W. Alan McCollough quote: "Near term, we have seen a softening in our business, coincident with the onset of the war with Iraq. We believe the softening reflects consumer preoccupation with geopolitical events. It is too early, however, to understand the impact these events may have on results for the first quarter."

We remain dissatisfied in the overall sales performance of our Circuit City business, ... no new tre...
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Our thoughts and prayers go out to the people who were affected by Hurricane Katrina. Our donation i...
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Continued strength of the consumer electronics and home office categories and the recent substantial...
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Although we had anticipated modest sales disruption related to our exit from the appliance business ...
W. ALAN MCCOLLOUGH

Our thoughts and prayers go out to the people who were affected by Hurricane Katrina. Our donation i...
ALAN MCCOLLOUGH

Near term, we have seen a softening in our business, coincident with the onset of the war with Iraq....
ALAN MCCOLLOUGH

With Circuit City's E-superstore, customers will find convenient and money-saving options not availa...
ALAN MCCOLLOUGH

We were obviously dissatisfied with the overall comparable-store sales decline,
ALAN MCCOLLOUGH

During the second quarter, we moved forward on a number of fronts. We're pleased with returning to s...
ALAN MCCOLLOUGH

We believe the December sales performance reflects not only our continued need to update the store b...
ALAN MCCOLLOUGH

Although December sales started relatively strong and picked up at the end of the month, we were not...
ALAN MCCOLLOUGH

Sales were particularly strong in those categories that were expanded following last year's exit fro...
ALAN MCCOLLOUGH

The industry trends and our own initiatives resulted in strong sales of new technologies such as dig...
ALAN MCCOLLOUGH

We remain dissatisfied in the overall sales performance of our Circuit City business, ... no new tre...
ALAN MCCOLLOUGH

There are just so many young designers now.
JACK MCCOLLOUGH

You can always plan where you think your life is going to go but I don't think you can really pl...
JACK MCCOLLOUGH

It's hard separating work from personal life.
JACK MCCOLLOUGH

I'm envious of actors. You shoot a movie or you do a season of 'Big Love,' and then you&...
JACK MCCOLLOUGH

Brides and grooms don't want a cookie-cutter wedding. As (people) get married a little bit older the...
ROSANNA MCCOLLOUGH

That goes to show that brides are looking for something that's timeless and classic, something they ...
ROSANNA MCCOLLOUGH

I think we're playing as well now as we have all year. We're really looking forward to the challenge...
DAVID MCCOLLOUGH

I think we've played extremely well down the stretch. We've had some games where we've really clicke...
DAVID MCCOLLOUGH

This should be an outstanding game. They are a very, very good team. North Central is one of the bes...
DAVID MCCOLLOUGH

The menu is not the meal.
ALAN W. WATTS

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
ALAN W. WATTS

You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of ...
ALAN W. WATTS

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called prese...
ALAN W. WATTS

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which i...
ALAN W. WATTS

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and ...
ALAN W. WATTS

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
ALAN W. WATTS

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the s...
ALAN W. WATTS

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the oce...
ALAN W. WATTS

Jesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture,...
ALAN W. WATTS

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, every...
ALAN W. WATTS

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
ALAN W. WATTS

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own....
ALAN W. WATTS

Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepe...
ALAN W. WATTS

We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's u...
ALAN W. WATTS

And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As i...
ALAN W. WATTS

The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
ALAN W. WATTS

It's like you took a bottle of ink and you threw it at a wall. Smash! And all that ink spread. And i...
ALAN W. WATTS

If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely was...
ALAN W. WATTS

Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One lear...
ALAN W. WATTS

To Taoism that which is absolutely still or absolutely perfect is absolutely dead, for without the p...
ALAN W. WATTS

Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but infe...
ALAN W. WATTS

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
ALAN W. WATTS

The source of all light is in the eye.
ALAN W. WATTS

In a relativistic universe you don't cling to anything, you learn to swim. And you know what swimmin...
ALAN W. WATTS

It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
ALAN W. WATTS

The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that mos...
ALAN W. WATTS

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
ALAN W. WATTS

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, bec...
ALAN W. WATTS

We think that the world is limited and explained by its past. We tend to think that what happened in...
ALAN W. WATTS

What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the ...
ALAN W. WATTS

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," th...
ALAN W. WATTS

Confucians, along with Hebrew, Islamic, and Catholic scholastics, as well as Protestant fundamentali...
ALAN W. WATTS

Since opposed principles, or ideologies, are irreconcilable, wars fought over principle will be wars...
ALAN W. WATTS

By itself, a tree is meaningless, but it is the meaning of the word “tree.
ALAN W. WATTS

