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.

Charles Munger

The present era has no comparable referent in the past history of capitalism. We have a higher percentage of the intelligentsia engaged in buying and selling pieces of paper and promoting trading activity than in any past era. A lot of what I see now reminds me of Sodom and Gomorrah. You get activity feeding on itself, envy and imitation. It has happened in the past that there came bad consequences.

Jacki Mieler

Those cities are the hub of activity for the Gen X market. Eventually the Web site will expand and we want people to visit places outside of those metro areas.

Henry Paulson

Weakness in the capital markets, compounded by an erosion of corporate and investor confidence, has depressed activity in a number of our most important businesses, ... While we have seen some encouraging economic data of late, the current environment remains very challenging.

David Aguilar

We are indeed aware of criminal organizations that wear military-style uniforms, use military-style equipment and weapons and employ military-style vehicles and tactics while conducting illegal activity in border areas.

Chuck D.

We had some big plays. This isn't the normal Vernon team you see with the three yards and a cloud of dust ? although we had clouds of dust today.

James Moore

Further resistance around $1 020/oz is expected in the coming sessions although a break higher would leave little in the way of chart resistance until $1 040/oz.

Fanny Crosby

Oh, what a happy child I am, although I cannot see! I am resolved that in this world, contented I will be!

Mick Rock

Somebody had given me a copy of 'Hunky Dory,' which had yet to be a hit, although it was starting to percolate. I'd seen a couple of pictures of David, with his interesting hairdo and outfits, and I decided to seek him out, which wasn't difficult back then, as he was eager to do any kind of publicity.

Drew Peck

While the company has seen no negative trend in its bookings activity, the Nortel remarks suggest a downturn is inevitable, although probably not until the first quarter of 2001. Unfortunately, stocks selling at more than 100 times multiples don't fare well in the face of any negative trend.

Stephen Massocca

Long-term interest rates are moving higher, which is eventually going to hamper the market. Although you've got oil down today, there were hopes that it would be sustained in the 50s, and that hasn't happened.

David Crane

Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair.

John Luke

Markets for the company's products remained stable during the quarter, although well below the robust levels of 2004.

Michael Smith

My mother attended the local church, Saint Nicolas, and consequently, I attended that church and its Sunday School. My only prizes from the Sunday School were 'for attendance,' so I presume my atheism, which developed when I left home to attend university, although latent, was discernible.

Artis Hicks

Anytime he had a question, I helped out as quick as I could. That dude can play football. Had to make sure he stayed there.

Anne Donovan

You had two MVPs on the court. Between Sheryl at one end and Lauren at the other end, it was fun to watch. And Swoopes, anytime you send two people to guard her as soon as she catches the ball, that tells you how good she was playing.

Jet Turner

Yeah, it's the Jamboree. But anytime we beat York, it's nice.

Paul Mainieri

First of all, anytime you go on the road, it is tough in-conference. Second of all, Georgetown got our attention last year by beating us here. I think they're going to be tough games, and hopefully we'll play well in all our phases and get off to a good start.

Eliot Spitzer

If we can get (Indian Point) to a point where it is not needed, wonderful, ... Do I think that is going to happen anytime soon? No.

Andrew Barrett

I think that the PC, the PC peripheral, and the semiconductor space is in a pretty big slowdown period right now, and I don't see this abating anytime before the summertime. Maybe the PC market picks up a little bit in the second quarter, but really you are looking at summer before it starts to come back.

Ryan McGuire

We lost to them here two years ago and we still have several players from that team. Anytime we play a team with Dublin written on their jersey, it's big, because they're only five minutes away from us, and they're a big rival.

Dan Campbell

He was great because he went out and practiced and he worked his butt off and he'd go to the game and make plays. Anytime we needed a big play he was there.

Barry Bonds

I don't even know the guy. Tell him he's an idiot. Somebody said he wanted a piece of me. Tell him I'm at 24 Willie Mays Plaza and he can come get me anytime he wants to -- with pleasure. Don't insult my family.

