Utility Quotations

I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals.

Finally, gentleman, from the considerations above mentioned, as I cannot consistently with my own honor, nor with utility to my country, considering the manner in which Business is transacted here, remain any longer in this chair, I now resign it.

Imagining themes that are specific to coating lines, shapes, shades, thoughts, the decoration of our homes and the objects of utility or pure pleasure, adapting its purpose in a material-specific way to metal or wood, marble or fabric - it is, without any doubt, an absorbing occupation.

In my humble opinion, the PC as we have known it is in a continuous decline and being relegated to a utility device for businesses.

I have never collected an object or figure from Africa or Oceania because of anything curious about it or because of its utility or historic interest. Everything has been chosen entirely because of its aesthetic significance; its form, feeling, structure, and plastic values.

Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.

The fishes are also employed for the same purpose on any yard, which happens to be sprung or fractured. Thus their form, application, and utility are exactly like those of the splinters applied to a broken limb in surgery.

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.

The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

My sense is what they'll do is rework the distribution of work. They've got a temporary problem until the sports utility vehicle (SUV) comes on board.

I was surprised that a storm like Wilma could have the impact on utility infrastructure it did.

I would by very suspicious of any utility company that raises a dividend. We're on the eve of deregulation, and that will cause competition in the area that is going to cost a fortune.

Like everyone else, the school system will have to deal with increased utility costs. We already are running with a deficit from fuel oil for this year's budget.

People who are poor enough to receive LIHEAP benefits, such as elderly widows living below the poverty line, are not in a position to absorb a big increase in home heating costs. If these households don't receive more help paying their utility bills, many of them will face excruciating choices between heating their homes, paying the rent, having enough food to last through the month, and meeting other basic needs. Serious hardship is virtually certain to ensue.

Now try to separate that in your mind from a person who owns hundreds of acres of land, and is now extending a water main through that tract, and still hasn't really thought out exactly the project he's going to build. Why would the extension of that utility vest development rights at that time?

I don't have a clue what his best position is, ... because he is so good in all of them. Usually a utility man is ordinary in every position, but he is brilliant in every position and that is a problem, I can assure you.

Moab Utility/Hosting Suite provides organizations with security, usability and a dynamic utility computing environment. This software will open the door to utility computing for any HPC organization that wants to share resources efficiently.

When he is not pitching he can play anywhere. He is really invaluable to this team not only is he the No. 1 pitcher he is just a utility player that can play anywhere else.

Many of the elderly will pay their utility bills and go without medication without food.

Secure multi-tenancy is the key to utility computing, and now we can scale more securely.

She's out utility player. She can play five different positions in one game. She's the glue of the team.

Given the circumstances and given the experience CL&P has had in dealing with storms, I don't think they did as well as everyone expected. He's the chairman of the committee. I can't force a hearing, but I hope others request a hearing. Even if the utility company performed the way it should have, the public should be informed about how.

Further above inflation rises in fuel and council tax bills are expected to drive up further the costs of owning and running a home this year. Council tax and utility bills will overtake mortgage payments as the largest cost for homeowners this year.

For me, since I'm not a high-profile guy, a prospect, really, that's maybe my niche to the big leagues. Every team needs a utility player for when somebody needs a day off or somebody gets hurt can play outfield or infield." ()

(GM and Ford) have now sucked up all of the available customers through year-end with their employee pricing scheme. And with gasoline, even though it has come down from its highs, at current prices people are sufficiently concerned about heating their homes and putting gas in their car that they're going to buy more sensibly, and they're not going to buy big sport utility vehicles.

Giving people in India, for instance, the opportunity to take out a small loan so they can pay to connect to the water utility in their slum. What we're finding is that even poor people can participate and contribute to solving their own problem. If we replicate this in other countries, like we'll be doing in Bangladesh, and are doing in Kenya, it'll allow a lot more people to get access to safe water.

Capital is readily available, and private equity investors are looking for investment opportunities. By entering into joint ventures with investors, savvy developers can obtain capital at lower costs to acquire land, optimize the timing of lot acquisitions and shift some of the risk of funding necessary for roads, sewers, utility lines and other infrastructure needed for development.

Budget Billing is the easiest, simplest way for customers to better handle their utility bills. They're not going to save money, but it does give them a level bill.

Here at the PUC, we see a kind of gathering storm. Here in the next few months, you will be seeing some sobering utility bills.

What you are talking about is called 'marginal utility to the consumer.' That's what companies invest to try to find: The new feature that a buyer is willing to pay new money for.

We think both the governor and the utility stepped over the line. This is getting into real sticky territory.