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said...
ALAN W. WATTS

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
ALAN W. WATTS

In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
ALAN W. WATTS

Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to ...
ALAN W. WATTS

What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conv...
ALAN W. WATTS

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
ALAN W. WATTS

Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in prin...
ALAN W. WATTS

If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself - so that without this...
ALAN W. WATTS

I decided to combine my musical background, business education and creative abilities - and go into ...
ALAN W. LIVINGSTON

The natural world gives us many examples of the great effectiveness of this way. The Chinese philoso...
ALAN W. WATTS

A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each o...
ALAN W. WATTS

Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing, you’re a writ...
ALAN W. WATTS

My father was placid and easygoing. He owned a small shoe store where I helped out on Saturdays. I t...
ALAN W. LIVINGSTON

I read somewhere once that you could be whatever you wanted. As long as I could remember, I was dete...
ALAN W. LIVINGSTON

I've always been very attentive to detail. It's a characteristic that drives some people cra...
ALAN W. LIVINGSTON

I don't like to leave anything unfinished. I have an absolute need to see that every phone call ...
ALAN W. LIVINGSTON

Discord on one level is harmony on another
ALAN W. WATTS

when somebody plays music, you listen. you just follow those sounds, and eventually you understand t...
ALAN W. WATTS

Thought and science are therefore raising problems which their terms of study can never answer, many...
ALAN W. WATTS

Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that ther...
ALAN W. WATTS

If there was one overriding element to Faraday's character, it was humility. His 'conviction of defi...
ALAN W. HIRSHFELD

I owe my solitude to other people.
ALAN W. WATTS

Although the rhythm of the waves beats a kind of time, it is not clock or calendar time. It has no u...
ALAN W. WATTS

Selling is simply the transfer of inthusiasm.
ALAN

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-ni...
W. WIRT

Poetry is the language of feeling.
W. WINTER

What I focus on in life is what I get. And if I concentrate on how bad I am or how wrong I am or how...
W. MITCHELL

Before my accidents, there were ten thousands things I could do. I could spend the rest of my life d...
W. MITCHELL

Clemency is one of the brightest diamonds in the crown of majesty.
W. SECKER

Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the ...
W. SECKER

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
W. FUSSELMAN

Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more com...
W. GLADDEN

For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become...
BILL W.

There are more references in the Koran than the Bible to Mary, the mother of Jesus. -Julia W-.
JULIA W

VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use Unix.
W. DAVIDSON

You'll never find another like me because im the original.
RACHEL W

You might as well be nice to everyone, because in the end if something happens to someone your mean/...
RACHEL W

I remember on that occasion, Roz invited a group of friends to gather around a festive table for a m...
W. HULL

Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more c...
W. GLADDEN

Relationships are like glass. Sometimes its better to leave them broken instead of hurting yourself ...
ASHLEY W

Marriage is a mutual admiration society where one person is always right, the other is the husband.
W. GRANT

If we were to follow the format of Edith's memorial service, we would be here until next Wednesday,
W. HULL

Bear in mind three essential qualities in all games of intellect:– Never to show selfishness or to...
W. PATTERSON

Cheap things aren't good, and good things aren't cheap.
MARK W.

Every morning began with Roz getting her mother up, dressed and in a wheelchair, then going off to t...
W. HULL

When you come right down to it, the ground you stand on is the ground you stand on.
W. LEITZEN

We are hear to celebrate, and I mean celebrate, the unique and wonderful life of Rosamond McPherson ...
W. HULL

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
ALAN WATTS

I think most people have that crazy uncle they sit at Thanksgiving dinner with: someone they disagre...
ALAN COLMES

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
ALAN PERLIS

Even in our deep ocean, there are ecosystems at work with no light whatsoever down in the deepest po...
ALAN STERN

Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
ALAN BENNETT

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
ALAN BENNETT

I always feel over-appreciated but underestimated.
ALAN BENNETT

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me ch...
ALAN BENNETT

I'm less genial than people think, but I'm too timid to seem nasty.
ALAN BENNETT

I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't qu...
ALAN BENNETT

I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fall...
ALAN BENNETT

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
ALAN BENNETT

I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that...
ALAN BENNETT

All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
ALAN BENNETT

We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's...
ALAN BENNETT

Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
ALAN BENNETT

I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The...
ALAN BENNETT

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
ALAN BENNETT

Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
ALAN BENNETT

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception...
ALAN BENNETT

Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
ALAN BENNETT

Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; o...
ALAN BENNETT

Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.
ALAN BENNETT

If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
ALAN KING

I have such a stressful job that the only way I can get it out of my mind is by running hard.
ALAN TURING

