Stack Quotations

I grew up in a household without a TV. We lived next door to a library for a while, and at one point, I checked out all the books in the fairy tale section. I remember the librarian's quiet smile as I'd bring back one stack and exchange it for another.

As the words of my book, 'The Bloodless Revolution,' accumulated, I envisaged a parallel growth: the stack of pages they would have to be printed on, thousands of times over; every page representing a slice of forest, a belch of fumes and a squirt of toxic ink.

You don't have to play a whole lot of guitar to be a good blues player. Some people plays too much guitar. Stack it on top of each other the way it don't - you're working too fast. Blues not supposed to be played fast. Blues supposed to be played slow. You could kill a man with just one chord.

I have a stack of scripts that I've read - I'm in the lucky position where I get offered things - but I haven't wanted to direct many of them.

My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'

As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.

I'm really quite conscious of clothes and the way they fit and don't regret wearing anything. Not even the five-inch stack heels I wore with three-button high-waisters at comprehensive school. Regret is for wimps.

I have a stack of those plastic card hotel room keys that I picked up on this latest book tour. It's about a yard tall. Ah yes, a stack of lonely nights.

Note to academics: Aristarchus' track record of astronomical research would probably have guaranteed him tenure somewhere, if tenure had been invented. His stack of reprints included measuring the distances of the Moon and Sun.

When you consider the power of these units and then think of four separate devices that you'd have to make room for, or stack on top of each other, they really are quite small for what they do.

Most physicians are on top of the paperwork for the first two patients they see in the morning and then fall behind. By 5:30 or 6:00 they stop seeing patients and tackle a stack of paperwork.

I have a whole stack of them I have 70 or so in my hand. We have great kids and great teachers who recognize these kids.

He knows it's not permanent. Stack has been one of our best hustle players. He's wrapped up in that mode of being an offensive player. Sometimes you don't notice the hustle plays.

To come within three-tenths of a point to the No. 2 team in the country is something to be very proud of. Florida is a great team, and now we know where we stack up.

We may find that it's a wastewater plant operator or our parks employees whose pay we need to adjust higher. We'll know that better after we do a significant survey of 10 or 12 cities that we think we should stack up against.

We look at it as a tremendous challenge, an opportunity to play one of the great programs in college basketball and see where we stack up.

If the state really was interested in stopping underage drinking, they would have some type of class where they would give them a stack of IDs and tell them to figure out which one is real and which one is not.

When they opened the door a whole stack of Hustler magazines flew out into the street. He was clearly busted, clearly shaken, clearly embarrassed.

He gave me a stack of batting gloves. He said, 'Mike, if you need anything, you let me know.' I would see him other times, and he would tell me he heard I was playing well. He was always real cool. It's a shame he got a bad rap.

Just my game-plan folders (are saved). I have a stack of those through the years. I'm not a big memorabilia guy. My office may look cluttered, but it's not from memorabilia.

Stack was solid, man. Stack was energized. He was ready to play. He was right in his comfort zone tonight. That's what we need from him on both ends. Obviously, he scored a little bit, but nobody will talk about how he battled those guys on defense.

Jim and I talked before the game (Monday) about this. It just doesn't make sense. Too many good teams. It's too difficult to stack the deck against people.

Just being out there and playing with the pros is an honor. It's a great way to measure your game and see how you stack up with the pros.

Our guess is around 100 units and that most were empties. One container had fallen from the stack onto the train adjacent to the facility. A small number of containers on the ground were in approximately 2 feet of water and any cargoes inside would be effected.

My mom and I had to sneak Fred into the hotels. We'd be driving all day, it would get to 8 o'clock, and Mom and I are smuggling in this large cat carrier and a stack of these disposable litter boxes.

My name is actually Polish. It's my husband's name. Most people say 'Zaw-stak,' but it's 'Show-stack,' like you're going to a show, eating a stack of pancakes.

I think they'll be fine. Sometimes a short preparation can almost be beneficial, because you tend just to concentrate on what you need to do to play well. They also have a stack of representative players in their team and those guys are quite accustomed to backing up within a few days. We won't be taking them lightly.

Josiah Johnstone ran out of his head. He did a great job. We took a lot of points from them in the field events and they started to stack up. To come that close to them, even when we were not in the ball park, I'm really pleased, especially with the boys winning both relays.

I think the most interesting thing about these results is that while Giuliani and McCain both stack up well against Democrats at this point, they both have problems with the rightwing and fundamentalist segments of their party,

I still have my problems but I try and deal with them a bit better now. I don't let them ride on for a month then realise I've got a stack of them.

I think he's done a good job, ... He's got a vision. He's got a plan, and he sticks with his plan. I think for all those reasons, and the fact that he's a very hard-working guy -- I'd stack him up with anybody in that GM's capacity -- he deserved this.

I think that's important against Detroit Lakes because they will stack one line and we can match that, and if they don't we can match them either way.

I think we could stack up. I don't know how it would be to have the whole world looking over your shoulder.

