Alan Graf quote: "We exceeded our original forecast for the second quarter due to outstanding operational performance and the deferral of certain advertising and promotional expenses to the second half of the fiscal year."

Market conditions have deteriorated more than we anticipated, as reflected by numerous news accounts...
ALAN GRAF

Volume growth accelerated at the end of (the second quarter) and has continued to accelerate in quar...
ALAN GRAF

We're proud of our fourth quarter, and we're back.
ALAN GRAF

Continuing weak economic conditions, particularly in the high-tech and durable goods sectors sharply...
ALAN GRAF

Hurricane Katrina had no significant effect on first quarter results, although the storm inflicted s...
ALAN GRAF

We do not think there is a mode shift (from air to ground shipments, ... We believe that the express...
ALAN GRAF

We intend to continue to manage the company's cost structure to remain profitable in the second quar...
ALAN GRAF

Deteriorating economic conditions and the rapid decline in the high-tech and other durable goods ind...
ALAN GRAF

Continued good strong cost management will be implemented in the fourth quarter,
ALAN GRAF

We believe our product offerings are complementary. We have virtually no presence in the lightweight...
ALAN GRAF

We plan to continue to grow, so in the long run these are probably delays more than cancellations.
ALAN GRAF JR

I can't control what OPEC charges, but we can control our costs. It's going to probably delay some t...
ALAN GRAF JR

Where we can do better is where they (UPS) do extremely well, with the small and medium customer.
ALAN GRAF JR

Hurricane Katrina had no significant effect on first-quarter results, although the storm inflicted s...
ALAN GRAF JR

You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that's fine, but what you should never lose is the...
STEFFI GRAF

I never look back, I look forward.
STEFFI GRAF

As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.
STEFFI GRAF

I don't ever look back. I look forward.
STEFFI GRAF

When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.
STEFFI GRAF

I've thrown away lots of my old diaries - you never know who might get their hands on them. But ...
STEFFI GRAF

We have to take care of our business,
CARRIE GRAF

Maria and Ashley Robinson clogged up the middle, coming up with some huge blocks down the stretch.
CARRIE GRAF

Talking about Maria at this point is irrelevant.
CARRIE GRAF

Her knee and the referee are getting to her. She's got to get beyond that. She's tough. She will.
CARRIE GRAF

I think our changing defense is really unsettled,
CARRIE GRAF

It wasn't pretty but it was a 'W,' ... Minnesota outplayed us in the first half, there's no question...
CARRIE GRAF

Down the stretch, in the last six minutes, we had some great looks. We just couldn't hit open shots ...
CARRIE GRAF

We always knew it was going to be tough with the schedule we had at the start and with the absence o...
CARRIE GRAF

I think it was out ability to withstand it by coming up with big rebounds. We made some good decisio...
CARRIE GRAF

I think when we had all of our talent, stretched over the year, we are a force. We knew what we were...
CARRIE GRAF

Sometimes I wish I could have been a bit more relaxed, but then I wouldn't have been the same player...
STEFFI GRAF

When he showed up, expecting another easy mark, the detectives were waiting with handcuffs.
HUGH GRAF

My big dream was to work as a photographer for 'National Geographic.'
STEFFI GRAF

We're getting into the dangerous portion of the mission. Now we're starting to enter into the realm ...
JIM GRAF

These composite apps are built around the user and are instantly usable. All of these are add-ons. Y...
PETER GRAF

These composite apps are built around the user and are instantly usable, ... All of these are add-on...
PETER GRAF

You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that's fine, but what you should never lose is the res...
STEFFI GRAF

At this point, we're taking it as a one-game season. Right now, that one game is Minnesota.
CARRIE GRAF

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
― Antoine de Saint-...
ILANA GRAF

We're very opportunistic when it comes to open source.
PETER GRAF

It was disappointing to lose this one. But we have to go up to Seattle and hope things fall in our f...
CARRIE GRAF

It is difficult for me always to let go, and I am still eager, but I'm taking things maybe a little ...
STEFFI GRAF

It is important for the public to take advantage of this opportunity because the city council and th...
DAN GRAF

The chamber does not offer opinions or suggest what the 'right' answers might be to the issues, ... ...
DAN GRAF

The presidential campaign of 2004 was a watershed moment in political fund raising because of the co...
JOSEPH GRAF

She had a rocky first game. But Tiffany has really responded.
JOANNE GRAF

I've been taught very early on that if you want to win a tournament you've got to beat anybody, and ...
STEFFI GRAF

I think it takes people to get to know you and the recognition comes over time.
STEFFI GRAF

It shifted attention away from that and I've never been someone who liked the attention from the med...
STEFFI GRAF

It was amazing to see him get this far. It was amazing to watch him show the courage he showed.
STEFFI GRAF

It was amazing to see him get this far,
STEFFI GRAF

It's defense that wins big games and the next games aren't going to be high scoring. They're going t...
CARRIE GRAF

Right now our season's about one game and that's Minnesota,
CARRIE GRAF

Take care of our home court and see if we can get a win or two on the road.
CARRIE GRAF

Right now, we have about 500 of those enterprise services published.
PETER GRAF

It takes a pretty spineless individual to attack an elderly man using a walker.
HUGH GRAF

The TEST is a business-focus test and we hope that people use that as a spring board to generate som...
DAN GRAF

We thought there were a number of issues that the citizens would like to know the candidates' viewpo...
DAN GRAF

Carnegie Hall is at the center of the music world, and when our orchestra appears there, people will...
HANS GRAF

Houston has had its storm disasters before. In 2001, the enormous amount of rain dropped in the shor...
HANS GRAF

I know she's from Texas, and I am eager to get to know her. It's always nice in our job to get to kn...
HANS GRAF

