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.

Kareem Rush

Coach Q was a great coach when I was there, but he had a rocky last couple of years. It's unfortunate. He's a great coach, and I know he's going to bounce back some other place. But it was probably time for him to leave. A lot of people wanted him out of there.

Pau Gasol

We are trying hard to bounce out of this funk. That's the only way we are going to do it. We have to win one or two games, loosen up, and play with confidence.

Jarekus Singleton

We've got to take the good with the bad. We can't put our heads down. We've got to bounce back and react.

Kobe Bryant

I think that it's a great step for us, being that we didn't make the playoffs last year. We were able to bounce back. It's a step in the right direction. But it's not something that we're going to celebrate over.

Marc Pado

Internally, the market's bounce left something to be desired. Since the market went out on the high of the day, it should have some morning momentum left. The real question is whether or not it can be sustained without any major earnings-, economic-, or oil-moving news.

Leonard Hamilton

I just thought our players found a way to bounce back from the disappointment. We haven't spent time dwelling on anything negative. Now we're in the NIT and we have to go about handling our business.

Angus Campbell

Cisco has provided a little relief posting better than expected results after the close and we could see a bounce today.

Tim Peterson

Campbellsville is a good team but so are we and our kids will bounce back from this loss.

Colin Curtis

I just got a nice little bounce off our rock-hard infield and things worked out pretty good.

Jim Allchin

Product quality and a great out-of-box experience have been two of our key drivers for Windows Vista, and we are on track to deliver on both. But the industry requires greater lead time to deliver Windows Vista on new PCs during holiday. We must optimize for the industry, so we've decided to separate business and consumer availability.

Niklas Zennstrom

People do business in Sweden and it goes well; they may try launching the product in Denmark instead of considering a global business plan. On the financing side, VCs require too much downside protection and are not willing enough to take risks.

Kevin Rollins

Dell's business model is potent in all economic cycles,

Paul Bell

Dell is clearly a PC company, but increasingly as we go forward, we are more and more of an Internet company. The Internet is part of everything in the way we do business with our customers.

Brian Cox

Dell is a supply chain driven, keep it simple, keep it high volume supplier and anything else doesn't fit their business. Once you get into a more consultative sell it really doesn't fit their business model.

Michael Cohen

Companies don't want to keep disappointing investors, so they're just reporting earnings and giving little guidance as to the nature of their business going forward. Companies used to give indications for a year out. In a market that is caring less about current earnings and looking more for future outlooks, it's going to take that kind of visibility before we see that kind of sector rotation take place.

David Campbell

Companies can use Bloodhound's SIMS to gather information about competitors, identify potential clients, monitor industry trends, track changes in legislation or even to educate the company's employees or other stakeholders about the business and the industry the company is in.

Ralph Kauffman

Companies are willing to hire more people because they have confidence that at least in the near future, business will be strong.

Mike Rhodin

Companies are looking for new ways to combine their various silos of information and applications into a single view that can help them make better business decisions, reduce costs and improve time-to-value.

Robert Elliott

These companies and many smaller Delta Dental groups may be unable to update their eligibility and/or pay premiums for some time, so we're going to step up to help them from our end. These groups can focus on recovery and let us worry about paying claims and covering the dental needs of their employees and family members.

Ferdinand Marcos

I claim the right not to incriminate myself.

Scott Holmes

I think he did the right thing by resigning. We still have information we are investigating and claims to pursue.

Jared Bernstein

Clearly, Katrina hasn't shown up in the jobless claims yet, but it will, ... Next month, we're going to be looking at one of the largest one month negative spikes in the history of this series, going back to the '30s.

Michael Englund

The level of claims remains remarkably lean. The labor market has improved significantly in early 2006. Payroll growth has likely entered a period of overdrive.

Antonio Tabucchi

I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.

Geoff Mulgan

Over 5,000 years, states have made surprisingly consistent claims about their duties. They have promised to protect people from threats; promote their welfare; deliver justice and also, perhaps less obviously, uphold truth - originally truths about the cosmos, and more recently truths drawn from reason and knowledge.

Kyle Dippery

We have a mechanism in place to do what a union claims it can do for us.

Bob Gates

We'll probably be seeing hail claims from this storm well into the end of May and into June.

Mike Kohs

It was a lack of communication on his part. He?s been clearly frustrated with his injury.

Terry J. Lundgren

My father was clearly a mentor. He told me if you work 10 years and you worked 40 hours a week, then you had 10 years experience. But if you worked 10 years and you worked 60 hours a week, then you had 15 years' experience.

Tzipi Livni

The process clearly is a process that leads in the direction of two states, ... We will lead in the direction of two states.

