It's not business as usual.


Mark Parker

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Every member of our union realizes it's not business as usual anymore.
BUZZ HARGROVE
We're back to business as usual.
CAROL MOORE
Anything to declare? the customs inspector said."Two pound of uncut heroin and a manual of pornograp...
LEON URIS
It's been business as usual for him really,
WAYNE SMITH
Today was certainly not business as usual. Nowhere in the country was it that way.
BRUCE GOLDING
Exporting rice is not a profitable business anymore, but now it's business as usual because many of ...
APICHART ANUKULARMPHAI
It's killing us. They've told us to run business as usual, but it's not that simple.
AL JULIAN
The completion is not expected till mid-year and until then it is business as usual.
RICHARD AULETTA
Basically, it was business as usual, and when the storm popped up, business tripled.
BOBBY LEWIS
The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
For our customers and employees, it is business as usual.
CARL GRIVNER
About 80 percent of the campus is business as usual.
ERIC MELCHER
This is a grim prognosis based on business as usual,
KLAUS TOEPFER
I was in the Nixon White House during Watergate, and we pretended that we were all about business as...
DAVID GERGEN
We're just going to try to proceed with business as usual.
FELICIA STOCKFORD
battering and endangering a child to get a picture for their magazines is criminal and not business ...
REESE WITHERSPOON
It didn't seem to have its usual vibrancy.
STEVEN LEE
I think Sean Parker damaged the music business with Napster.
CURTIS JACKSON
We have not been under any directive to use or not use the logo for this tournament. This is just bu...
CHRIS SEMRAU
We are open for business as usual. Volumes seem about average so far.
RAY PELLECCHIA
At my age I do what Mark Twain did. I get my daily paper, look at the obituaries page and if I'm not...
PATRICK MOORE
My sense is that 'business as usual' in Chicago politics is ripe for investigation.
BERNARD HARCOURT
I don't think this one's business as usual. Me evil cunt sense is tinglin'.
GARTH ENNIS
From everything I understand, it's business as usual. Everything seems to be just fine.
ROGER CLOUTIER
From Wildwood to the north end of Marion County it looks like business as usual,
JOHN ALBRIGHT
There [is] little evidence today that Illinois leaders are serious about changing business as usual.
CYNTHIA CANARY
We will be operating business as usual. There is no change for our 2006 plans, on the business or ba...
GREG HUGHES
The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and...
NAOMI WOLF
We'll be able to go business as usual. Some teams may not be able to do that because of their salary...
JERRY ANGELO
All I want to say is it's business as usual and we're taking care of horses as normal.
MATT LYONS
Summer has set in with its usual severity.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
We deal with these sorts of things all the time. This is business as usual as far as we're concerned...
JOE HESS
Friday's celebration will feature something for everybody. Of course, we'll also be conducting busin...
CEO DENNIS UPCHURCH
I do not understand how it is that financial institutions could think that they could take taxpayer ...
ELIZABETH WARREN
We will continue to do business as usual until such time as the situation requires us to do somethin...
ALBERT CHEE
Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)
This is not my usual stage.
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE
The hiring of Rob Katz is a sign of business as usual. He is familiar with the business more so than...
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It's been a good location. We will keep our other two stores operational. It's business as usual for...
HEATHER TAYLOR
This year is shaping up to be a year of business as usual, dealing with very challenging economic ti...
LISA STRAND
We do this as a service to our clients, ... We're not in the exorbitant mark-up business. We're livi...
DAVID LORD
I'm sure for a little while everybody's going to watch their step and then it will be back to busine...
JARED PAUL STERN
Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try t...
ALEXANDER COCKBURN
If nothing is done to counter present trends, the major fault line in American politics will no long...
ROBERT B. REICH
The Academy is mindful that many of its celebrity guests would feel uncomfortable arriving at this y...
GIL CATES
He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark.
J.K. ROWLING
It's not the usual course of business that someone is prosecuted in three separate jurisdictions for...
DONALD THOMPSON
We can't go on with business as usual at Magic Waters, ... Looking at the numbers and statistics, we...
DOUG BROOKS
A feeble dart short of its mark.
VIRGIL
Charlie Parker was a genius, as was Lester Young.
SEBASTIAN COE
Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual....
NAOMI WOLF
The mayor says it's not business as usual, and that ethics are a priority. If I was mayor and didn't...
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I would say, mentally, our guys are stepping it up. We're not changing anything in our approach. It'...
SCOTT AUDERER
It's business as usual. If they make a mistake and kill an innocent person it's, 'Oh well, it's the ...
BILL POWELL
We're thinking of it as business as usual. We're helping our travelers get through it. Some are aski...
BILL SUTHERLAND
The action we have taken is a necessary and responsible step to preserve Delta's value for our credi...
GERALD GRINSTEIN
The policymakers and political leaders in Memphis and Shelby County cannot accept a business-as-usua...
DREW JOHNSON
Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker.
DAMIEN CHAZELLE
Globalisation must have, as a critical component, international dispensation in the locality of U.N....
