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.

Mike Johanns

announced without the benefit of a public hearing as to necessity and reasonableness ...

Clive Woodward

I've announced a strong team with over 300 caps between them,

Richard Hills

Teams had started to work him out, packing the outside when he had the ball, so we played him at Gloucester last week after naming Brian Lima and we announced Lima would play in this game. It messed up defensive plans.

Ken Bacon

There will likely to be a Reserve call-up. The details aren't ready to be announced at this stage.

Ida Chong

This is a new program that we announced earlier this year. We asked communities to submit their applications, and of course, we were oversubscribed.

David Harris

Tuesday's audience clapped and cheered when we announced it.

Kathy Deck

I don't think it is terribly surprising, as we have been watching all the announced projects. I think we will continue having a lot of space coming on the market.

Robert Herta

For the remainder of the year, this will continue, toward the 7% that we announced back in November.

Tim Ghriskey

GM's announced cut both to the dividend and to executive pay is not a big surprise. Cuts like this were important to negotiations with the unions for similar types of cuts in unionized pay structure.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.

If life deals you lemons, why not go kill someone with the lemons (maybe by shoving them down his throat).

Jerry Angelo

There will be a few teams that'll come out (fast). I know I've heard of some things going on right now. So there will be some pretty big deals that will come out like in normal years.

Olli Rehn

Turkey's fit to open the negotiations with the European Union,

Russell Means

What the American Indian Movement says is that the American Indians are the Palestinians of the United States, and the Palestinians are the American Indians of Europe.

Sylvia Plath

I decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover, and that I would never learn a word of shorthand. If I never learned shorthand I would never have to use it.

Randy Newman

Asia's crowded and Europe's too old, Africa is far too hot and Canada's too cold. And South America stole our name, let's drop the big one.

Norman Granz

In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland.

Niki Lauda

Vienna is the gate to Eastern Europe.

Klaus Liebscher

I think European integration -- and this is a must for me -- must not be counteracted by nationalist, protectionist measures.

Michael Caine

I think I have the secret of a successful L.A. restaurant, especially now that so many Europeans live there. You have to have a place where they can see out the windows, see the world passing by. Europeans fancy that.

Laurent Fabius

Italy is one of the pillars of Europe and one could be quite worried, ... So I think there is a need for a clarification at the level of the heads of government.

Scott Speedman

Well, when I did Underworld 2, I was in Vancouver for five months and I was reminiscent to be back up there.

Charles III

For those two months of off-season in November and December, it's nice to be able to practice whenever you choose, not when the weather chooses.

Isaac Asimov

What would I do if I knew I only had six months to live? Type faster.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

Mark Holmes

It was a culmination of several weeks of work and several months of research.

Loreen Hewitt

It will probably take him three months to recover.

Dwayne Roloson

I've got two or three months in the summertime for that.

Jacob DiPietre

They've already been in the process of doing that for several months now.

C. S. Lewis

They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.

Dean Young

but nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel remains in the wound, some mud.

Antonya Nelson

Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the other side — wiser, warier and weathered like the landscape.

David Bowie

There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid as to what they think about it and I've taken their analysis to heart so much that I have taken up his thing. Writing what my audience is telling me to write.

Andy Roddick

I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.

Anne Hathaway

It takes a minute for me to let my guard down, but once I do and I get to know someone, I'm very open, very trusting. Some might say too trusting, because considering the amount of money that can be made from selling gossip, I could be very easily taken advantage of.

Thomas Sowell

Many bad policies are simply good policies taken too far.

Margaret Mead

If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages?

Michael O'Leary

The unions need to be taken on. British Airways is massively over-staffed and has got to get its costs down. . . . The problem for [chief executive] Willie Walsh is that the board of BA has no spine, no balls and no vision.

Keith Olbermann

And the White House, totally off the script.

Carolyn Sime

It's totally inappropriate for wolves to be that close.