When you get rid of the volatility factor the stock option expense creates, the earnings growth was ...
JOHN AIKEN They've been unwilling to sell to date, and I don't see what would have changed their mind at this p...
JOHN AIKEN It has a certain appeal in terms of solving a couple of problems on both sides.
JOHN AIKEN There were a lot of players expecting a special dividend -- myself included -- and that is a bit of ...
JOHN AIKEN Up front, the quarter was fantastic.
JOHN AIKEN I think that's the area that's most disappointing.
JOHN AIKEN People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations ar...
GEORGE AIKEN There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a ...
HOWARD AIKEN May I now pass on to this Congress advice which I received recently from a fellow Vermonter - Either...
HOWARD AIKEN If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we wou...
HOWARD AIKEN Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
HOWARD AIKEN This is a program that's working.
ALAN AIKEN I think our motivation is that we're operating on good faith. Our incentive is that we want to be a ...
ALAN AIKEN At this point, we're actually running pretty smoothly.
ALAN AIKEN People are invested in their treatment. They want to see it succeed.
ALAN AIKEN Outreach and recruitment is something we're beginning to work on.
ALAN AIKEN People are really benefiting from this intervention.
ALAN AIKEN All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so...
CONRAD AIKEN Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know
CONRAD AIKEN I love you, what star do you live on?
CONRAD AIKEN And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leaves Interlace with low voices and footsteps and sun...
CONRAD AIKEN Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that...
CONRAD AIKEN And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leavesInterlace with low voices and footsteps and sunl...
CONRAD AIKEN I don’t like this,” his brother told him as they walked down the stairs.

“You don�...
G.A. AIKEN All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so...
CONRAD AIKEN Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their thro...
HOWARD AIKEN At the present time there exist problems beyond our ability to solve, not because of theoretical dif...
HOWARD AIKEN The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human ...
HOWARD AIKEN All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now ...
CONRAD AIKEN Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them ...
HOWARD AIKEN Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them d...
HOWARD AIKEN If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we wou...
GEORGE AIKEN If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opp...
CLAY AIKEN In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global ...
CLAY AIKEN I already explained this. I don’t like you. True, I don’t like most people, but I especially dis...
G.A. AIKEN All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's no...
CONRAD AIKEN I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to ...
CLAY AIKEN As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the r...
GEORGE AIKEN If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we wou...
GEORGE AIKEN It's just streamlining the operation.
DOUGLAS AIKEN Well, we're telling people to expect at least a half-hour delay if you're going to try to use the Ho...
DOUGLAS AIKEN This proposal here will send us back to the drawing board.
DOUGLAS AIKEN I look at it when you do that as a form of eminent domain.
DOUGLAS AIKEN The greatest glory never comes from winning, but from rising each time you fall. A person is defined...
CLAY AIKEN I don't understand why people like me! It doesn't make any sense!
CLAY AIKEN I embrace the Nerd.
CLAY AIKEN I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myse...
CLAY AIKEN It's not the money. It's not the fame. It's the influence.
CLAY AIKEN I believe God has a plan. God has a direction for me. He may put me on a few detours, but the path w...
CLAY AIKEN It's important that I make a difference in some way. It's not necessarily how I make a difference, b...
