Very optimistic for the strong momentum we have.

Even with their combined support, the cost of mounting a production has proved to be too much. We have continued to do fine productions, and I've found it even more challenging because we have to adapt productions to the recital stage, and yet we're doing full productions with sets, lights and everything.

We feel very good about delivering solid profitability while reaching our goal of 4 weeks of channel inventory ahead of schedule.

Many of them made the ultimate sacrifice for their country and we must never forget what they have given to us.

Remains very strong, with over $4.3 billion in cash.

The consumer market is pretty soft. We are seeing things similar to what our competitors are.

All three of us had a vision for an exceptional opera program.

I couldn't ask for a more wonderful opera to end my tenure.

We're delivering solid profitability while maintaining lean channel inventories in a weak economic environment, ... Our balance sheet remains very strong, with over $4.2 billion in cash, and we are targeting a slight sequential increase in revenues and earnings per share in the September quarter.

Our cash position remains very strong at over $4 billion, and we are planning a return to sustained profitability beginning this quarter.

The consumer needs to show up for the holiday season for the personal computer industry to do well in the December quarter.

I'd like the chance to do a little more performing before I become too old.

All I'd heard for two months in the trenches was the hissing, cracking and whining of bullets in flight, machine-gun fire and distant German voices.

What we believe will continue to be a tough economic environment.

We would do a tour into the elementary schools every year, and then we did another kind of program where upper level students were brought into E.J. Thomas for a performance. What the Children's Concert Society did was share the cost with us, so although we were just doing excerpts, we could do it in a full production sense with orchestra and costumes.

But there was a dead silence that morning, right across the land as far as you could see. We shouted 'Merry Christmas,' even though nobody felt merry. The silence ended early in the afternoon and the killing started again. It was a short peace in a terrible war.

I prefer to wait until we complete the quarter.

Represented the generation of young Scots who fought in the First World War, and endured unimaginable horrors.

When Tim and I moved back to Illinois in 2003, my little brother started playing on bass. It was nice when my brother joined the band. It seemed like things really clicked and came together with him on bass.

One of my favorite tunes we cover is by Barry Cowsill, an artist I recently got into. He was a New Orleans native and recently passed away from hurricane Katrina.

As soon as we change the first light bulb, they'll start saving money.

And everything after that is just cost savings.

Hopefully, in a year, when we come back to Iowa City, it'll be tough to get in the door because people want to come out and hear us. The goal is to keep building, and that takes time.

'Peanuts' made us realize that our emotions, frustrations, hopes and dreams are common to us all, ... And as we pay tribute today to this good and humble man, let us remember that what made Sparky unique was his honesty, the strength of his character and the humor which he brought to his work and to his life.

We own the building, ... We as owners need to set an example.

That's a staggering amount, when you consider that the federal government purchases about $5 billion of electricity per year.

We pulled toilet rooms out towards the hallway. That puts the patient zone further away from the corridor to cut down on noise, and then when janitors come to clean the rest rooms they don't have to come all the way into the room and it's less disturbing to patients.