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.

Charlie Duggan

We are anticipating between $5 to 7 million for the cost and originally estimated it costing about $4.8 million. We also think that with all the constructing activity with (Hurricane) Katrina that we are anticipating higher prices, just not sure how high they might be. We might have to shift money from other projects if the reconstruction costs more than our expected expense.

Ken Smith

We are very much aware of the potential for gang activity here. So far we haven't seen any evidence of gang participation in the juvenile system.

Scott Davis

We are very encouraged by the amount of new business bid activity currently in the pipeline, now that we are no longer fighting the headwinds of labor uncertainty, ... Consumer confidence will be key to the success of this year's fourth quarter.

Janet Carter

We are going to have a doggone hard time showing a decrease in property values. We are going to have a doggone hard time showing a decrease in economic activity due to sexually oriented businesses.

Tom Badger

We had some activity in March, and based on that we took it off the deferred list and were working on getting it programmed for repair. We were getting ready to do some remedial design work, and it was scheduled to be built in the spring.

John Lister

We wanted a lot of activity and a lot of life on the outside of the building. We thought that this is a project that will expand the downtown down Market Street. This was the next big jump.

Tom Vincz

This type of illegal activity is a real concern and keeps our investigative units busy. It is a problem on the regional and national level.

Shireen Darmalingam

The residential property market continues to be buoyant even though growth in house prices has softened substantially from last year's peak.

Jake Hohl

If you do fall through the ice, a PFD will help you stay buoyant while grabbing the ice picks to get a grip to pull yourself up on the ice.

James Hong

As long as I have the talent and there's a demand for the old Chinese man - whether he's a philosopher, or a master, or an old-time restaurant owner, or a villain, or a so-called good guy - I will always be working.

Jim Bowers

After looking at all of the 500 pieces, I think they were either some sort of game pieces or were used for trading by Chinese workers. I lean toward the game pieces, though.

Jack Ma

What we are doing is to design an on-line search engine for ordinary people, not just the engineers. We are more focused and a totally search engine technology will come to the Chinese market within three to five years.

Timbaland

I listen to a lot of alternative types of music: I listen to a lot of Chinese music, I listen to a lot of Asian music. It might surprise you, but I listen to a lot of Arabic music. And I don't care - music is music.

Tom Verlaine

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

Zhang Xin

It's a good thing that it is getting simpler to register a company in China, it is good that the exchange rate of our currency is getting more flexible and that it's getting easier for Chinese businesspeople to travel. All of this opens up our economy.

Jan Blasko

Higher interest equals higher risks - the Chinese will need time to get used to the concept.

Sellapan Ramanathan

China also has moved away from its original status of purely producing basic, what you call, consumer commodities and Chinese companies are moving beyond China to various parts of the world.

Rebecca MacKinnon

In China's big cities, American products - say, for instance, Proctor and Gamble shampoos or many other goods - are widely coveted by a lot of Chinese consumers.

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.

Larry Seibert

Tech companies in general are going to have a multiplier effect versus the GDP. So as long as the GDP stays relatively strong, tech earnings should be a multiplier of that. If we see the GDP slow down markedly, then we could have a real problem in technology. But we don't see that yet.

Soichiro Monji

Tech companies are still facing a tough time with drops in product prices.

Joe Cooper

Tech companies are not saying that things are recovering quickly. They are saying that things are recovering gradually. But tech stocks are not priced for slow improvement.

Mitsushige Akino

Technology stocks continue to advance, driven by expectations about their earnings. Better-than-expected results at U.S. technology companies are also prompting investors' speculation.

Ray Emery

As an athlete, you have confidence in yourself all the time. I didn't really realize I was going to play this long.

Laura Harper

Our confidence in overtime is out of this world.

Bob Kummer

Developmentally, we still are growing. We still need to learn how to play together and gain confidence together. But we are more hungry and knowledgeable, I think, this year.

Kelly Scott

It was the only shot to make and we made it perfectly. We saw that spot a couple of times earlier in the game so we had pretty good confidence on how it would react. We had luck on our side with the way it reacted.

E. O. Wilson

This gives us a lot more confidence in knowing we can do things.

Michael Turner

This gives people confidence that there are a lot of terrestrial planets which have not yet been discovered.

Mark Bode

This gives people confidence in the results. There's no hand waving in the background. It is what it is.

Marcus Vick

This gives our guys a lot of confidence, by getting two wins in other people's stadiums. It's going to be big when we go back home (this) week.

Jimmy Page

This gives me a lot of confidence in myself. I'm excited, and I can't wait for the years to come.

John Bruno

We hope to make Start even better next year, continuing with a two-day run,

Alex Smith

It feels great to get my first (touchdown pass), no matter where it was, but it was great to get it here. Obviously, a lot of credit goes to the other guys, the receivers and especially the guys up front. Things are going to come together. All we need to do is keep working hard. Being young, I'm continuing to learn and make strides every week.

Yis Gigay

In the middle of my first year I decided that I wanted to open up a Middle Eastern restaurant instead of continuing to study.

Mike Price

And (running back) Jon Lane is continuing to impress me.

Ghazi Hamad

The occupation is continuing the escalation to undermine the work of the new government.

Oliver Purnell

It's nice to see our guys rewarded for continuing to work hard. We'd like for this to be a game that kind of kick-starts us.

Scott Anderson

It's been very enjoyable and I look forward to continuing with this for a long time.

Fred McClure

They could go back. If (Republicans) do it, they'll do it under the rubric of continuing the economic recovery." ()

Charles Schumer

The U.S. Navy cannot, and should not, force the people of Puerto Rico to live in fear for their lives by continuing to use their island for target practice.

Rasheed Wallace

As long as we got the win. We gotta deal with that other (stuff) every night. But we fought through it and got the W.

Brian Baker

After going through what he went through last year, nothing is that big a deal to him. I think now he respects that it's important to win a tennis match, but it's really a small part of his life.

Andrew Larson

Some people make the connection, some don't. It's not something I would ever make a big deal about,

Dave Scott

Right now we're just trying to deal with the needs of the kids.

Steve Fisher

I've said before that this is a family. We're all less than perfect and we've all done things that somebody has to say, 'Hey, that's not right.' You deal with it and move on, and that's what we have done.

Leonard Pope

I've pretty much made my decision. I've talked to my family. Pretty much everybody (has been supportive). It's a great deal right now.

Douglas Alexander

It would be better if we were able to get a deal, but it had to be the right deal. It needs to be the right deal for Britain, and it needs to be the right deal for Europe.

Firman Gani

It would be better if there were a deal to postpone the second edition.

Ken Hamlin

It was tough on all of us just to see him go through that. We didn't really pry into his business, but we just knew things weren't right with his family and we had to let him deal with it however he had to deal with it.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.

Giacomo Casanova

I loved, I was loved, my health was good, I had a great deal of money, and I spent it, I was happy and I confessed it to myself.

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.

Brian Wilson

What they do, they do well. They are pretty goal driven and work hard.

Phil Keoghan

I'm driven by telling stories, I love telling stories.

Ray Neidl

Fuel prices are up, and to a large extent we're being driven by fuel prices.

Evelyn Lauder

I've always been a person who is driven.

Ella Eyre

My mum is very driven and has always kept me busy... She used to say to me, 'Nobody likes a teenager. So use your teenage years to work. Then enjoy your life when you're slightly older.'

Lisa Kleypas

Sooner or later everyone was driven to love someone they could never have.

Shlomo Yosef

The situation is still serious, but it's stable. All the parameters ... are as expected following this type of surgery. Part of the treatment of the prime minister, in order to preserve low pressure in the skull, is sedation and respiration for at least the next 24 hours.

O. Winston Link

I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.

Douglas Anderson

She wasn't expected to live the first week.

Rosemary Mahoney

China was not at all what I expected it to be. I had an image of China as a very quaint and mysterious and peaceful place. Well, it's quaint and mysterious in some respects, but not in the ways I had thought. The people are mysterious. They don't often tell you what they feel.

Carlos Gracida

No one expected this, no one gave us a chance, but we got better and better the more we played.

Matt Rossi

No one expected him to win. A lot of people didn't even expect him to make it to the second period.

Michael McNamara

Online started out strong and they maintained their strength through the season, even late in the season when we expected it to trail off.

