Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Dean

Not since Richard Nixon stiffed the Congress during Watergate has a White House so openly and arrogantly defied Congress' investigative authority. Nor has any activity by the Bush administration more strongly suggested they are hiding incriminating information about their relationship with the now-moribund Enron, or other heavy-hitting campaign contributors from the energy business.

Gisela Dulko

After two days of heavy activity I finally felt much less affected by the altitude, and my game picked up.

It's been our goal for several years to treat the whole patient, to work as a team, as opposed to individuals, to find out what the patient did at home and to incorporate that activity into therapy.

It's an adjustment in the market. Closing activity lags sales activity.

It's very easy to blame bird migration, because then no one's responsible. Migrating birds may introduce the virus into an area, but it is human activity that spreads it.

I want people with disabilities to know that there's another activity that they can participate in.

They (Crouch and Buchanan) had the unmitigated nerve to stand up to Dr. Reddy's illegal activity and that is the only reason they are no longer working in the jobs they did so well,

They have very little activity on the fire.

It slows down for a little while and starts back up, ... We have noticed a decrease in activity in certain areas. They move to other areas.

Mark Zandi

It's always a bit difficult to read the economic data in the winter, just because activity is thinner, and the vagaries of weather are more pronounced. So it's not unusual to see, although this is an extraordinary amount of volatility.

Skiers find Race for Kids to be a great and challenging competition. But it's the whole weekend of activity that brings so many to Stowe each year.

As you apply pressure in the urban areas through a physical barrier and an infrastructure that not only is impressive, it's intimidating, then it becomes an obstacle. You can divert that activity and channel into areas where you have a tactical advantage.

Brian Quinn

A combination of growth in the areas of high market activity and consolidation of our position in the remaining markets present exciting prospects for the group.

Lee H. Hamilton

A member of an intelligence committee who hears of some activity he disapproves of has no real way to bring that public because if he does, he's breaking the law.

They're totally random. We believe this to be the activity of juveniles. Nobody that called in saw or heard anything overnight.

The report is stronger than appears on the surface. Unlike other parts of the economy, manufacturing activity moved up, so I would say in general this is a pretty solid report. Utility output was down probably because of the relatively cool summer we had.

There's been a lot of activity as of late.

It was really the department store chains and the apparel retailers that took it on the chin with weak January sales results. But a couple of names in those two groups are guiding higher than expected, predicated on expectations of lower promotional activity going into spring.

This suggests that businesses do expect trade activity to improve further on a buoyant 2005.

David Thomas

Our physical activity is no longer a requirement and people rely on machines as a major source of transportation.

Brian Ellis

Our goal is 365 days a year, 24-hour activity and we're getting closer and closer. Lots of good things coming down the line, this being one of them.

Our U.S. Trust subsidiary in midtown Manhattan has been evacuated. Our other major operation on the East Coast is our capital-trading and market-making activity in Jersey City. They have not been affected, but then again, the market is closed. We are just going to wait to see how things develop.

What we have to do is leave Lebanon, and what the world has to do is threaten the Syrians. If they are behind any violent activity against us, they will be treated as a pariah state.

Halston Sage

My favorite weekend activity is riding bikes to breakfast.

While it's imprecise to extrapolate trends from a single distribution center, in our view the activity levels at this facility demonstrate that Amazon is highly likely to meet or exceed our December quarter revenue estimate of $1 billion. Shipment levels appear to be at least on plan, with a very high backlog of orders to be filled.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

We think we're saving time with microwaves, cell phones, beepers, computers and voice mail, but often these things help us create the illusion of getting somewhere - and they foster a chain of constant activity. We're really just squeezing extra activity into every minute that we gain.

Michael Penn

We think the risks are that activity will pick up rather more slowly than the bank expects. In this environment risks to rates are lying on the downside in our view, and we continue to expect a 25 basis point rate cut in May.