Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Richard Powers

A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time.

Typically, at the present stage of an economic rebound -- roughly two years after the trough in economic activity had been reached -- corporations are borrowing aggressively, funding capital expansion projects, payroll additions and inventory accumulations,

Today's report is a sign of better domestic activity in the fourth quarter.

Today's numbers are pointing toward a considerable improvement in manufacturing activity in the second half of the year. Inventories are so lean that I can't imagine businesses have enough left to satisfy much of the demand. There's got to be more production.

Today's figure highlights the fragility of the industrial outlook in France. French industrial activity isn't showing significant signs of improvement.

We need to take time to do the least glamorous activity of gardening - digging and preparing the soil - first. When we do that, we'll have good results on the other end of the gardening process.

Halston Sage

My favorite weekend activity is riding bikes to breakfast.

Phil Jackson

Most of it's about the quickness involved. Just the activity to the ball. Loose balls, tip-ins, all those little things make such a difference in a game. And that's a matter of seconds, and I think a lot of that is about energy.

Merger and acquisition activity is usually looked at as a positive for the market as it eventually brings fresh cash into hands of managers.

Merger and acquisition activity in Europe has taken off over the first two months of this year. A total of 1,100 deals have been announced over this period.

Merger/acquisition activity was the second leading cause of job cuts (in January), behind cost-cutting. It will continue to be among the top job-cut reasons this year as an improving economy and increased competition force industry consolidation.

Michigan Sentiment may be the key to activity today. Otherwise it may be a case for waiting for some confessional news next week and the next quarter's results from Morgan Stanley, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers often a good barometer of economic and business activity.

Whoever that wise man or woman was who said 'location, location, location' knew what they were talking about, because this side of the street doesn't get the activity that the other side does.

We haven't seen much activity on the Internet from the traditional ad agencies. They have had their head stuck in the sand,

We just are not really able, at our current staffing and current (oil) activity levels, to keep up with reclaiming the land and getting it back into productive use.

Ann Bancroft

You know, if I look at this activity as my whole career, this is my peak moment. I've been building for this my whole career.

You can have just a lot and the building doesn't exist anymore, but it's an attraction for criminal activity and trash and the city can't declare it blighted anymore.

We had felt auto sales would be the wart, the one thing pulling consumer spending down in the month, but these sales were solid. Depending on what we get for employment Friday it looks like January economic activity will turn out to be quite solid.

We have been waiting for European recovery, and it's been slow in coming. I think it is coming, and I think that the merger and acquisition activity in Europe is going to drive corporate profits higher. So I think there are some real opportunities in Europe.

U.S. industrial activity is improving, but it can't be described as healthy just yet.

Usually, the boats sell shrimp right here on the dock. As you can see, there's no activity here right now. It's shut down. The only thing that's moving are people trying to get food, water, and clothing to the hurricane victims.

We don't fabricate anything. We get too much paranormal activity on our tour; we don't have to do anything.

Larry Coker

We don't condone any activity such as that. That's not how we operate.

We do not envisage any difficulties because there are practically no spheres of activity where the two concerns overlap.

While every other bank on the street was setting record numbers in their investment banking fees, their M&A (merger and acquisition) activity and their brokerage activity, these guys were losing money.