Craig Johnson Quotations

We both knew Ken because he works on guitars.

We're still in the first or second inning of providing the tools necessary to provision DSL that are comparable to what the old phone system has for provisioning voice services, ... We need a mechanism where you do a submittal, get approval and all the rest without getting 50 people involved.

Temptation out of reach does you no good.

He mulled that over. "Sheriff Connally woulda let us shoot 'em." I reached over and took his coffee away from him. "Yep. Lucian probably would have done the job himself, but we're living in more enlightened times." I drained his cup and handed it back with a smile. "Ain't it grand?

It was the second time that day that I stood looking at a space where a large thing wasn't where it was supposed to be.

The place was packed as we flooded in, all the patrons freezing at the sight of an armed sheriff, two deputies, an Indian, and a construction worker; we probably looked like the Village People.

Maybe there really isn't any such thing as mortality; life simply wears us out with love.

I looked over at her; if women knew how good they looked in the dash light of oversized pickup trucks, they'd never get out of them.

Artists are always good for conversation, so long as you want to talk about their art.

Henry figured that the reason the Cheyenne had always ridden Appaloosas into battle was because by the time the men got there, they were so angry with the horses they were ready to kill everything.

We've never done a coordinated music effort. Everything else we've done has been around a holiday - Halloween, Mardi Gras, half way to Mardi Gras, St. Patrick's Day.

A life without friends means death without company. (Adiskidegabeko bizita, auzogabeko heriotza.) —BASQUE PROVERB

If someone is starving, excessively exercising or using purging behaviors, then we know they are in a high-risk place for turning on the psychiatric illnesses,

The problem with anger is that once it burns out, you're left with empty tanks.

I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin -- a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful with it.

If there's a character type I despise, it's the all-capable, all-knowing, physically perfect protagonist. My idea of hell would be to be trapped in a four-hundred page, first-person, first-tense, running monologue with a character like that. I think writers who produce characters along those lines should graduate from high school and move on.

Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part that's usually producing the stuff worth reading.

Revolution is the industry of young men.

A writer, like a sheriff, is the embodiment of a group of people and without their support both are in a tight spot.

One of our primary goals is to equip students to be organizational leaders who are willing to lead at the local and global levels. Graduates will take leadership roles in the workplace, as well as in their communities and society as a whole.

No doubt, Pier 1 has a substantial brand equity, ... My suspicion is that Buffett sees through the current problems and has confidence in whatever new vision and strategy the company is working on that isn't apparent yet to outsiders.

I was stunned . . . how many alumni told me how much he meant to them ? and not only musically. He is a real model for all of us.

If the city were to diversify, this wouldn't hurt us so bad.

What makes us fundamentally different is that we give citizens the tools to become informed, organize themselves and then to take action, ... People can form or join groups, contribute money or time, or dialog with their representatives with just two clicks of their mouse.

I wouldn't necessarily say that Target is stealing market share away from Wal-Mart because Target's customers are slightly more upscale. Where it's outperforming Wal-Mart is in grabbing market share away from department store chains.

I think this is the most colossal marketing mistake since the geniuses at Coke came up with 'New Coke,'

Management distractions can have a tremendous effect on a company. The good news is that Wal-Mart took some action and they're putting more effort into their public relations.

I was militant about the vocals. I really beat that dead horse.

We can't extrapolate from the retailers' performance in the first part of the year how retailers' will fare in the second half of the year, ... Will the holiday season be as solid as last year? I'm not sure of that yet. It may be a middle-of-the-road performance.

We are continuing to expand our products and services through a combination of acquisitions and capital investment in new equipment throughout the Rocky Mountains to satisfy our customers' growing needs. With locations from Alice, Texas, to Williston, North Dakota, we continue to enhance our ability to service our customers across the major basins of the lower 48.

Wal-Mart has to redefine itself to consumers. If the lowest price pitch is its only value proposition, that's yesterday's news.

We perceive this to be an ongoing threat that will be there for many years to come.

Cory loved all life had to offer. Most of all, his idol, his best mate, his father, Rex.

Cory always had an answer for everything. We will miss your cheeky face, your wit, your laugh and your smile.

There's nothing fundamentally wrong with the business of selling recreational items. But kids today are moving away from traditional toys and toward electronics at a much younger age. Toys 'R' Us has to adapt to this shift and explore new areas of the business.

These are very strong numbers that point to a company operating on all cylinders. I don't care what kind of business you are. When you have annual sales of $43 billion, and you're growing you're top line at this rate, you're doing an exceptional job.

It would be like when Ford bought Jaguar a while ago and changing its name to Ford-England.

On the West Coast, land availability takes a back seat to labor union issues and that's why Wal-Mart has consistently run into problems in California,

The more costs Wal-Mart can take out of the system, the more it's able to pass a portion of the cost saved on to the customer in the form of lower prices.

A lot of our water is too polluted to be used for fishing, and swimming.

This is the last gasp. If they don't get their act together, I will call on the county executive to call them in default.

It?s encouraging that we have some real consensus.

Even with the Supreme Court's decision potentially in their favor, smart retailers would rather go into communities wearing a white hat rather than a black one,

That's probably where some of those stores are buying them. It's flooding the market with really inexpensive, poor-quality stuff.

They have years of recovery ahead of them. You see pictures on TV and hear people talking about it. But even today, when you get down there and turn around 360 degrees, it hits your heart.

These things are important because users can never get enough bandwidth and control. And the great news for users is pricing for Gigabit and Layer 3 switches is coming down because of intensified competition.

I just wanted to see him on a day like today with it being a little bit colder than it was down there in Mobile have the same type of day and make all the throws that are necessary to make.

In absolute dollar terms Wal-Mart is outpacing Target but that's primarily because it's the bigger player,

Clearly this meeting signals a bona fide interest on Wal-Mart's part in the Indian market, ... India is a huge market and its fast-growing consumer sector is a precise fit for Wal-Mart's overall strategy.

These four companies all had good solid strings of success for a while. They even had Wall Street paralyzed by their success.