I think I stack up well. We're all bunched up right now, but this is a chance for me to separate myself from the pack. I'm working out today, I'm doing everything, and hopefully I'll be able to pull myself away from the pack.

It always helps playing against a good team like that and seeing how you stack up. I don't think anybody was really upset or anything about the loss, not like some of the other games we lost earlier in the season.

We'll have a lot of flexibility to be able to let the forces stack on top of one another during the rotation (of troops in and out of Iraq) so that we can have a greater capability during key points.

We know it's a tough tournament, obviously you've got a lot of good teams in it. We're just gonna have to play well. We feel like we stack up with just about everybody.

You can enjoy it or use it as a burden, another stack of bricks on your back. We take it as a compliment. We're not going to hide.

We forecast strong spending on software applications in calendar year 2001. But the priority stack has shifted towards supply chain/B2B collaboration and select areas of CRM/content management. We believe the heavy damage is already done. While we can't call the absolute bottom, we believe we are nearing the trough.

We've got quality guys competing for spots on the 25-man roster that can fill in at many different positions. These are versatile guys that know how to play the game and defensively stack up with anyone out there. I think we'll be just fine.

We are not a pretty team and to be successful we have to do the little things. We need to stack some wins together because playing .500 won't get it done the rest of the way.

When you're pregnant, you go out and buy every single book; you have this stack of books on your nightstand, but there was nothing that was preparing me for anything even remotely resembling what my life was going to look like.

When you stack up what he's spending next to his cabinet colleagues, Mr. Volpe's spending is out of line and he should be reined in.

We do a lot of reading. I've got a stack of old Irish cookbooks from my mom, and basically you tweak it from there.

We've worked hard in the off-season building the new car. We did a shakedown at Savannah to see how the systems work, then came to Daytona and we'll see how we stack up.

We know that (Serrano) is a legitimate baseball team. We did want to have some kind of a measuring stick for ourselves. They're a little bit of a different class than what we've been facing, so we wanted to see how we stack up.

We view this favorably for Red Hat, given our view that Red Hat will need to move up the infrastructure stack and add a database, application server, portal, and integration technology to deliver an open-source infrastructure stack to compete with that of BEA , Oracle , IBM and Microsoft .

This will be a good challenge for us early in the season, ... We'll get to see how we stack up against some of the top programs in the country.

We'll be a lot more wide open offensively. We can line up and run a power game if we want to and also use the finesse game if they stack up against the run.

What we're looking for is to have small businesses apply standards that are reasonable in light of the information that they're storing. There's no business around that would leave a stack of money on a table, for people to just walk in and take. What we're really saying is that information about consumers, about your customers, is the new currency.

We're focused on our program, making our stuff as good as we can make it and then we'll find out how we stack up against the competition.

When I was a kid, they had six hockey teams, they had eight to 10 basketball teams. The teams played each other once, twice a week. Maybe we should stack (the schedule) a little in terms of conference games.

Current budget procedures stack the deck in favor of program expansion without regard to the burdens imposed on current or future taxpayers.

Every show wants to be like Friends, and so you've got these shows that literally are so much alike you could stack them on top of each other.

A story can be a fortification. It protects you, gives you a world view so that you can stack one day on top of the next,

As the open-source stack grows and grows and takes over more areas, there's less money available in packaged products.

These companies have to be sitting there trying to figure out competitively how they stack up at this point.

The stars are aligning to put Wisconsin on the biotech map, and we'd stack our science at UW-Madison up with anybody in the world.

The question mark in investors' minds has been will this year stack up as strong as 2005. This adds certainty that it will be another very strong year for them.

We've got three pedals in these cars and the middle one is the brake, ... As many times as he's been drafting here, he knows that you always stack up at the end of every straightaway. It's the way the draft works.

We've got three pedals in these cars and the middle one is the brake. As many times as he's been drafting here, he knows that you always stack up at the end of every straightaway. It's the way the draft works.

This smoke stack is going to be in the river soon, if we don't do something.

We all see the mills and all the stack lumber and it would be hard to think we would be in a bind, but realize even before this catastrophe, lumber had a high demand on it.

There is no reason to fear the wind if your stack of hay is well tied

Boys singles is stacked. Only the No. 1's play the No. 1 so it shows players how they stack up with others across the state.

Towards the end of 2006 and into 2007, you're going to start to see integrated ILM and CDP solutions, where CDP literally feeds the ILM infrastructure. Everything flowing through a CDP stack makes it really easy to apply policies to the data without impacting the online data flow. And that's where I think you really start to see the power of this. Not just in the instantaneous recovery or the DR components of it, but the long-term ILM integration.

We are very, very pleased the jury was able to see through this insanity defense, ... It was a stack of excuses.

A couple of times a year, we think it's important to reach out and see what we can do against teams at the top of our division. This game gives our guys a chance, even on an individual basis, to see how we stack up and where we are at the beginning of the season.

Of larger significance is that this initiative fuels the potential adoption of a certified Red Hat Linux stack within U.S. government departments and agencies. For instance, Red Hat offers certificate management, clustering and other applications on top of Linux.