This spacecraft is going to rewrite the science textbooks on Mars.
JAMES GRAF

It was picture-perfect. We could not have scripted anything better.
JAMES GRAF

I'm greatly relieved. We could not have scripted something better.
JAMES GRAF

We are getting into the dangerous portion of the mission. The cruise has not been easy, but now we a...
JAMES GRAF

This spacecraft will return more data than all previous Mars missions combined.
JAMES GRAF

We have accomplished an awful lot, but we are getting to the dangerous part of the mission.
JAMES GRAF

We're getting into the dangerous portion of the mission.
JAMES GRAF

We're right on the money right now, heading toward our encounter with Mars.
JAMES GRAF

We will have a fire hose of data coming back instead of bringing it back through a little garden hos...
JAMES GRAF

It's time we start peeling back the onion layer and start looking at Mars from different vantage poi...
JAMES GRAF

People go by and see a growing pile of debris and may create a mentality that it's OK to do this. If...
HUGH GRAF

It seems that they know exactly what it is they're going for. They know exactly how long they should...
HUGH GRAF

SWAT is called out as a last resort in these situations. Firing is a last resort.
HUGH GRAF

It is pretty dark out here. That's one of the things we have to look at -- who had the right of way.
HUGH GRAF

It's not uncommon for these types of scams or crimes around this time of the year.
HUGH GRAF

The guy threatened to stab her with a pair of scissors. That's pretty violent. Thankfully, she gave ...
HUGH GRAF

People should not be ashamed to come forward. These crooks are good at what they do.
HUGH GRAF

They remember either waking up and being aware of clear evidence of a sexual assault, or they woke u...
HUGH GRAF

They swam really well against a 5A team. We're in a good place for this time of season.
LAURA GRAF

For the most part we're exactly we're we want to be. The conditioning is there all we need now is to...
LAURA GRAF

A little pressure is good but we don't want it to be too much. Also, when swimmers always swim the s...
LAURA GRAF

We're going to keep an eye on that group of swimmers and try to get them to be just a little faster....
LAURA GRAF

We've had a lot of close meets this season. This is one of the teams that beat us last year, so we'r...
LAURA GRAF

We're working on endurance. Hopefully we'll see faster times in this area next week because the kids...
LAURA GRAF

It's good to mix things up. You never know when you're going to have a new [individual medley swimme...
LAURA GRAF

With only one or two seconds to drop per swimmer, it's very attainable.
LAURA GRAF

People want to buy the sizzle, ... They want to see if they can beat the market.
KARL GRAF

Get references from the people you know, and in the end you should trust your gut,
KARL GRAF

If you have cash, you have options and you can take advantage of the mistakes and misfortunes of oth...
KARL GRAF

There's a lot of wealth that people didn't expect from stock options, ... People think they have a l...
KARL GRAF

You have the convenience of one statement, but you're not limited to one company,
KARL GRAF

I would look for the best investments wherever I can find them,
KARL GRAF

So there's another motive for recommending these people, ... I think it's incredibly confusing for i...
KARL GRAF

One guy said, 'I have a hard time buying my wife roses when it's her money.'
KARL GRAF

Another factor is maybe the wife would want to step off the fast track if the stay-at-home dad dies,...
KARL GRAF

There's a feeling of dependency that's uncomfortable, ... I would imagine for a stay-at-home dad it'...
KARL GRAF

We're just looking to party and have a good time. Nobody wants anybody to get hurt.
KURT GRAF

Water is somewhat important to us.
KURT GRAF

Who wants to walk around with your lease in your pocket?
KURT GRAF

We're real honest with parents. Sometimes we'll offer kids a partial scholarship and the parent will...
JOANNE GRAF

We knew it was just a matter of time.
JOANNE GRAF

She has gotten used to Division I pitching. She has been really selective at the plate.
JOANNE GRAF

It's obviously a great opportunity for us to build our program. One day we want FSU to be where Mich...
JOANNE GRAF

We wanted to get some pitchers some work and FAMU really took advantage when we made some mistakes w...
JOANNE GRAF

I think it's real important against an aggressive team like FAMU to come out and get as many runs as...
JOANNE GRAF

The other two (pitchers) will come around because we can't ride one pitcher the whole season. They h...
JOANNE GRAF

I think it's kind of expected with our lack of experienced pitchers. It's not really a surprise to m...
JOANNE GRAF

Our defense is better than it's been in a while. We're solid at every position.
JOANNE GRAF

You see it all the time. It's just something you have to deal with if you're in women's basketball. ...
JENNIFER GRAF

Gibbs gives them the speed and the dribble penetration.
JENNIFER GRAF

Our last game against Eastern Washington and this one (North Texas) are two great games to get us re...
JENNIFER GRAF

It's hard enough to work [an overnight] shift and then to have to worry about people coming into you...
MICHAEL GRAF

Vendor consolidation is a major trend that forces customers to consolidate their IT (information tec...
PETER GRAF

It seems to me we are now, since 1789, going through the same sort of process of regeneration the Ro...
HARRY GRAF KESSLER

I am utterly, consummately intense, wearing sunflowers and poppies and dahlias in my buttonhole.
HARRY GRAF KESSLER

Selling is simply the transfer of inthusiasm.
ALAN

What our sword has won in half a year, our sword must guard for half a century.
HELMUTH GRAF VON MOLTKE

Das Glück besteht nicht darin, daß du tun kannst, was du willst, sondern darin, daß du immer will...
LEW NIKOLAJEWITSCH GRAF TOLSTOI

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 exceeded our original forecast for the second quarter due to outstanding operational performance and the deferral of certain advertising and promotional expenses to the second half of the fiscal year.

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We exceeded our original forecast for the second quarter due to outstanding operational performance and the deferral of certain advertising and promotional expenses to the second half of the fiscal year.

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