Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Thompson

Recreational fishing is a long-standing, valid activity in the park, and we recognize that. But the park has a dual mission, to protect resources and provide for their enjoyment. If you don't protect the resources, it'll prevent the enjoyment.

Steve Pearce

Regardless of the true source of these incursions, the Mexican government must not evade its responsibility to help us stop illegal activity on the border. I hope that this letter will lead to a more productive partnership toward that goal.

Antoine Halff

Refinery activity has been very depressed because of damage caused by hurricanes last year and deferred maintenance. There was a huge surge in imports after last year's storms but that has ended. At the same time refinery activity has not recovered.

Amy Cutts

Refinancing activity was very strong in the fourth quarter, even with higher interest rates. The large share of borrowers who took cash out when refinancing their mortgages combined with the strong overall refinance volume led to an extraction of home equity through prime first-lien refinances of $70.3 billion, slightly higher than the revised estimate of $67.2 billion extracted in the third quarter. We expect the share of all refinance borrowers who take out cash to remain high in 2006 because of the relatively high cost of second mortgages and home-equity lines of credit.

Bob Walters

Refinance activity will continue as homeowners refinance out of adjustable rate mortgages and into fixed-rate programs now that there is virtually no difference between long- and short-term interest rates.

Alan Greenspan

reductions in demand for our exports and intensified competition from imports. All of this suggests that the growth of economic activity in this country will moderate from the recent brisk pace.

Tom Murphy

reiterate to all our principals that this type of activity is never appropriate and should never occur in our schools.

Abraham Maslow

Religion becomes. a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.

Karen Thomas

Our position has always been that the focus should be on suspicious activities. Rely on the banks to use their knowledge and expertise when they see something suspicious to report it and file a suspicious activity report.

John Snow

Rebuilding efforts will give GDP (gross domestic product), jobs and our overall economy a lift by the first quarter of next year,

Thomas Delare

Ordinary Iraqis, domestic entrepreneurs and foreign investors have all been waiting for stability, predictability and greater security.

Mihir Vora

Some of the money the domestic mutual funds have raised will also come into the market now. That's one reason why the market refuses to go down.

Ian Shepherdson

Overall, solid domestic final demand, but the second quarter will be much weaker. We expect growth to slow to 3% or less, led by a sharp slowing in consumption.

Stephane Deo

Our view that the domestic economy will improve this year is very much on track. We saw already that investment growth is starting to kick in and that will support consumption eventually.

Xiao Tian

Our athletes' performance in Turin will help us forge partnerships with more international and domestic companies.

Margita Thompson

most rigorous protections in the nation for domestic partners.

Trent Lott

It is a worry about maintaining a domestic industry, which I think has national security implications,

Erik Autor

Larger U.S. retailers have recognized for a number of years that the domestic market is mature. In order to grow sales, they have to look outside of the U.S.. China, however, is a big emerging opportunity.

Ian Shepherdson

Our view is that home sales will slide through the summer, dragging housing starts down into the fall. But this is still no more than a forecast; mortgage applications are still very strong.

Douglas Altabef

I think there is a lot of nervousness that we'll have a repeat of last time. No one wants to see this drag on like it did in 2000.

Bill Vaughan

Only if the dragon and the eagle turn their sights from each other and make room for each other in the world they share, can they reach new and brighter horizons.

Jason Giambi

I think it's pretty pathetic they want to drag my father into this. I've moved on. I mean that's just sad that someone would try and do that to sell a book.

Jason Giambi

I think it's pretty pathetic that they tried to drag my father into it.

Bob Dylan

I wish that for just one time / you could stand inside my shoes / and just for that one moment / I could be you. / Yes, I wish that for just one time / You could stand inside my shoes / You'd know what a drag it is / to see you.

Peter Carroll

I was told the work would take six months but I always expected it would drag on longer than that.

Russell Tovey

I'm slightly obsessed with drag queens and performers. Their quips and their one-liners, their style, their singing... I find it fascinating. And thoroughly entertaining. I'd love to play one.

Melissa McCarthy

I didn't really know how to write jokes, so I just told weird, long stories about being tall and beautiful and wealthy in New York. I'd tell them very seriously, but I kind of looked like a drag queen at the time with big wigs and crazy 12-inch platform heels.

Jack Billion

States with a life only policy do fairly well economically.

Gerald Massey

Some of those standards are fairly onerous even to sophisticated, highly litigious businesses.

James Peterson

Out of all those variables that people talk about, you can really narrow that down to a fairly small list.

Adrienne Freeman

On the valley floor, it's probably compacted about six inches and that's fairly significant.

Mike Bryan

I thought we were fairly sharp. We haven't been practicing too much this week because we've been resting...This bodes well for Indian Wells.

Rob Gooch

I thought we were a little slow getting it going. Once we got it going with Reno Gilbert, we played fairly well.

