Hire the best. Pay them fairly. Communicate frequently. Provide challenges and rewards. Believe in t...
MARY ANN ALLISON I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the ...
MARY ANN SHAFFER Think of it! We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. Thi...
MARY ANN SHAFFER Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practiced in our social interco...
MARY ANN KELTY I have seen doctors, in good faith, leave patients on steroids for years, thinking they are doing ri...
MARY ANN MOBLEY I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more...
MARY ANN SHAFFER In 1962 I was diagnosed with this incurable disease.
MARY ANN MOBLEY Do you know what sentence of his (Wordsworth) I admire the most? It is "The bright day is done, and ...
MARY ANN SHAFFER I did not throw 'The Shepherd Boy Sings in the Valley of Humiliation' at the audience. I threw it at...
MARY ANN SHAFFER Treat a dog right and he'll treat you right. ... Cats is different, but I never held it against them...
MARY ANN SHAFFER Do you arrange your books alphabetically? (I hope not.)
MARY ANN SHAFFER Moses: God or crowd control?!?
MARY ANN SHAFFER Will Thisbee gave me The Beginner's Cook-Book for Girl Guides. It was just the thing; the writer ass...
MARY ANN SHAFFER Your questions regarding that gentleman are very delicate, very subtle, very much like being smacked...
MARY ANN SHAFFER Naturally curly hair is a curse, and don't ever let anyone tell you different.
MARY ANN SHAFFER My worries travel around in my head on their well worn path
MARY ANN SHAFFER It was amazing to me then, and still is, that so many people who wander into bookshops don't really ...
MARY ANN SHAFFER Then I imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again.
MARY ANN SHAFFER I am to cover the philosophical side of the debate and so far my only thought is that reading keeps ...
MARY ANN SHAFFER Because there is nothing I would rather do than rummage through bookshops, I went at once to Hasting...
MARY ANN SHAFFER Isola doesn't approve of small talk and believes in breaking the ice by stomping on it.
MARY ANN SHAFFER I sometimes think I prefer suitors in books rather than right in front of me. How awful, backward, c...
MARY ANN SHAFFER Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on.
MARY ANN SHAFFER All my life I thought that the story was over when the hero and heroine were safely engaged -- after...
MARY ANN SHAFFER I love seeing the bookshops and meeting the booksellers-- booksellers really are a special breed. No...
MARY ANN SHAFFER Have you ever noticed that when your mind is awakened or drawn to someone new, that person's name su...
MARY ANN SHAFFER Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.
MARY ANN SHAFFER Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect read...
MARY ANN SHAFFER Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.
MARY ANN SHAFFER The old adage--humor is the best way to make the unbearable bearable--may be true.
MARY ANN SHAFFER That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing wi...
MARY ANN SHAFFER The one thing I have wanted to stay away from is the steroids. When I had an attack two years ago in...
MARY ANN MOBLEY Now that I think about it, maybe he is a werewolf. I can picture him lunging over the moors in hot p...
MARY ANN SHAFFER If I were there, Carrie, I would need to feel how soft the skin on the inside of your thighs is, fir...
MARY ANN RIVERS If you don't test the waters-how do you know where it is safe to swim?
MARY ANN TAYLOR I never met a man half so true as a dog. Treat a dog right, and he'll treat you right. He'll keep yo...
MARY ANN SHAFFER There is no condition so severe that you cannot reverse it
by choosing different thoughts. Howe...
MARY ANN HICKMAN I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time.
MARY ANN SHAFFER They came here on Sunday, 30th June, 1940, after bombing us two days before. They said they hadn't m...
MARY ANN SHAFFER She is one of those ladies who is more beautiful at sixty than she could possibly have been at twent...
MARY ANN SHAFFER The crematorium could not burn the bodies fast enough - so after we dug long trenches, we pulled and...
MARY ANN SHAFFER Only a portion of my intestinal tract was working.
MARY ANN MOBLEY Oh bless Speranza, for giving her son such a preposterous name as Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wil...
MARY ANN SHAFFER My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.
MARY ANN TODD LINCOLN We have met with so overwhelming an affliction in the death of our beloved Willie, a being too preci...
MARY ANN TODD LINCOLN Tell me, how can I live without my Husband any longer? This is my first awakening thought each morni...
MARY ANN TODD LINCOLN Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when j...
MARY ANN TODD LINCOLN I explain to you, exactly and truly, how we are circumstanced. A greater portion of our means is una...
MARY ANN TODD LINCOLN We're strong for each other ! It's what women do!" said Zelda to Pearl
"He Counts Their Tears" ...
MARY ANN D'ALTO Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off - I'm...
IAN ALLISON Improv training allows you to get out of your head a little bit and take more risks, which is someth...