Jim Black

That's just the type of player Josh is. He's always been there when we need a big play. That goal made such a huge difference. It was a two-goal deficit instead of three.

Jim Ritterbusch

You still have a sizable year-on-year deficit in distillate stocks, so it's too early in the winter to write off this distillate market.

Jason Chaffetz

While the deficit and debt are serious problems, I oppose solving these problems by raising taxes.

Judd Gregg

It will mean the deficit goes up probably 150 (billion dollars), maybe even more,

Debbie Stabenow

The Farm Bill is one of the only bills that provides substantial deficit reduction that passed the Senate this year. It only makes sense that this deficit reduction bill would be included in a larger deficit reduction agreement.

Chris Patritto

We're looking at a $450,000 to $550,000 deficit right now.

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.

Ralph Solveen

This is really a very positive surprise but unfortunately it has nothing to do with the economy. It's only a statistical effect because many people who used to be registered as unemployed are no longer included in the numbers.

Chuck Palahniuk

Some mythological fat asswipe drives our national economy.

Mark Zandi

Our economy isn't going to recover until the housing market finds its footing.

Melinda Gates

Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.

Dave Edwards

People like to give to where they live, and after these episodic events they tend to give more. A lot of this has more to do with the economy than with the cause.

Brian Fabbri

All guns seemed to be firing at the same time for the economy in the third quarter.

William Hornbarger

The idea is that the Fed has a little more work to do, but inflation doesn't look to be a problem and the economy is showing trend-level growth.

Barton Smith

The Houston economy has not been booming. It's been growing, but gradually.

James Cash Penney

The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman.

Kevin Johnson

This quarter marked the 15th consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth for the server and tools business, with Microsoft SQL Server revenue up more than 30 percent over the quarter.

Brian Tracy

Dedicate yourself to continuous personal improvement you are your most precious resource

John Chambers

While there were a number of highlights, it was probably the U.S. that topped the highlight list with strong order growth of approximately 20 percent year over year. This is better order growth than we've experienced in the last six quarters in the U.S..

Clara Barton

Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.

Stephen Bennett

Intuit posted strong revenue growth and even stronger profit growth during the third quarter. The company's performance positions us to end the year on track to meet our stated revenue and pro forma profit goals.

Chuck Jones

CA isn't well positioned from a growth standpoint.

Tim Wallace

I'm pleased with our progress. 2005 was another growth year for us.

Friedrich August von Hayek

He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.

George Galloway

I saw 'New Labour'conceived, watched it gestate, witnessed its birth and growth. Now I fervently hope I will be present at its death.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Shawnee Smith

So much of life is just talk. At the end of the day, you're just serving the higher thing.

Fadel Gheit

These stocks are not reflecting $50 or $60 oil. They are probably reflecting $40 oil. But this is not realistic. The fundamentals support a higher price.

Don Bowers

The worse the hurricane does to us, the higher the prices are going to go.

Lysle Brinker

This is a tax story. What we don't know is how long the higher tax rate will be sustained going forward.

Rich Olson

That took the wind out of our sails. It just made the hill a lot higher to climb.

Cheng Chin

At the moment, I don't see how this can be done at much higher temperatures.

Adam Sieminski

We should have an overall higher level of distillate product - This should give the industry a breather.

Adam Sieminski

We should have an overall higher level of distillate product -- This should give the industry a breather.

Greg Hymowitz

With rates going higher, I'm staying away from the old-economy stocks.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

John Seabrook

In the nineteen-eighties, rates of obesity started to rise sharply in the U.S. and around the world. By the nineteen-nineties, obesity reached epidemic proportions.

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

Riley Wallace

It disappoints me that we're not as sharp as we should be at this stage. But it's a win.

Gray Davis

I don't care. My trademark is I say what I think, for better or for worse.

Zayn Malik

My trademark saying is probably “VAS HAPPENIN?!”

William H. Gass

I am unlikely to trust a sentence that comes easily.