Overhead Quotations

It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.

I love lamps. I can't stand overhead lighting. I have to have everything on a dimmer.

Remember when you were in school and the teacher would put a picture under an overhead projector so you could see it on the wall? God, I loved that. Tellya the truth, I used to look at that beam of light and think it was God.

Do you know what the overhead is of the Medicare system? One-point-zero-five percent. Do you know what - private insurance is 30 percent in overhead and profits? Given a choice how I'm going to improve health care, I'm going to take it away from private insurance profits and overhead. Wouldn't you?

Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base.

My attitude is: it's about time they start doing things about their overhead and costs.

One of the primary purposes of this rapid branch expansion has been to take advantage of opportunities as they become available in attractive markets. Although these new locations have increased overhead expenses, we are confident they will contribute to profitability within the next few years.

My father's originally from Buxton (N.C.), and he loved those geese flying overhead. His favorite were the Canadian geese. He could go out there and honk just like one. And on the day of my daddy's funeral, when the hearse pulled up our driveway, a flock of Canadian geese flew overhead in a V formation, honking away. I could almost reach up and touch them they flew so low.

Money always comes last. Even though money is crucial you can?t be driven by your overhead - the mortgage, car - but it?s not about chucking it all. Sometimes living what you love is just living simpler.

Now the overhead for running dealerships has grown so much, it costs a lot more to operate all those franchises. If you're lucky, you're making a 1.5 percent to 3 percent profit.

Now, when you go back and retrofit where you have an overhead and you have to go back and put it underground, it can typically cost even more than that.

I'd like to see it keep going, but it's just not there. We're getting less and less people in there and the overhead keeps going up. I don't know what else to do.

If they have good growing space with no overhead utilities, there are still good species of oak that will do well. Willow oak is an excellent tree. The problem is not having willow oaks but having so many, and so many the same age.

Maybe we should just have a plane fly us around overhead for a few hours so we can stay on this schedule.

Mining equities continued to march higher but overhead resistance is seen in many equities.

Lt. Col. Ronald Stallings told investigators, quote, 'he had no idea,' end quote, that prisoners were being chained overhead for 24 hours and more. What you seem to be saying is that it was common knowledge.

There is a fair amount of discipline and overhead involved in doing work offshore. Issues like configuration management and version control become dramatically more complex when you've got teams several time zones apart.

I run advertisements and sell T-shirts to cover overhead costs and pay the few people who help me out behind the scenes. Anything left over is spent on production costs, animation costs, etc.

Reducing workforce is the toughest business decision a company has to make. We have worked hard to avoid it, but many companies our size and particularly our competitors operate with lower overhead and fewer management layers.

People in their 40s and 50s are saving for their kids and for their retirement. They have the most difficult time saving because they have the most overhead expenses.

I see all the summer gone by with all the administrative overhead of working the gears of state government.

Opening up the joints doing shoulder stretches or overhead stretches.

I think a loaded weapon aboard an airplane, whether it's in the cargo section or in your overhead baggage, is a security issue.

I think we're really committed to looking at a more efficient way to administer the program with lower overhead expenses, so more dollars can go into insuring kids.

I think it's a reasonable premium for both entities. This is an industry where it's tough to justify huge premiums just because it's a very high-asset intensive business, there are high fixed costs and there really aren't much in the way of cost savings that you can justify at the field overhead level or at the retail level.

We've tried different things. I run karaoke on Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays, and my overhead on that is a lot less. My basement bar is a dance club. I have a house system and I pay a DJ, but that's nothing compared to the cost of a band.

Time and time again, Milosevic has taken half steps to avoid the consequences of his actions, ... NATO will be overhead and next door.

The advantage is that we would be able to get cash up front and avoid the overhead associated with billing.

Winona's a physical team. But I thought we had a good game plan going in. They like to do a lot of switching and we caught them a lot on flashes going to the basket. We scored some easy baskets on overhead lobs, and we did a great job of executing our offense the way we wanted to.

While we have made efforts to cut costs in the past, after last quarter we are more determined than ever to reduce overhead at Scholastic.

We can replace it with an overhead system, an underground one or a hybrid. They've been given the costs and it's really up to them to make the choice.

The fact that she pays the overhead of her employees and the foundation itself and just goes out and makes dreams come true ... I think it makes it more beneficial, ... It's a good thing.

I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.

We heard the sound of an engine going overhead and then shortly after we felt a large vibration on the house, almost as if someone was banging into the side of our house.

We'd have a list of charities, and say, 'These are the ones that effective. Which ones do you want to do?' This lets guys vote on where they want to put money, and we can put money in different areas, ... Guys want to see where the money's going to be used, not just that you're giving it to somebody and one half's going to overhead and one's half going someplace else. They want to know that it's being used and used right.

Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.

The Pennsylvania was the first American railroad to lay steel rails and the first to lay Bessemer rails; it was the first to put the steel fire-box under the locomotive boiler; it was the first to use the air brake and the block signal system; it was the first to use in its shops the overhead crane.

The overhead must be reduced. With many airlines the sales runs naturally over travel agencies, and that means an enormous expenditure.

When I was a kid I was always thinking about the planes and birds overhead and I would never win a match.

The really big overhead issue is the merger. There's just a tremendous amount of uncertainty around that. It's hard to get people excited about, or confident about, the stock given the uncertainty around the merger. If it goes through, there's uncertainty around pulling off integration. If it doesn't go through, the leadership of HP is in question.

