Bill Evans Quotes (50 Quotes)

I think the key to the game was the way we defended as much as anything. But any time you make shots, things become easier.

Ordinarily it would have been surprising that consumer sentiment did not increase for a fourth consecutive month, given the range of encouraging economic news.

The lesson of The Odd Couple is that there are still genuine Broadway stars. And it was an opportunity for those who might have missed (Lane and Broderick) in The Producers , which has also been great for Broadway.

There's been a lot of fight back from the students on this one. But we don't chase the kegs If we see five kegs go to one house though, we're going to watch it.

Despite low unemployment, wage growth remains contained. With job gains slowing, the risks from wage inflation appear to be receding. Interest rates will remain on hold in 2006.

Our 5 and 11 p.m. news had their strongest performance since we signed on.

I think you need to gun for Oral Roberts not so much because they're playing in Tulsa but because they're a good team. If they were a bad team, it wouldn't be an issue. But they're a good team so it's an issue.

Our patience wasn't good enough. We didn't guard them in the post and they got easy baskets, but we've really got to take care of the basketball and good shots every time down the floor.

It's a big step. We're not looking to creep into the playoffs. We'd like to go in with more than five wins. We have that opportunity with three of our four games at home.

We expect steady interest rates for the remainder of 2005 and most of 2006.

I dance because it makes me want to explode.

I want to play as good as I can, not necessarily as different. I am not interested in consciously changing the essence of my music. I would rather have it reveal itself progressively as I play. Ultimately, what counts is its essential quality, anyway, and differences vanish in a short time.

Confidence is steadily improving from the lows of the second half of 2005. Relatively stable petrol prices and continuing good news on the interest rate front have settled consumers.

We don't think the inflation numbers are strong enough to justify a preemptive move and would bet against a hike next week.

Actually, I'm not interested in Zen that much, as a philosophy, nor in joining any movements. I don't pretend to understand it. I just find it comforting. And very similar to jazz. Like jazz, you can't explain it to anyone without losing the experience. It's got to be experienced, because it's feeling, not words.

We use the people who are in the bullpen producing.

Some people can make a lot of mistakes and still get a way with it because athleticism can make up for it. We're not that kind of team. We need to play within ourselves.

Wage risks figure strongly in the central bank's concerns. Still, we expect we have reached the peak in wages pressure in Australia as slowing domestic demand is leading to cooling employment growth.

The biggest story for us is our continued growth at 5 o'clock.

Retailers will be disturbed to see that. Our view is that interest rates will remain steady for the rest of the year and most of 2006.

I was happy that guys got a chance to play. I think that's an opportunity for those guys who work really hard in practice and don't get as many opportunities to play.

We have a mandate ... to protect ... the treaties, to ensure that they're there and that we don't give up any of our rights from the treaties,

When you play music you discover a part of yourself that you never knew existed.

We have some youth and inexperience on the offensive line and they were standing up a lot. Casey was teeing off on us in the second half,

Casey was the better team and the better team won.

The only thing different I know of is they shipped us a big shipment of bottled water maybe, for the holiday weekend. I wouldn't be surprised if by the end of next week we're out of bottled water.

We're going to miss all of the good things he's done for us. I think he's been a classic overachiever. Because you're an overachiever doesn't mean you're not a good player. But he's certainly maximized his talent, which I think is a tremendous compliment.

Steve Barnes played the best game he's played since he's been a T-Bird. He was our best player tonight. He's got to play like that every single game.

Do you remember the Platonic dialog in which Socrates argues the definition of wisdom with Hippocrates As far as I'm concerned, Hippocrates was the first hippy, a guy who was smug because he thought he knew something. Socrates was wise because he realized how little he knew.

Harrington gave us a lot of scares. He likes to cut back and he's low to the ground. We bent a few times but we didn't break, and we had a couple of goal-line stands inside the 15 that were good.

We are pleased to note that the recent run of strong data in Australia has seen markets lower that probability to only about 15 per cent.

The thing that hurt us the most was they got off to such a quick start. We're having a hard time scoring the basketball, and I think our patience hurts us. We didn't throw the ball in the post enough.

Coach (Todd) Butler played a lot of sophomores two years ago and a lot of juniors last year. Now they are seniors and it's paying dividends.

Anytime you play schools from higher leagues, they're preparing us for our league. We've played some really good teams. I would like to play those teams at home sometimes for my own feelings that if we could do that, we could be competitive with them. Playing at home and not having to travel is a plus.

The room I'm now teaching in used to be where my history class was, and I made my first skateboard out of roller skate wheels and a slab of wood down the hall in shop class.

After a particularly volatile year in 2005 for consumer sentiment, we may be entering steadier times in 2006. However, given households' high levels of debt and sensitivity to interest rates, this calm would be dramatically disturbed if interest rate concerns returned.

With debt servicing ratios at record highs, house prices likely to remain soft and petrol prices stressing some household budgets a sharp resurgence in consumer spending seems unlikely,

Be careful what you wish for. I think they're a very good team. It wouldn't surprise me at all if they won the whole thing. I think there are some really good teams standing in their way, and I hope we're one of them.

It appears that after a particularly volatile year in 2005 for consumer sentiment, we may be entering steadier times in 2006.

My first foray into Evan's late-career albums, and it's even better than I had hoped for. Eddie Gomez on bass, and Evans even plays electric piano on a couple of bonus tracks. But the real meat is the original album. It's heading where it needs to be, but there are moments of surprisingly upbeat swinging, as well - and a nice take on 'Theme From MASH' ('Suicide Is Painless'). Once you've gone through the original trio recordings, you're going to be hooked for all you can get by Evans.

Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.

Their non-conference schedule (was) equal to ours. The majority of people at our level, you can throw out the first 10 or 12 games. It's a little unrealistic.

People are complacent about interest rates now. The risk of the emerging strength in this data is that the media coverage of interest rate risk will start to intensify again and that will start to worry people.

It's just the normal range of ups and downs.

I expect a really well-coached, disciplined, talented basketball team coming in here to try and kick our butts. And we'll try to kick theirs.

The original mission of the Partnership for America's Future was to celebrate, enshrine and archive the great ideas of America's youth.

Australia's two-speed economy remains intact with consumer spending subdued and housing in a downswing. By contrast, business investment is surging.

We look to 2007 for the next move when the current global move for higher interest rates is likely to be reversed and Australia will play its part.

The index is now giving us considerable comfort that economic growth by late 2005 and into 2006 can pick up to long-term trend or even a little better.

Sometimes it can happen that you see everything in terms of music. It's like a fixation. You can't help it. I get that way every time I'm trying to work something out. But it's bad if you can't pull out of it. Nothing should be that dominating. If it is, it is perverted.