Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Jones

Most contracts should be easy to understand and written at an eighth grade level.

Those contracts are usually about the worth of the ink they're written in (though).

Those are some of the players we have discussed offering multiyear contracts to.

We do not encounter lobbyists trying to entice us to sign huge contracts for goods or services.

To gut our contracts when you don't know what the future fleet plan is going to be is irresponsible.

One of the reasons that they feel like they can reduce the exclusive-use contracts . . . is that they've got higher-speed, more mobile and larger-capacity payloads in the contract stream now.

What we want is from now on, these companies, these contracts should be monitored by the Department of Commerce. That's the only way to make sure they don't collaborate on these kinds of human rights abuses.

He's creative. He finds ways to get contracts done.

I take pride in putting together contracts and providing a full range of services. I tell all my members, 'Distinguish yourself with services.' I'm not worried about it at all.

Richard Curtis

We are forced by the major publishers to include electronic rights in the contracts we make with publishers for new books. And there's very little we can do about that.

Samuel Johnson

He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.

Jason Varitek

Given all the people's contracts that are up, we've got to get somebody in there. We've got to find a way to right the ship. And we've got to start from the top down.

Given that contracts were issued as early as November 2000, the moratorium, if it did occur, was of a very short duration,

We were arrogant, we thought we were safe because we had our production contracts with the big studios. Now we have to look at new ways to grow.

Don Howe

The others had contracts that were up during the course of the year.

Leigh Steinberg

The Redskins have done an excellent job of restructuring a number of contracts in anticipation of a deal (on the agreement) not being consummated.

Sharon Shinn

I hadn't thought specifically about doing graphic novels until a couple of my friends got contracts for them. Then I started picturing how various of my stories or poems would work in an illustrated format and thinking how cool that would be.

The prospect of favorable new energy contracts for PPL as existing long-term contracts expire, in conjunction with sharp increases in forward wholesale energy prices over the past six months, led us to increase our long-term earnings forecast.

Our union has contracts with more than 300 different employers, and it is easy to say the least turnover, the most stability, the most worker satisfaction is with Kaiser Permanente, without a doubt.

It is not surprising that public officials in Louisiana are trying everything they can to recover dollars for those whose lives were devastated by Hurricane Katrina. But insurance contracts are contracts.

Brendan Gill

It is not uncommon for contracts like this to run later than expected. We're just not at that stage yet to proceed.

It is important that we move quickly because this is the stage of the season when people either sign new contracts or move on. Gareth will provide me with a list of names and it is then a matter of ticking the boxes.

Last year, I needed 10 people working full-time for a month doing 2005 contracts and setting up audits for our corporate customers. This year, I have one person updating the files in a day.

The pace of sales has started to show signs of softness as foot traffic at sales offices, unit reservations and the number of contracts are slowing. Experience, location and branding will be the key to success for specific projects.

We look forward to convincing FERC that maintaining the contracts is in the public interest.

The contracts vary depending on the size of the school but can generate as much as $100,000 in supplemental revenue for a large school.

The contracts (that were) pulled and plagued with problems in other states are not a recent phenomena.

The contracts have already been let, and the work is under way.

The contracts are all done, now it's just a matter of logistics,

Bob Hill

That's the kind of game that All-Stars need to play like All-Stars and guys playing for contracts need to play like they want to get paid. That's how we played. I thought our effort was outstanding the whole time.

More than half the states that will miss the voting-equipment deadline will have signed contracts with vendors.

Signing one of those (long-term) contracts is extremely pessimistic. What they're offering is peace of mind at a huge premium.

obligation to respect the contracts that it has already signed and voluntarily entered into.