Contract Quotations

I worked in three local news markets and in every single one of them, they said: 'You're a lousy anchor. We would love to renew your contract and have you be our lead reporter here, but we're not going to have you anchor.'

When I got back from shooting 'Deception,' I was under contract with NBC, so I can't really do anything.

I was doing acting work at Fox - bit pieces with Greg Peck in The Gunfighter and things like that - and grew up more or less as a Fox contract player in about two years.

I've done a contract with my district. I have term-limited myself. I am not taking the pension. I am not taking pay raises, and my family and I are bringing our own health care to Washington, D.C. And my dad taught me as a kid to lead by example - Congress should not have anything better than the American people.

I didn't have a big-time contract out of college like most athletes. In fact I had no contract at all.

I'd rather deal with a Mob guy shaking hands on a deal than a Hollywood lawyer, who, the minute you get the contract signed, is trying to figure out how to screw you.

The lens of contract focuses predominantly on gains from trade whereas orthodoxy is focused on resource allocation.

When I was brought up in Sweden, there was a great opportunity for young people to learn how to act in our municipal theaters with their small companies. You would be under contract for eight months and have the summer free to take other opportunities.

Being a writer can be a very lonely profession, but having a network of people who can sympathize with everything you're going through - from contract issues to the terror of changing your novel from past- to present-tense - is an invaluable asset.

I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out and sing. In my job I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.

When I'm not training day in and day out I love to go out and dance, even though it is potentially in my contract that I'm not allowed to do that.

One lesson I learned from 'The Monstrumologist' was never to get too attached to your own characters. That's harder in practice than in theory. At the end of the third book - which coincided with the end of my contract - I was an emotional wreck. I mourned Will Henry and Warthrop.

If I would characterize my life, I would say that I was a very lucky actor who came into very lucky times, and got to Hollywood, and was put under contract by Warners in the very last days of the studio contract era, and was privileged to go through that time which is gone now.

I've been an engineer, barman, skip lorry driver, coalman, boat window manufacturer, contract grass cutter and builder.

When I first heard Ray Charles, he was a flop artist on a small label in California. He hadn't sold any records. And I bought his contract for $2,500.

When we took on the name The Drifters, we became the new Drifters, and signed a contract to be put on salary, which I think was like a hundred dollars a week, a piece, five hundred dollars for all five of us.

In my lifetime, as a younger man, you were assumed to be an honest person. Your word was your bond, and a handshake was as good as a contract in business.

I am drawn to the mystery of marriage. You can never know what the contract is between two people, and that is a very strong subject. I think it may be my subject.

The owners said that they wanted the salary cap and refused to promise that they would abide by the rules of the just-expired contract after the season ended. Believing we had no choice, the players went on strike in August of 1994.

In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.

Newt Gingrich had to work hard - getting Republican candidates to sign the Contract with America - to nationalize the election that swept Republicans to victory in 1994. A Democratic anti-Tea Party campaign would do that for the Republicans - nationalize the election, gratis - in 2010.

I'm a contract computer scientist by trade, but I'm the founder of something called the Tinkering School. It's a summer program which aims to help kids to learn how to build the things that they think of.

Very good wine was bought at ten pounds per pipe, the contract price; but the superior quality was fifteen pounds; and some of this was not much inferior to the best London Madeira.

There's this funny thing with pilots that you have to sign the contract to do the whole job before you're even offered the part. And they make about a million pilots a year, but hardly any of them get turned into series.

The biggest ambition in my career is still to win the European Cup. I want to have a picture of that to look at later; I want to have that medal. You can have a contract that is better than your friends, but no player looks back and says: 'I won more money.'

I think women think a lot about cycles, biological and personal. This year another cycle came around: my contract was up. It seemed an opportunity to take a life audit.

I don't know that human beings were meant to mate for life or be monogamous. But, for me, the aspect of marriage that is troubling is that it's a contract that is governed by the state, and I don't want the state to have control over my personal affairs.

Newt has two transitions behind him. First he had to capture control of the House. He had to get the Republican budget through. He had to get the Contract With America through. He has done that.

My contract is just for this year, but I have an option for next year. It is not signed at this moment, but I am only concentrating on this year. I don't know exactly what I will do in the future.

Well, I called him and I said, Mr. Wright, what can I do? Universal offered me a contract $300 a week. He says take it. You'll never get that money from me.

Like the marriage contract you entered into, your divorce is a legal transaction. Treat it that way. Try not to let emotion, hurt, fear or anger dictate the circumstances of your discussions or negotiations.

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.

When you go in to do a screen test, you negotiate your contract and sign all your paperwork before you even get on a plane.

I had it in my contract with CBS, a very weird clause that was never written before and certainly not since, that if I wanted to do a variety show within the first five years of the contract, CBS would have to put it on for 30 shows.

When I signed that major-label contract when I was 20 years old. I did it because I wanted to play music for the rest of my life. That's every 20-year-old's dream - to do whatever the hell you want.

My concern is not for the judicial system, but for the reality that the shark fin mafia of Costa Rica has a price on my head, and a Costa Rican prison would provide an excellent opportunity for someone to exercise this lethal contract against me.

Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote the entire novel, and when it was all finished, I would give it to my agent and say, 'Well, here's a novel; sell it if you can.' And they would do that, and it was good because I never had anyone looking over my shoulder.

Before I got the contract, I'd heard from a lot of people that a contract with a company like Estee Lauder was like a stamp of approval, a stamp of your legit-ness. So getting that was a really big step for me.

Without thinking or reflecting, we plunge into war, contract heavy debts, increase vastly the patronage of the Executive, and indulge in every species of extravagance, without thinking that we expose our liberty to hazard. It is a great and fatal mistake.

Construction of the first gas pipeline system was started during the 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, and for all those years, from the 1960s until this day, Russia has been fulfilling its contract obligations in a very consistent and reliable way, regardless of the political situation.

When I turned 16, my dad made me sign a contract - he made us sign contracts for everything - that if I hit my car, I would be responsible for paying for it. I was in bumper-to-bumper traffic, and I tapped someone. It was so not a big deal, but I had to pay for it.

In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.

When I was young, I was offered my first recording contract in 1971 and was offered quite a bit of money if I would change my character and be a '70s version of Cher.

The primary social contract between the people of the United States and their government - quaint though it might seem to even mention it at this point - is that ours is to be a government 'of the people, by the people, for the people.'

Musicals became too expensive. When we were working at MGM, there was a whole company of talent - stars, directors, choreographers, song writers, conductors, arrangers. All worked under contract at regular salaries. To gather people like that today would be enormously costly.

I was still at the track here on Friday night when I got a cell phone call from the team. I would be honored to race for Rahal-Letterman and represent Ethanol in the program that meant so much to Paul Dana. We haven't discussed a contract or anything, and I don't know if they are looking at other people.

One of the primary reasons for improving wireless support is to give companies the tools to put FreeBSD into their wireless devices. The guy at FreeBSD who is adding wireless support is under contract from wireless companies to do the work.

My understanding is that this contract has been funded for the current fiscal year, so this is legitimately before us, in my opinion. My concern about adding staff is that you're splitting the chain of command. If it's this board's position to reject this contract for the current fiscal year, then it's incumbent upon us to begin the process of adding to staff.

One of the big things at Lebanon is I'm getting a three-year contract and I have full control of who I want to hire in terms of coaches without having to go through anybody else,

On the high school level, I know, he can put them (the truants) on contract to attend school, and if they break that there are legal consequences, like confiscation of driver's license. I think it also includes fining the parents. But we (the schools) also ask the police to help us with the problem. And the reason why we support the ordinance is because it has immediate consequences. The police stop them and write a ticket. And they may immediately bring them back to school.

On the death of his brothers, my dad lied about his age and joined the army in 1918. He was in the trenches long enough to be gassed and contract the early stages of tuberculosis from which he would eventually die just before my birth.

I would certainly want to make sure the contract ensured us in some manner that we could continue to get great service. At least some of the consideration will be what will happen with the drivers.

If we don't have a contract (with Ukraine) then all the gas in the pipe goes to European consumers.

If we don't make the finals, I will understand if the board comes to me and says any future contract is terminated.

Ninety per cent of adults have bought into these devices. People tend to replace them every 18 months to two years, whether it's through loss, breakage, theft or the contract expiring.

No airline in the modern era has resorted to contract rejection to get what they want and we will not willingly work without a contract. If they reject the contract, we'll keep all legal options open.

I would have signed for another seven years because I want to stay here forever. But a new contract gives my family security and, if things go well for us next season, I will hopefully be in a position to sign for another year.

Some could say it's a lot cheaper to pay the breach of contract fine than pay for the bus.

Obviously we had been keen to negotiate a two-year contract for Jeff but when Collingwood came in with a four-year deal our hand was forced somewhat. We never wanted to lose Jeff to another club, but we certainly did not want to risk losing him for nothing.

Obviously, we're disappointed we didn't get a contract back from Rodriguez. It was a shock to us. We're still hoping he might be back, but at the same time we've had to move forward and look at different directions.

Of course he's denying it, he's under contract to United, but that doesn't mean he won't be Republic manager when our next competitive games come round.

My contract doesn't say anything (about status), it says that I have to do my best and that the team will give me full support and I have seen that in testing.

My contract doesn't say I'm that kind of runner,

My contract is tied to the City of Boston's wholesale pricing. So it's whoever has the lowest pricing above Boston costs. That usually ends up being a two-year contract, but because of the dynamic of gasoline costs, you can't lock into a price,

My contract with my teachers is fair, and is two pages. The union contract is 200 pages. You cannot manage your business when you cannot make any decision without going back to 200 pages worth of stuff.

My epiphany happened in Guatemala. I was looking to do some volunteer work and considered taking a job planting trees. But then I thought if I was serious about this I could go to London, get an IT contract and pay them to get 200 people to plant trees.

My father never signed another contract with Miller. But Miller had a return receipt that was supposed to be from the post office. It had some signature that nobody could recognize. Miller said my sister, who was maybe 12 years old, signed the contract. This is what he used to keep my father from recording.