Jon Kelly

Maybe it was our turn. I never expected to get here, so it's one big thrill.

John Bracewell

Now we have to rethink that because they are a lot fresher then we expected them to be at the end of the season.

Kazunori Jinnai

The Nasdaq gains gave a gentle nudge higher to a market that was ready for a rebound after last week's losing spell.

Gwin Price

You give up a lot. I gave up my job, my family, the life I had. But I gained so much, too.

Sophocles

To know that all is well, even if late will come to know it, is at least some gain.

Sophia Bush

Because I'm 5'4' and athletically built, if I gain five pounds it looks like a lot.

Plautus

To make any gain some outlay is necessary.

Philip Roth

The question to ask about the writer isn't 'Why does he behave so badly?' but 'What does he gain by wearing this mask?

Adlai E. Stevenson

Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.

Larry Wachtel

Second quarter is going to be excellent. Remember when the first quarter was reported in April, we had a 1,000-point gain in the Dow, and that was only a 10-percent (earnings) gain.

Pasquale Pistorio

Sequential and year-over-year gains were recorded in all major product groups and applications, reflecting primarily increases in unit volumes.

John Lawlor

The sum of the parts is greater than the whole.

Tim Cranton

This was a pretty astonishing number for us. We knew that it would be a high volume, but this was an even greater volume of spam than we had anticipated passing through one computer.

Richard Holbrooke

the U.N. is being tested in Kosovo as it has never been tested before, with responsibilities greater than ever before.

Alberto Moravia

The less one notices happiness, the greater it is.

Jim Webb

I was raised with the notion that there is no greater honor than to find a way to serve your country.

Roger Clemens

By far. He's greater than any pitcher I ever faced.

Thomas Hauser

I don't know if there's ever been a greater fight.

Jerry Brown

My philosophy was one of greater self reliance, a philosophy of decentralization, of more person-to-person contact. That's what I was espousing. That's what I still espouse.

Ken Kendrick

Just because Randy wants something doesn't mean it's going to happen. We want to respect his interests, but our greater responsibility is not to him but to our team.

Tim Ghriskey

This should lead to a positive tone to the start of the market today and to the outlook for industrial earnings.

Bill Jr

We made an investment that hasn't realized a return yet.

Cody Acree

Nobody who owns the stock for a long-term investment is going to sell over a $60 million miss

Kit Spring

Return on investment in PPM is increasingly uncertain.

Matthew Lloyd

For most people, it represents a stable, solid investment in choppy waters.

Jim Young

When it makes sense for my shareholders, when it makes sense for my customers, we're willing to put the investment in,

John Sims

The investment will take place in three stages - $155 million, 185 million and $180 million.

Joe Gibbs

It's smart. If you are going to make an investment of millions and millions of dollars, you would research them.

Mike Winer

It went from a terrific value investment to a terrific arbitrage.

Rick Baker

I told them I would support their move to do that, ... I thought it was an investment in goodwill.

Subir Raha

The Syrian acquisition is a major breakthrough for us.

Tom Udall

A majority of senators should be able to adopt rules at the beginning of each Congress.

Thelma Underberg

I don't know how many we'll get, but the ones that sign the pledge are the ones who will have the support from the majority of the people in South Dakota, I'm quite sure.

Joe Jenkins

That day, there was nothing major going on,

John Gotti

My wife was a major obstacle. She said, 'If you do it, we're through. We need you in this house.

Shane Coursen

We now know that it's not only a threat to smart phones. All these regular phones that support J2ME are vulnerable and can become a major target.

Sunny Kim

Most of my career, I've been a starting pitcher, but not in the Major Leagues. Major Leagues, sometimes I start and sometimes I relieve. But I like to start.

Richard Ptak

Microsoft is really making a major play for the enterprise.

John Hotard

Miami is a major point, and this is a major disruption.

Don Lynn

It's not a one-shot deal. It's an ongoing situation.

Rudi Giuliani

I would have to say to myself, 'You've got to remain calm, you've got to stay focused.'

Unknown

Here's to the new husband, And here's to the new wife, May they remain lovers, For all of life.

George Davis

They're kind of saying that it's going to be OK, but that remains to be seen,