Jeff Smith Quotations

We started off all right. We moved the ball well and played good team basketball. But Price and Saxon are big kids and they just wore us down in the end.

We're going to have input in terms of salary, in terms of benefits. So in the end we're going to have input.

We requested that the committee defer its request for a staff interview at least until after the August recess or until such time as we were better informed. We never received a response to this letter.

With this group of guys and the talent we have I see ourselves being a No. 4 or 5 seed. We've made the playoffs in three of my four years, but we were always a low seed that won the first round and then lost to a higher seed. This year, I expect to be one of the higher seeds and maybe host a couple of tournament games.

We're at a critical juncture. I'd venture to say there are crises at every turn. The biggest we have is the nursing and departure at a time when the patient population is increasing. We push our nurses to the limit.

We have raised the issue for days. We do not feel that process is moving fast enough. We just feel like there should be trailers rolling and things happening.

We've seen the success of the Virginia Creeper Trail and hope we can do the same.

We have a real concern right now with the assistance we're getting from FEMA on temporary housing.

We need to narrow that gap between our fourth and fifth runner, and having said that, I think the kids gave 100 percent on an unbelievably tough course. This is almost a ridiculously hard course, one of the toughest courses we'll see all year. We really ran pretty well, and the runners gave in everything they had and left it all out there.

She's the reason we've been in these games this year. I could talk for days about her.

She deserved better from her defense out there. They hit her hard, but she'll bounce back. I don't worry about Megan.

Most people chose to heed the governor's call to evacuate. Based on very early reports, it looks like we will have extensive flooding and damages. ... There are extensive power outages, too.

(Oakland) came out on fire. It would have been a lot closer if it weren't for the first quarter.

Phil was getting about 10 or 15 minutes a half last year and he always seemed to be in the right position at the right time. I am expecting more out of him this year. With the other offensive weapons around him, I think they'll make Phil a better player.

On the face of it, the bill supports what we already do. Counseling that is specifically for the sport really is coaching and that isn't something we would regulate.

I don't go for the nouvelle approach-serving a rabbit rump with coffee extract sauce and a slice of kiwi fruit.

I don't have any personal goals. I really like the guys I play with, and I want the team to do well. As long as the team wins, I'm happy.

I got a long great with the guys at Franklin Pierce, and there were some incredible baseball players on that team, but I didn't think I was going to get an opportunity to play much there. Having Adam already at the school made the transition pretty easy for me.

We're on a limited budget. And I think we've spent every nickel of it.

His natural leadership skills as a point guard stands out more than anything.

His mother and my mother would really overdo it. He'd call and say, 'Granny I'm not feeling good.' She'd go to school and pick him up and on the way home he'd say, 'Can we go to McDonald's?' He was over pampered as a child, never wanting for anything.

Hollister was hit pretty hard by this storm.

He wants to get tennis going in the valley, especially with juniors.

I thought Cameron ran well. This is the third meet in a row he's run his personal best.

I think we're going to be very, very quick up front.

Overnight, we should get most of them back, but I'm sure not all of them.

Our goal is to help kids find good jobs. Last year, contractors called looking for students who wanted to work in the trades, and several of our students were hired.

Overall I thought it was a good effort by all the kids. It's a barometer. It's the first meet and you have to build from there.

Steve said he ran out of running rail where the gap appeared, otherwise it would have been easier and, in my view, that was a good performance beating horses like Asset and Close To You.

It doesn't appear that someone dug in the line. It seems to be a failure of some sort.

You can go your whole career without going into a new station.

We couldn't go anywhere all summer long without people wanting to talk about that Rogers game, no matter where we went. We got a lot of nice comments from coaches, players and people throughout northern Michigan. They were proud of the job we did and the way we represented northern Michigan.

We were very impressed with Kelly's goals for a basketball program. He is a great family man, he has three kids all under 4 years old (Zachary, Noah and Joshua), and so we thought he would be a great fit for us here at Grace Community.

We played very hard until the end of the game. We won our last two league games to end the season on a good note. They never quit playing and I am very proud of my kids.

We have a lot of historical sites in town for people to see. We think this will bring even more traffic in through town.

We were sold this idea because it would save money. Now we're spending a million dollars just so no one's feelings get hurt.

Unfortunately that hurricane is sitting right on top of my search area.

We're still waiting to see what the new test is all about.

We had a tremendous response from the participants. We decided to do it again.

When you get two top-notch teams in here playing like that, to end up having the game being decided like that is a tragedy.

We have meteorologists watching the storms. We're preparing crew schedules accordingly.

When the ground gets so saturated, trees come over with less wind than they would normally.

Two of our first three games are going to be tough. It will be a good gauge for the kids to see exactly where they are. I am really looking forward to those two games to really set the tone and see where we are.

We wanted them to look at the other alternatives more closely before making a decision. Now that the vote's taken place, we will work with Trans Bay to serve our customers.

The opportunity to capture market share and improve our gross margin is here today, but time is of the essence. Our customers ask us to bring these products to market, and if we don't do it, our competition will.

We don't really have to do a lot to pump them up when we play Dan River. They pump themselves up because it's an important game.

We were playing tonight like we were earlier in the season. Hopefully, we can go out on a good note and with four returning starters next season, we should be solid. But, we played very well tonight.

Even though there were 5,500 customers who were out, they were not all from Gilroy.

