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.

Jiang Zemin

The Chinese nation will realize a great rejuvenation,

Hu Jintao

The Chinese motherland and the people are proud of you!

Theresa Hitchens

The Chinese military has enormous stress about U.S. space plans at large. There is a debate about what they should do.

Chuck Schumer

The Chinese manipulate their currency and the administration should not have ducked the issue,

Michael Griffin

The Chinese have offered an opportunity ... to discuss cooperation.

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.

Dana Gardner

Technologies are being developed at a faster and faster pace, and that disrupts companies and markets constantly. Companies will have to reinvent themselves, and they will have to do it in two years, not five. Things are better, but there will not be much of an opportunity for tech companies to sit on their laurels.

Bob McDonald

Scores of foreign companies have tried to establish themselves in Japan, and scores have failed, ... But if we can win in Japan, we can win anywhere.

Ralph Mendoza

Safety of home medication is a key health issue for governments, consumers, and sustainability-driven companies around the world.

Patricia Chadwick

Right now, we're just digesting. The market is waiting for companies to start saying that future quarters are going to look better.

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.

Bruce Willis

I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous, it just got me into more trouble.

Ryan Franklin

Every guy loves to have someone back there who knows what he's doing and has total confidence in his game-calling. That's what he have with Sal. There's a reason he's stuck around so long.

Billy Tauzin

As soon as one or more of these major corporate figures is indicted and convicted for the thievery that occurred at the expense of the American investor, I think confidence will gradually come back.

Geoff Cooper

At the moment we're estimating it will be mid-2006 before we see any kind of pick-up. There's the impact of consumer confidence and the housing market,

Mike Englund

Confidence should remain healthy well into 2006 given robust trends for employment, income, and consumer spending.

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.

Eric Shanteau

Obviously, losing a parent is very difficult. I miss my dad every day, but I know he would be proud to see me continuing to swim and going for another shot at the Olympics.

Lawrence R. Klein

After my first visit to Japan, in 1960, to work on a joint model building project at Osaka University, I maintained a continuing interest in the country and the entire Far East.

Sam Stovall

We are really not sure if the economy is continuing to expand or continuing to contract,

William R. Keating

I look forward to continuing to represent the people I'm currently serving, as well as the new communities that will be a part of this district in the future.

Webb Simpson

But more than anything I kind of pride myself in continuing the process that we're trying to accomplish, and that's just to get better and work on my fundamentals. So that's been kind of in the theme now for a couple years and we stuck with it and that's kind of what I want to keep doing.

Mike Bohn

We recognize the importance of continuing to ensure the program's integrity is intact, so this was the proper move. This will be an invaluable lesson for them for the future and an example to our other student-athletes, as well as staff.

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 Wright

It would have been a fantastic technology if we could have gotten a deal. It would have been just a huge deal for Iowa.

Laura Bush

I understand that a lot of people don't want change, but this is a good deal that makes fiscal sense,

Mark Jackson

Think about what you deal with in the NFL. You get one first-round draft pick per year, but at USC you get about six or seven.

Mark Jackson

Think about what you deal with in the NFL, ... You get one first-round draft pick per year, but at USC you get about six or seven.

Gary Ross

Things like this, we take seriously and we deal with.

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.

Steve Saviano

I expected him to do this. He does it every year. Every time he comes back from an injury it's goal, goal, goal, goal. It's unbelievable. I wish I can do that.

Mike Bocock

I expected him to do the things he?s doing. I think he?s having a great year.

Bill Carmody

I expected him to be here and be ready to play. It just didn't happen. I thought our guys played hard. I thought our guys hung in there during a tough situation.

Russ Jewett

I expected her to run around 2:11 or so ... and the race was pretty good, she was actually challenging for the win. Then (Bonds) pulled away from her.

Domingo Garcia

I expected her to do that. I'm not going to take that personally.

Toni Collette

I expected her to be a little more airy-fairy, but she's not. She's really grounded. She's a very matter-of-fact person, actually,

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.

Kevin Burton

Certainly, it's important to gain inroads with the Jackson area. But we would have recruited Jeremy if he was from somewhere random like Texas. He's just a terrific player that will help us immediately.

Jana Kuner

But that's just the trend with malls. Malls lose stores and they gain stores and in 2006 we have some great things happening.

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.

Richard Segal

We are seeing a market that has experienced extraordinary rates of growth. We are seeing those rates moderate. That pace of moderation has been slightly greater than we expected.

Doug MacGregor

We have no interest in a name on a masthead. With any partnership, you want the whole to be greater than the sum of the parts.

Tom King

With this size pond, we get a greater dilution factor, so we will be able to meet those standards.

Rig Veda

There is no religion greater than truth and a truthful person knows no fear.

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.

Mark Cox

We really dont get a return on investment in that,

Vandana Shiva

It's not an investment if its destroying the planet.

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

Steve Bruce

The disappointing thing is the situation is now out of our hands. But I still think there are some major twists left.

Liu Xiaobo

The major wars that the U.S. became involved in are all ethically defensible.

Peter Pollak

The major trend is globalization. A new world order is rapidly emerging.

Dave Mason

The major thing that made us do it was thinking forward. It's a necessary responsibility to put together a will.

Timm Bechter

There needs to be rationalization in this industry. No one vendor has a major share.

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,