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.

Rashad Bobino

Some plays you couldn't be as aggressive as you needed to, because if you did, you would mess up the whole defense, something wrong would happen.

Earl Johnson

Now I can be more aggressive in my job search and home search, ... This place is as good as any other.

John Snow

Thanks to the changes we've made in currency design, thanks to aggressive law enforcement led by the U.S. Secret Service and thanks to an informed public, we've been able to stay ahead of the counterfeiters,

Clint Barmes

I've never walked. If I'm laying off balls, I might get some walks. But I don't go up looking for a walk. Never have. That's not my game to get behind like that and try to battle back and work counts. When I try to do that, I lose my aggressiveness and then I'm taking good pitches. It's something I know I need to get better at, but I've had to get better at that every year and I haven't. Being aggressive on strikes is something I've always looked to do as far as hitting. I feel like I've done well with that approach.

Aftab Dada

Things are looking good for 2005-2006, but for 2007 and into 2008 we are going to have to go into a very aggressive mode.

Traci Brooks

That's good for us because we don't normally do that. It was a pleasant surprise for us to come out and be so aggressive because we haven't done that in a long time.

Ron Robinson

That's how coach wanted to come out. Just come out and play aggressive and take the shots we take in practice. That's what we do in practice is work on shooting the 3s -- and we came out doing it tonight.

Avery Johnson

That's huge. He doesn't have to lead us every night. I want him to be aggressive and get his shots. But we've got to be able to get some offense from someplace else.

Robert Hite

That shot Diaz hit, that 3-pointer -- man, that was the heartbreaker. We were just more aggressive than North Carolina. Diaz is a great player. I mean we look for him all the time because he makes it happen.

Richard Leakey

To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony.

Billy Higgins

Let's just say that more intelligence is needed. You can't just run up and do this, you have to think about it.

Mark Turgeon

He had a tough night at Southern; it's as simple as that. He didn't play with the intelligence he usually plays with.

Thomas Merton

Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.

Tanith Lee

No one is ever ordinary.

Iyanla Vanzant

I am just an ordinary person committed to doing extraordinary things.

Veronica Roth

It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.

Ralph Goodale

Affected hundreds of thousands of ordinary Canadians who have invested in mutual funds that invest in income trusts.

Melinda Gates

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.

Paulo Coelho

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Herbert Hoover

Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.

Gary Numan

I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm well aware it has plenty of problems, though they seem to be associated with particular areas.

Beth Robertson

One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States.