Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Augustine

The trading and the underwriting activity looks favorable.

Jane Salmon

By the time they meet their very own Reading Buddy, the teens are very well prepared. The hour the two spend together becomes an activity both partners really look forward to each week.

Steve Smith

The impetus for the structured activity program was really an effort to get all students moving in a structured way every day.

Wilhelm Ostwald

The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of aging decline.

Ed Moloney

The IRA's criminal activity will be hard to hide but easy to deny, ... may even intensify.

Bible Bible

And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee: / The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.

John Dean

Not since Richard Nixon stiffed the Congress during Watergate has a White House so openly and arrogantly defied Congress' investigative authority. Nor has any activity by the Bush administration more strongly suggested they are hiding incriminating information about their relationship with the now-moribund Enron, or other heavy-hitting campaign contributors from the energy business.

Lisa Shirk

It's been our goal for several years to treat the whole patient, to work as a team, as opposed to individuals, to find out what the patient did at home and to incorporate that activity into therapy.

Jeff Justice

It's an adjustment in the market. Closing activity lags sales activity.

David Watters

Its becoming an extraordinarily diverse and multicultural area,

John Norris

Also, our seniors are becoming leaders on the floor, and that's hard to teach.

Kurt Barnard

This has become far more important today. Kids are becoming more independent.

Matt Sylvester

They say the older you get, the more you become like your parents. It's scary. I'm becoming just like him. I've got a little bit more hair.

Ann Smith

It's not so much that there is an increase, but that more of its users are becoming adults rather than going off at about 18 or 19.

Jessica Alba

It's not like a real X-Games sport yet; it's kind of on the brink of becoming one, I think. And I don't want to talk about it, because I want to come out with the game and show people what it's all about.

Mike Foley

It's normalizing, you might say. It's not getting bad. It's becoming normal, and this is great news, I think.

Kevin Hart

For me, it's about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That's what's big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I'm in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

Kathy Bates

For me as a director, it was important to create this couple as truthfully as I possibly could. Because as she's becoming more comfortable with her new life and her newfound freedom, their professional life is falling apart.

Bill Bradford

There have been a lot of people behind the scenes working on dinners, staging flowers and flags. They're also having trees come in, they're going to have a tree representing each campus, and then there's going to be a grove somewhere on the campus where the trees will be planted.

Sherwood Smith

What is interesting to me is looking at how male and female writers depict men who, come in behind to fill those domestic duties, deal with personal and cultural lack of respect for doing what is lingeringly perceived as 'women's work.'

Paul Takemoto

We got a late start, and we did fall behind early, but we have since made up that ground.

Nick Fry

We can now put the uncertainty of the past few months behind us and focus on the future, which looks very exciting indeed.

Stephen Richards

We want to deal with this up front, ... The goal is to be able to frame the size of the matter. These are historical financials from prior management; it has nothing to do with the current business. We look forward to getting this behind us.

Tommy Richardson

We were one step behind them as a defense.

Matt Smith

We just don't always play the best defense behind him.

M. Hopper

We knew if we kept it close, we would have a shot. We don't quit. We've been behind in close games before.

Andrew Engel

We knew if we got on top of them early, they wouldn't have the firepower to come back. It felt great tonight to have everyone behind us and all the fans screaming. I mean, everyone was playing well. We were supporting each other and playing hard. It just felt great tonight.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did, ... I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

Mike Burgess

People can register the day of the race, but it's like anything else. You have to stand in line. It's always best to pre-register.

Kevin English

Competing in this event is going to raise his confidence level. He got to see what he needs to do to get past some of the best talent in the state. There are no easy matches once you get here.

Allan Schweyer

Companies recruiting for growth can't risk losing their best talent to competitors. They must also remain focused on aligning and engaging employees. This session provides an opportunity to learn how to implement systems that help engage and retain employees--from an expert in talent management.

Rick Carlisle

Detroit is very motivated for a lot of reasons. They're fighting for the best record in the league. They dropped a game to us, which will make them more motivated to win. We have to play our game and play it well.

Roger Farah

Despite our best efforts and the hard work of the F.W. Woolworth team, the business continued to lose money.

O. Singh

Despite our best effort, it is possible that nothing will happen and that getting a permanent seat at UNSC would not be a cakewalk,

Anthony Marra

Despite my best efforts, word that an American tourist was in town quickly made its way around Grozny. That I had come to Chechnya not for business or NGO work, but to see the sites and meet the people, was notable enough to be broadcast throughout the republic.