Human success is a quotation from overhead.

We've been able to get grants to help fund repairs on the homes but our money is a little low for the overhead and for paying two of our employees' salaries here.

We are pretty tough on fees. We are not going to pay a firm more because they have some overhead with a placement agent.

With weak economic conditions around the world, this was a strong finish to a strong year, ... The combination of sharply higher gross margin and excellent overhead control allowed us to provide a healthy increase in total marketing spending worldwide while also meeting our profit expectations.

Crime is an overhead you have to pay if you want to live in the city

Compliance with the Stop Online Piracy Act would require huge overhead spending by Internet companies for staff and technologies dedicated to monitoring users and censoring any infringing material from being posted or transmitted.

Directory-based network access policy is an important innovation for network security. It allows an organization to take advantage of already deployed identity management infrastructure and process as a means of reducing administrative overhead and ensuring up to date policy.

Either way, by realigning Eielson, the overhead to run the base is substantially reduced.

Twenty-two percent gross margins mean that Apple gets more money per machine they sell. That's good. The other thing is that the operating expenses are substantially reduced. That means that the overhead involved in selling the machines has gone down substantially which reduces the break-even point for the company.

These doors are beautifully deceptive, replicating traditional, swinging barn door styles, but open overhead like any other modern garage door.

What they are saying is that they saw three planes flying overhead and heard bombs hitting them. Two of the bombs they said hit two different tractor convoys.

The other day when I was driving over to Edina, there was a bald eagle that flew overhead on Highway 6. There's even a nest documented on the Chariton River.

Even though our overhead is less expensive than out west, if you had to create all the product and rely specifically on the client base downtown, I don't think we could survive.

Every time investors think the Fed is going to be one-and-done, they rally the market 100 points. Yesterday was no exception. The potential for an additional 25 basis points in June faded from over 50% to about 28%. That gave the market the added juice it needed to penetrate serious overhead supply.

Fire raged near the doorway and overhead as they exited the living room of the home.

Delegates crane their gaze at overhead screens. The producers, using fast-cutting close-up shots, have added the narcissistic touch of allowing delegates to watch themselves watch themselves at a convention of people watching them.

A larger company that acquires it can eliminate a lot of overhead and make it immediately profitable.

This increase combined with a reduction in overhead expenses allowed us to build our overall profitability while still investing in even stronger levels of advertising behind our global brands.

Even after significant progress, overhead remains high, some businesses appear difficult to fix, and commodity costs are eating away savings earmarked for reinvestment, ... buy.

Why can't some of the ... helicopters that we have heard flying overhead for days and days and days simply lower pallets of water, meals-ready-to-eat, medical supplies right into downtown New Orleans? Where is the aid?

You need a lot of overhead clearance for all these technologies. The old building had a real low roof deck, and there was absolutely no room to put anything overhead. With this new design, we can continue to grow technologically. We just started an electronic medical records program. We hope to have computerized physician order entry sometime in the next year or so.

I moved the wrong way and I had something overhead and I felt something go in my back.

In tennis, there is the forehand, the backhand, the overhead smash and the drop volley, all with a different grip.

The best investors look for undervalued companies with low overhead costs, long-term growth potential, solid earnings, and low debt.

It's ironic to me that this is being contemplated at the same time the 65 percent rule is being discussed. If you're trying to put more money into classrooms, why would you put more money into overhead and administrative costs?

It's been working really, really well. We both want to reduce overhead and stay viable.

I had been in Ethiopia as a young man, and I ended up donating money to an organization that had done a good job of publicizing the famine, ... I found out later that 40 percent of the donations went for overhead and that angered me.

By that I mean you need to adopt a lower overhead and operating structure.

I don't know how much we'll end up raising. Hopefully, we'll have $10 million. ... All the money we raise will go into somebody's home as opposed to going into overhead and stuff like that.

By merging the brands, we will also benefit from a more simplified operation, reduced overhead costs and more focused marketing resources.

Geopolitical things that keep whizzing overhead are also creating some nervousness.

The geese love it. They've become a nuisance. They're flying overhead over the new restaurants we've got over there and the high school.

The health care system is moving to a privately-owned 'Single Payer' system where patients will have fewer choices, less leverage and higher costs. The number of the uninsured will surely increase has the insurers' control increases. If we are going to have a Single Payer system, why not let the government pay a lot less for better care instead of turning the health care system over to private insurers that take 20 percent for overhead and profit.

You could not see a cloud, because / No cloud was in the sky: / No birds were flying overhead - / There were no birds to fly.

You can see the overhead structures that have been built up to the interstate. We've gotten about as far as we can go and now we have to work over the interstate.

These kind of episodes have taken place. This is not the only example -- but it is the only time we've been able to match actual videotape with overhead imagery.

Aircraft flying overhead that will be one indication that things will change.

Anyone who looks at the overhead photography of these poor human beings, amassing into thousands of people trekking across drought-stricken areas, has to be just heartbroken. It is important that we and other countries assist those people,

They had in there a lot of overhead that really didn't belong in recycling. They took those out.

They don't operate with much of the overhead that a brick-and-mortar school and school district have. They should be a lot less expensive to run.

If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint.

What I saw were two F-16 jets and they were circling overhead a single-engine plane and other jet fighter pilots were banking very quickly. And I saw them fire two warning flares in the direction of the single-engine plane,

Fairy elves, / Whose midnight revels, by a forest side / Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, / Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon / Sits arbitress.

Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked.