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.

Jun Fukashiro

Bonds are getting a boost from Fukui's comments. Yields were high enough to attract some investors.

E. B. White

Even though the Swans have been there for over 20 years now and really built up a loyal following, AFL on television does not attract the sort of audiences we would like, ... We would just have got killed if we went in any earlier. We are putting it on at 10pm, which is not what I would call late, but we would get hammered if we put it on live.

Jay Rosen

Big Media does not know how to innovate, ... What capacity for product development do news organizations show? Zip. How are they on nurturing innovation? Terrible. Is there an entrepreneurial spirit in newsrooms? No. Do smart young people ever come in and overturn everything? Never. Do these firms attract designers and geeks who are gifted with technology? They don't, because they don't do anything challenging enough. They don't innovate, or pay well. So they can't compete.

Scott Bender

We've put together a first-rate team that has considerable experience in designing casinos that are visually attractive and fun for visitors.

Jeff Bishop

We want to be able to do some patrol work and also respond to citizen complaints about illegal dump sites. We don't want the small pile of garbage to attract a big pile.

Mark LaNeve

We want to attract people with our features and our quality, not just the latest wad of cash on the hood.

David Wu

The facts are startling: in Germany, 36% of undergraduates receive their degrees in science and engineering. In China, the figure is 59%, and in Japan 66%. In the United States, the corresponding figure is 32%, ... It is clear we need to do all we can to attract more students to the sciences to remain competitive in the global economy. Such an effort must start in our elementary and secondary schools. National Chemistry Week provides our teachers with the tools and ideas to spark that interest.

Van Baker

What Intel hopes it will do is attract consumers and commercial buyers back to a more expensive PC, so they can sell their higher-end processors.

Curt Smith

What we've done is identify appropriate niches to attract various buyers, such as first-time home buyers, families moving up and retired adults.

Libby Doggett

Pre-K is gradually being integrated into the K-12 education system nationwide. In a state that has so many great universities like Purdue, Indiana and Notre Dame, it's a shame (Indiana) won't do more to ensure its own children are better prepared to enter those schools with high quality pre-K.

Jack Horn

This is a serious problem nationally and statewide as well as in the county, ... Solano County has been particularly proactive, signing people up on various programs, particularly children with the SKIP program, but it's still a serious problem, no question about it.

Barbara Mertz

Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.

Ogden Nash

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

C. S. Lewis

But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan.

C. S. Lewis

Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.

Celine Dion

Since I was a little child, my nose - I think it's too big.

Carol Browner

Our actions today will protect children from the adverse effects of exposure to pesticides commonly used on foods. The agency also is on schedule to meet all deadlines for ensuring safer pesticides use under the new Food Quality Protection Act.

Carol Bellamy

Creating a world that is truly fit for children does not imply simply the absence of war... It means having primary schools nearby that educate children, free of charge... It means building a world fit for children, where every child can grow to adulthood in health, peace and dignity.

Jeffrey Lubell

The incomes of working families simply have not kept pace with rising housing prices. And this is despite low interest rates and new mortgage products designed to make homes more affordable.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

We had grain but no mills, so I designed a special mill of wood so we could make flour.

James Krouse

The introduction of several programs designed to review systems and program performance has resulted in efficiencies and cost-saving efforts.

P. J. Harvey

There's also a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doing, that requires quite a lot of study and quite a lot of hard work as well.

Bobby Cox

This ranks right up there. This goes back 14 years.

Sonam Kapoor

No relationship works without making an effort. That goes without saying. But you should never overcompensate.

Andy Nash

As it goes down the mountain, it's accelerated. It results in stronger gusts of winds that you normally wouldn't have if the mountains weren't there.

Patty Griffin

There's an imbalance when if a woman goes out for a walk at 3 in the morning and something happens to her it was somehow her fault, and with a man that's not true.

Rene Descartes

It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable

Jackie Spinner

Frankly, you pray. My heart goes out to her family, her sister, her parents. I can only imagine what this must be doing to them.

Rachel Wacholder

I feel like every time we come out there, we think we can win. I don't know that they think they're going to win every time, either, and everyone watching isn't thinking, 'Oh God, here it goes again, they're going to win,' and it's good.

Robert Vaden

Hopefully he can get a job, and if he goes somewhere that's good enough for me, I'll be there with him.. I'm trying not to think about all these things right now. We've got a season we're still playing in and we're trying to make it to the (NCAA) tournament. That's all I'm worried about.

Sidney Crosby

Just being around him is going to help me ? the little questions about things in town, where things are, just seeing about how he goes about things every day, ... On the ice, it's good for me to see some of these older guys who've been in the league for a lot of years and see how they practice, just get into good habits. Being around those guys, it's going to rub off.

Elizabeth Lewis

This was the only hurricane where we had less than 24 hours notice it was going to hit,

Ben Crane

Get it? I'm the one who started the joke! I was walking down the last fairway with Kenny Perry , and it had been a long day, and I go, 'You knew I was slow, but you didn't know I was nine hours slow!' At first he was just flummoxed. But then he said, 'Don't sell yourself short. You weren't slow today.' I went, 'Thank you.'

Michael Brown

Maybe I should have screamed 12 hours earlier.

Anna McCloy

If he was strong enough to pull through 41 hours in the mine, he's strong enough to pull through this." ()

H. P. Lovecraft

Something like fear chilled me as I sat there in the small hours alone-I say alone, for one who sits by a sleeper is indeed alone; perhaps more alone than he can realise.

