Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Jewell

We've asked again but with the price they're asking, it's silly money as they don't want to sell him.

Guy Moszkowski

We've anticipated some of that. There is going to be some uncertainty again surrounding when the equity underwriting calendar's going to look better and all the other businesses.

Joe Hudak

We've always wanted to try to figure out ways to improve our attendance. There's no doubt it's a great advantage if you can have a lot of people in the stands cheering for you and cheering against your opponents.

Graeme Smith

We've always wanted to play positive, winning cricket, and if we can win this series, it means we can put a tick against this summer.

Jamie Dixon

We've always thought he was a very good player and always believed in him. He just happened to play on some very good teams behind some very good players. Last year, he developed and got better. He played in a lot of big games against a lot of good people.

Christian Winthrop

We've always maintained that the whole premise of her candidacy has been silly. Ms. McFarland is not a serious candidate and once again she's proved it.

Jim Hendry

We've always had a lot of respect for him. He pitched so well against us for Houston. He went out there last year with some discomfort and gutted out his starts in Boston. He's a winning-type guy. He's a winning pitcher who, when he's out there, he wins you games.

Katie McMahon

We've always competed against D-I teams in our division. Now we're playing big name East Coast schools and we're getting more recognition. However, the team is not eligible for the playoffs for another two years.

Robbie Loomis

When we win again with Petty Enterprises, that's going to be a great day, and a lot of emotions will be flowing.

Wayne Coyne

We remixed them in 5.1, which doesn't sound like much, but let me tell you it's really a crazy, complicated thing to take these things that you did almost 15 years ago and revisit 'em in this format that only became available a couple years ago. A lot of bands can't do that because they don't have their own recordings. But we've always recorded ourselves, so it's a matter of me just going to the back room and grabbing the tapes and sort of putting them back on the reel. It's a weird treat.

Bob Hartley

We're going to pick up whatever is left of him when it is over. I just hope the Finnish team will supply the elastic bands (used to treat groin injuries) when he comes back.

Daron Malakian

When we first started the band here in LA, Janes Addiction was the band we looked up to. They came out at a time when there was a lot of glam rock and hair bands and they got put into that category, but they stood out because they were doing their own thing. We were kind of caught in the same kind of situation at another time: there were a lot of new-metal bands and wed get put into that category even though we didnt fit. Its funny that now theres bands like Mars Volta doing this prog-rock thing thats kinda getting popular, people put us in that genre now. That may be closer to the truth, but I think Hypnotized is going to go further in terms of getting people to understand what were doing.

Jim Angell

We're going to do some old traditional folk songs. We haven't completely set up a list. We'll play some music from modern Celtic rock bands like the Seven Nations. We'll play a couple of more contemporary Irish tunes that I wouldn't call rock; they're more contemporary ballads. We haven't set it all out yet, but they run the gamut.

Brian Humphrey

We expressed to them our concern of the ability to house people if it rains and whether there were enough safeguards for some of the bands with their electrical equipment outside.

Steve Riley

We feel that we have to write. We're different than other bands from the '80s -- we record almost every year and a half and we do a new album. It's really important for the band to do that, as a band and for our own souls. We're writing fresh stuff all the time.

Charles Ives

In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.

Martin Brown

The point of this is to unite all the scenes and put them up against each other to see what happens. All the independent local bands performing are at the top of their game.

Steve Harwell

We are probably one of the most licensed bands out there for movies and TV shows.

Jim Gaylor

When we weren't scoring early in the game, Drew kept us in it. We made a few a plays there for him. He mixed his pitches well. He's a competitor. He's not an overpowering guy, but he's got good stuff.

Dave Klingel

When we were at the drawing for the tournament seeds last week, we were praying that we wouldn't have to face Meade. We didn't play well against them during the season and we knew they would be a tough team to face early in the tournament.

Michael Ashcroft

When I was in my early twenties, I hoped one day to own a Victoria Cross, the ultimate decoration in Britain and the Commonwealth for bravery in the face of the enemy.

Sarah Shahi

When I was in my early 20s, I looked towards exterior things to make me feel sexy - guys, clothes, shoes, etc. Now it's all about how I feel internally.