CLAY AIKEN The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall.
CLAY AIKEN It's very rare that you get to go up and meet fans and especially at their house and surprise them. ...
CLAY AIKEN I could have a degree in music and come on the show, and Simon could still say 'You stink'.
CLAY AIKEN We don't always connect ourselves with our history.
LINDA AIKEN I've never been convinced that the number of available hands is all that is important, however.
LINDA AIKEN All hospitals could achieve it, with a blueprint of how to go about it and the will to do it.
LINDA AIKEN We have people standing in line that want to be nurses. The problem is we don't have enough capacity...
LINDA AIKEN Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.
CONRAD AIKEN Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them do...
HOWARD AIKEN I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy w...
CLAY AIKEN I'm really not that special. Really, I'm not. I was on a big TV show, but it was just a TV show.
CLAY AIKEN I'm religious. I think this is something God had planned for me.
CLAY AIKEN Pain happens to everyone. To grow up, to fulfill your potential, to develop into what God wants you ...
CLAY AIKEN I had a lady who sent me a letter, ... She went on to describe how she and her husband [had sex] to ...
CLAY AIKEN Whether this ride lasts for one year or 10 years, I want to have a home base.
CLAY AIKEN I spent years and years in middle school getting picked on, so I'm kind of used it,
CLAY AIKEN Heck, it's just as insulting as when someone like you interviews me and asks a question like that, n...
CLAY AIKEN I have a feeling they are probably mostly ladies,
CLAY AIKEN Reach Out (I'll Be There).
CLAY AIKEN It's a whole team of people working 24 hours around the clock to make me look like this.
CLAY AIKEN You don't have to be around people you are related to be with family.
CLAY AIKEN Actually, I don’t hate cats, I’m just kind of afraid of them.
CLAY AIKEN Actually, I don't hate cats, I'm just kind of afraid of them.
CLAY AIKEN I want to make sure that no matter how long I go through this, I don't fall into the trap of cha...
CLAY AIKEN I got rid of my glasses and they changed my hair. That's really all they did. They went shopping...
CLAY AIKEN Then he stalked off into the woods, leaving Talaith alone.
Good. Now I can panic in peace.
G.A. AIKEN It's time to make love, douse the glim; The fireflies twinkle and dim; The stars lean together Like ...
CONRAD AIKEN The men watched as Annwyl the Bloody took a stand against something from their darkest nightmares. T...
G.A. AIKEN Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man,and hold on to your umbrella! Have you got your garters...
CONRAD AIKEN Here too was the terrifying fixed curve of the infinite, the creeping curve of logic which at least ...
CONRAD AIKEN I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or m...
CLAY AIKEN All the stuff, curtains, fabrics and whatever else is coming, too.
CLAY AIKEN My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.
CLAY AIKEN True conservation provides for wise use by the general public. The American people do not want our r...
GEORGE AIKEN The Amazon programs are the way copyright is supposed to work.
PAUL AIKEN This sounds like the way to go. If there is a new way to extract value from a book, then the author ...
PAUL AIKEN Books that are out of print frequently come back in print. A university press or a smaller house may...
PAUL AIKEN It certainly is a threat.
PAUL AIKEN A lot of authors get by on the bits of money they get from various users of their work, and the Inte...
PAUL AIKEN I don't think it's particularly close under copyright law. You're not allowed to copy works for comm...
PAUL AIKEN It's great news. She reaches writers in a way that few others have been able to. Her recommendations...
PAUL AIKEN It's potentially a good thing, if it succeeds in getting the public's attention on books and reading...
PAUL AIKEN It would have set an awful precedent..
PAUL AIKEN We've never heard of anything like this. It really undermines the author's credibility and authority...
PAUL AIKEN What are you doing?” she asked.

