Famous Quotes & Sayings

Underwriting revenues and M&A activity picked up as 2003 progressed; 2004 is off to a strong start,

Two staff members on the island attempted to search the area where the missing person was thought to be but had to retreat due to further volcanic activity and the track being impassable with fallen trees and ash.

When someone works closely with a political party you certainly don't expect them to engage in an activity that is going to damage the party.

When markets reopened Schwab saw good activity and volatility for the last half of September. It was better than expected.

Thornton Wilder

Every writer is necessarily a critic -- that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg -- nine-tenths of him is under water.

Firms in the FIRE sector are heavily dependent on data and need IT professionals to help manage, mine and safeguard it, especially in light of recent corporate governance regulations mandating better internal controls. Hiring activity also is being driven by business growth in sub-sectors such as residential and commercial lending.

First and foremost younger consumers are just more comfortable enacting more intense activity online that includes financial services activity. They're just more comfortable clicking a mouse than writing a check.

Expect more of the same choppy activity as the Dow meanders around the 10,000 level. Unfortunately, the leadership is expected to remain very narrow as the negative (market) breadth problem continues.

John Meyers

Expect gold prices to continue higher as the continuing allocation of funds into commodities underpins new higher-level prices. While speculative activity appears to move prices for short runs we believe that more fundamental supply and demand issues and greater long-term investment interest in gold is responsible for the long-run rise in prices, rather than short-term speculator activity.

Exuberant levels of consumer confidence, household borrowing and domestic spending continued to fuel domestic economic activity and enhance business confidence.

The real tragedy is that overweight and obesity, and their related chronic diseases, are largely preventable, ... Approximately 80% of heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes, and 40% of cancer could be avoided through healthy diet, regular physical activity and avoidance of tobacco use.

The real question to come out of the discussion is: what is the public commitment and public investment in higher education. To what extent are we going to invest in research activity in the lab and equipment that goes with it, and to what extent do lawmakers see it tied to young people getting jobs and growth of the economy.

The real potential is getting more volume out of existing customers, not expanding the base. Attracting 21-year-olds that argument's been made for 50 years, but racing has always been an activity that appeals to older people. You need two things disposable time and disposable income. It'll always be a specialized, somewhat eccentric activity that appeals to people who like the intellectual challenge of doping out the races.

Bruce Karatz

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.

Human activity is having a major impact on the planet. We consume or have diverted a large proportion of the productivity of the land and oceans. Our hunger for land crowds out fellow species. Our waste products pollute the waters, warm the atmosphere and acidify the oceans.

Alex Johnson

We often see an increase in criminal and fraudulent activity of all kinds during the holiday season. People usually feel more generous during the holidays, and they're in the spending mode. Criminals take advantage of this.

We obviously track the mortgage activity and understand that overall share, but we don't focus on how many homes are being purchased by investors without a mortgage. That could be a more interesting part of the housing picture.

We obviously can?t prove or disprove, but it?s unlikely. That level of activity would not go unnoticed.

We pay for it from the student activity fee and the regular CRC budget process.

While some of our competition is narrowing its focus to just e-mail capabilities, IBM continues to expand and evolve Lotus Notes and Domino to deliver the extended business value of a true collaborative platform. Over the last 20 years, IBM Lotus has defined this industry and has been at the forefront of collaborative innovation. With a broad new set of programs, platform support and Business Partner activity to support the Lotus Notes and Domino platform, we're continuing to meet the growing needs of our customers and are well positioned to maintain our leadership role into the future.

While our clients' trading activity had increased in early September ? daily average revenue trades were 136,000 for the first five trading days of the month ? last week's terrorist attacks and their aftermath have added fresh uncertainty to the market environment,

Face-to-face classes and the Internet support program were helpful because participants were taught how to make changes in eating and activity to immediately reverse small weight gains.

Michael Gregory

Factory activity likely cooled slightly in December, but remains robust.

Ada Yonath

I used ribosomes from very, very robust bacteria under very, very active conditions and found a way - I actually took advantage of research done before me at the Weizmann, the same institute I am now - how to preserve their activity and their integrity while they crystallized.

Alison Bechdel

Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it's about real life. I feel like I'm using a part of my brain that's been dormant until now.

We are seeing the effects of reduced capital spending by service providers and other communications market end customers impact our customers' business and hence their purchases. The slowdown in end market activity is prolonging the inventory correction, but we believe that moderate sequential revenue growth will resume in the second half.

Ariel Sharon

We attach vast importance to Egyptian activity in the Gaza Strip and along the border, but I don't intend to allow Egypt to become a mediator between Israelis and Palestinians,

We believe it is unlikely that Citigroup knowingly participated in fraudulent activity related to Enron, and history suggests bank stocks bounce highly after a market crisis.

TRUTH, n. An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time.

To think that these folks have multimillion-dollar budgets - what do they do with them? I ask my grad students, 'Can you name any activity you've been involved in or you know about that the King Center does?' And they can't.

John Updike

Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.

Abhishek Bachchan

I still feel that in India we look upon sports as a recreational activity - which it is - but people have to understand that there is a career in sports. It's not just necessary to be a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer, as most of us Indians appear to think that our children should grow up to be.

The program is designed to attract kids and get them off the street. When children are involved in any organized activity for more than three hours a week, the risk goes down.