No, but we put a rider in our contract that there has to be Pabst Blue Ribbon in our dressing rooms, just because we thought it would be funny.

Never before had I been offered a contract and advance before a word had been written... I went home and began writing 'Julie of the Wolves.'

Now that he's got this Collective Bargaining Agreement done for another six years, I guess he feels like his job is complete. He probably wasn't going to still be on the job when the next contract came up, so this is probably a good time for him to walk away with the league in very good shape financially because of the new TV contracts. He's done an unbelievable job as commissioner.

Now that the contract has been signed, we can concentrate on moving ahead toward our goal of becoming a nationally recognized program.

Now that the contract is done, Yao can concentrate on the game in the next season.

Number one, we have a much better team, a team that went to a bowl game, and we have a celebrity as a coach. Number two, we have a brand-new TV contract with extensive TV opportunities. That's helped a lot.

Numerous factors affect the size of state bureaucracies, including demographics, crime levels and the propensity of states to contract or privatize services such as prisons or solid waste collection.

Now the tobacco grower has more to tend to. I got more business looking at some of their secondary crops. So my success here does come indirectly from the growth of contract farming.

Obviously I think this is a necessary first step because the contract negotiation unfortunately broke off this weekend and doesn't seem likely to be restarted. We have to do something to reopen ports. The impact is going to get much worse over time.

Ricky is under contract to the Dolphins, and we're not going to speculate about any hypothetical speculation.

Right now, his contract is probably 10th or 11th in the Big 12 Conference. We're not asking him to be 10th or 11th in the Big 12, so there are some things we have to look at.

My intention is to have a word with the chairman and extend Lee's contract until the end of this season,

I have been under contract for that long the whole time I've been here.

If the sheriff is cutting the program on drug testing, why are we approving a contract to show videos to inmates?

If we hold the line, Northwest will have to come back to the table and provide a contract that is acceptable to our members.

I didn't believe it at first. I was supposed to sign a new contract that day, and they asked me to wait because they had bigger news.

I didn't want to go to a team to sign a contract and get some money. I wanted to be a part of a family. They made me feel like family. They made me feel needed, like I could come in and help them.

I didn't want him thinking that because we weren't going to talk contract that it was indicative of our feelings toward him. So here we are, and it obviously makes it a little more difficult to get something done. But if there's a desire on both parts, then I'm more optimistic than not.

I don't know, a lot of things can happen in the next few years. He (Alonso) obviously has a contract but you never know what's going to happen. But I don't have any bad things to say about McLaren.

I don't expect by the (parliamentary) recess that he'll have redesigned the IT systems. David Henshaw is not looking at operational issues today. He is not going to recommend that we break away from the contract with our suppliers.

I didn't get drafted my senior year, ... I got offered a contract by the Brewers for $1,500 from Sal Bando. I decided to go to college instead, and it worked out pretty well.

If they refuse to negotiate and our contract is rejected, therefore we would not willingly work without a contract. Therefore, we would choose the time and place to perform a job action.

Leaf got the big contract and that was his utopia - he didn't want to work for anything else. That's what makes this so hard: You don't know how guys are going to respond to financial success, if they will still work hard. If you knew that, you wouldn't have so many busts.

Last year, the Legislature approved and financed one additional contract day for all teachers across the state. We hope they continue that and have even heard of two (additional) days. Teachers have asked for a per diem in that eventuality. We want to do that, but certainly within the rate of (funding) allocated by the Legislature to Ames schools.

Lorenzo is out of contract this summer, and it's fair to say he won't be offered another deal.

The plan was that I was going to retire and take a job with the American Federation, but Nottingham Forest offered me a contract and there was interest from West Ham and another Premiership club.

When we sign a contract with a vendor, laying out a specific schedule for delivery, we expect it to be met,

We need to be advised as to whether there will be the termination of service on the grounds of redundancy for some or all of the workers as a result of the ownership change. If that is not the case, the matter needs to be settled as to whether there will be a renewal of the existing contract of employment, or the re-engagement under a new contract.

We're just going to let them play right now, ... They're under contract for this year and that's something we'll look at.

We're looking at later dates and trying to get a multi-game contract together. I've said for a long time that this is a great series that we need to continue.

Mrs. King has done a super job since 1968, but she will not be able to do that anymore, and the family will not be able to raise that kind of money anymore. So, we have to ask ... do we allow the center to deteriorate to the point where it might have to close, or do we contract with the federal government to provide maintenance, security and upkeep?

Since funding this service is included as line items in both the water and sewer and engineering divisions' annual budgets, only the first year of the contract is funded, ... It is noted within the contract itself that fiscal years 2007 and 2008 are subject to appropriations. The fiscal year 2006 amount is not to exceed $33,940 in the engineering division, the amount of that appropriation, and the same amount in the water and sewer division. The three year total is not to exceed $240,480.

Sir Alex and Carlos made their views known and I can only reiterate what they said. Ruud has a two-year contract with Manchester United and remains very much part of our long-term planning. I saw what came out of Italy yesterday but as far as I am concerned, it is just mischief making.