“Getting naked.”

“What the hells for?�...
G.A. AIKEN . “And I stole some oxen jerky out of Bercelak’s bag. He makes the best oxen jerky.”

G.A. AIKEN I’m your uncle?”

Oh. So that’s what was bothering him. Izzy could have done a lot o...
G.A. AIKEN To be honest, Briec doesn’t
consider fights with humans as battles. I think he sees that more...
G.A. AIKEN There's stars out there who would die to have this much exposure.
CLAY AIKEN Morfyd’s care.
As she walked out of the cave she passed Annwyl walking in. The girl had her s...
G.A. AIKEN I like to talk. I'm a terrible dancer. I love my hometown. I have freckles and oversized ears. I'm a...
CLAY AIKEN The Company is working aggressively to continue this trend toward profitability.
THOMAS AIKEN My drive went left of the fairway and I had a bad lie. I tried to play for the front left of the gre...
THOMAS AIKEN I'm telling you, my heart was beating in my throat over the last four holes.
THOMAS AIKEN It's pretty tough out there, and if you miss the fairways or the greens, you are dead. But I am enjo...
THOMAS AIKEN Im telling you, my heart was beating in my throat over the last four holes. This is a huge opportuni...
THOMAS AIKEN I had a triple and a double and still managed to shoot 70. Not bad. It's not easy to get your mind o...
THOMAS AIKEN And then what are your plans?”
Annwyl frowned. “My plans?”
“Yes. Your plans. You...
G.A. AIKEN He sneered at his father. “He’ll live. I’m going after her.”
“What?” His sister sto...
G.A. AIKEN Are you in great physical pain, or is that your thinking expression?
G.A. AIKEN What’s going on?”
“Nothing.” She coughed, and released Talaith’s hand. “Except
G.A. AIKEN As he was
forced to tell his father more than once, “I said I’d fight for my mother’s
G.A. AIKEN Dagmar tried to stand, and Gwenvael caught her hand, pulling her back down. "You can't leave me. I'm...
G.A. AIKEN Lady Talaith. Is that what you’re wearing to dinner tonight?”
...
“And exactly when ...
G.A. AIKEN Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram...
HOWARD AIKEN Of course you don’t trust Braith. You don’t trust anybody,” Ghleanna reminded their brother. �...
G.A. AIKEN I did get a degree in special education.
CLAY AIKEN I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. Tha...
CLAY AIKEN All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now s...
CONRAD AIKEN And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leaves
Interlace with low voices and footsteps and...
CONRAD AIKEN You know, I think I'm a stronger person for realizing that you can't make everybody love you...
CLAY AIKEN Now. Now, Annwyl. No need to curtsy. A simple nod of your head and absolute worship will be more tha...
G.A. AIKEN The best policy is to declare victory and leave.
GEORGE AIKEN Well, fortunately we found out that the runner-up our particular year was going to get a record cont...
CLAY AIKEN Americans are up to their eyeballs in debt. The schools raise tuition each year, the loan totals go ...
GARY AIKEN I am going to start offering this in early April. I?m patriotic.
GARY AIKEN We’re not talking about you. You’re Braith of the Darkness. I’m Addolgar the Cheerful. I’ve ...
G.A. AIKEN You can stick your questions up your ass.”
He slammed his tail in front of her. “I don’t ...
G.A. AIKEN It was gentler here, softer, its seethe the quietest of whispers, as if, in deference to a drawing r...
CONRAD AIKEN The best policy is to declare victory and leave.
GEORGE D. AIKEN Stories ought not to be just little bits of fantasy that are used to wile away an idle hour; from th...
JOAN DELANO AIKEN [T]he music's pure algebra of enchantment.
CONRAD POTTER AIKEN (USED PSEUDONYM SAMUEL JEAKE, JR.) My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...
JOHN BERGER No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
JOHN WYCLIFFE By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
JOHN ROBERTS Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo...
JOHN NOBLE Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s...
DAYMOND JOHN Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th...
JOHN ELWAY This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war...
JOHN TYLER Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
JOHN LENNON Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
JOHN MORTIMER No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
JOHN LOCKE High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ...
JOHN MAYER When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b...
JOHN LEWIS The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi...
JOHN LEWIS Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ...
JOHN CALVIN I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm...
JOHN MADDEN Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa...
JOHN CLAYTON Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete...
JOHN CLAYTON Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New ...
JOHN CLAYTON I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consis...
JOHN CLAYTON Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a Go...
JOHN CLAYTON I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish ...
JOHN CLAYTON In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.
JOHN CLAYTON Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has ...
JOHN CLAYTON What is the origin of God?
JOHN CLAYTON The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and e...
JOHN CLAYTON The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing...
JOHN CLAYTON Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are t...
JOHN CLAYTON There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. Ther...
JOHN CLAYTON It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that we...
JOHN CLAYTON We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is re...
JOHN CLAYTON The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God ...
JOHN CLAYTON Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it f...
JOHN CLAYTON How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
JOHN BURROUGHS You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw...
JOHN MADDEN I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'...
ELTON JOHN The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ...
JOHN LEGEND I have learned in fashion to be a little savage.
JOHN FAIRCHILD Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my...
JOHN PRESCOTT My consultant keeps telling me sudden death could come at any moment.
JOHN TAVENER As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot...
JOHN BATTELLE When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.
JOHN MUIR Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. B...
JOHN LAUTNER My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.
JOHN WAYNE I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the prop...
JOHN WAYNE I've loved reading all my life.
JOHN WAYNE Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly li...
JOHN WAYNE I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Al...
JOHN WAYNE Get off your butt and join the Marines!
JOHN WAYNE Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that...
JOHN WAYNE Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it&...
JOHN WAYNE In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.
JOHN WAYNE I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the ...
JOHN WAYNE I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers ...
JOHN WAYNE All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.
JOHN WAYNE Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.
JOHN WAYNE When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything tha...
JOHN WAYNE You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing.
JOHN ELWAY I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything ...
JOHN ELWAY If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ...
JOHN WOODEN Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't i...
JOHN LENNON Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.
JOHN LITHGOW Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
JOHN PORTMAN No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
JOHN MCCARTHY If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
JOHN MALKOVICH I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and fro...
JOHN NEGROPONTE