Georg Brandes

I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour.

Debra Messing

If I had 10 more hours in each day, I would spend more time with my husband, my friends and my family. I would take singing and painting lessons.

Connor Franta

I could Photoshop for hours. I spend way too much time making thumbnails. I spend, like, two hours on my thumbnails sometimes just because it's, like, fun.

Danny Meyer

I don't think there's going to be sustainable demand for restaurants that force you to spend hours there.

Kevin Doll

She mentioned to someone that she was involved in a similar incident, and that person read about it in the paper and notified a detective.

Dick Pound

But when you get lawyers involved that takes time. We are looking at ways to shorten that.

Sean Collins

Obviously we knew we were going to be playing a lot so we had to keep our shifts short. It's tough to jump up into a play and get involved in the offense because you just can't expend too much energy.

Mike DeBord

It could very well be because you don't know when you're getting a kid. You don't if he's at class, you don't know if he's at lunch, you don't know where he is at that time. So when you leave that text, you don't know what he's involved with. I think kids feel like they have to get back right away when somebody texts, and I think it's interfering with things they should be doing. You don't want to overdo it, because you don't want to upset the kid or the family.

Darin Brumby

I have seen and been involved in acquisitions where that big question is left unanswered.

Sidney Jones

The real question is whether they will be able to get the two key masterminds that everyone suspects are involved in this one because they have also been involved in the last two big bombings. They have not been able to get those people for the last three years. But I think this may be a turning point, we'll have to see.

Warren Bailey

There are a lot of people struggling, thinking that they need to do this and be involved in the new economy, and they have no idea what they are doing. That's all par for the course, and part of the normal process of any capitalist-driven economy. It's unfortunate, but it's reality -- shake out those that can't from those that can.

Sete Gibernau

I love this sport and I don't want to get involved in politics.

Ernst Uhrlau

We were not involved in tracking down Saddam Hussein.

Tom Stern

It was tough for every wrestler to get through (to state). There are a lot of kids that aren't going who could be.

Bow Wow

My fans saw 'Roll Bounce,' but also that older crowd who might not have been familiar with me on the music tip saw 'Roll Bounce' and loved it. 'Roll Bounce' opened up that door for me to have older people love Bow Wow and opened up that door so all of the kids would love Bow Wow. My fan base is really diverse; it's all ages and all colors.

Jason Dominick

This win is a real tribute to our kids. We lost a lot from last season's team and these kids really put in the time during the summer in order to get back to this point.

Butch Cassidy

Kid, the next time I say let's go someplace like Bolivia. Let's go someplace like Bolivia.

Busy Philipps

I've always liked being funny and making people laugh. I was a cut-up when I was a kid, and was always doing bits for my friends and family.

Barry Zito

I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school... I wasn't a popular kid. I was an outcast.

Demarcus Ware

I have an opportunity to look kids in the face and let them know it's not about where you come from; it's how you use what you have to get to where you need to be.

Demi Lovato

As a kid I'd play with homemade recipes, like putting pineapple on my face to exfoliate my skin and doing facial steams with lavender or peppermint oils. I just loved doing stuff like that. It's what motivated me to launch my skin care line.

Craig Ferguson

You know when you're a kid and you think, 'Oh no, I've got double math, this is never gonna end,' but then it ends, and it's like it never happened? That's like life.

Vicente Fox

On that side and this side there is organized crime. On that side and this side there is drug consumption.

Steve Robinson

The vibrancy in our sports programs is still there.

Ken Leonard

That's what you want to get your program to, but we still have to prove it,

Hillary Clinton

There was even a time when Donald Trump didn't get an Emmy for his TV program three years in a row and he started tweeting that the Emmys were rigged against him.

Robert Redford

We don't program (the festival) for commerciality. We program for diversity.

Jim Colborn

He allows me to have my own program and supports me and makes me feel like I am appreciated and respected.

Kenneth Williams

The program is already funded. Everything is in place.

Brian Tracy

The future belongs to the risk-takers, not the comfort-seekers .

Alicia Silverstone

All the things I've loved the most in life were my biggest risks.

Anne Lamott

Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do?

Andy Stanley

You won't take risk without courage.

Simon Rattle

Culture and, within culture, music are the best and most fascinating thing that the German capital has to offer internationally. It is putting that at risk.

Rick Riordan

Great victory requires great risk. -Hera

Rene Char

Trust firmly in your luck, cling to your happiness, and dare to take risks.

Richard Branson

The risk is worth it. Mike would have been the first to say that.

Richard Branson

Throughout my business life I have always tried to keep on top of costs and protect the downside risk as much possible. The Virgin Group has survived only because we have always kept tight control of our cash. But, likewise, I also know that sometimes it is essential to break these rules and spend lavishly.

Charles Howard

Once we started doing those three things, we got going.

Andrew Walpole

There would not be any replacements for Vaughan as we have already got three newcomers.

Sinead O'Connor

I've been married three times, really I should only have been married once.

Matsuo Basho

He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.

Michel Hazanavicius

I want to thank three persons, I want to thank Billy Wilder, I want to thank Billy Wilder and I want to thank Billy Wilder.

Chris Stringer

Neanderthals are three times as different from us as we all are from each other,

Corey Brewer

I don't think you'd ever see one of us by ourselves. It's always two of us together or three of us together.

Charles Montesquieu

If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Tony Ramsey

If someone had told me three years ago I would be in administration, I would have said you are crazy.