Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Skains

We are talking about activity 100 miles or more offshore that will not be seen, heard or smelled.

Yun Qian

The pollution (that) resulted from human activity may have created a haze which absorbs and deflects the sun's rays.

Brian Gordon

Through the first half of 2005, supply and demand has remained in relatively stable balance. However, compared to historical activity levels, the amount of space completed this year has been somewhat modest, but we expect the pace to quicken during the second half of this year.

John Augustine

The trading and the underwriting activity looks favorable.

Travis Bradberry

Many companies restrict Internet activity so heavily that it makes it difficult for people to do online research. The most obvious example? Checking the Facebook profile of someone you just interviewed.

Andrew Gould

Severe winter weather in the Russian and Caspian geo-markets curtailed activity significantly for a three-week period in January.

Mamoru Yamazaki

Sentiment going forward is cautious, which seems to be a trend in this economic recovery cycle, but capital spending plans are firm, indicating that companies are continuing to push ahead in business activity despite a cautious stance.

Judd Gregg

So far, to be honest, there is not a working majority in the Congress to do any aggressive activity in the area of spending restraint, especially on this,

Matt Bitonti

So it's a very seasonal activity - and it would be hard for most people to make their income purely on that.

Sean Ross

As for how far it stretches, it's too soon to tell yet. So far, what we know is that it transcends national heritage among Hispanics.

Steve Jobs

Apple had a terrific quarter -- we sold a record number of Power Macintosh G3 computers, customers love our new PowerBooks, Apple earned its highest profit in years and we ended the quarter with the lowest inventory level among the major PC players,

John Ruskin

The weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which worthily used, will be a gift to his race forever

Yingxi Yu

The weaker (gold-dollar) correlation late last year and early this year was due to the overwhelming enthusiasm among the speculative community to drive prices higher.

Frank Cappiello

The whole closed-end market is based on psychology, ... There's still a lot of hope among the investors who don't want to sell.

Chuck Armor

This gives us a range of things we could do. Some of that is pretty big dollar amounts. The next step will be ... how do we choose among those options and how do we pay for it?

Margaret Spellings

That's why the Department has pledged $14 million to gather the best practices among the states and to better assess and better measure these kids.

Abdul Zaeef

That the opposition forces have made advancement is a mere lie. The opposition have no support among the people. If the opposition had made ... any advancement towards us ... it would have been reported in the media.

Marc Levy

That Norway has fallen to 18th place is not good, but you are still among the 20 best nations. The study gives a clear message about how Norway must improve its efforts. But the study also shows that the world has a major, shared problem. Even the best nations would not get better than a 'B' if this had been a school exam, no one got an 'A'.

Dan McCabe

We missed a lot of chip shots in the first half. We had a lot of good looks but they weren't falling. We missed a lot down the stretch.

Terry Gough

He's mean as a snake, has a big chip on his shoulder and can fly. That's the perfect football player.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Jamie Koch

The money this is coming from is already there. We're just honoring his contract.

Danny Culler

Coming to the checkered. Watch your mirror. Watch your mirror.

John Gibbons

Coming in we knew we had a good one,

David Perkins

Now, gas prices, ... they go to $10 to the gallon, we're still coming to the races.

Tom Pardalis

Ryan and Greg are giving us great senior leadership on a young team. This team is learning and understanding how to play hard all game long. That is coming from the seniors. Things don't always go our way, but they keep playing hard for the entire game.

Shaun Ellis

Sacks, they come in bunches, ... Once they start coming then we'll get them. We just have to get more opportunities. Right now we're worried about stopping the run. Sacks, that's the last thing on our minds.

Bruce Bochy

Ryno's come off a pretty good week. He knocked in some runs. I don't want to let him get rusty after coming off a pretty good week.

Brandon Rush

Russell coming back in was a real big deal. He helps relieve the pressure a lot on me and Mario (Chalmers, 21 points of 6-of-9 shooting and 6-of-9 free throwing), and he's starting to become a real good scorer. He was ready to get back out there. He was pretty mad about getting the two fouls.

Ren Zamora

Other companies have been able to fight pricing pressure, which is good. If all the companies started cutting prices, you don't want to go down that road.

Marc Maiffret

Companies like Microsoft are not equipped to deliver protection in a timely manner.

Guy Kawasaki

Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.

Bruce Evers

Companies haven't assessed the damage fully and it may be that refineries stay shut for months. The European Union is moving crude and products to the U.S., but at some point it's going to have to replace that, leading to higher demand in a marketplace that is already very tight.

Boris Boehm

Companies are restructuring to make themselves fit for the future. Investors are looking for companies that are engaged in that process. It's a positive.

E. B. White

These events that we are seeing in Asia, the depreciations are inherently deflationary and many of the larger U.S. companies are the ones that do have exposure within their earnings mix to Asia. Those earnings are going to be tough to grow probably over the course of the next 12 months.

P. James

The seed companies have been really responsive. That's a new thing at a farm show -- having the equipment demonstration right next to the dealers' booths. That's one of the fantastic things about the Tipton County Fairgrounds.

Clark Yingst

The stocks I would watch would be the wireless companies like Qualcomm and Motorola.

Jason Schenker

The stock market is reacting to the strong earnings reports we've seen earlier today. But sooner or later, companies may have to start passing through the increase in energy costs or be hurt by it.

Edward Lincoln

So there's a different group of people managing the Japan relationship.

Bill Cowher

I've been waiting a long time to do this. This is yours, man. This is special group of coaches, a special group of players and I was a small part.

Shelia Smith

This is the first time we have ever reached the second round here. This is a different group than what we've had in the past, but we still seemed a little nervous today.

Lao Tzu

The well-run group is not a battlefield of egos.

Jason Muzzatti

This group is a little better than the Devils.

Ira Zuckerman

You're one person and I could have a group of loans that will go to that bank.

Michael Emerson

We just say there are five, you know, racial groups in the US. I say that these folks are what we call a sixth American. There's something different. They are somebody who - they don't exist in any particular racial category, so they all feel it and they kind of congregate to each other.

G. H. Hardy

For those of us who live here, it's group therapy.

James Knowles

For what we had returning, because I lost three starters (from last year) and we have a young group of sophomores, it has been an outstanding season.

Alice Cooper

There was a period of time when I thought I had to be Alice Cooper all the time.

Mahela Jayawardene

We know it is a period that we have to rebuild.

David Cutcliffe

That's probably the one position that has stayed the same the most over that period of time.

Javier Solana

We would like very much to support President Abbas at this period of time. This is what we are going to do today.