Sam Claflin

When I was in high school, I was a bad singer. I mean, all my early acting was musical theater, and my first ever show was 'Jesus Christ Superstar.' Everyone's familiar with it. I played priest number 3 and sang so out of tune that it's not even funny.

Elvis Presley

When I was a child, ladies and gentleman, I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed has come true a hundred times...I learned very early in life that: "Without a song, the day would never end; without a song, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bed -- without a song." So I keep singing my song.

Keith Cooper

We're making strides. These guys could have laid down at Central. They were down by 10 early in the second half. But they battled back.

Rene Perez

We responded to the balcony accident and an auto-pedestrian accident around the same time - at about 3 a.m. Saturday. It was busy early Saturday.

Stephanie Contreras

We're spending a lot more tax dollars and we're wasting lives because we're not treating them early enough to keep them from deteriorating.

H. Hunt

We've basically been in one long recession that started in the fall of 2000,

Cedric Redmond

When we were going into the locker room at halftime, we heard some fans saying that we're going to fall apart in the second half. We wanted to make sure that didn't happen.

Becky Carlson

When we went to the half-court trap it bothered them and we picked up our defensive intensity. We were able to get some steals. We kept running the offense and got great shots, sometimes they just didn't fall for us but we had a good stretch at the end of the quarter.

Jordin Sparks

When I was on Broadway, I got really sick with walking pneumonia. I decided not to take my health for granted anymore and make it a priority. The great thing is, the pounds just started to fall off.

R. Robinson

We're getting to a crisis point. Facilities will start falling apart.

Phil Mishler

We're going to start with the defensive end and let the other parts fall where they may. You can always give 100 percent on defense.

Don Baylor

We're going to rise or fall as a state together.

John Peterson

We're going to need to get some shots to fall if we want to win against Big Timber. The girls showed the intensity we need in the fourth quarter today, but we need that all the time.

Michael Barrett

We're going to need a miracle now to stay in this thing. I believe in those, but it's definitely frustrating realizing how good of a team we have and how we've fallen short.

Kurt Andersen

When I talk to college students about Spy, it's like I'm describing something that happened in the 19th century. We were very lucky. We started Spy at a time when our generation had arrived at full adulthood and wanted to connect to its anti-establishment youth.

Brian Cresta

We're so much interested in seeing the younger generation helping the next generation because that generation has been so helpful in the past.

Tanith Belbin

We're so glad to be a part of this generation of ice dancing. It's a combined score.

Melinda Eash

What we're seeing right now is a new generation of teenagers, that as society changes, they're more comfortable in coming out. A lot of them are getting more support from their families.

Debra Wilson

What's so interesting is that the Aborigine language is all handed down from generation to generation - it's not a written language.

Brian Parker

With the launch of this website, Choice is opening the door to a new generation of hotel owners. The site will continue to evolve as we are focused on providing first-timers with the tools to make the right business decision, with the right partner.

Ellis Henican

We're going to do a show that's loose, human, passionate and funny. A new generation of radio for people with real lives.

John Connor

We experienced another record year of business results despite many challenges. In particular, the Asia region rebounded nicely and our consumer business experienced a significant increase in revenue. Although we remain guarded in the near term about business PC growth rates, we look forward to the tremendous opportunity in front of us with the Windows 2000 generation of server products.

Dr. Cykiert

We're expecting to see more age-related macular degeneration because the baby boomer generation is approaching that age, and everyone is living longer. It potentially could be devastating.

Muriel Siebert

We're going to see what Bush says tonight, and we're going to see what Greenspan says tomorrow -- now that's a real one-two punch.

Greg Holland

What we're seeing right now in global climate temperature is a signature of climate change. The large bulk of the scientific community say what we are seeing now is linked directly to greenhouse gases.

Anthony Curtis

What they're doing now is they're making their locals casinos a more upscale brand. Maybe they're stopping short of a Green Valley Ranch. But they're targeting areas of big growth in high-income neighborhoods like Southern Highlands.

Ted Roof

When we get the green light, we'll evaluate where he is and where we are and make the best decision we can at that point.

Allan Meltzer

What he's shown is that you can have full employment and low inflation at the same time. The Keynesian school didn't believe that, but Greenspan showed that it could be done.

Didi Chadran

We both felt it was OK for me to be in an industry that had a mixed track record with the environment as long as we voted with our dollars for green alternatives.

