Famous Quotes & Sayings

Most patients gained an attitude change and were able to increase their physical activity. For someone in a wheelchair with Parkinson's, adding to their activity level is a major accomplishment.

Norman Mailer

Moving from one activity to another makes sense if you do it with a hint of wit or touch of grace. But I think moving from one activity to another can give momentum. If you do it well you can increase the energy you bring to the next piece of work.

No doubt housing activity was elevated over the winter because of very, very mild weather. One housing start in Syracuse, N.Y., in December is an awful lot. So we shouldn't be surprised by a big fall-off.

One of our goals is to provide young girls with character-building life skills that can help them avoid risky adolescent behaviors, such as drug or alcohol use, early sexual activity and eating disorders.

One of the areas where I see a lot of activity is in-building wireless coverage.

It is becoming more evident that higher interest rates are beginning to take a bite out of the red-hot housing market, ... While today's housing start result exaggerated weakness in the sector, it is yet another sign that the impact of higher rates has pushed housing activity off its peak.

Just come out and take the kids to a healthy activity with the family.

John Ashcroft

Just as neighborhood watch programs keep watch over their neighborhoods and report suspicious activity to law enforcement, Internet users now have a 'cyber community watch' program,

Japan is entering the summer holiday season. Activity should be limited this week and next.

Japan is closed today so the market is taking the U.S. as a reference. But there's not much activity because investors are taking a wait-and-see strategy ahead of Greenspan's speech.

January purchasing managers' surveys signal that the impressive acceleration in manufacturing activity from the final quarter of 2005 has carried over into the new year.

Last year continued to be a strong year for deep-water activity in the Gulf of Mexico. There is intense interest in oil and gas potential in the deep water.

David Allen

Land on Mars' as a project still comes down to something like 'Call Fred about the Mars budget proposal' that can be accomplished as soon and as easily as any other activity in our inventory of work at hand.

Jessica Moore

I think every form of contraception kind of increases sexual activity in teens.

States with the strongest demand for labor are also those which are experiencing a lift in economic activity from the mining boom and the associated strong investment in new productive capacity and infrastructure.

Stephen is being treated daily and we will monitor his progress during the course of this week, he is unlikely to take part in any form of rugby or running activity until next week.

Stable demand and rising land values have placed upward pressure on pricing resulting in a 14.4 percent increase in average asking rates in only six months. With robust sales activity and mom-and-pop operators seeking expansion opportunities, we believe there is room for additional increases in newly constructed retail centers.

Starts at year-end 2003 will provide additional support for GDP during the first two quarters of 2004 as construction activity gradually brings these buildings to completion.

Some of the steam has come off the housing market, but the decline in activity will be gradual and orderly.

Some of the conditions that have ripened the growth outlook at the start of 2006 are unlikely to last into spring. Abnormally warm weather boosted construction activity in December. ... Judging by a 46,000 gain in construction employment in January, the winter 2006 will go down as an unusually early and strong period for building activity.

Terrorist groupings of a secular character and with only a regional sphere of activity have largely been pushed into the background. Only a few of the secular groupings still pose a serious threat.

My own dog likes swimming. It's hard to predict, though. Make sure that this is an activity your dog wants to do. Don't assume because it's a Labrador that it will want to swim.

Bruce Karatz

Nationally, it is clear that some housing markets have moderated from the over-heated and, in some cases, speculative pace of growth of the past few years. In our view, this tempering of demand to more sustainable long-term levels is a healthy trend for our company and the industry. There are signs of cooling in the hottest markets on both coasts and a shift in investor activity from buying to selling, resulting in less demand and increased supply in certain markets. Once these factors work their way through current housing supplies, however, we expect the market to move to a new equilibrium which will provide a platform for continuing and sustainable growth by KB Home. With this outlook and our healthy first-quarter performance, we feel confident in maintaining our earnings estimate of $11.25 per diluted share for 2006.

Mickey Edwards

Lobbying is a constitutionally protected activity because the opposite of lobbying is to treat public officials as demigods.

It is critical that this activity be treated for what it is -- dealing in stolen property and profiting from it. And that must come with serious consequences.

M&A activity is likely to prove supportive for sterling and with recent economic data suggesting there is no risk of lower rates any time soon, I think the backdrop remains fairly constructive.

M&A activity has been the pattern for some time. Whilst we still have a decent macro background combined with low financing costs there's probably more to come. It's probably supportive of a relatively cheap market.

M&A activity has been a key influence on sterling over the recent weeks and months ... and if that's going to be a continuing theme, then that will at least provide a floor for sterling.

M&A activity and corporate earnings underpin the equity market. Investors now are coming around to the correct perception that first-quarter numbers are going to be very good.

Management will not comment on the status of the DOJ settlement discussions, but it appears to us that things may be heating up, ... There appears to be a flurry of activity on the settlement front, but no way of gauging probabilities.

Manufacturing activity in the region appears to have cooled off. We suspect it will be another month or two before auto manufacturers start ramping up production to replenish sales-depleted inventories.

Manufacturing activity in the Chicago region ended the year with good momentum.

(Meijer) knew, or should have known, that criminal activity in its ... store and surrounding parking lot was a frequent occurrence.