Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adam Cole

We would expect the Fed to say something about Katrina and what it means for the immediate and long-term impact on activity and I think there's a lot of uncertainty about what they may say.

This will afford an opportunity for students to become educated about the seriousness of gangs, gang activity and gang involvement by the Fall River Police Department and the Bristol County Sheriff?s Department.

This will add another layer of security. This system will give us the potential for 24 hour monitoring capabilities of any activity that occurs water side.

This supports the view that first-quarter economic activity is much better than what we saw in the fourth quarter of last year.

This robust report suggests that the vigorous pace of factory activity ... may not moderate significantly in the near term.

Alan Greenspan

There have been signs recently that some of the forces that have been restraining the economy over the past year are starting to diminish and that activity is beginning to firm,

There has to be a delineation between campaign activity and official activity, ... If I issue a press release that says Mayor Smith will appear and cut the ribbon at the new high school, that is different than saying Mayor Smith is running for re-election, please vote for Mayor Smith.

There has been more capital-markets activity than anticipated and the pickup in volatility has helped proprietary trading revenue.

There has been just enough activity on the big, new shiny aircraft front ... to keep both manufacturers feeling and talking very buoyantly about the future,

There has been a lot of activity in this place. I mean, the owners have been woken up by voices saying 'Hey,' and a blowing sensation in their faces.

There has been a history of neo-Nazi activity in the neighborhood, but no clear evidence this is related to the stabbing.

There has been a fair amount of activity in regulating massage parlors for the past few years. It's not a new issue.

When both exports and imports are surging, that is generally a sign that the economy is in very good shape. These figures strike me as yet another sign that activity entering 2006 was on a solid footing, not about to slow down substantially, as the consensus believes.

We're thrilled with this sales velocity and expect all of the activity around the Oscars to further boost sales and awareness this week and well into next. But truly, it speaks volumes to the strength of the film and consumers' continued love affair with the DVD format.

We thought housing would be falling away as business activity picked up. But what you have now is the two overlapping.

We think we can continue to have a successful skywalk system and restore activity to the street.

David Rosenberg

We think that countries and areas of activity that have been weakest in the last couple of years are likely to see the strongest rebound in growth. Thus, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands should see more marked recoveries than Spain and France, where activity has held up well.

There is no open-source systems management play right now. Pre-launch activity shows people are looking for this. We've already had 350 downloads.

Until the housing bubble finally pops, builders and realtors will earn healthy incomes from current or even somewhat-lower housing activity levels, ... However, actual stimulus from housing to U.S. economic growth is about spent.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Science is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free human mind. Because it transforms who we are, how we live, and it gives us an understanding of our place in the universe.

Eric Thomas

Our jury was touched by FIBROM-L's activity in supporting a group of people facing a debilitating and often misdiagnosed condition. FIBROM-L has created an outstanding community through the sound use of email list technology, and I'm pleased to reward this work and dedication with the LISTSERV Choice Discussion Award.

Over the next few weeks, we expect oil service companies to post strong fourth-quarter results and likely provide bullish guidance for 2006, including positive data points on both activity and pricing trends, which should fuel sharp earnings growth for oil service companies over the next few years and ultimately push stock prices higher.

Pakistan is free to do whatever it wants, and we can't impose a veto on their decision, but I hope that this step will not encourage any Arab country to normalize its relations with Israel in this period, ... We consider that any normalization of relations with Israel in this period would be an encouragement for Israel to continue its settlement activity in the West Bank and Jerusalem.

Overseas demand for autos, IT goods and construction machinery which had long supported the overall economic activity in Japan, is now set to slow down, while input cost for Japanese companies is rising.

P&O is significant for both Singapore and Dubai. Its acquisition will increase their business activity in large amounts in one go.

Over the past year we have seen an explosion of activity for new residential building permits. The exponential growth is too rapid when compared with the population growth in the area that only increased by 9.7 percent in the last two years. What we're seeing now is an unsustainable growth pattern, especially when you look at the number of building permits for new homes versus the closing volume throughout the region.

Our previous research showed that making multiple lifestyle changes -- eating a healthier diet and increasing physical activity -- for a short-term period of six months led to significant reductions in blood pressure. Now we know that sustaining these lifestyle changes for the longer period of 18 months also leads to substantial blood pressure reductions. This is very good news, because the longer people can keep their blood pressure down, the better it is for their heart health. The other good news is that this study shows that people can make and sustain these lifestyle changes over a fairly long time period.

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 fears have been born out by the reports of several international humanitarian agencies, which have stated that these sanctions have stifled economic activity inside Afghanistan. New sanctions will compound the misery of the Afghan people,

Our core markets in the Greater Washington, DC region are strong, as evidenced by the 9% and 10% same store NOI growth for the last two quarters, respectively, as well as our 2.1 million square feet of leasing activity for 2005. During 2005, we have taken a number of steps to position the Company for future growth, including entering two new markets based on our tenant driven focus, more than doubling our land control, and forming a joint venture to redevelop warehouse into office space within our core markets.

Overall, the mortgage approvals and lending data indicate that the more robust housing market activity evident in the second half of 2005 has continued into 2006.

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.