John O'Neil

Everybody knew Coke was the one that could pay the most if they wanted to. Now, this puts the company back to where it was three weeks ago before the Pepsi bid. It clearly can remain an independent company if it wants to. They are not cornered at all.

Willie Pearson

Coretta Scott King was clearly more than the widow of Dr. Martin Luther King. She was an icon in her own right.

David Page

Contrary to the dire predictions that have become popular over the last decade, the sky is *not* falling on the Y. This research clearly demonstrates that natural selection has effectively preserved regions of the Y chromosome that have no mechanisms with which to repair damaged genes.

Helmut Panke

We will proceed under our own power. We are not thinking of link-ups, stakes, takeovers. I can clearly rule out all of these alternatives.

John Grogan

There's millions of people who clearly understand that a pet is a pet and yet still find themselves really falling in love with these animals. I think I gave voice to that phenomenon.

Harry Balzer

The trend is clearly toward frozen or ready to eat -- the trend is clearly toward not cooking, whether you're young or old. It's about making life easier.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Jamie Koch

The money this is coming from is already there. We're just honoring his contract.

Brenda Frese

Coming up to the arena, most of the players had no idea what we were doing. It showed them what we were playing for.

Danny Culler

Coming to the checkered. Watch your mirror. Watch your mirror.

John Gibbons

Coming in we knew we had a good one,

Jeff Rolen

Once you see what's going on here, you just want to reach out and help them. I'm coming back. I just don't see how I couldn't. Other volunteers are saying the same thing.

David Perkins

Now, gas prices, ... they go to $10 to the gallon, we're still coming to the races.

Jason Keller

Now, if I was one of the two guys leading the points in the Busch Series, I wouldn't want eight other competitors coming in there, but I think for the excitement of what we need to see, that it would be good for us.

O. J. Simpson

Thank you guys so much for coming out today. I'm here to show my support for Operation Smile.

Asahi Shimbun

As a result, the food safety of consumers was treated carelessly, raising questions once more about government responsibility.

Carrie Johnson

the wealthy, time-strapped consumers are looking pretty good right now.

Tony Crescenzi

The CPI is correct in measuring consumer prices, ... But it's not correct in measuring the cost of living.

Heather Friedland

We will be looking to enhance the consumer versions of our product later this year with similar features.

John Johnston

There's good evidence the U.S. housing sector is cooling, not collapsing, which means the U.S. consumer is going to cool.

Anthony Chan

There's no question that what's happening in the stock market is going to hurt consumer spending. The only thing helping us is the performance of housing.

Hidenori Suezawa

The trend is for higher yields given the outlook for economic growth. Consumer prices will probably turn positive after October.

Loren Loverde

The timing of the release will have some impact on when consumers buy, but not so much on whether or not they buy.

Charles Prince

We had terrific results, yet we're not firing on all cylinders. The one we're not firing on is our consumer business, which we saw good customer interaction and lower credit costs, but we also saw revenue growth was not where we hoped it would be.

Bruce Arena

I would imagine I'll find some kind of employment after the World Cup. If not, I might want to be a sportswriter.

Gus Whitcomb

We fill a void that is very important in the employment arena.

David Penn

For some of them, it's pretty straightforward. Like manufacturing. That's its own classification in the employment statistics.

Tom McIntyre

People are expecting a strong employment number ... and I think they are being a little hesitant.

Lori Lucas

Our findings show that too many workers are not looking at their 401(k) savings as long-term in nature but are instead using termination of employment as an opportunity to spend this money,

Anthony Chan

Today's employment report also has sustainability written all over it.

Ludwig von Mises

There prevails on a free labor market a tendency toward full employment.

Wim Duisenberg

Wages, import prices, bottlenecks in shortages in the employment market

Roberta Gassman

With a majority of our employment sectors showing increases in the number of jobs, the figures for March indicate that Wisconsin's labor market remains healthy and strong and moving in the right direction.

Kirk Pedersen

Right now we are struggling a little big with our relay teams. We are going to work on those and hopefully get them to run a little better.

Tim Frisby

This is a start. Hopefully I'll get more this season,

Robbie Reiser

We tested in Martinsville back in the spring but still didn't quite get the setup right for the first race. We've addressed that issue and hopefully will be better this weekend.

Kenoy Kennedy

We just try to do what we can to win the game. We can only do our part and hopefully the offense will do theirs, but we didn't win the game.

Megan Duffy

She wants to be first in everything she does. Hopefully that's good, though. Hopefully it rubs off on us.