I have had a dream indicating rather clearly that I am on the way to being hetero, though I don'...
ALAN TURING

I want a permanent relationship, and I might feel inclined to reject anything which of its nature co...
ALAN TURING

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two ...
ALAN TURING

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brai...
ALAN TURING

I want to enjoy not getting recognised while it lasts. But the mask is a symbol of unity. Anyone can...
ALAN WALKER

Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.
ALAN BULLOCK

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
ALAN WATTS

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
ALAN PERLIS

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
ALAN KAY

I'll work overtime to open the doors of opportunity to industry and commerce.
ALAN AUTRY

Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, il...
ALAN MOORE

I like Jacques Derrida; I think he's funny. I like my philosophy with a few jokes and puns. I kn...
ALAN MOORE

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
ALAN WATTS

Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ

Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.
ALAN DERSHOWITZ

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
ALAN PATON

You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven...
ALAN GREENSPAN

I was conveniently bisexual for a long time, and then I went, 'Come on, who am I kidding?' A...
ALAN BALL

Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.
ALAN PARKER

I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it pers...
ALAN BALL

Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go u...
ALAN GREENSPAN

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, ...
ALAN WATTS

There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world insid...
ALAN MOORE

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of ea...
ALAN KAY

If we don't re-charge the American Brand, all future challenges - economic, social and political...
ALAN SIEGEL

On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12....
ALAN RICKMAN

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impos...
ALAN WATTS

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
ALAN WATTS

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they...
ALAN WATTS

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is a...
ALAN WATTS

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about th...
ALAN WATTS

I owe my solitude to other people.
ALAN WATTS

We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
ALAN WATTS

Saints need sinners.
ALAN WATTS

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
ALAN WATTS

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
ALAN WATTS

No work for love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans fo...
ALAN WATTS

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the s...
ALAN WATTS

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instr...
ALAN WATTS

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
ALAN WATTS

Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in t...
ALAN KEYES

Arsenal paid a lot of money for him a few years ago but he found it difficult to claim a first-team ...
ALAN CURBISHLEY

It was a great night for us and a great achievement. Who knows what will happen in the next round. I...
ALAN CURBISHLEY

There has not really been a lot going on for Stephan, he has not had many saves to make. I want to h...
ALAN CURBISHLEY

There may be players wanting to leave, and obviously I have a surplus in the forward area, so this w...
ALAN CURBISHLEY

I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.
ALAN CUMMING

Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?
ALAN CUMMING

It's a sort of anti-Broadway musical. It's odd, disjointed and spiky.
ALAN CUMMING

Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what...
ALAN CUMMING

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.
ALAN CUMMING

It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.
ALAN CUMMING

When Brian went by me, I thought he was some guy that jumped on the course.
ALAN CULPEPPER

In Athens, I was running in long sleeves and pants in the summertime to acclimate as much as I could...
ALAN CULPEPPER

If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which incl...
ALAN LIGHTMAN

At this point, our office is going to prepare to go to trial again, ... We believe the jury will com...
ALAN CURRY

We haven't made a decision yet. I think there's several options open to us and that's something work...
ALAN CURRY

Andrea Yates knew precisely what she was doing, ... She knew that it was wrong.
ALAN CURRY

He has come here to gain experience, and nothing can happen until December anyway. I believe Gary Ne...
ALAN CURBISHLEY

I left some of the boys out completely to have a rest,
ALAN CURBISHLEY

We moved in straight away, and although he was publicly linked with other clubs, we were always conf...
ALAN CURBISHLEY

Danny is a player we have been tracking for some time, but he only became available last week,
ALAN CURBISHLEY

Claus had one year remaining on his contract and made it clear that he didn't wish to renew his deal...
ALAN CURBISHLEY

The player wanted to come to us and we are very pleased to welcome him.
ALAN CURBISHLEY

We don't believe isolated testimony on cross examination by one of our witnesses had such an impact ...
ALAN CURRY

We are hopeful that we can now finally place our complete focus upon going to trial.
ALAN CURRY

The case has already been reversed once, so we want to make sure we proceed correctly and appropriat...
ALAN CURRY

I would anticipate this case is going to have to be retried.
ALAN CURRY

It's just a matter of our blokes lifting their game. They haven't been playing to their usual standa...
ALAN DAVIDSON

We?re pleased with the vitality we're seeing in the UK market. Our company accounted for close to a ...
ALAN CURTIS

Near term, we have seen a softening in our business, coincident with the onset of the war with Iraq. We believe the softening reflects consumer preoccupation with geopolitical events. It is too early, however, to understand the impact these events may have on results for the first quarter.

W. Alan McCollough

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