Libby Smith

What's neat is it's at the highest level of women's golf and you can learn so much hanging out at the putting green or the chipping area talking with the veterans, from drills to mindset to attitude.

Dore Gold

Unless the green light is turned into a red light, unless there's a clear message (from) Mr. Arafat to stop terrorism, there can't be any peace process.

Caterina Scorsone

Working on a green screen set, yeah, it's almost like reading from a novel, taking those black words and creating a world around you.

Barbara Boxer

To my constituents, today's hearing is about shared sacrifices in tough times versus oil company greed, ... Working people struggle with high gas prices and your sacrifices appear to be nothing.

Don Alexander

Tom Welter (the OSAA executive director) told me they were getting a hearings officer ready to go (today) if an appeal is filed.

Harry Reid

We respectfully request that you reconvene hearings as soon as possible to take these witnesses sworn testimony about their roles in the Cheney energy task force and the recent run-up in American fuel prices,

David Briggs

What we're hearing is that today was predominantly short covering, ... I know that there's people that have cash and are stepping in when the market's down.

Dick Cheney

What we're hearing from the other side is the failed thinking of the past, and we're not going back.

Trey Walker

We would say it's a very favorable development for the state because the Supreme Court has decided to hear the matter instead of denying a hearing and remanding it the Court of Appeals, which could draw the case out potentially for years.

Curtis Hanson

What he had from the beginning is a natural charisma, ... a thing that makes you interested in watching him and hearing what comes out of his mouth. As frustrating as it is to all the wannabe actors out there, that's God-given. You either have it or you don't.

Jeremiah Trotter

We're going to miss coming in here and hearing Hugh laughing and cracking jokes. He was a great player for us and a great person for us. So, this really hurts. We understand it's a business and these things happen all the time. But it still hurts.

Howard Schwartz

We're going to have to address the problem and where it's coming from, how it's been native all these years and we've not seen it or how it was introduced so we can find a way to manage it, ... This is the subject of ongoing research project you'll be hearing a lot more about.

Rebecca Asman

We've always had animals around. We have always loved animals, and wanted to help them.

Murray Bartlett

When we were working on 'Looking' in San Francisco, I bought a new bike from Mission Bicycle Company, which I'm completely in love with.

Jennifer Nettles

When we were at the CMT Awards this year, Robert Plant was there. What an icon, I love him... But I can't go up and speak to him, because I don't want to seem like a goob.

Mary Doria Russell

When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into a program that placed us with a lovely Mexican family. We lived with them for six weeks while studying Spanish poetry and Mexican anthropology.

Courtney Barnett

When I was on the road with Billy Bragg, it was cool because I was doing the whole thing solo and travel a lot by myself, which I quite like. I mean, I love being with friends, but it's kind of nice having that alone time.

Natalie Cole

When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic.

Joseph Fiennes

When I was offered the part in ShakespeareIn Love a voice in my head said 'not another tights role!

Autumn Reeser

When I was little, I was a voracious reader, and that really led me to acting as well. I loved being transported into someone else's life, and that's what reading provided me. I also really love to entertain people.

Matthew Broderick

When I was little I used to see Godzilla all the time on TV, ... I just remember him knocking things over, which was fine with me. I loved monster movies and disaster movies, and this was a good combination.

Jonathan Mayers

We've always tried to reflect people's diverse music collections. We don't want to dismiss our core in any way, but . . . as great as Widespread Panic has been to us and has been a really big part of what we've done, we can't have Widespread Panic every single year.

Gene Johnson

We've always tried to have a good mix of stuff on our albums -- something that's fun, something that's very radio friendly, something that's going to touch someone's heart, maybe even something that's pop influenced. More than ever, on the 'Completely' album, we wanted to show more than one musical side of Diamond Rio.

Aleksey Igudesman

We've always dreamt of a TV series and working in film. When we first sat down to seriously write 'A Little Nightmare Music,' to write something for TV was our original inspiration. But all the stuff we were writing down is not going to work on stage. We had to rewrite it so it would work on the stage.

John Deacon

We've always decided ourselves what we wanted to put out as our singles and that sort of things.

Jon King

When we were younger we were all trying to score points. But as musicians all we wanted to do was to make something that sounded great, and we became obsessive about it.