David Shove

Despite its best efforts, HCA hospitals experienced weaker profitable admissions, intensifying local competition, higher operating costs and fast-rising uninsured patient volumes. HCA's fourth-quarter performance showcases the hospital industry's increasingly turbulent and tumultuous environment.

Kenenisa Bekele

It was a little bit difficult for him he is very young. I help him, we train together. I hope for him in the future he has a lot of talent.

Chris Mooney

These days, things are different, and young women and middle-aged women would like to see a woman governor. That's why I say this kind of gives her a bit of an edge in that direction.

Firas Askari

The stock market declines are a little bit scary. People want to take the dollar weaker.

Donald Selkin

The statement wasn't that negative, but it was a bit clumsily worded. They reminded people of the dangers.

Bruce DiVaccaro

I spend quite a bit of time looking at ducks. I gaze around and spend a lot of time there.

Kelly Reilly

I started freaking out before it went in. If it hadn't gone in, I would have been a little bit embarrassed.

Richard Petty

I see two or three cars that are really good, but they're not dominant. There's usually somebody who's got one that's a little bit better than everybody.

G. H. Hardy

I see things a little bit differently now because of my son.

Nicolas Massu

I see some videos the last days from Chile. The people get a little bit crazy because they are very happy. They are the first two gold medals in the history of Chile. Tennis now maybe gonna be the most important sport in the country. There are a lot of kids now trying to play tennis.

Terry Goodson

I don't how to explain how I feel right now, I am pretty excited. The kids worked their butts off all week. They played four straight days and every day they have been at practice at 11:30 every day and worked for an hour and half. I am so proud of them. I think they wanted it more.

Hunter Hall

I just hope we make their weeks or their days or their months.

Sandra Navarro

His days of dictatorship are over. Justice will now prevail.

Kate Christensen

I regretted the solitary nature of the writer's life - other people, normal working people, spent their days with co-workers, rode the subway home with a crowd, walked through thronged streets. I worked at home, all by myself.

Mesut Ozil

I love playing football. So I go out to play football, and I don't really feel pressure. Of course, there are some days when things just don't work out as well as they do on other days, but that doesn't have anything to do with pressure.

Oscar Wilde

I know not whether Laws be right or whether Laws be wrong; all that we know who live in goal is that the wall is strong; and that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.

Dr. McCollum

I know it is hard to do, but they need to be thinking about contingencies 30, 60 or 90 days down the road." ()

Devin Harris

I hope I can play, but I don't know. The two days off will help.

Alex Perez

I have to pay attention. Every three days I have to put gas in it.

Bella Thorne

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

John Taylor Gatto

Close reading of tough-minded writing is still the best, cheapest, and quickest method known for learning to think for yourself... Reading, and rigorous discussion of that reading in a way that obliges you to formulate a position and support it against objections, is an operational definition of education... reading, analysis, and discussion is the way we develop reliable judgment, the principle way we come to penetrate covert movements behind the facade of public appearances.

Mason Cooley

Reading gives you some place to go when you have to stay where you are.

Margaret Mahy

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.

George Jackson

The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates.

Jeanette Winterson

Reading is a rendezvous with your soul.

Jeff Abbott

The nicest notes I've received from readers are those that tell me I've gotten them back into reading for entertainment. For me, there is no greater compliment.

Jeaniene Frost

You know, in addition to your mind-reading abilities, I may have absorbed some sluttiness from your blood,

Jeffery Deaver

I think a lot of young aspiring writers get misdirected; they think 'I ought to write this, even though I enjoy reading that'. What you have to do is write what you enjoy reading.

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Robert Herjavec

I own a Ferrari race team, and we race all over North America.

Richard Branson

I learnt from an early age the need to delegate responsibility out to other team members as there is just too much for one person to do themselves. What is the point of hiring talented team members if you don't give them the freedom to make the most of the chance you have given them?

Rudolf Arnheim

Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.

Steve Case

At the end of the day, the team you build is the company you build.

Thomas Boswell

Some things cannont possibly happen, because they are both too improbable and too perfect. The U.S. hockey team cannot beat the Russians in the 1980 Olympics. Jack Nicklaus cannot shoot 65 to win the Masters at age forty-six. Nothing else comes immediately to mind.

Viktor Yushchenko

I have excellent relationships with Jewish organizations and participate every year in a Hanukkah celebration with my family. There haven't been any anti-Semitic tendencies in my team for a long time.

Vin Scully

The only difference between a winning team and a losing team is one game. The winning team can win two out of three games...the losing team can only win one out of three.

Vince Carter

I don't care how I got here. In the books, when you look at it 10 or 20 years from now, it's not going say how he got here, it's going to say he's here and he represented the team.