We make contributions to good Samaritans. We match everything that comes in here from our customers and so sometimes they can go to good Samaritans and get some help as far as their utility bills.

I am against tying the merger to the rate deal. It is not doing anything to address the underlying, systemic problems in Maryland's utility market.

I always got the feeling that utility lobbyists could get a hearing any time they wanted to and did, and I always got the feeling that the Committee of Consumer Services was barely tolerated, ... In the eight years that I was there, I was probably approached two or three times by a legislator who wanted the committee perspective on something.

He has every confidence that this will occur and so do I. I suspect this will be a case of all is well that ends well and utility services will continue to the property and hopefully everything will be just fine in regards to the bills with the new owners.

Under deregulation, it becomes much easier for these utility companies to claim that this is what our estimated taxes are and we need to recoup these costs. And then they engage in all kinds of tax liability schemes that wind up reducing what they actually owe.

He's arguably the best utility player in the game, and that's where he's been selected for New South Wales and selected for Australia.

He's been what I call our utility man, he can play any position.

There is a leak, a slow leak, and it's being blue-staked for utility services. As soon as that's completed, we'll do a repair on it.

My role on this team is to be the utility guy and I have had a couple opportunities to come in whatever the situation is, then it's back to where I am, ... I understand my role and I am not surprised at all. He is the starting shortstop.

My mother and Myra Doernberg, the mother of our production designer, David Doernberg, were the utility infielders on the team,

Reddit is not a public utility or a public square; it's a privately owned space on the Internet.

SUVs can have the same utility they do today and still be equipped with decent bumper systems that extend down to where they match up with those on cars, ... Until then, motorists who bump into mismatched vehicles, even at very low speeds, will have no choice but to open their wallets.

Our regulated utility business, non-regulated generation business and Fortis Properties all delivered increased earnings in the third quarter,

Large sport utility vehicles are pretty good deals these days - and the money you save will pay for an awful lot of gas.

People are going to have huge utility debts. And they're going to end up, a lot of them, shut off in the spring and summer and they're going to carry that debt into next winter.

Junior running back Jordan Spence played in a utility role last year and must become a prominent part of our offense.

I think (manager Phil Garner ) is trying to push me into my utility-role career, ... He's seen enough of me behind the plate, so he figures if he can make me a utility player, he can get me out of here.

It is going to be absolutely miserable. You will have no electricity, no water, nothing to eat. You will be in 95-degree temperatures, 90 percent humidity, and even if your house survives you're not going to have the normal utility service.

I think that the market is looking ahead to better imports and higher refinery utility next week.

Please look for these notices or contact your utility company. It's important to be part of efforts like this. It says a lot about the community.

Over the course of the past 12 months the operations division of the district has studied utility costs at all sites. Because those costs were comparatively much higher at Old Union Elementary, Eubanks Intermediate and Dawson Middle, we enlisted the assistance of the engineering firm of Estes-McClure to develop possible solutions to this problem. Using the data that was collected, we developed a recommendation for air balancing and reconfiguring the hot water system and advertised for bids.

Our utility bill has gone up by 25 percent this winter.

Our utility rate has not been changed in at least 10 years. In some cases we are selling electricity for less then we are buying it for.

I was thinking about that, trying to maybe work on a utility club the next couple of weeks to use it at Augusta.

I think we have a PR issue, in that people do not think the utility industry has great significant technical challenges. College graduates look at us and see poles and wires, and don't realize there are things like automation, computer control and sophisticated asset management systems out there.

It is something the residents had requested. The return envelope will add a level of privacy and security with their utility bills. It is also an additional avenue to communicate with our residents.

Those investigations and those charges generally relate to a perception by the regulators ... that the city of Venice had become a rogue utility. That, in fact, there were a cadre of employees within the utility who had taken it upon themselves to get rid of the reclaimed water anywhere they could.

We are delighted to welcome this sales team to Silver Spring Networks. Their vast industry knowledge, extensive leadership abilities and proven track record will be instrumental to our success as we continue our growth. Lendon understands the complex and global nature of the utility industry and, combined with Vance, Peggy and Carlos, this team is uniquely positioned to build upon our strong momentum and to make an immediate and lasting impact.

Utility companies provide a public service, but their records are not open to public scrutiny.

Utility costs represent a sizeable increase of the proposed budget request by 75 percent. Our utility costs are up $740,000 over FY06. We are working on a strategic education plan for the schools that will have a vision statement.

Utility stocks are generally used as defensive positions,

We have clear documentation that the line met construction standards under regulations of the state public utility commission.