Michael Specter

Just because you read a report in the 'New York Times,' the 'Economist,' or, yes, 'The New Yorker' doesn't make it true. But we do know that a few people have evaluated that story with what strikes me as fairly objective standards of reason.

Thomas Haden Church

Last summer when we were preparing for the movie, I actually kind of wanted to stay fairly uninformed about it. As we went through the process that we do in the movie, I wanted to be a little wide-eyed.

Chris Lee

That was tough for me to get situated because I was back and forth (between positions) the whole season. Now, I'm fairly secure at defense.

Ken Knutson

Our pitching is generally a year older with some really good arms. We have the players.

Brian Foster

Our start to the season has been generally encouraging,

Tomoko Fujii

Japanese institutional investors seem to have sought returns by selling dollar-denominated assets. That kind of repatriation is generally yen positive.

Samah Haggag

Late payments generally have the highest negative impact on a score.

Ian Spector

It exploded. Since last summer, we've had 50 million hits. We generally get between 500,000 and 800,000 hits a day.

Elizabeth Thomas

I think poetry was meant to be heard out loud. I am not doing this for the money. What I do is done from a passionate place inside of me, because I feel very strongly that young people need a positive outlet and some kids have that through sports, and some have it through music or art. Kids who have it through poetry generally aren't heard. They all can't be good at football.

Steve Rhode

It doesn't surprise me. People generally underestimate what they're going to spend for the holidays.

Joe Sacco

I think I'm generally a good listener anyway.

David Liss

I don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block.

David Johnson

I would suggest there's some sloppiness here. Neither mere negligence or gross negligence will suffice.

Stuart Scott

People always talk about the nausea that comes with chemotherapy. For me, it's more like a queasiness. And it can be intense. It's an uncomfortable, gross kind of 'blech' feeling.

Brent Sutter

The players thought it was pretty gross because my leg was just black. I limped around until the end of January.

Laurence Gilman

To say we're unhappy with the performance of the team is a gross understatement.

William Carpenter

To say I find these results unacceptable would be a gross understatement,

Anna Kendrick

I heard people saying they were going to become millionaires by the time they were 25 - that's gross and obnoxious, but in California it's looked on as an asset.

Larry Ceisler

We have offered $2 million to start out with, and then every year going forward, a percentage of our gross with a minimum of $500,000.

Errol Flynn

My problem lies with reconciling my gross habits with my net income

Sam Craig

There are multiple revenue streams, so theatrical gross is important because it signals the subsequent revenue through home video rentals, sales of DVDs, pay television and others.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Since the dawn of time, women have been attracted to mates with strong survival skills—like intelligence and physical prowess— because men with these qualities are more likely to bring home dinner at the end of the day.” He stuck his thumbs in the air and grinned. “Dinner equals survival, team

Becca Fitzpatrick

Go ahead. You're not going to walk in on anyone. I'm home alone." "The whole night?" Immediately, I realized it might not have been the smartest thing to say. "Dorothea will be coming soon." That was a lie. Dorothea was long gone. It was close to midnight. "Dorothea?" "Our housekeeper. She's old- but strong. Very strong." I tried to squeeze past him. Unsuccessfully. "Sounds frightening," he said, retrieving the key from the lock. He held it out for me. "She can clean a toilet inside and out in under a minute. More like terrifying.

Barry Pepper

Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free.

Barry Manilow

I'm still hungry. I've still got a million ideas. I'm still strong and ready to create.

B. D. Wong

I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it.

B. H. Liddell Hart

It should be the aim of grand strategy to discover and pierce the Achilles' heel of the opposing government's power to make war. Strategy, in turn, should seek to penetrate a joint in the harness of the opposing forces. To apply one's strength where the opponent is strong weakens oneself disproportionately to the effect attained. To strike with strong effect, one must strike at weakness.

B. H. Liddell Hart

If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of loosening his resistance. It should, equally, be a principle of policy, especially in war, to provide your opponent with a ladder by which he can climb down.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in a direct way. And when, under pressure of circumstances, they have risked a direct attack, the result has commonly been to blot their record with a failure.

Robert Blake

I was just telling them everything I could.

Reginald Delk

He just told us the truth. He was calm, just telling us what we were doing wrong and what we were doing right, how it is and how we need to play. Then we went out and did it.

Benedict Lucchesi

He is telling Merck that you have to be careful. You can't just give (Cox-2s) to everybody,

Jose Antonio Vargas

I'm a journalist, and I'm a filmmaker. I have an organization that's all about telling stories.

Jussie Smollett

I feel the weight of just telling the truth. There really is no weight to telling the truth. It's a little scary sometimes, but if you tell the truth, you don't have to be looking over your shoulder.

Denny Green

I think when you're on a 2-6 year, there's no telling what you'll do,

Brad Arnsberg

He's already telling me how much more comfortable he feels.

Jim Crace

Humankind has been telling stories forever and will be telling stories forever.

Michael Brown

I was screaming, telling him, don't die, and that I'm sorry.