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.

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.

J. M. Roberts

What parents should do, ... is change the types of food they keep in the house and give (children) more opportunities for physical activity so children can eat as much as they want and play how they want.

Uche Ohia

What is new is that this has become a formalized and organized activity such that the use of the information to force improvements is now a requirement that must be documented.

Michael Moran

What I would conclude is that we are backing away from the robust levels of housing activity we saw in the spring and summer of last year, but there is by no means a swoon going on in housing activity just yet.

Jalal Talabani

We cannot wait for years and years of terrorist activity because we haven't enough government forces.

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.

Lobsang Wangyal

I have picked a Chinese film at a Tibetan film festival purely for the breathtaking special effects and not for any political reason.

Lu Yongxiang

Their scientific communities are eager to conduct research with Chinese scientists.

Ian Campbell

Their recovery and return to the Chinese people will help ensure they are protected for future generations to experience.

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.

Soichiro Monji

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

Kevin Ryan

Technology spending by most companies is still weak, and the technology companies out there are feeling that,

Francis Gannon

Technology is part of the increasing productivity trend, and people want to own shares in the companies that mark this trend.

Lisa Cullen

Technology has looked like it's quite immune to the machinations of the Fed but I think people have gotten complacent. The Internet companies are very dependent on a constant flow of venture capital.

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.

Jimmy Page

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

Steve Gordon

That's what we've been doing the last few games. Our press has been real effective, it gets us a jump start, and gives them confidence right off the bat.

Brodie Croyle

That's what we're here for. We can't reach our dreams if we don't have confidence in ourselves to get the win.

Marquis Navarre

That (title) means a lot because that was one of our goals going into the season. As a confidence-builder, it's pretty big. We still want to finish it out undefeated. Definitely, we're on a roll.

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.

Greg Cohen

It's going to be a struggle all year, but we'll keep getting better (doubles). We're really young, so it's a matter of continuing to work.

Marshall Steeves

The latest security threats in Saudi Arabia, even though they're not directed at oil installations per se, and the continuing refinery issues are having a supportive role.

Bill Bradley

the kinds of things I've been talking about are the kinds of things that will improve their lives in terms of increasing the number of people with health insurance, helping those with low incomes, in terms of providing for continuing education and in terms of making it easier to organize.

Mitchell Reiss

All the options are pretty unattractive right now except for continuing to talk.

Victor Shum

This morning the market is continuing its momentum ... from the response to the inventory report from the US.

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.

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.

Ron Gettelfinger

It was a long year. It was probably one of the most painful, excruciating decisions that we ever had to deal with as a union.

Matt Hasselbeck

It was a one game deal here. We were talking about this game and this game only...I have learned this week that people dogged the Seahawks because they don't think there is history, but there is history here.

Ivern Ball

These days, the wages of sin depend on what kind of deal you make with the publisher

John Shaw

I spent a lot of hours on it. It's hard to make a deal that makes everybody happy.

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.

Pankaj Mishra

Obama was expected to restore an ethical sheen to post-9/11 foreign policy, but he has intensified drone warfare in Yemen and Pakistan, pursued whistle-blowers, and failed to close down Guantanamo.

Tina Brown

Obama fans become more and more glum that he keeps flubbing the very role he was expected to be so good at: Therapist to the nation. The Great Comforter.

David Barrett

I expected them to come over to my side,

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.

Pasquale Pistorio

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

Larry Smar

Sen. Santorum is simply trying to gain publicity for his re-election campaign.

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.

Jim Webb

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

Robert Teeter

We need an umbrella under which we can put all of the President's programs and end up with the whole being greater than the sum of its parts.

William Cavendish

I would have you fasten instead of holding it, the rein that comes back to your hand to the pommel of the saddle, because it has the greater force.

Bill Tierney

His role is no less than mine is. And it is a lot greater than mine in some ways.

Frank Tyger

There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.

Jim Hunter

The range is greater for sound than for sight.

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.

Steve Swasey

It was derided by a number of people in the investment community.

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.

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.

John Hotard

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

Capt. McSwain

It flowed very well today. We haven't really seen any major backlog.

Deirdre O'Kane

When you're independent and not attached to a major media organisation, they just look at you as if to say, 'Who are you again?'

Justin Doellman

I think I look ridiculous. But we're doing it for him; we're not doing it for the look. We're doing it to support him and to let him know he was a big part of our team and that it was a major loss.

Cardinal Zen

I can confidently say these are not major problems. They can be overcome.

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,