Every coach keys in on Joe and he was getting pushed around his first two years by stronger players. Now Joe is the one pushing people around and muscling people off the ball. If he can control the middle and set the other kids up, I think we can score a lot of goals this year.

Every time we get together it's a good game. It usually comes down to the wire. Most of the games last year were one-run games.

I stand to lose a lot of my outfitting business.

The thing that killed us is our fifth runner. We're waiting over a 1:40 between our fourth and fifth runner. We have to narrow the gap because that's costing us a lot of points in the standings. We're looking for a fifth runner to step up and pull us through.

People can say what they want about them not being the same Lake Central team, but until someone knocks them off they're the team to beat in the Region.

Once you check in we'll keep you informed of what the status is. At this point they're working the problem and don't know how long it could be. Worst case could be the rest of the day.

Attracting people is difficult to do. It requires careful, strategic planning. It requires management expertise. We can't pretend the labor market isn't what it is.

This is one of the largest, if not the largest evacuations in this country.

There was some pretty tough competition for only seven teams being there and it was a pretty challenging course. Cameron ran well but the rest dropped off.

There were numerous counts of lines down and trees into power lines during the weekend. When an entire pole comes down, especially one with this many lines on it, it becomes a multifaceted job that runs into a lot of time.

This is the worst storm in about three years. But this sort of stuff happens when you get hit like we did.

At halftime we picked up the intensity and took it to them for most of the second half.

Absolutely. We've got FEMA shoulder to shoulder with us. We'll turn and we'll act on it just as soon as we get the request.

It was a real one-two punch of a storm.

It's a chapter of Saltville history that is best left out.

For affordable development and starter homes, that?s where Columbia is going to go.

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It's good to do something for Americans for once.

The new site goes way beyond the traditional guidelines most accessible websites attempt to follow. It goes so far as to offer what we'd call the ultimate in accessibility.

It's not going to be possible. We couldn't get close enough to see anything.

The biggest change that people have learned is that the old Winston-Salem stayed the same and didn't change. We're learning you have to adjust fairly quickly to changes, just like you would in a business.

That is typically a fire department call in these situations. Any time you have gas in the atmosphere, you want to make sure there are not ignition sources nearby.

Students and staff have worked hard towards these exams and we hope their efforts will be rewarded.

It was nice to see. They (the Tigers) were obviously going to test us from the outside because of the way they were playing their defense. We had good balance today, even on the perimeter.

It was like the heartbeat of the school was gone. You'd see him outside his classroom, there were always hoards of kids around him. That's because he respected kids, no matter what they were into.

That's always one of the challenges, getting people in here. But we try and make sure we pay competitively. The main thing is we'll have to make sure we start (recruiting) ahead of time so we can have people trained.

I hope it does happen, ... I think the explorer program is great by getting the kids involved with the police department. And public safety officers, they will be taking reports, and that's going to free up an officer to be patrolling.

I prefer the Chinese method of eating. You can do anything at the table except arm wrestle.

I attended the Columbus College Of Art & Design for a little while, until I realized they didn't take cartooning very seriously.

Walt Kelly was much more interested in allegory and politics, and I'm much more interested in metaphors and myth.

I'm so hungry, comrade! It has been days since we ate those two raccoons!' 'I know comrade. I'm even beginning to wish we had some of your homemade quiche!' 'Oh comrade! Do you mean it?' 'Hey--Hey! None of that! If you ever tell anyone I said that, I'll deny it!

Phoney: Here's your problem Fone Bone! We're off the map! Get a bigger map!

I'm 40 years old, and I still love watching Bugs Bunny slap the bull on the nose. I still watch those cartoons, and yet I also enjoy reading books about science, or the current fiction.

Most seafoods should be simply threatened with heat and then celebrated with joy.

How can people say they don't eat eggplant when God loves the color and the French love the name? I don't under'stand.

The squid is so cooperative. Its body forms a tube that can be stuffed with marvelous fillings. You don't have to be Greek to enjoy this one.

I love this book! Cathy Malkasian's Percy Gloom swirls with echoes of cartoon landscapes from the past and present. You can almost hear Percy Gloom's meek, docile little voice. Her writing is so full of wit and charm that we, like the title character, walk dutifully to the edge and fall in. And like Percy, we are rewarded equally with night terrors and secret treasures.

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I don't go for the nouvelle approach - serving a rabbit rump with coffee extract sauce and a slice of kiwi fruit.

I prefer the Chinese method of eating.... You can do anything at the table except arm wrestle.

Please understand the reason why Chinese vegetables taste so good. It is simple. The Chinese do not cook them, they just threaten them!

I think the audience is truly all ages: I don't put anything in there that kids can't see, or shouldn't see, but I have to keep it interesting for me as an adult

That's right, kid. Never play an ace if a two will do.

The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture.

CONTROL MYSELF?!! I'm a MONSTER! Monsters don't control themselves! That's the whole IDEA!

I think people have a little wall they throw up real quick if they see swords and sorcery.

Prepared and fast foods have given us the time and freedom to see cooking as an art form - a form of creative expression.

Prisoners learn how to make do with less, and many of them want to take this ingenuity that they've learned to the outside ... but there's no training, nothing to prepare them for that.

[We need] to nurture the entrepreneurial spirit and the tremendous untapped potential in our prisons.

As I got into the animation, as I learned more about the business, I learned that you need a lot of people to do anything animated - even a short, let alone a feature film. And you need a lot of money.

Stupid, Stupid Rat Creatures!

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