Famous Quotes & Sayings

Particularly in the software sector, so much of what's going on with these stocks now has nothing to do with the fundamentals. It all has to do with this M&A activity that's going on and the uncertainty around it.

Our only interest is in preventing, disrupting, and defeating terrorist-related operations or criminal activity - and that's through appropriate investigations that are conducted in accordance with attorney general guidelines.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

We are also in the process of defining how best to work together with food and other companies to address diet and physical activity factors in order to prevent chronic diseases.

Doug Duncan

The refinancing activity will start to trail off but it will carry into the first half of next year.

The reduced level of activity at the Jackson center means we're moving forward in the recovery process.

Women start with a higher body-fat density than men. It's hard for women to lose weight. The target should be how can we make women less sedentary, how can we build activity into everyone's lifestyles.

Dan Hill

Woody Allen movies notwithstanding, therapy, in the early eighties, was not exactly a hot conversation starter. Nor was it a favoured activity for dysfunctional couples or suffering individuals.

We're seeing some moderation in the pace of manufacturing activity as the third quarter gets under way.

We're seeing regional design activity very strong here. The strongest sectors seem to be on the institutional side, education and health care.

We're seeing quite a bit of activity with schools and higher education. They have a lot of data that needs to be secure.

We're seeing more and more activity in the financial services industry.

We're seeing a tremendous amount of activity overseas, whether it's in Asia or the Middle East. For countries that are emerging on the economic scene, very tall buildings are symbols of their economic strength.

We're seeing a decline in activity nationwide, with some resistance in the Paris region. The incidents are increasingly isolated, making it easier to clamp down. We cannot yet cry victory.

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.

We found also that there was a correlation between the amount of space that the child had to move around in a child care center and their body composition and their activity levels.

Phil Klay

Supposedly, going to war initiates you into this gnostic priesthood of people who've had a liminal experience forever separating them from civilians. Except... you go there, and it is what it is. A form of human activity as varied as any other.

We have all seen the devastation caused by the last two hurricane seasons. We have become aware of the predictions of future storm activity both in frequency and severity. It became clear that we had to take appropriate, measured steps to manage our high concentration of market share in the impacted counties.

We believe the high pace of construction activity and softening demand will lead to increasing inventory levels through 2006 and less price appreciation.

Rosemary Mahoney

Americans generally associate boats with leisure. Vastly less prosperous, Egyptians associate them with nothing but labour. Rowing a boat is something a fisherman is forced to do to make a living; how could such an activity bring me - a woman no less - pleasure?

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.

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.

Octavio Paz

The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs and convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than with what these words designate.

Peter Orszag

The most important thing for small businesses is getting the economy back on its feet. That - the key driver of small business activity is demand for their product, and that is what we are trying to do, getting the economy back on its feet. That's far more important than other factors.

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.