John Tesh

When I was playing piano, it was like, 'I'm going to write a song using all the white keys.' My music director, who knew my jazz background, suggested I try big-band music, so we spent a year experimenting with it in concert, and the audience reaction was really good.

Mike Curb

When I was lieutenant governor, Jerry Brown was governor and you might recall that he spent just about a year of my term out of the state.

Michael Bolton

When I was invited to sing with Pavarotti, I had about two weeks to learn Italian.

Pauley Perrette

When I was in N.Y. bartending, I was in a billion music videos. I was in Madonna, George Michael, Salt-n-Pepa - it goes on and on.

Tori Kelly

Nineties hip-hop was a big influence for me; it still is. I love '90s everything. And it's when I was born, too. I'm a '90s kid for sure.

Conrad Sewell

Nineties music was what I grew up with, and I want to make music that's soulful but that you can also dance and drive to.

Robbie Fowler

When I emerged Liverpool had a tradition of their players working hard and playing hard, back before the Nineties and through all the glory era.

Joe Perry

I don't spend much time listening to the records when they're done. Usually I let go of it. Especially in the Eighties and Nineties - they were like product, almost.

Jane Wiedlin

I made the big turnaround in the early Nineties when I started hearing all the tenth generation punk bands like Green Day and Offspring and all those people. It just made me fall in love with punk again and remember my roots, and since that time I've always wanted to do more of that kind of music again.

Bruce Willis

I like a little movie I did in the early nineties called 'Mortal Thoughts.' The part was hardly written, but I learned a lot making it. No one remembers it.

Ryan Ford

The thing about eyewear is that it is so potent, ... There are very few accessories that, if you were not wearing anything, if you put on they would date you to a whole era. You could look the Thirties, the Fifties, and the Nineties just by your eyewear. It's like a pair of shoes because it is sculptural. It exists without a face. It tells a lot about where you are architecturally or aesthetically in a particular period in time.

Neil Peart

It astonished me in the early Nineties to suddenly have musicians admit that they had been inspired and influenced by us. That meant a lot at that time. But of course, being human, the... disrespect isn't even strong enough a word, is it? The opprobrium was painful. Being popular and hated is not satisfying.

Paul Marciano

When models started getting skinnier in the nineties and were becoming sick-looking, I didn't get it! I think that's sending a totally wrong message.

Janine Benyus

We're basically this very young species, only 200,000 years old. We're one of the newcomers, and we're going through the same process that other species go through, which is, how do I keep myself alive while taking care of the place that's going to keep my offspring alive?

Bruce Barber

We want them to go back to doing what they used to do, which is migrate. The reason they migrate is for food. When they don't migrate, their offspring don't learn to migrate.

Charles Macklin

Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.

Lori Allen

We believe that the star clusters lighting up the tips of the pillars are essentially the offspring of the region's single, massive star.

Bayard Taylor

Peace the offspring is of Power.

Jane Goodall

On the day-long follows that I used to do with mothers and their offspring - these chimp families that I knew so well - there was hardly a day when I didn't learn something new about them.

Kage Baker

Back when the concept of organ transplants qualified as science fiction, novelist Maurice Renard wrote a thriller called 'Les Mains d'Orlac.' Call it a bastard offspring of 'Frankenstein;' its plot revolved around the old theme of Science Giving Us Stuff We Shouldn't Have - in this particular case, restoring severed body parts.

Robert Casey

The advocates of abortion on demand falsely assume two things: that women must suffer if the lives of unborn children are legally protected; and that women can only attain equality by having the legal option of destroying their innocent offspring in the womb.

Cesare Beccaria

If we open our history books, we shall see that the laws, for all that they are or should be contracts amongst free men, have rarely been anything but the tools of the passions of a few men or the offspring of a fleeting and haphazard necessity.

Norman Blake

When I was a kid I listened to a lot of punk music, but then along came Orange Juice, ... They really broadened my musical perspective. They were self-deprecating and had a great sense of humor. And they sounded like Velvet Underground meeting Al Green. They called themselves 'the sound of young Scotland,' a play on Motown's 'Sound of Young America.'

Nigel Barker

My go-to necktie is jet black, skinny, and simple. It goes with everything. I really like that mod-ish punk look.

Brian Johnson

Punk and all that was just an image that ripped people off. Johnny Rotten's a wanker, and that's all there is to it.

