Famous Quotes & Sayings

Craig Conway

We believe Oracle is using the entire process -- tender offer, antitrust and proxy solicitation -- in an attempt to damage our company, ... Don't underestimate the significant additional value PeopleSoft can create once the disruption from Oracle's hostile activities has ended.

Corbin Bernsen

Truthfully, the games weren't the most interesting part of the whole thing to me; they were activities to bring out personality.

Galen Rowell

What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world.

Alex Ferguson

The time I have already spent at Harvard has been a stimulating experience, and I look forward to developing my relationship and activities with the students, faculty and friends of the Harvard Business School community.

Carl Honore

When moms stayed home, it was easier just to let the kids play around the house. But as women entered the workplace and the extended family dissolved, someone else had to pick up the slack on the child-care front. Extracurricular activities fit the bill perfectly, promising not only supervision but also enrichment.

This will ensure that any future activities on the site, if any, can go forward unimpeded and unrestricted.

There is reason to feel optimistic about many of the trends in risk behavior among our young people. However, we have much left to do. Too many of our children are still engaging in activities that put them at risk for health problems now and into adulthood.

There is plenty of work to go around. One key to success is that intelligence activities in a given country be coordinated, a process in which the (CIA) chief of station plays a crucial role.

J. Taylor

To celebrate this momentous occasion and thank our customers, we wanted to put together an entertainment package that went beyond our daily Jet 7 offering. We have prepared special activities that will have everyone in the mood to party!

Ian Fleming

To celebrate the centenary of Ian Fleming's birth in 2008 we are looking at a wide range of different activities and one of those is a new adult Bond novel ... We are still in the planning stages, but at the moment the idea would be to have it done by an established author - potentially a big name.

When you have meetings on a Monday, it does encroach on long weekends. Especially if you have weekend activities planned.

When you have a set of policies that are being pursued by a president, then that person leaves, you don't want those activities to stop.

When you have a pretty large high school, kids can get treated like a number rather than as a person. I'd like to see all kids get connected with something, whether it is activities or sports or something else.

John Sherman

There have been rumors of irregularities, serious problems with the activities of the Board of Assessors, ... I'm hoping they will get to the bottom of this.

There has never been that kind of effort, to standardize activities and rules.

Shawn Ryan

We've certainly discussed different kinds of departures on this show and on 'The Unit' as well because that's a team that engages in very dangerous activities. It probably would be unrealistic to have a huge number of activities where somebody didn't get killed or very badly wounded. But I've never wanted to do something like this to be edgy, or prove how different we can be. There are shows that do that, and I am never impressed with that. And I think, in the end, the fans see right through it.

Too many youth groups are fighting to keep their doors open at a time when their services are needed more than ever. These grants are meant to help the healers and enable more children to stay engaged in activities - especially during the summer - that keep them learning and playing, which is the best medicine for recovery from this disaster.

Those activities that are in danger must undergo a tough fitness program.

This transaction is a positive step for both companies. The transfer of businesses to GE advances Lockheed Martin's ongoing portfolio-shaping activities and accomplishes a significant reduction in outstanding common shares, thereby enhancing shareholder value.

Andy Roddick

Though I have continued to practice, train and play, the lower back spasms continue, ... After being evaluated by medical staff upon my return to the United States, it is now clear that I am not able to resume tennis activities for 10-14 days.

We don't want to disrupt anything that's student-based. We won't be asking people to not participate in extracurricular activities that benefit students, ... We want to continue to work and provide the best service we know how, and we're not going to harm our students at all, but there are other means of protest.

We don't want to change the student-teacher ratio or cut extra activities for kids. I think they're very important and can be as important as academics.

We will further increase the transparency of the CPC's diplomatic activities and open up a window for people in the rest of the world to better understand China and the CPC through the party's external exchanges.

John Ashcroft

We will continue to greet our international neighbors with good will, ... Asking some neighbors and visitors to verify their activities while they are here is fully consistent with that outlook.

We will continue to exercise our R and D activities based on our right.

Yasser Arafat

We would like to reiterate that all sorts of armed activities should be stopped and there should be no more attacks, especially the suicide bombing attacks that we have always condemned. We will arrest those who have planned these attacks.

Steve Nelson

We would be offering a wider range of commercial activities and in that sense it's new, but the basic philosophy of protecting the natural resource has not changed at all.