Famous Quotes & Sayings

Glen Davis

My assignment is to play the biggest and best post man on each team. So I just have to do what I'm supposed to do to get the ball game won. I'm just going to take it as a regular game.

She's great. I wish I had 14 of her. She's perhaps our most consistently hard worker. She has struggled with her offense, but she had a breakout game with 15 at USF last week. She is always one of our best defenders; she always draws a tough assignment on the perimeter. What gets lost is she's a great team defender, and we're the best defensive team in the league.

Tom Wolfe

The greatest promotion I ever had on a newspaper was when 'The Washington Post' suddenly promoted me from city-side general assignment reporter to Latin American correspondent and sent me off to Cuba. Fidel Castro had just come to power. It was a very exciting assignment, but also very serious.

Maurice does a great job on defense, staying on his assignment and coming up with the big play when we need it. He's got great speed and it's hard to catch up to him when he takes off like that.

One of the very large assignments we worked on recently, the recruitment assignment for an individual to be a CEO in waiting, was about a $1.3 million package.

It's just the little things, really. It's really nothing that major, maybe an assignment here, maybe another step you take there.

So a good homework assignment for everybody, take a screwdriver, unscrew your screws to your strike plate, if they're less than three inches, replace them. It's a very simple fix.

Ned Yost

It's possible Wise or Santana will go out on a rehab assignment to pitch a few innings. We just want to make sure they're OK before we make a roster move and send somebody out.

Lester Holt

For 30 years I've been schooled in everything from government, and economics, to medicine and international relations. But don't be impressed. Someone once said being a general assignment reporter simply means you are equally ignorant about most everything. In other words, I know a little about a lot.

I'm glad I went on rehab assignment to see some live pitching and get some at-bats. I said there were no excuses, I was seeing the ball well at Triple-A and I was able to come back and get it going.

Once polymorphisms (or alleles) have been discovered, study groups can be held to consider the research required for assignment of allele frequency.

It's much like the question about injuries - it has to be considered, it has to be brought up. The committee member who has the monitoring assignment for that team and for that conference would be obliged to bring that to the attention of the committee.

Every night ... we'd watch film together, or we'd come in late from games together, it was just good because he knew exactly what I was going through. We were doing homework together because we knew we had to get the assignment done before we went on the trip. It was great.

Brian Mitchell

It's very wide open. There could be changes. It's whoever is going to step up during two-a-days and then make the players and be assignment sound.

Bill Snyder

It will be very competitive. All four candidates are doing well. Now to qualify that, we don't have a Darren Sproles. But they're all doing well. They're assignment sound, they work hard and they have capabilities.

They are very perimeter-oriented, much like they were last year. We can't sleep at all. We have a very small margin for error, because if we miss an assignment we're likely going to give up a 3. Everyone needs to know their assignments.

Chris Givens

We were doing a good job killing that penalty. We had it (puck) at the blue line, but we couldn't chip it out. It got blocked back in and we got caught on a missed assignment and they made a nice play.

We shot photos in the early morning and in the early afternoon. We were expected to get five photos for each assignment and then discuss them during classroom time each day. There were people from all over the country and all walks of life. I learned a tremendous amount. We learned from each other as well as the instructors.

When you are playing an option team that has a feature back like they do, we'll have to play smart, assignment football.

We are enormously proud to have been chosen for this assignment by one of the nation's largest and most respected health systems.

When Sandy takes on a volunteer assignment for Stanford, he does so with energy and gusto rivaled by few, dedicating his time and energy completely.

John Schultz

Firefighter Nichols' temporal assignment is completed. He has departed the fire ground and is now safely back in eternal quarters.

Ansel Elgort

When I was in lower school, I graduated from fourth grade, and the principal gave us a summer assignment to take a 30-minute reflection period every day. And, of course, there were no cell phones at the time. She said to just think. And that's lost. It doesn't exist anymore. Just imagine being on a couch and just thinking.

The other horse (Paratroopers) was coming back to him. It was a great win but the Cox Plate is a much tougher assignment for him.

The other horse (Paratroopers) was coming back to him. It was a great win, but the Cox Plate is a much tougher assignment for him.

Adam Hughes

Color always vexed me because I would fight with the media I was using. I love coloring in Photoshop, and it's freed me to pursue ideas and techniques I wouldn't have otherwise attempted. Since I get to take an assignment from concept to final execution, I have more freedom in my idea-making processes.

Of course, you can only imagine how busy we are now with tax work. We make sure, though, that each assignment we're given is done within 24 hours.

Lloyd Carr

Defensively, it's become an assignment game. It's had an unbelievable impact.

Audio CD burning capability allows users to play burned music on players that don't have MP3 support, like a CD player. A beta tester burned a high school assignment to Audio CD using the new feature. She reported that the CD-R played flawlessly on the CD player available in the school, a CD player that was too old to recognize and play an MP3 CD.

They do a lot of great things running the ball. We have to play good assignment football and hope to slow them down. I don't think we can stop them.

I can't think of a more important assignment for the FBI or the U.S.,

Rick Dempsey

Even though I will have the bullpen assignment this year, no one can replace Elrod Hendricks. I'm just proud to have known him as a friend, a teammate and a fellow coach.

Stacey Snider

Be serious. You've got to do the job you were hired to do well, but there's always more you can do. When I was an assistant, I would say to myself, 'You may not be an executive, but act like one.' I would volunteer for any creative assignment - read scripts, do 'coverage,' write notes.