Langhorne Slim

I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's considered punk or considered rap. I don't mind being called a folk singer. But it seems a bit limiting. I want to be able to write whatever kind of song I want.

Langhorne Slim

When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me, like Lead Belly, Jimmie Rodgers, Otis Redding or Nirvana.

Nina Blackwood

Absolute 80's is three hours of mainstream 80's music. I also do New Wave Nation that is more cutting edge. It is more punk stuff from the 70's to the 90's.

Mike Dirnt

When I was a kid, my influences were just my early friends' punk rock bands and listening to the radio,

David Denby

Art talk is punk. Let the movie do your speaking for you.

Agnes Varda

I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It's my white hair, and I put color there. My grandson says I'm punk.

Tom Wilson

When we were big, we were big. But there wasn't anything else. Now there are a thousand other things for people to get into. And this is by far, by far, the biggest I can remember us being.

Jorge Mujica

When I wasn't documented, I remember the panic -- wondering if I could get a job. I felt obliged to help now.

Matthew Broderick

When I was little I used to see Godzilla all the time on TV, ... I just remember him knocking things over, which was fine with me. I loved monster movies and disaster movies, and this was a good combination.

Lauren Herring

When I was little, I used to feel a lot of pressure. Before matches, I'd want to throw up. But now, I've adapted. I do get homesick sometimes, but I have to remember why I am there and what I have to do to go pro.

Chelsea Peretti

When I was in New York, I got to see Joan Rivers do an hour of material, and it blew my mind. I don't remember how old she was at the time, but she just had this edgy hour that had so much funny stuff in it, and she was so fearless. If you only watch her on the red carpet, you don't get a sense of what a legendary standup comedian she is.

Scottie Reynolds

When it comes down to playoffs, it don't matter how ugly it is, it don't matter what you do, you are going to be remembered by wins and losses. We know if we slip up one time, it's over.

Gary McClure

You don't like anybody to beat you too much. I don't have a long memory. And as an athlete, you can't have too long of a memory. You've got to move on. I can sure remember last year though, because we played two of our worst games against them. ... But it's good to bounce back and get a win tonight. It's good to beat a good club." ()

Doug Pritchard

We remember with tears Tom Fox. We had longed for the day when all four men would be released together. Our gladness today is bittersweet by the fact that Tom is not alive to join his colleagues in the celebration.

Jeff Mitchell

We remember what they did to us last season. It's the season opener against a division opponent that knocked us out of the playoffs, and with what has happened to New Orleans recently, you know they are going to come in here ready to play. We shouldn't have any problem getting up for them.

Stephen Ward

We've always wanted to compete directly with Dell. Since we announced this merger, we have taken customers away from Dell in every geographic region. We have got the clearest channel practices of anyone in the industry. We have no change in our strategy, in our partners and our channel.

Bill Brooks

We've always tried to enforce the law that no one from a foreign country can cross except at an official crossing. We've had to be a lot more strict since 9/11.

Drew Goddard

We've always idealized youth and then destroyed youth. That has happened since the beginning of time, and I'm fascinated by why we do that.

Jerry Angelo

We've always had good working relationship when I was in Tampa and since we've been here I find him to be a very, very good agent and (have) no problems with him at all.

Dan Beck

We've always had an aggressive e-commerce strategy. Since our first Web site in 1994, we realized a Web site was more than just a corporate brochure. It had to be an advanced business tool providing everything companies need to design, print and manage their documents online.

Darnell Jenkins

When I was in elementary school at Tillman, Black History Month was important because I went to a majority black school. Since I moved into middle school (Haile) and high school, Black History Month has not been recognized as much.

John Sulston

When it came to choice of subjects, science was obvious - since I was uninterested in anything else - but a decision that caused consternation in some eyes was my demand to take biology for A-level.

Paul Hill

We're going to take the time and snap some pictures from some angles we've haven't seen since the last orbiter was there.

Kevin Wright

We're going to focus in on this game and let the other one take care of itself. I mean, we've been pretty much since that last game looking forward to playing them two times in a week.

John Lewis

When I was 15 years old and in the tenth grade, I heard of Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, when I was 18, I met Dr. King and we became friends. Two years after that I became very involved in the civil rights movement. I was in college at that time. As I got more and more involved, I saw politics as a means of bringing about change.

