Famous Quotes & Sayings

The only way his grade changes is if we go back and watch him on tape and decide: Maybe we graded him too low. The numbers -- they're little pieces of the puzzle. We're not in the track business. If they're not football players, we don't want them. (Numbers) either verify what you think or make you re-think your choices.

There are five enforced changes in selection, but it is possible we could have made many of these changes in personnel anyway,

David Payne

We decided to make these changes as a result of input that we've gotten from graduate deans, ... They wanted us to see if we could improve the validity of the GRE scores. Specifically, they wanted us to revise the test so that the skills that we were measuring were closer in line with the skills students need for their graduate studies.

Daniel Dennett

After Darwin, God's role changes from being the designer of all creatures, great and small, to being the designer of the laws of nature, from which natural selection can unfold, to being just perhaps the chooser of the laws.

(Strickland) was scrambling for his life the whole game. But he found his guys and they kept going. We did a lot of things wrong and there's going to be some changes made.

Subtle changes can have drastic consequences for gay Americans looking to serve their country.

Juliette Binoche

Something triggers inside her when her husband focuses on the little girl, ... She feels abandoned. Finding this man who represents unity, being Jewish, solid, family-oriented, it triggers something deep in her that reassures her. And when he changes his focus, she feels completely abandoned.

Something's got to be changed, but it's up to us. The changes that need to be done are within ourselves. The guys who are in the lineup need to perform.

Someone's going to have to tell us what's different politically, and if there's nothing different, there's no reason for optimism. We've been on a treadmill for 10 years. If nothing changes politically, the result will be the same.

Some even thought it was going to prevent them from filing bankruptcy. For most people who file consumer bankruptcies, the changes were of little or no effect.

Some recent stories have implied the HIV-AIDS curriculum was new and that we are the only city teaching it. Actually, the changes only include middle and high school lessons.

Lloyd Carr

So there are going to be some changes in the lineup because we're not going to sit and watch that type of effort. We need to play harder, we need to play tougher.

So the law was sort of like shifting sands. . . . Then there were staff changes and it just kind of got lost in the shuffle.

Patti Smith

We want customers to experience it because we know that once you try it, it changes the way you shop on the site.

We do not support Taiwan independence, and we oppose unilateral changes to the status quo by either side.

Geno Auriemma

Brittany did a lot of good things tonight. If we know we can get 10-15 minutes from her every night like that, that changes things.

Martin George

This decision is not a reflection on the professionalism and efforts of our staff in these areas. It is about ensuring that we respond to changes in the marketplace.

This changes how we think about evolution and, in some respects, disease. That's the part that's exciting.

This extension allows us to make the important changes in our marketing and distribution strategy.

This also suggests that retailers may be better off targeting customers within a few-mile radius of their store locations rather than broadcasting a wider marketing net. Households with incomes under $49,000 and heads of households under 44 -- largely those groups whom you would expect to be undergoing life changes such as marriage, children, rising income, or possibly a new home -- were the most likely to report spending more this season.

This is a fluid situation that changes minute by minute.

The only disappointing part is that my holiday at home has been cut short by a couple of weeks due to some schedule changes that require me back in India earlier in January than I was hoping for.

While it is difficult to see colleagues go, please understand that these changes are designed to better position the organization going forward. Other changes will follow in the near future.

Without question, the rate changes by the Federal Reserve will have influences on peoples lives,

Without oversight or enforcement, rule changes are virtually meaningless.

With the changes proposed in the AIP, it would increase the flood risk another three times.

With so many changes set to occur and the prospect of financing a college education overwhelming anyway, we wanted to provide the community some unbiased information to help make the smartest financial decision possible. This workshop will provide timely information on how to reduce the total cost of a college education.

Proposition 76 makes major changes to California's constitution, ... These changes would have substantial and far-reaching effects on the state budget.

Realistically, we never presumed to be the guys who would play for it. But if an extended commercial dispute went on say even longer than the last one, or some other drastic changes occurred, then you just don't want the thing put away and forgotten about.

Reading the tea leaves of what they have been saying, there are more changes coming.

Reading the minutes carefully, I don't think it really changes my view or the market's view of where the Fed was.

Programs have responded to guidelines by making changes to residents' schedules without appropriate staffing, so some of the work has been put onto medical students.

Aaron McGruder

Our show is not 'Family Guy,' ... The element of race changes everything.