ALLISON TOLMAN Box office is one of the strongest tools we have toward preserving our ability to make our movies. W...
ALLISON ANDERS Whenever I've done a sketch in which I'm asked to play a mom, my brain goes to Minnesota. It...
ALLISON TOLMAN When I graduated from college in early 2010, I decided that I needed to create a calling card, some ...
ALLISON WILLIAMS I went to New York for the first time when I was in college for a school trip and, uh, it did not ap...
ALLISON TOLMAN I went to New York for the first time when I was in college for a school trip and, uh, it did not ap...
ALLISON TOLMAN All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.
MOSE ALLISON Sometimes fake laughing is hard once you've done a scene 18 times. I don't want to brag, but...
ALLISON WILLIAMS Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of...
DOROTHY ALLISON Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.
DOROTHY ALLISON World trade means competition from anywhere; advancing technology encourages cross-industry competit...
ERIC ALLISON It's easier to quote poets than to read them.
ALLISON BARROWS Allison Janney's character in 'The West Wing' was so rocking! I am a huge fan of Mary Lo...
ALLISON MACK But there was not a job that could say that Luther Allison didn't do his job.
LUTHER ALLISON I want people to recognize Luther Allison when I play.
LUTHER ALLISON I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's getting out there ...
LUTHER ALLISON When I was little, I used to watch Disney movies all the time, and it drove me crazy that Cinderella...
ALLISON WILLIAMS I started getting Twitter followers after I started doing press for 'Fargo.' One of my best ...
ALLISON TOLMAN There are lots of things about me that aren't like the rest of my friends. But I try to learn as...
ALLISON WILLIAMS Luckily, the public school system that I was in had a really great drama program, so I plunged into ...
ALLISON SCAGLIOTTI I don't believe you ever get closure on anything. Things leave a permanent mark on you.
ALLISON ANDERS Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were d...
MOSE ALLISON Catherine Keener is everyone's dream sister slash mom slash aunt.
ALLISON WILLIAMS You have to have personality and show that you are respectful and that you have responsibility and d...
AMBER ALLISON We would especially like to thank our Mom and Dad and our family for supporting us.
AMBER ALLISON The Agency has been behind us all the way and has explained everything whenever we have had doubts o...
AMBER ALLISON We also met casting directors and others in the field and got to find out what they did and they wer...
AMBER ALLISON Then we started going once a month to Pennsylvania and would practice reading commercials and on the...
AMBER ALLISON Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each othe...
DOROTHY ALLISON It has been like that since the first day I got here. As soon as I got here he showed me around camp...
AUNDRAE ALLISON Me and James communicated prior to the play. Their corners were playing a lot of cover three zones, ...
AUNDRAE ALLISON It was huge for us. That's the kind of thing that the team works so hard to just to come to this day...
AUNDRAE ALLISON That sounds great to me. I want that. I want to show what I can do and showcase my talent.
AUNDRAE ALLISON It was a huge play for me because I really owe a lot to the team by accepting me coming straight fro...
AUNDRAE ALLISON I was planning on doing something, but I wanted to act like I've been in the end zone before.
AUNDRAE ALLISON I really don't believe there's a lot of people that have heard of me. In the past few seasons, we ha...
AUNDRAE ALLISON For cardio, I do SoulCycle. I really don't like to run, plus I have terrible knees and get bored...
ALLISON WILLIAMS Women now influence the majority of consumer purchases. It is women's votes that will secure vic...
ALLISON PEARSON Maybe, I want to be a teacher.
ALLISON WILLIAMS Before the race, I had to go to the end infield and they had me stand on the stage. They gave me a b...
ALLISON WILLIAMS They came in my class and told me (I won).
ALLISON WILLIAMS They gave us the topic and I just drew on the topic.
ALLISON WILLIAMS It was nice to pull together and do it. We didn't want our season to end. It was just unbelievable.
ALLISON WILLIAMS Customers look for partner companies that can bridge the gap between their business demands and tech...
ALLISON WATSON Only companies that have demonstrated high levels of customer service, proved their experience and a...
ALLISON WATSON We are providing the tools to train partners to deliver the people-ready message and supporting them...
ALLISON WATSON The training component will support partners by helping them clearly tell the story of people-ready.
ALLISON WATSON We're saying if you want to get people-ready, get it from our partners, here are our partners. So fa...
ALLISON WATSON We started the push by presenting to partners the importance of people being at the center of how Mi...
ALLISON WATSON The people-ready vision is not only for Microsoft to create opportunity, but it's also about creatin...
ALLISON WATSON This research is industry-changing [in terms of] partner profitability. It's grounded in real key pe...
ALLISON WATSON We place tremendous value on our partners, who help us deliver solutions and applications to custome...