With the announcement today, Sun is making an early move to capture the growing integration market with a complete and affordable Java ES stack to address both security and integration, two of the leading concerns for IT managers today, ... Adding the premier suite for integration and composite application development to the Java ES and then combining with Solaris 10 further establishes Sun as a mainstream, end-to-end provider of software for the development and deployment of enterprise applications. And we're just warming up.

Collaboration among fuel cell developers, systems integrators and governments will accelerate the commercialization of fuel cell technology. Supplying Plug Power with our fuel cell stack strongly supports our strategic decision to focus our efforts on fuel cell development, leaving the systems integration to others.

Auburn is a good team. But most of the teams ranked from 11 to 20 are pretty similar. It?s just a matter of who hits and Auburn has been hitting. We?re looking forward to the challenge of competing against them and seeing where we stack up.

Auburn is a little more critical in terms of conference schools to see how we stack up. Each week our goal is to have the best performance at each conference meet. Our progress is geared toward doing better later in the year.

A tight player raised from middle position. I had to call about one-twelfth of my stack with pocket deuces.

They sort of represented a stack of things that were going to collect dust.

Sometimes it would be a lot (of people). Sometimes it would be just one. Sometimes you'd see a stack of bodies sitting on the side of the road while you're walking.

Trying to buy PeopleSoft was the second-best option for Oracle, ... The best option is for Oracle to become a successful infrastructure firm. Go horizontal and be dominant in infrastructure, instead of going up the stack into applications.

I've always felt Albuquerque has good basketball, and last year proved that. Albuquerque and El Paso are very comparable in talent. Now it's time to see how we stack up again.

I use to worry all the time about being ultra organized. I had to figure out where I was going to get the energy to do everything so things are a little different than when he left. After being in Iraq, I don't think he is going to worry about it if there is a stack of papers sitting here.

This is a chance for us to see how we stack up against the other teams in our district. This is one of the few tournaments where you put both your varsity and JV kids on the mat, which is the format used at district.

In all the years I was in the legislature -- and I'll swear this on a stack of Bibles -- he never asked me to do anything or vote in a particular way, other than he always wants us to build more roads in the mountains.

I've got a stack of them. I'm trying to get a feel for what I like and don't like.

I'm usually reading too many books - in fact, I'm usually reading enough books that if the stack fell on me, I'd be injured.

I'm not thin, but I'm strong - plus my balance is such that I can navigate a flight of stairs with a basket of laundry and a stack of Pottery Barn catalogs, vaulting over cat-and-dog hurdles, never once spilling my coffee.

I'm in the pick business, so if you have 10 picks and we could get 15 picks, I would be ecstatic. But you have to have somebody else to trade with. I just think its a deep draft. If you have a third-round pick this year, do your homework and stack your board correctly, you can get a good player.

If we call them and they're unable to communicate, we'll make a stack of those people and have someone contact them who can speak Spanish. We want to make sure everyone's registered and aware of what's going on.

The bar has come up, and it's going to be very competitive. We stack up reasonably well in the morning round. Our chief competitor in the morning round is Russia.

Everyone has called. I think Leroy Kelly called. We're not going to rush into anything. We're going to see how our guys stack up, then I'm sure we'll be looking to see what's available out there.

Tackling long-term challenges can do more than help us avert the kinds of crises that stack up on a National Security Advisor's desk.

It's really hard to gauge where each team is at this point. Until we start league play, and start seeing how well we stack up against each other, (it's) really hard to tell.

It's tough to tell how we'll stack up against the other teams, but we're prepared.

They can stack the box, but that means one-on-one coverage for (wideouts) Eric Moulds and Lee Evans . If they feel they can do it, go ahead and try, ... J.P. is going to shock a lot of people.

I really think we're going to be a contender. I have no doubt about it. Even with as many new players that might make the lineup, the championship isn't until the end of April and we'll have a lot of time to work and develop their games. I think the tournament will be an interesting shootout and I'm interested in getting out and playing with them (the league) to see how we stack up.

By the time I reached the sixth form at my local grammar school, my father would glower at me every time I passed him with a stack of books under my arm, warning me there was no money to go to university.

Can't argue those two. But I think we stack right up there with those guys.

I love my lecture tours. I get up onstage. I have my stack of books and a glass of water and a microphone. No podium, no distance between me and the audience, and I just talk to people and get all excited and tell a lot of jokes, and sing some songs, and read from my work and remind people how powerful they are and how beautiful they are.

But we are happy to acquire technologies where they help us fill out the pieces of the stack that we can plug in, without causing problems for our development team or customers.

I don't think I'm going to be tossing down a short stack before I go and run 26 miles.

I read more books for research purposes, whether it's a fictionalized biography of Johannes Gutenberg or a stack of urban fantasies.

It was hard enough already, and my guess is that it's going to get a lot harder to run the ball in the immediate future. If they stack the box, and make up their mind that you're not going to run the ball, I don't care who you are, you're not going to run the ball.