Famous Quotes & Sayings

Two weeks into the season we're at 93 per cent capacity, ... That's a five per cent increase over 2003-2004.

Stephen F. Lynch

Unfortunately, there is no job mobility in Central America, and these workers are stuck, and there will be no place for them to turn.

Benny Hinn

You have so much today that is pure flesh, yet people have labeled it as the Spirit. It's not the Spirit, because it's not centered on Christ.

To be competitive, in the resort and hospitality industry, the spa has become a necessity. It used to be considered a loss leader, but now it's a profit center for hotels .

You do not have to move these applications to provide a 21st century front end.

You do not come back from those depths just by making some shifts here and there and cherry-picking a few issues you think are popular. It just isn't that easy. The notion that you can just snap your fingers after falling from the high 60s to the low 30s, that you can give a speech, propose some infrastructure spending and say some things that you think pull you back to the center is naive in the extreme.

Paul Morley

to go back to the end of the last century to go into the future.

To give you an idea, we are only currently showing about six to seven per cent of the collection upstairs. The rest is in the basement.

Thus, intuitively, we would expect that there would be more defibrillators in senior centers than in schools.

Eddy Cue

We are about 5 per cent of the music market in the US but there is no doubt in my mind that digital music is the future,

We're not saying the Russian sector should be completely ours. It would be a sector in which Russia would play a central role and it would include other countries as well.

We are really working to set up what can be a one-stop shopping center (for permits), ... all for the purpose of helping us meet demand.

Karen Miller

We are really low on O-negative. Only seven per cent of the population have it.

We are opposed to the use of the Social Security number in tracking students. It will drop like a rock. It will create a central ministry of higher education similar to what the French use. I don't think a single commission member will come out in support of it.

We are on track to deliver 100 per cent debt relief within the coming weeks to 19 of the 20 countries.

Harold Urey

In general, exchange reactions for the lighter isotopes have equilibrium constants sufficiently different from unity, so that the ratios of concentrations of the isotopes in two compounds which are in equilibrium differ by a few per cents in nearly all cases.

Harold Feinstein

Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.

Politicians' remarks opposing a policy shift have reduced expectations of an early end to the deflation-fighting policy and raised concern over the independence of the central bank. It also harms the government's credibility; It's yen negative.

Potentially on a very hot day in the Central Valley or Southern California, with very stagnant air, it might lead to a violation of federal ozone standards. But this is an emergency situation. ... And the consequences of the hurricane here are minor compared with what is happening in the Mississippi Delta.

My take is that the Fed will continue to raise overnight rates until it feels it has moved from a stimulative to a neutral policy stance. That will likely take the funds rate to 4 per cent-to-4.25 per cent by yearend.

My senior year at Central (1971-72) was the last year of Central High School.

My understanding is that the drafting of the law is a preparatory step to set up a central government department to supervise energy security and clean use.

Jay Bilas

No. 1, there are not as many quality big guys now. What passes for a center now could be 6-8, where 20 years ago a 6-8 guy would have a lot of trouble. And, secondly, the three-point line is so close that teams have spread the floor. If you have one big guy, you can let him go one on one and spread the floor around him.

Ninety per cent of the people are still living in sub-standard housing.

Ninety per cent of the guys do (think Saskin is the right man for the job). So we'll see.

Ninety per cent of the guys do (feel that way), I guess, so we'll see. We're having a secret vote and it'll be a dead issue in a couple of days.

NDU, the premier center for joint professional military education, is under the direction of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The University is located at Ft. McNair in Washington, DC. NDUs Joint Forces Staff College is in Norfolk, Va. NDU is accredited by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.

Eric Dill

On one hand I like to be very secluded, on the other hand I love to be on the center of the stage.

Victor Ponta

Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.

James Allen

One of the challenges that we have as we move forward in the early part of the 21st century is to understand how we can help people make the right choices to understand that they have real control of a lot of the health risks in their lives,

One of the central characteristics of this entire global recovery is the outsized impact of these new economies. That's one of the reasons why growth has remained strong in the U.S. and profit trends have been remained positive, so if there is any inkling that we are at the front end of slowing that down, that's going to make a dramatic difference.

One of the major contributors to our success this year was significant loan growth. Total loans were 11 per cent higher than in 2004, the highest level in five years.

Stephen Kinzer

One of the most perplexing political questions of the late 20th century is how new democracies should punish deposed dictators and their associates. Victims cry for justice, but leaders of new regimes must decide to what extent it is possible, moral or prudent to pursue evildoers of the past.