has not been assigned to an arbitrator, and typically with non-injury grievances, that could take several months.

Can you imagine how you would feel just to design the mood for the film ? he not only took the assignment but he pulled it off.

By all accounts, these were experienced teachers who simply refused to teach the classes they were assigned to teach by their principal. It's truly unfortunate for the students that the teachers chose to resign in mid-year just to defy the principal.

Willie Randolph

He's the only second baseman we have and we have to get him going. He's been swinging the bat pretty well (during a rehab assignment for Norfolk), and we'll get him right in there. ... We wouldn't call him up if he wasn't ready.