You can get rid of those utility bills. They have no long-term value. As soon as we throw them away, it's a relief.

While December was a difficult comparison for us and other manufacturers, by any measure it still was a solid sales month. We're particularly pleased with the recovery in our sport utility and full-size pickup business. It gives us renewed confidence as we prepare to launch new vehicles into these key segments in 2006.

We don't set the rates. We tell the Iowa Utility Board what it costs.

We drove for 10 hours on rocky trails out into the central part of Mongolia in a Russian utility vehicle with no shock absorbers. Then we arrived at a remote area where we stayed in a yurt and waited to meet a horse wrangler who was scheduled to bring our rides.

We received 605 phone calls for utility assistance only.

Who is entitled to rents from Fort Trumbull properties or should rents even be paid? Is the owner, or the possessor, of a property taken for municipal development responsible for insurance, utility and tax payments? Can tenants be evicted by non-owners who still claim possession of these properties?

We've gotten to the point now where these companies are well positioned in the generation side to make money, but you're going to have to follow the industry closely to know which ones and when to get out of them. It may sound self-serving, but I really believe that investors should probably not buy individual utility stocks and let a professional money manager do it for them.

We're also having difficulty with people paying their utility bills,

That was not necessary to do what he did to her body. That's a utility to prevent screaming.

That was a surprise. I've been dealing with utility law in this state since 1973, and I can't recall an order like it.

We have had a great deal of Katrina issues. It was a big learning curve for us and people in the utility industry. The most important thing we need to do is ensure people have reliable electric, phone, gas and water services and keep the rates at or below national averages.

We're asking for some reasonable limits for going into the Gulf Coast and dealing with unknowns, ... A contractor goes into an unknown situation to remove debris or fix a utility line, and three years from now someone decides they did it improperly.

We are going to look at potentially sending out the questionnaire with utility bills. That's an option. We'll also try to have something on the city Web site.

Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage.

We have long and cold winters, so people get hit very hard by increased utility and heating costs.

There is legitimate pressure on some utility categories.

Voluntary contribution amounts could be made public through a simple reporting procedure, ... A privately administered program with a direct relationship with utility companies is the best solution.

Traditional SUVs will continue to face headwinds in the coming months, ... Fortunately our lineup of cars and crossover utility vehicles is strong and getting stronger. These categories likely will continue to attract buyers in an environment where gasoline prices are rising.

The project is designed to increase the utility and value of patent pledges and promises in the past year by providing a central repository where intellectual property can be held for the benefit of all. Our goal is to make it easier for developers and industry to take advantage of the good works of vendors, individuals, and organizations who may wish to pledge patents and intellectual property in support of the community.

We're limited to that general area (Five Mile and Beck) because of the needs of the water system, ... This being a state-owned site, with an already existing utility easement right on the eastern border where we're proposing the tank, this made more sense.

We are kind of the sport utility vehicle in this thing. (Our) job is to get the astronauts off the surface of the Earth. The fun stuff happens when you get to the lunar surface.

We're not the little utility we used to be, ... We probably need to do a better job in staffing and operating our facilities.

We are pleased that utility commissions in Wyoming and Utah have approved the transaction. We appreciate the efforts of all parties to the proceedings working together to reach agreements that are fair and equitable to all stakeholders.

The credibility and utility of the initial ESRB rating has been seriously undermined.

The real utility we see in the wireless world is the whole mobility issue. It's going to be a massive area. There are going to be enormous technological shifts.

We're trying to make it a social utility to the nation,

Web users are conducting more searches not because they can't find what they're looking for, but because search as a utility has become deeply ingrained into people's everyday lives.

While recent natural disasters emphasize the need to plan for catastrophic events, businesses can be disrupted by more frequently occurring crisis including fires, floods, power, utility or technology failures.

This represents a modest increase. Again, we have our long-term projects that we have been working on since 2003 but, realizing that fuel and utility costs have increased, the finance committee has been very restrained with whatever it could.

This represents a significant improvement over conventional heating appliances and grid-supplied electric power, and will ultimately provide consumers with a savings in their utility bills.

Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it.

There is no question that the demand for traditional sport utility vehicles has been affected by rising gas prices.

Years ago I used to commiserate with all people who suffered. Now I commiserate only with those who suffer in ignorance, who do not understand the purpose and ultimate utility of pain.

We're being asked to bail out the utility companies for billions of dollars, but they're not worth billions of dollars.

We are seeing a lot of people who are cutting back on other necessities - food, medication - to meet their utility bills.

We've actually got utility crews in from Canada.