ANTHONY CARMONA
Mark plays by his own rules. As downtown was faced with competition from the suburbs, Mark has hung ...
LUCY MEADE
Mark was trusted by Labor as a thinker, as a formidable parliamentarian, as a moving advocate of Lab...
JULIA GILLARD
We just have to go about business as usual. It's unfortunate. We've got to find a way to win despite...
DAVID WESLEY
One can argue whether it's slowing down fast enough, but it is slowing down. We're doing better than...
HARLAN WATSON
He had some family matters, a personal situation he had to take care of. He's missed. But it will pr...
KARIBI DEDE
We are convinced that Russia would not put in doubt its reputation as a reliable business partner.
IVO MRAVINAC
It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.
CLIVE BELL
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are c...
WOODROW WILSON
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are c...
CHARLES DICKENS
A feeble dart short of its mark.
DAVID TUVILL
Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak ou...
FRANCINE BUSBY
We are very calm, collected, with business as usual. Let the army do what it has to do, and we'll do...
JO NATA
Over the past decade, ... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have...
ANITA RODDICK
There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom ...
MORTIMER J. ADLER
This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical d...
TIMOTHY GEITHNER
He's not the same Tony Parker any more. He knows what to do now: 'I'm going to pull up instead of go...
MAGIC JOHNSON
The Scottish sun, shocked by having its usual cloudy underpinnings stripped away, shone feverishly, ...
STUART HADDON
Exports have been in line with projections with evidence that actual values have increased while imp...
CHARLES ABUKA
This secret deal didn't contain many of the provisions commonly found in other port deals. That may ...
FRANCINE BUSBY
Without putting the brakes on out-of-control campaign contributions from individuals and corporation...
MADELEINE M. KUNIN
The airlines go out of their way for the first two or three days after a bankruptcy filing to convin...
JOE BRANCATELLI
There was about 20 to 25 percent more business than usual. We love it. Bring it back.
DAWNE MASSEY
There is a certain amount of inertia to some of these commissions, ... A sense that it is 'business ...
ANDREW BARBOUR
Today is a time of turbulence and stagnation, of threat and promise from a competitor: the magic, om...
RICHARD CORLISS
To have the comfort of sharing and laughing with genuine people who actually care is like taking a n...
GARY F EVANS...
I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business h...
JACK WILD
To make money I picked up work as a busboy, valet parker, skateboard shop employee.
DAVID SPADE
The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better - it is just turning around as usual.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE
The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better--it is just turning around as usual.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE
The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better -- it is just turning around as usual.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE
It's all been the same, business as usual. She's been training really well and the past few days hav...
BONNI RETZKIN
I get a little cranky with the whole business about kids not having attention spans. This reminds me...
ROBIN MCKINLEY
The international situation is desperate, as usual.
TOM ROBBINS
As usual, my timing is bizarrely good.
JAMIE OLIVER
Energy, as usual, it's carrying on forward.
JOE ISMAIL
The equity business, which was on its back in April and May, came back.
CAROLE BERGER
It certainly is unique, and it certainly puts everything in perspective, ... It will be business as ...
SAN ANTONIO
It's business as usual. We don't want to get away from what we've been doing so far. It's certainly ...
JAMIE BLACK
Candace Parker is a great player but she's not the entire Tennessee team. They have a lot of great p...
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The hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy.
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DOROTHY PARKER
There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply...
DOROTHY PARKER
Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a poi...
DOROTHY PARKER
I never thought that heav'n would lose its blue
And sullen storm-clouds mask the gentle sky; DOROTHY PARKER
All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't si...
DOROTHY PARKER
I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn.
DOROTHY PARKER
They sicken at the calm that know the storm.
DOROTHY PARKER
They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.
DOROTHY PARKER
Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
DOROTHY PARKER
Only Christ could have conceived Christ.
JOSEPH PARKER
He'd have given me rolling lands,
Houses of marble, and billowing farms,
Pearls, to trickle ...
DOROTHY PARKER
Why is it no one ever sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my ...
DOROTHY PARKER
Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejo...
THEODORE PARKER
Let us do our duty, in our shop in our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, t...
THEODORE PARKER
By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is
Infi...
DOROTHY PARKER
Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word
DOROTHY PARKER
They laid their hands upon my head,
They stroked my cheek and brow;
And time could heal a hu...
DOROTHY PARKER
Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.
THEODORE PARKER
Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
DOROTHY PARKER
Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.
DOROTHY PARKER
I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back ...
DOROTHY PARKER
Gratitude -- the meanest and most sniveling attribute in the world.
DOROTHY PARKER
I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
DOROTHY PARKER
Where's the man could ease a heart, like a satin gown?
DOROTHY PARKER
Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
DOROTHY PARKER
Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Four be the th...
DOROTHY PARKER
It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him...
THEODORE PARKER
I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
After four...
DOROTHY PARKER
Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
DOROTHY PARKER
Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (B...
DOROTHY PARKER
It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.
DOROTHY PARKER
He Robert Benchley and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.
DOROTHY PARKER
And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned; The calmer, I, to see it tru...
DOROTHY PARKER
Every year, back come Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground al...
DOROTHY PARKER