ALLISON WATSON Customers are looking for partner companies that can bridge the gap between their business demands a...
ALLISON WATSON Many household chemicals meet at least one of these criteria to varying degrees.
ALLISON TEETERS Overall, I think the teachers really enjoyed knowing there is a resource out there.
ALLISON TEETERS The teachers liked the fact there are so many resources at their fingertips because the Web site has...
ALLISON TEETERS It's a diverse enough program that they could apply it to anything, depending upon what they're stud...
ALLISON TEETERS Steeleville, I think we kind of came in with our heads a little high, expectations a little too high...
ALLISON SPENCE I am extremely happy with the playing (on Saturday). This was a tournament we thought that we could ...
ALLISON SPENCE We had some rest even though we were down with injuries. I had one player out with a swollen thyroid...
ALLISON SPENCE Allie really stepped up, and Allie was very strong (Saturday), she was great on defense. Allie was e...
ALLISON SPENCE We rolled (against Christian Fellowship Academy). When the momentum is in our favor we are an extrem...
ALLISON SPENCE I was pleased with the girls. The first game we held with them for a while.
ALLISON SPENCE (The Lady Crusaders) were intimidating, even though we didn't really look intimidated. They just hav...
ALLISON SPENCE It was definitely the most errors we've committed and they were setting errors. It wasn't our defens...
ALLISON SPENCE Then, they took off on us.
ALLISON SPENCE We went out in our (van) and we were just talking about how we had to stay focused. Even though ther...
ALLISON SCHLINKERT We were just focused. We just had to keep playing our game and not worry about how they were winning...
ALLISON SCHLINKERT You never come in expecting to lose. You're confident in your team and what you can do.
ALLISON SCHLINKERT Our team this year gets along great. We hang out all the time, and we all are having fun.
ALLISON SCHLINKERT It'll be a great team, and it'll be a great match.
ALLISON SCHLINKERT I don't even know how to describe it. I'm just so incredibly excited. We played well. We stayed enth...
ALLISON SCHLINKERT The album has a lot of true stories in there. We did three full tours last year, so there were a lot...
ALLISON ROBERTSON It's very collaborative. We like to get everybody's opinion, just like we did we were in eighth grad...
ALLISON ROBERTSON It makes you feel like, wow, there are people who aren't jaded, who enjoy watching rock music, havin...
ALLISON ROBERTSON We needed a little more variety, some different tempos and textures. It was not a plan to go for som...
ALLISON ROBERTSON Our manager expected us to throw things at him, ... but I said, 'I'll do it! Yeah!' and the rest of ...
ALLISON ROBERTSON It's cool. I complain every summer that I don't get to go to fairs anymore -- I always used to go as...
ALLISON ROBERTSON The female bond, I have to say,
ALLISON ROBERTSON It teaches you to be considerate of people, to work together as a team to succeed and play off each ...
ALLISON NERMOE I could see it from own my experience.
ALLISON NERMOE It just sounded like it would be fun to see people grow and to help them get well. It'd be a new exp...
ALLISON NERMOE I've been really happy with how they've played and they've really stepped up this year. Very proud o...
ALLISON NERMOE I was kind of worried, but coach (Wiles) thought it was a good idea, so I did it and it was fun. I l...
ALLISON NERMOE It provided quite a strong figure for Q3.
ALLISON MONTGOMERY I think that it looks like what the market is doing is starting to look to Thursday's ECI and GDP nu...
ALLISON MONTGOMERY I think at the moment what they are trying to do is limit yen strength, given the fact that Japanese...
ALLISON MONTGOMERY Fundamentals will determine the level of dollar-yen, and the fundamentals still argue for a higher d...
ALLISON MONTGOMERY It's not rocket science. I blush at calling myself an inventor.
ALLISON MILLS I'm just gonna stay away from the caffeine.
ALLISON MILLS I've found that people really want to help you. But at the same time you have to really put yourself...
ALLISON MILLS We still haven't heard back (from the patent office). We had a dilemma. Wait two whole years (for th...
ALLISON MILLS It was not very functional.
ALLISON MILLS I've heard stories of people who have done this and who have a garage full of stuff that just sits. ...
ALLISON MILLS Lindsay is a really good pitcher, and she has been hitting her spots. I think we fed off her energy ...
ALLISON MERZON It was time for a rally, we turned our jackets inside out and from there our bats woke up.
ALLISON MERZON We don?t have to put up a lot of hits to score.
ALLISON MERZON This is the most balanced, the deepest and the best hitting team we ever had. We have kids on our be...
ALLISON MERZON It's an absolute tribute to how hard Kim has worked.
ALLISON MCNEILL No question she's got skills, some coach has to recognize it. One of the things she does is make oth...
