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.

Susan Chambers

to include some physical activity (e.g. all cashiers do some cart gathering.)

Steve Woods

With imports now more than one third higher than exports, it will take a sharp reversal in these growth rates for the trade shortfall to narrow on a sustained basis. Although the U.S. economy is slowing and international economic activity is accelerating, it is unlikely that the trade deficit will narrow anytime soon.

James Allan

There is a lot of MEMS activity in universities at the moment.

Auggie Tantillo

The reason that the Chinese have dropped their prices so much is that they are engaged in predatory activity in an attempt to wipe out all other competition.

Rick Peterson

The recovery day is every bit as important as the activity day.

Chris Brady

There's obviously a lot of activity that we need to be involved in in town.

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.

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.

Christopher Hill

The Chinese have given us a text to react to, some ideas, so we're looking at those and having some internal discussions and talking with people in Washington,

Margaret Chan

The Chinese government has taken very effective measures, and they are making improvements every month, even every day.

Wu Hailong

The Chinese Government has insisted consistently that the Iranian nuclear issue should be appropriately resolved through negotiations and co-operation within the framework of the IAEA.

Liu Jianchao

The Chinese government has always considered it important to protect the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese citizens from being violated.

Rebecca MacKinnon

The Chinese government clearly sees Internet and mobile innovation as a major driver of its global economic competitiveness going forward.

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.

W. Hull

Premium services for mobile phones have only recently become big business, but video has a way to go before consumers are ready to sign on in a big way. At this point, it's especially important for wireless operators, service providers and video content companies to understand the mindsets of mobile phone users if they want to position themselves well for future success in marketing video for mobile phones.

Robert Litan

Perhaps the EC is going to investigate it. Maybe they fear that a combination of content companies with distribution companies is a problem, but I am wrestling with seeing what the antitrust problem is in the U.S.

Hank McKinnell

Quite frankly, with the two companies together we can get more out of the pipeline than we could separately.

Steve Engelking

Prudential had a key issue. They wanted to make sure it was one company, not five separate companies under one banner.

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.

Source Unknown

Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.

Bill Evans

Confidence is steadily improving from the lows of the second half of 2005, when sharp rises in petrol prices and interest rates uncertainty hampered consumers.

Bill Evans

Confidence is steadily improving from the lows of the second half of 2005. Relatively stable petrol prices and continuing good news on the interest rate front have settled consumers.

Ben Russell

Confidence is really high right now with everybody. Because everybody swam so well at sectionals, they're just ready to do better at state.

Chris Griffin

Confidence is huge. When you go out there knowing you're supposed to win, and everybody's doing their part, that ingredient is irreplaceable.

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.

James P. Carse

There are at least two kinds of games. One could be called finite, the other, infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.

Helmut Lang

The media is looking every season for a designer to tell a story. I have a long story I have to tell, continuing fluently year after year.

Sammy Willis

We've made it to the next level. We're continuing to make history.

Jose Vistan

The party division being addressed is a market positive, but Arroyo staying on will mean continuing political tension.

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.

David Moser

Things like that just eat her up. If it happens in practice, it's no big deal to her. She gets back up and keeps going. But it shows at meets and she has to be able to get past that.

David Thurtell

The worry is that if prices come off a bit, demand will rebound and we've still got to deal with the Northern Hemisphere winter.

Greg Wall

The wind picked up. And we didn't deal well with the elements.

John Updike

The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel as a narration of the fantastic and the adventurous is really an escapist plot; that aesthetically, the ordinary, the banal, is what you must deal with.

Kristin Gore

The wrists, the Achilles' tendons, and the neck are some of the weakest points of the human body, so a lot of people have phobias about those things. I can't deal with the undersides of wrists.

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.

Brian Wilson

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

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.

Glenn Rutenbar

I expected a tough game. They're much-improved. For nine batters, we didn't hit the ball. That's three innings you lost.

Mario Pescante

I expected a strong reaction to my proposal, but now I'm being treated as a lobbyist for dopers,

James Clark

I expected a lot out of this team. We worked hard in practice this week. We had a good week. We studied film a lot. We saw some weaknesses and we knew what they would do.

Colin Edwards

I expected a lot more from Phillip Island but we had problems from the first day,

Mike Stallings

I was really please with the effort. Nobody expected us to take this type of team to overtime on their home floor.

Jennifer Henson

I was surprised. I expected Ena to get it. She played really well.

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.

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.

Pasquale Pistorio

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

Scott Hodkinson

Maybe it was a PK (penalty kick), but I don't think there was any intent and the player has to gain an advantage. That hurt and we let down after that. We started pushing too hard and trying to do too many things.

Andy Bryant

From what we can tell, there's not much share gain or loss going on,

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.

Jim Webb

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

Jim Hunter

The range is greater for sound than for sight.

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.

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.

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.

Mahatma Gandhi

A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority

Karl Frieden

They reached such a stalemate that they couldn't reach a supermajority on any of the major issues,

Gillian Zucker

It wasn't our decision. To say we're disappointed is a major understatement.

Luc Ferrari

When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time, braodcasting old and new composers' work. And I wasn't one of them.

Harley Dale

Outside of NSW spending on major renovations was softer, but not substantially so at the end of 2005.

Buck Leonard

I was not bitter by not being allowed to play in the major leagues. I just said, 'The time has not come.'

Rudi Giuliani

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

George Davis

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