Sonu Nigam

I was a topper till class tenth and wanted to initially be a scientist.

Chris Quinn

I don't consider them to be freshmen anymore. They've played in a lot of big games for us so far. We're in our tenth game of the season, and those guys are almost veterans already.

Mark Lumpkin

Burglars aren't stupid. They make a living doing bad things to people's houses and belongings, and they sell them for about one tenth of what they're worth. So they have to do three or four a day.

Asa Hutchinson

We measure very carefully what the positives are and I think it is less than one tenth of one percent, so we are very pleased with the accuracy of our biometric checks and we continue to monitor that.

Charles Connor

Humans do a rough categorization of objects very quickly. For instance, in just a tenth of a second, we can recognize whether something we see is an animal or not. Our results show that this immediate, rough impression probably depends on recognizing just one or more individual parts of what we see. Fine discriminations such as recognizing individual faces take longer to happen, and our study suggests that this delay depends upon emerging signals for combinations of shape fragments. In a sense, the brain has to construct an internal representation of an object from disparate pieces.

Brian Katz

I thought for a tenth of a second that we were going to play the next day for the state title. The Great Equalizer said, 'You appear to be a little cocky, young man. The minute you think you've got something ...

Peter DeLorenzo

I think any manufacturer will split hairs for a tenth of a mile (per gallon) if they can. And now it becomes a marketing issue.

Melissa Arms

I think it was a real advantage having tough judges tonight because we're heading into the states. The girls had to earn every tenth they got... there were no gifts out there tonight.

Ken Warwick

We've asked this question ourselves time and time again.

David Corbin

We've asked the city to continue its consideration of the project until April. We want time to look at our options with regard to Holiday House specifically and our overall employee housing needs in general. At this point, we want to go back and revisit our full employee housing goals.

Joan Berry

We've asked for a meeting with the sheriff numerous times, and he never has any time or even the courtesy to return my phone calls. This is very upsetting to me.

Nitin Nohria

We've always treated the historical context of a particular time as a kind of sidebar to any discussion about business leadership. But we've found that context is far more salient than we ever imagined.

Brian Hill

We've always said there's something better down the road waiting for you. It wasn't the right time or the right place.

Drew Goddard

We've always idealized youth and then destroyed youth. That has happened since the beginning of time, and I'm fascinated by why we do that.

Scott Rolen

We've always had a tough time playing them.

Andy Watson

We've always had a plan. As the years go along, you revise it every year, every six months or as needed. Every time there's a structure change, you have to update the plan, and with environmental changes.

Brian Cashman

We've always considered Roger a Yankee. If he decides to play, he'll give us the courtesy of an audience. We'll have to take a look at it when the time comes.

Stefan Worrall

What we're seeing now is a very sharp turnaround in exports and this was reflected in the GDP numbers.

Tom Ridge

What he needs to understand is that the turnaround in Pennsylvania has everything to do with the people in Pennsylvania, and not the people on Pennsylvania Avenue,

Herb Sendek

We're going to have a short turnaround and less time to prepare. We have to turn that into a positive. Hopefully, it will be good preparation for March when we are in the tournament.

Pat Riley

We're going to bring them in and have them lean on him and lean on him and we're not going to let him just back them in. And then he's going to have to take 100 jump hooks and 100 turnaround jumpers.

Jack Greenberg

We extended our considerable lead internationally and achieved a remarkable turnaround in our U.S. business,

Rick Wagoner

We're pleased to see the significant progress in our first quarter results and in the implementation of all four elements of our North American turnaround plan.

Sam Duncan

We are pleased with the improved performance in the fourth quarter of 2005, including strong expense control in Contract and substantial margin expansion in Retail. With the fourth quarter Contract and Retail results, we continue to believe that OfficeMax is positioned to achieve the 2006 and intermediate- term goals that we outlined in our turnaround plan last month.

Marshall Steeves

We are looking to an active turnaround season because of all of the deferrals from the fall. Refineries that planned to upgrade facilities put them off because of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

David Edmondson

We believe that the company's strategy is sound. But we must move at a much faster pace with a greater sense of urgency. The poor fourth quarter performance caused us to take a much deeper look at the state of our business and resulted in the launch of a turnaround plan.