John Thomas Quotes (28 Quotes)

The trend is toward larger dealerships. If you have multiple franchises, there's more opportunity for ... running a profitable business.

People can identify with 16, even if you don't understand the significance of it at the time. You don't realize that's how people will remember you.

Langley was just trying to win a game. I think everybody saw what was going on. As far as what we did, that's just something that I don't ever want to do, but at the same time I felt like our kids deserved to win.

I think what's happening now is there's an undertow of feeling in town that you guys are not actively trying to hurt us, but you are not doing anything to help us.

I am confident. I think the Rangers are playing a speed game. They can skate with any team in the league. If they bring their 'A' game and pull up their boots, they can give any team a run for their money. The past five games I think it's just a combinati

I did it years ago and regretted it. Fifteen minutes later, it was like, 'Oh, man, I just got rid of a hat.' But then, in your mind, you start rationalizing it. It was worth it. You start to think, 'Now what are they going to do with these things' You hope they give them to kids or to the less fortunate, somebody who can't spend 18 bucks on a cap. You'd like to think it's put to good use.

(Women of Wal-Mart) was a real watershed moment for Playboy.com in terms of the number of people who actually paid money to get access to the pay-per-view part of the feature,

This is a sculpture, hand-built base, with a face on it. I wanted to add cool colors for the shaded part and black-and-white stripes to the handle.

It's the third time this week he's pitched. I don't think I could coach 50 years and be prouder of a kid that him. He's missing 5 MPH off his fast ball tonight, but he basically got through three innings on sheer heart.

Going through the district for the second time, we anticipate it will be a lot tougher. I think we caught some teams by surprise. I don't think teams were gunning for us like they will be this time around.

How bad does it have to get before people stop arguing and backstabbing Someday, these (public officials) are going to have to answer for high water bills. When people ask what they did, they will have to say 'nothing.

It's a risk you take when you go in the ocean.

We don't have any illusions that we are more talented than Langley. We won't beat them without pitching or great defense like last time.

We want it to be an asset to the community. The design is unlike anything in the state.

We could see (Bennett) coming in from our vantage point before the (corner) kick was made. We made one major mistake and that was not picking him up. But I felt the boys played with a lot of heart. A lot of it is luck. We had several opportunities to score and things could've been different if we did. But we move on.

Those investigations and those charges generally relate to a perception by the regulators ... that the city of Venice had become a rogue utility. That, in fact, there were a cadre of employees within the utility who had taken it upon themselves to get rid of the reclaimed water anywhere they could.

On a scale of 1 to 10, it will be a 4 throughout the Hill Country.

We're going after companies with an enormous brand name where there is also a likelihood of finding the 'girl next door' who has the potential to become a model,

He didn't have a malicious bone in his body. I never knew anybody that harbored any ill feelings toward him. He was always smiling or sleeping.

People aren't seeing the cause and effect. These days, you see organizational statements and decisions being made by the program offices that are not necessarily consistent with a strong top-level technical design.

I thought he pitched excellent. He did a real nice job staying on top of his breaking ball. Above all else he worked ahead in the count.

The students require increased attention and resources that the district cannot afford. It's a funding and staffing issue.

I always tell her she is going to be the first female master chief petty officer of the Navy. She has a leadership ability you don't see out there every day.

Wal-Mart has a conservative corporate image, and we knew they wouldn't be thrilled. But we're hoping that the company will be pleased once they see how fun the pictures are and how empowered the women at Wal-Mart feel.

We are looking at about 300 residences. They will be a congregate of housing, townhouses, garden apartments and an assisted-living facility. On the Greenland piece, we are looking at a mixed-use commercial village with retail on the first floors and office space above.

At the time, seven feet didn't seem like a big deal because I was too wrapped up in competing to be able to look at what it meant. I had done it in practice indoors and out. Other people had done it outdoors in competition, too.

This is the toughest I've ever seen, and I've been in the business quite a few years.

When Tim Parris and I joined we really started a new program to grow the management of ambulatory surgery centers and hospitals.