Jeff Bickmore

Obviously they made some mistakes down the stretch. They learn from little things like that, and hopefully it will make tem a little tougher and really want to come back strong when we play at Colfax. We still have a long way to go.

Rafael Palmeiro

My day will come when I can say what happened. As of right now, I can't say anything. Hopefully soon.

Brandon MacNaught

Next weekend is the weekend we have to wrestle perfectly. We didn't wrestle perfectly this weekend, but hopefully we saved it for next weekend.

Kelly Rowland

For right now, it really is the end, ... Hopefully in 10 years we'll all be married and have babies.

Alfredo Alonso

When the population is over 40 million, people take notice, including advertisers and broadcasters.

Laura Bush

When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.

Henry Renteria

That phone call, or registering on line, is a key step toward getting help.

Eddie Van Halen

If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.

Debby Ryan

I'm very, very low-key in general.

Drew Carey

Learn how to set goals. That's the key to everything. That includes designing your own success. You define what the goal is, it's not somebody else's goal, it's yours.

Susan Cain

Solitude is one of our great superpowers... Solitude is the key to being able to make effective decisions and then having the courage of convictions to stand behind those decisions.

Phil Jackson

For us tall people, the whole key is that your hips and your knees should form a right angle when you sit down. That's where backs and hips get to be problems for big guys.

Richard Gere

What I can do is find the keys that will plug into my own 30 years of training in Buddhism, and find things that are parallel or resonant in the work that I have done.

Eugene Levy

At the end of the day, even if my part is a bit goofy, the key thing is that I'm doing what I love to do, and that's to make people laugh.

Francis Chan

A key to everything is surrender - to really come before the Lord and say, 'I will literally stay here as long as you want me to stay' or 'God, I will really go anywhere on the earth.'

Kevin Kerr

The switch is not going to be that smooth. Within the next 14 days, I think we are going to see prices steadily climb.

Joni Pitkanen

Now I know how he wants me to play. This is a big year for me. I want to step up to the next level.

Gordon Hamilton

This is something that we could see in the next decade.

Barbara Kingsolver

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

John McKinley

Ultimately, you get to a point where you want to take the next hill. I really wanted to get back to a role in a technology organization.

Anja Thiessen

We skipped classes, so we have to get back next week.

Clive James

A lot of my poems are about how ill I am and how I probably won't live beyond next week. I publish a poem and everyone says 'cluck cluck, how wonderful, how brave', but then embarrassingly I'm still here! You see the problem?

Hans Vestberg

For us, we are moving a company that has been around for 137 years to the next level so that we can be there for the next 137 years.

Derrick Estelle

Earl does what Earl does. Score, rebound and intimidate.

Don Bringle

We've got to rebound and become strong. It will take a little time to do that, but we will, and we'll survive that process.

Rahshon Clark

We let them get a lot of rebounds that we should have come up with that were real crucial.

W. S. Gilbert

I've seen it in all sorts of industries.

David Daniels

This is the first time I've ever seen this called. I hadn't seen it all year. There hadn't been any warnings issued all year in any of our games.

Tyler Hansbrough

Every team I play is real physical. They have some big bodies, but it's nothing I've never seen before, and it's nothing I can't handle.

Kristen Donofry

Now, we want to win and that's the first time I've seen that here.

O. J. Simpson

If they aren't careful, they are going to be seen as selling out to biotech.

Verne Lundquist

Oh, wow! In your life, have you ever seen anything like that?

Roy Evans

Since I have seen him play he has been stunning. He has unbelievable pace.

Ratu Bokini

But it can be seen by the fruits-and must be scanned.

Kim Phillips

But I have seen as many as 212 in here.

Sue Black

The sooner I can alleviate everyone's fears, the better.

George R. R. Martin

A woman's life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you'll learn that soon enough...and the parts that look like magic turn out to be the messiest of all.

Thomas a Kempis

We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.

Edward Callahan

We will investigate it as soon as we can get a chance,

Mark Russinovich

This is a step they should have taken immediately.

Al Horford

We're here to win it. This is just the first step to get there.

Ayn Rand

whose steps were a restless substitute for flight.

Sarah Lowe

When I stepped up there, I just told myself that I had to relax. I had to put myself in a different place and just not even worry about the score, not worry about anything.

Ernesto Hernandez

We stepped on American soil, we shouldn't be here.

Brian Rolston

We stepped it up tonight, and if we do that we can be in it. We can make the playoffs.

Ron Kaufman

Even a tiny step is one step closer to where you are going.

Stephen Sommers

I love all of mythology and rules pertaining to all of the monsters, but I like to go the extra step.

Rio Ferdinand

Someone now has to step up and take on the mantelpiece