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.

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.

John Augustine

The trading and the underwriting activity looks favorable.

Philip Roth

The fact that a stock like Microsoft could fall so much is a sign that there is very little investment activity in the market. It is a symptom of the domination of traders and hedge funds in the market.

Jack Kilby

Well, the thought that everybody might have a personal computer at their desk or their home was certainly not on the mainstream of anybody's activity at that time.

M. Wolfe

What if we're seeing the stirrings of 'Dutch disease', whereby windfall gains from commodity industries push up the currency so as to squeeze activity in more productive sectors like manufacturing?

Adm. Roughead

We have not seen this level of aircraft carrier activity for a couple years. That number of aircraft carriers in the Pacific under way, in close proximity to each other, (hasn't happened) in 10 years.

O. Henry

Decisions are made on a case-by-case basis in the best interest of the individual. So we need to look at how much rugby any given player has had since the beginning of the year, the amount of contact, their position, plus any injury history.

O. Henry

The team showed a huge amount of character and heart out there. Maybe they wouldn't have handled it at other times.

Patrick Fearon

The survey for the final reading would have taken place over the past 10 days or so, when market volatility was particularly high, ... Because of that, the final reading very well could have come in below the preliminary reading. The fact it came in higher shows a certain amount of resilience in the consumer sector.

Kevin Murphy

So this wasn't just a slight stabbing, this was something with a huge amount of force put into it.

Richard Morris

(Santa Fe) started out very slow because we had a lot of new players but our fly half, Hulbert, is from New Zealand, and his experience made a tremendous amount of difference.

Richard Perks

These figures must mean that profit expectations are going to go up for this year. It has really gained a huge amount of market share. This is real sales growth.

George Estrada

The storm was one of those once-in-century ones. There was nothing anyone could do to handle that amount of water. The sewers were at capacity.

Philip Mangano

The storm victims never, ever thought they would be homeless. So you never know what might be the event that catapults you into homelessness. And that's why there's this tremendous amount of sympathy for these families.

Jeb Bush

The state is going to get hit, ... We're going to have a significant amount of rain and lots of wind. This is serious. This is a very dangerous storm.

Gu Yuan

The strikes and good economic indicators from China are supporting this round of the rally. The positive aspects of fundamentals are attracting more hedge funds, pension funds into metals and other commodities.

Dick Bryant

If we can introduce basketball to these young people and show them that there's a lot to offer in this field, then we can give them confidence. And confidence carries through to all aspects of life. That's what makes you successful. If they can look in the mirror and think that they are proud of themselves and confident, then that will carry them a long way.

John Rice

It is a terrific project. There are so many aspects of it that are important to the community. It is a real critical look at Earth Day.

Marcus Green

I basically had to change my whole lifestyle, ... I had to change what I ate and when I ate. I had to change a lot in many of aspects in my life.

Joan Bonvicini

The important thing is improving some aspects - mainly rebounding. We've got to rebound. We've got to be more consistent.

David Gross

The document is fabulous. There were proposals to create a governmental organization that might control many technical aspects of the Internet and, through this, content as well. This is now off the table. There is no change to the U.S. role, no change to ICANN.

Nelson George

and other books on black popular culture. ''The working-class black guy listens to hip-hop. Women, it's the same thing. Despite all the things that are said, working-class girls don't seem to be as put off by those aspects of hip-hop as people say they should be.

Peter Ryan

The goal of the symposium is not to focus solely on dire predictions commonly attributed to climate change but rather to assess its impact and seek solutions while we emphasize how communities that feel its consequences are coping with its effects right now. We want to discuss climate change from a wide range of perspectives, including economic, scientific, cultural and religious, to emphasize the complexity of the issue while demonstrating its many facets. It has the potential to impact our lives in many ways and therefore it concerns all aspects of society, not just scientists and environmentalists.

Carlton Cuse

The genre aspects of the show are cool, and we have fun doing it. But I am much more engaged by the people on the show, and I think that is fundamentally what we try to do.

G. H. Hardy

Anything we can do to help impart knowledge of our Constitution is important. If we spent a day recognizing, say, presidents or particular people, this certainly is the one thing we share in common - our Constitution. It's the thread that holds us all together.

Rovenia Brock

The older relatives in your family hold the keys to the information you're looking for, so it's important to be sure you learn as much as you can from them before they're gone. But remember, medical conditions were often a source of shame to older relatives in certain ethnic and racial groups, so it may take some cajoling to get them to open up and share what they see as family secrets.

Bible Bible

Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.

Marc Berman

Pulling a stunt like this (which is certainly not a first) shows a lack of respect for the audience.

Brad Rubin

The salaried workers are certainly going to be touched by this. By how much, it's difficult to say.

Mark Goodman

It would be projected to be at a certain place at a certain time, and then Mother Nature would stop it. It messed up our timing.

Kirby Dean

It would certainly help. I think that would go a long way to deciding the team that comes out victorious. I think they probably feel like they can win playing our style and we feel like, if the chips fall right, we can win playing their style.

Brett Festerling

The way he gets out of certain situations, the passes he makes ... he sees things out there that most guys don't.

Jennifer Saunders

The way certain men treat women is influenced by the Internet a lot.

Harvey Pitt

This is not an economic problem, it's a physical catastrophe,

James Gaston

You can't do right by the students in an economic vacuum,

Lauryn Hill

I had an economic system imposed on me.

David Emery

Maine's economic performance has been spotty for a long time.

Donald Trump

The plan I am proposing today does not involve smoke and mirrors, phony numbers, financial gimmicks, or the usual economic chicanery you usually find in Disneyland-on-the-Potomac.

Jerry Patterson

The economics work, and they work well, and we're excited about it. The environmental impacts are very positive.

Pamela Falk

The economics of Washington's strained relations with Venezuela could prove costly.

Jeff Kleintop

Once again, we're seeing a reaction to soft economic data.

Ross Gittell

It?s a very different economic environment from 10, even five years ago.

Mark Cullen

As stylized as he is, Doug has a sort of filter, where he can't shoot something that's not true and something that he doesn't feel is right with the character. He just does it with enormous flair and that's what we took with us in the show.

Susan Sontag

God, living is enormous!

Ken Marino

I'm a huge 'Eastbound & Down' fan. I'm an enormous Danny McBride fan.

Jim Balsillie

It was very important to get the scope we wanted.

Jeff Thomas

Bellingham's pretty tough. They're solid all the way through. They don't seem to have any weak spots.

Jill Wagner

When work seems like a job, I don't do it anymore. I always want it to be something I'm interested in and something that challenges me.

Tony Hsieh

Things are never as bad or as good as they seem.

Jim Boeheim

I think there should be an expansion. Whatever seems to fit.

Erin Morgenstern

To be rather than to seem.

Bill Bray

They seem to be aiding and abetting the terrorists.

Jamey Collins

They're our old nemesis. We don't look for them, but they always seem to be there.

Jerry Sloan

We didn't really seem to have any life.

Michael Gambon

Certainly, I seem to need to do a play a year. I feel wrong if I haven't got one planned.

Lori Chappell

You really have to see the grounds to understand how populated they are.

Stephen Hawking

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

Seth Godin

Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened.

Rajneesh

Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration.

Rajneesh

The deeper you surrender to existence, life, nature, the more loving, more understanding, more insightful you become.

Jean Piaget

Experience precedes understanding.

Pat Cash

I see it, but I don't understand it,

Isaac Asimov

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

Milan Kundera

The reason is that everyone has trouble accepting the fact that he will disappear unheard of and unnoticed in an indifferent universe, and everyone wants to make himself into a universe of words before it's too late. Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.