John Williams Quotes (67 Quotes)

Incumbent on the city's approval of the campus plan, we believe it's possible to bring everything together in one place.

As I told one parent, we appreciate the generosity, but every drop of fuel that we put in a bus is fuel that could have gone in an ambulance or emergency vehicle trying to help the relief effort. Now, as we look at the news in the newspaper and on television of what's going on, to imagine an ambulance trying to help those people might run out of fuel because we're running the chess team over to Colleton County, well, to us it highlights some priorities.

Preliminary indications from the school indicate (the student) probably said it in passing, as an off-hand joke. But you don't just joke around about things like that. Of all the times in the world to make a joke about bombing a school, this was clearly not the time.

I know other estate agencies who used to go round with a vase of fake flowers in the back of the car. But it got a bit obvious when the same flowers kept turning up in all the details.

Investment banking fees are geared towards success.

Every day, we get concerned about the age of the school buses in this county. You've got to keep in mind that they're built as buses to start with, and they carry young people who may not treat them as if they were their very own, so to have these buses running 13 or 14 years ... is not the best way to do business.

I honestly haven't done all that counting. It always feels new and a wonderful honor to receive these things. It's a fresh feeling.

Schools are natural magnets for community activities.

We in the Premier League have had 10 great years, a fantastic success story, but we are certainly going through the doldrums now. We have to do something now because by the time you see the bandwagon it's too late.

People are certainly tuned in to the discussions about the reliance on foreign oil, and gas prices are going up. We're not suggesting that everybody wake up and sell their car tomorrow, but for a certain slice of people, car share is the way to go.

Schools need to illustrate the connection between curriculum and the real world. Students can spout back lessons but they don't know what it means.

Colfax had a great record but they didn't go and play out of section like some of the other schools. I think that really hurt them from getting a one or two seed because we had nothing comparative to go on.

It was a simple idea of setting up a booth at the exchange, and it turned out to be a good one. It gave us several ideas and ways to get out the traffic-safety message. We hope to visit more bases and exchanges.

We need to be clear about this -- we haven't canceled games indefinitely. We will be deciding on a week-to-week basis.

The U.S. worker is the most productive on Earth, and the growth in productivity in the U.S. work force has been over the past 10 years as fast as anywhere.

Understanding the needs of a business is the starting point for any project.

A woman only has won once in 25 years. She's good and beaten all these guys, but it depends on all of the games.

As soon as we found out that he was arrested, we moved into action. We told the school that he is no longer there, and I'm going to assign him somewhere there are no children available.

This has certainly had a direct psychological impact on Hilton Head Middle School. If there's any positive, it's brought to light some shortcomings in communication.

It's not ethical. As auctioneer you sit on the fence between buyers and sellers. We get hundreds of absentee bids and I would hate people to think, 'Oh, he's taken a higher bid.

I don't think we're going to get into the Greek alphabet this year. The good news is it's still 56 days before it starts.

After we receive acceptance of the campus plan by the city, then the long process of planning and fundraising to create a state-of-the-art facility begins.

Obviously we're not a coastal city, but we felt (the fair) could be a nice service to the community. We saw that people on the Gulf Coast were not prepared.

Through technology, travelers can integrate the physical travel and the virtual travel they do on the World Wide Web to stay connected to both their offices and to their customers and their clients 24 hours a day.

Toronto is a big, sophisticated city and multi-ethnic, and people love coffee here.

Perimeter Center is one of the best lodging markets in the southeast with over 23 million square feet of office space and such major demand generators as General Electric, Microsoft, Eli Lilly as well as three world-class hospitals located less than one mile from the hotel.

These are people who don't want to spend their weekends mowing their lawns. They want to have more free time.

I can laugh about it, but it's been very hard. One collection company was getting ready to put a lien on my house, but I was able to get that stopped. It's been a real battle.

We're moving in a very deliberate, respectful way with the community.

We haven't had any contact with Manchester City regarding Andy Todd and we are very keen to keep the players who are under contract for next season.

The good news is, the students took their own school's safety and security seriously. There's a general sense of being fed up with these kinds of threats.

The Data Warehousing Institute's World Conference is renowned in our field for its thought leadership and business and technology relevance, as well as its impressive list of participants and attendees. Consequently, it is a real honor to be asked to participate. I know the panelists are going to be asked to cover a lot of ground, but I want to make sure we stress how important it is for a company to select the integration technology that best suits its requirements. That is absolutely critical.

All I knew is we had to get it (the shot) up. We couldn't stand to foul and I just had to put it in. I missed those free throws and I had to do something to make it up for the team. I'm glad it worked out that way.

Our average customers' data store with us is increasing 25 percent per year.

We push leadership and develop the skills students need to succeed in other classes.

If we asked the various families to buy computers, this would only have widened the digital divide. So the school superintendent and the supervisors insisted that this be a grass-roots effort. We wanted to ensure that all the children in the sixth grade would have the opportunity to be a part of this.

Generally, we think voting is going to go along these lines - leagues in the North will vote no and those in the South yes.

In general, we continue to believe that local governments should not have a competitive advantage when competing with the private sector, and they should not be allowed to subsidize their business plan.

Some kids, for some reason, it just doesn't click in the classroom as they need it to. We have college coaches talk to them, former high school athletes, motivational speakers, teachers, principals.

There is considerable appetite for specialist advice delivered by dedicated senior bankers who have no product conflicts.

The problem for the U.S. is that the economy is growing faster than the rest of the world, and, therefore, our demand for imports far exceeds the demand for our exports by other countries.

It was nice to come. It gives you time to reflect about what faith means to you and what Jesus did -- sacrificing his life so we could be saved.

The plans have been put on hold for the time being.

Requirements represent the medium of exchange between IT and the business.

The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.

This is a purposeful device to help businesses manage data. And if a catastrophe strikes, there's peace of mind because you can retrieve the image and restore it to the PC or another device.

If (FOMC officials) want to see whether the excessive growth is actually showing through to inflation pressure, the place to look is labor costs.

It's said that it takes elements like this to remind us there are still dangerous currents out in the community.

We turned the ball over too much, which helped (the Bulldogs) with their run, but they played well defensively and we just didn't play well enough to beat a good team like that.

I just wonder, why here This is fairly middle-class.