John Williams Quotations

When you think about Boston, Harvard and M.I.T. are the brains of the city, and its soul might be Faneuil Hall or the State House or the Old Church. But I think the pulsing, pounding heart of Boston is Fenway Park.

There is no logical reason why Newcastle haven't won a major domestic trophy for more than 50 years. Success breeds success. I think it's much more difficult to break a cycle of success than it is to break a cycle of failure and Newcastle are a good example of that.

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

Working in Hollywood for the orchestra world is a very time consuming and laborious job.

The fact of the matter is (Brazil's) currency had to fall. The whole (Brazilian) economy and interest rates were being held hostage to the currency. You had to keep interest rates high, and therefore hammer the economy in an attempt to hold the currency up.

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

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

We've never had any notice from the cemetery association when they are doing anything.

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

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.

People will learn things like emergency first aid, how to cook with no power and how to find shelter in an emergency.

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.

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.

I'm a little concerned. I'm going to keep any eye on it.

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.

I don't think it's likely it's going to get here, because it's got a rough row to hoe. That water is not conducive to hurricane genesis out there right now. That's cold water.

For me, there is a strong family connection to Boston and anything connected to Boston, which includes Fenway.

If the anchor is facing the outside, people will play to that.

There are occasionally eureka moments - off the top of my head, maybe Darth Vader's theme, you know, the imperial march.

I saw the devastation and I wanted to help. People need to know that ... we are here for them. They need words of encouragement and to know that everything is going to be OK.

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.

Our program has consistency. It is an absolute accepted part of the school. I don't have to push it or promote it.

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

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

I think of myself as a film composer.

That was a good record and he has something to be proud about.

I was never that into the movies. Never. Even as a youngster. I became interested in movie music only because of the studio orchestras in Hollywood.

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.

We can't do much with $250,000 in the maintenance fund.

We dress up a room as best we can. The clients are advised to tidy up, but we know what to look out for. Furniture moved back creates a feeling of space, newspapers are removed, children's toys tidied away and washing up put away.

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

We played some great rugby particularly in the second half. We now have a top four place as our target.

We're up a little bit, but I would not call it a real large increase.

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

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.

We are looking at home and abroad for players, but that's not a name I've heard mentioned.

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.

We were shocked and dismayed that one of our teachers would be involved in something like this. Teachers are held to the highest standards, and again, we are shocked.

There has been no contact with Manchester United whatsoever in regard to Steven Reid and, as far as we are concerned, it's complete newspaper speculation.

We kept fighting. We gave a good effort, but left a lot out there. This one's over, though. We have to get ready for Groves next week.

Why not get rid of some administrators? You're going after some of the lowest-paid people.

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

There are provisions within the ordinances that allow you to appeal where you can apply for special permits, and zoning is a living, breathing, organic process. Zoning isn't written to last a century. So as communities change, zoning can change as well.

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.

We're hunkered down right now. The port is secure.

There is simply an enormous amount of applied research that needs to be done to move RFID forward and realize the dream of creating the Internet of Things.

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.

Twenty-seven percent of students drop out of college because they don't know why they are there. They were told they have to go but they didn't find an area that interests them.

What was so scary about it was it was still school time, the kids were walking around. There as a group of kids right there when I took off to help her. They shouldn't chase people around the neighborhoods like this especially with the school at the corner. They should have let up a long time ago.

What could we have done? What could we have done? I should've stayed. I loved it here with you guys.

We try not to match them up if they're in the same league. We try to never have a first-round game between teams in the same league. We'd have a great crowd, we'd make a lot more money, but we'd probably switch the lower seeded team.

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.

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.

We think it (interest in absentee voting) is going to go up and might be slightly higher than we anticipated, maybe 10 percent or 15 percent higher.

We're going north, wherever the storm isn't going.

You get feel-good stories from time to time, but the bottom line is that good teams get in and bad teams don't.

This software captures all the details of what their needs are. It's really the starting point of the whole development process for a new application.

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.

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.

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.

There's nothing to do here on a Friday night but go to a football game. This town really revolves around football.

I've never known anyone that is a better manager of people or is a harder worker than Kessel. His willingness to jump in and help take on public-private partnerships is legendary.

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.

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.

Our aim is simple: to turn the pricing mechanism of this industry upside down. Our competitors will not like it. But we know we can offer excellent cover at a fraction of the price of other providers.

The music is kind of timeless. When we were first looking at it I was afraid it might be a bit dated, but it's not.

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.

As a youngster, I never dreamed there could be a career actually earning a living writing music.

As a young pianist in Hollywood, I began orchestrating for others, and I just felt really comfortable doing that.

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 Mark settles into the role he will further concentrate on the relationship between the senior playing squad and the Academy.

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.

This is a tax that puts Maine businesses at a serious competitive disadvantage. We've simply got to get rid of this tax.

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.

They didn't have their sirens on or anything, but they were still chasing.

There's been a lot of energy in this race and the candidates have run fairly aggressive campaigns.

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.

It's a close call. I'm not sure we're seeing much of a slowdown yet, but there have been (signs). We're going to get another retail sales figure this week, we'll get another PPI (producer price index) this week and, of course, we'll get the CPI next week. And I think those numbers are going to tell the tale.

It is vital given our limited resources that our young players are given every chance and encouragement to reach and sustain first-team level.

It's been a process. George and I started with two people and 1,000 square feet. We just kept knocking out walls.

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

You think a million tons, that's a lot of cargo.

It's significant that they have nothing whatsoever to say about the case itself. I take that as a tacit admission of the allegations.

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.

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.

It was a combination of a lot of things: concerns about emerging markets, a drop in consumer confidence, and the expectation that the Fed is still tilting toward an easing.

They are in touch with some part of the child in them, which is where artistic endeavors really kind of live. You can get back to that child state of imagining what can't be. I think we go a long way toward making the first step in good creative and good artistic work.

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.

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

I'm very confident we comply with the federal mandates.

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.

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

I'm happy to be busy. I'm happy to have a wonderful family.

I, over the years, have always felt more comfortable if I could go into a projection room and look at a film and not really know what to expect. If you read the script first, you form all kinds of preconceptions about how things look, what the location's like, what the actors are like.

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.

If you're going to be in my family, you're going to play football.

If you've got to have a hurricane, this is the kind of hurricane you want to have.

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.

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.

I point to the outcome, the fact that we have a student who is alive and is doing better.