Famous Quotes & Sayings

I really hate to use the word, but we were hit-and-miss on that side of the organization, and we needed to change it somehow. So the board and myself set a goal last summer of being a more efficient, more professional and upfront organization with our members. I think this gets us down that road.

I pretty much told the board somewhere between $140,000 and $240,000 would be the figure we would be looking at.

I'm really happy with what I'm seeing with my guys. They're hitting the boards hard, and moving the ball. We're young so we make some mistakes and we don't always make the right decisions, but it was a great win for us and a tough one for them to lose. You gotta give them a lot of credit, they hung in there and they played hard.

Terry Wogan

I'm on the university board in Limerick, so I visit the city often.

I'm on the board of directors. We go over things once a month and get involved in a lot of things.

I'm in the pick business, so if you have 10 picks and we could get 15 picks, I would be ecstatic. But you have to have somebody else to trade with. I just think its a deep draft. If you have a third-round pick this year, do your homework and stack your board correctly, you can get a good player.

I'm just a person who likes to be involved, ... I intend to go in and learn as much as I can learn about the board - how they operate fiscally and the obligations of the board.

Mariella Frostrup

I met Jason on a charity walk in 2001, and we got married on a friend's boat in Panama two years later. It was the perfect wedding for two people who'd already been married and who weren't teenagers.

John Bryant

If Mr. Davis thinks it is responsible for that board in Halifax County to ignore all the statutes that govern what it is that they're supposed to do, then that is his opinion. The conduct of the local board of health and its employees in this case, regarding Lady Kitchin, is just about as asinine as that comment about what this case is about.

Don Richardson

If I were king instead of a School Board member. There are a lot of things I would change.

Michael Eisner

I had not one inkling from Joe, ever, of discontent with the way we operate, ... He and I operate very well together.  We were totally on board as far as strategy.

I had never been contacted by a lobbyist before on any contract with the State Board of Education.

Alejandro Toledo

I'm very sorry that President Alberto Fujimori and the National Election Board have decided to push the country to a crisis with unforeseen consequences.

John Burnham Schwartz

In 1986, when I was 21, I lived in Tokyo for four months, boarding with a Japanese family and working for an American company.

Peter Ueberroth

I'm very pleased with the team and its performance. The (USOC) board thought that we should not be swept up with everybody's unbridled optimism.

I'm very grateful and proud of the progress Yahoo! has made over the past year. When I took the position as chairman, I told the board that my intention was to serve for one year in order to help Yahoo! during a critical time of transformation.

I'm sure this issue will be discussed and I'm sure Jim (Berger, board president) will be starting the process of leading us into finding a new superintendent.

In my elementary school, there was a teacher who told us about the chess club, and I just liked it from the very first moment. Besides, my father gave a chess board to my brother, and it was very pretty.

In all likelihood, that is why all but a very few counties retain emergency management directly under the board of county commissioners,

In all cases we expect to be at least 5x better than our competitors and 10x better than where the industry is today. Integration is what floats the boat these days; Intel has three chips to our one. And we're glad to have them evangelizing performance per watt.

James Shannon

I know the school board would do the same thing for any school in the county.

I know we can't gather every piece of information on the parcel by the next meeting, but at least we'll have a full board and maybe a few more answers.

I know the reality of the dollars, and I know the reality of the obligations. I'm hoping the school board recognizes the great need to do something for teacher morale, and that would make them do everything possible to find a way.

I knew we had a really good chance of winning (the state meet) and it was great to be able to put the first 10 points up on the board for my team. It would be the icing on the cake to win a second state championship. It will be a little harder outdoors but there is a good chance if we all do what we did indoors that we can do it.

I knew if the board was gracious to me, I'd respond with similar grace. Board membership isn't that important to me, and this was the most peaceful, decent thing to do.

Jen Lancaster

I like Oprah. I could sit around and make vision boards all day, but I wouldn't actually get anything done if I were to concentrate on my feelings rather than doing.

I'm disappointed that after July 1, that the administration did not inform board members, even privately, that there had been a major change in the cost structure.

I'm really concerned that comments made in the boardroom, in public, have worked to undermine the relationship between the board and the union.

Charles Schumer

I hope the board will reinstate Mr. Gunn until all the legal issues are resolved. There is no legal consensus that the board had the power to fire Mr. Gunn.

I hope the board will continue to use the document as a tool to keep the county moving forward.

I hope that the School Board will see the wisdom of providing bus monitors, at least for all buses transporting elementary school students.

Terrell Suggs

I love it. My job is definitely threatened after today. I've got to go back to the drawing board and get after it.

Cassie Ventura

I never feel like I've been pushed towards a certain thing, but now, at 26, I do feel like I have integrity over my output, you know? There's a fine line between saying, 'You can't tell me what I can and can't do,' and taking on board people's opinions.