ALLISON MCNEILL She has an unbelievable passion for the game, a passion for work. She's really made herself into a g...
ALLISON MCNEILL After the 2000 Olympics, veteran players came back wanting to pursue the goal of qualifying for a wo...
ALLISON MCNEILL Our comeback in the second half was sparked by the contributions of the players coming off of the be...
ALLISON MCNEILL It was a great effort to get an 18-point turn around.
ALLISON MCNEILL It was one of our best defensive efforts of the summer,
ALLISON MCNEILL The first big issue is 'if', because a lot of people are still talking 'if' - and that's a fundament...
ALLISON MCGEER We know from the testing that's been done so far that this is not influenza, we know this is not SAR...
ALLISON MCGEER SARS gave everyone … new respect for respiratory viruses.
ALLISON MCGEER There are literally hundreds of viruses that can cause these types of outbreaks. It is still likely ...
ALLISON MCGEER There are many other viruses it could be. The Ontario Public Health lab is working very hard on iden...
ALLISON MCGEER Even though it doesn't prevent all illnesses, it is effective at preventing serious illness and deat...
ALLISON MCGEER This year looks good so far.
ALLISON MAIRE The girls really want [playoffs] this year. That's the goal they've set and they're going for it.
ALLISON MAIRE We're going to take it day to day and team by team as far as how we're going to play. We have very g...
ALLISON MAIRE She can really rip the ball with authority to all fields.
ALLISON MAIRE She's got incredible range at third base and she's learning how to go back on the ball better. She's...
ALLISON MAIRE She always seems to know where she should be and when to be there. At the plate she's starting to hi...
ALLISON MAIRE She's one of the biggest talents we have. She's brilliant behind the plate and she's a good contact ...
ALLISON MAIRE It's hard to say how we fit in with this league because the competition is totally different. We've ...
ALLISON MAIRE Bluntness is a virtue.
ALLISON LING They will be getting the same advising high school graduates got. They are in the same position, jus...
ALLISON JONES It also brings it back to the classroom that no matter what they do, if they put enough heart in it,...
ALLISON JONES They should have part-time jobs. But that's enough for high school students.
ALLISON JONES We definitely need this type of legislation. These military-style assault weapons, such as machine g...
ALLISON JONES Oh man, it was crazy. There was 10 times as many cones, and they were to your right and to your left...
ALLISON JOHNSON Just like practice. I knew I just had to hit it hard.
ALLISON JOHNSON It's hard to say how many people will feel like celebrating, considering what happened, but we reall...
ALLISON JOHNSON This was a very important match for us, ... This is going to give us a big push for the rest of the ...
ALLISON JOHNSON I think we're planning on doing that in the future instead of school assembly, ... We don't lose aca...
ALLISON JOHNSON She has been improving a lot, ... The coaches have been working on her on talking more. She so big t...
ALLISON JOHNSON Everyone couldn't be happier and more terrified.
ALLISON JANNEY An agent said he didn't know what to do with me, I wouldn't be able to play any parts but lesbians a...
ALLISON JANNEY I don't think any of us thought for a moment it was going to do what it did.
ALLISON JANNEY Sure there is, between Martin and John.
ALLISON JANNEY I walk on the set every day since his ... you know, since his death, and feel a great loss. It feels...
ALLISON JANNEY I have such fond memories of Annabelle ... just her whole personality, ... We loved to make her laug...
ALLISON JANNEY I'm not as smart as CJ. I love playing her because I can fool people into believing I'm incredibly b...
ALLISON JANNEY I also went on a tour of the White House, visited the tourist's spots, including all the monuments, ...
ALLISON JANNEY Any Which Way But Loose.
ALLISON JANNEY One out of forty American men wears women's clothing. We've had more than forty presidents. One of t...
ALLISON JANNEY There's no longer a barrier for counties to purchase electronic voting systems even if they have not...
ALLISON HRESTAK We're very happy with the decision. It reinforces our position all along ? that the federal law supe...
ALLISON HRESTAK I think, at this point, we're going to wait to see what the outcome is at the Supreme Court.
ALLISON HRESTAK If you look at the part about absolute secrecy, that in a nutshell, even though it is very vague, is...
ALLISON HRESTAK That still is the department's position.
ALLISON HRESTAK When we started in 1984 and told banks and others we were planning to build a business making goat c...
ALLISON HOOPER We're here to bring awareness that each person deserves tolerance and acceptance.
ALLISON HOOPER The trick is to control the drying of the cheese in a way that promotes a certain flavor profile.
ALLISON HOOPER We're going to build our brand around this line.
ALLISON HOOPER No one else (in the United States) is making it.
ALLISON HOOPER