Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Fox

We believe that these changes will make the exemptions more effective while still ensuring that currency transaction reporting information critical to identifying criminal financial activity is made available to law enforcement.

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.

What we're looking to establish is a 24-hour operation that is doing proactive analysis in the interest of looking for criminal activity and potential terrorist activity, so we can prevent it from happening.

When we defend well and create opportunities on offense, that's really our recipe for success. Once again we had great activity and pressure on the ball. We matured a little bit tonight, we had a greater sense of gamesmanship and clock management toward the end. We saw some good things from the whole team.

We found that patients with Alzheimer's disease had lower levels of physical activity earlier in life,

We found that children who had lower activity levels had a higher percent body fat and a higher weight.

Ada Yonath

I used ribosomes from very, very robust bacteria under very, very active conditions and found a way - I actually took advantage of research done before me at the Weizmann, the same institute I am now - how to preserve their activity and their integrity while they crystallized.

Alison Bechdel

Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it's about real life. I feel like I'm using a part of my brain that's been dormant until now.

It's the journey toward doing these harder climbs that really gives value to the whole activity of climbing.

Andie MacDowell

My high school experience was kind of like 'Mean Girls.' It was very much like a bad B movie. 'This is where the jocks sit, and this is where the cheerleaders sit.' And I never really fit in. I guess I was sort of a theatre geek, but the activity that I was most invested in was speech and debate.

John Ortberg

Learning something new is a fabulous way to be refreshed. When work can grind you down, something about learning a new activity thrills the soul. It reminds you that the world is bigger than your desk and your to-do list.

Andrew Gould

To put that right it's going to take several years of very hard work by the oil industry to renew the production cushion. Activity is increasing but it is not yet at its maximum point.

While we do not keep statistics regarding how much 'discrimination' occurs, we can confirm that we receive fewer allegations of bias-motivated criminal activity now than we did in the time period shortly after 9/11. The Justice Department is committed to aggressively investigating and prosecuting these bias crimes.

While there is no activity now, it does not mean that the storm has passed. It will take some time before we can make any definitive conclusions.

While there is a delay in obtaining flu vaccine, we can be thankful that there has also been a delay in the start of the flu season. Fortunately there is little flu activity within the U.S. currently.

While the latest signals suggest that U.S. economic activity should decelerate in coming months, consumers are not expecting this record-breaking economic expansion to end any time soon.

While the February mortgage lending and approval data are relatively healthy, there are hints that housing market activity could be starting to lose momentum after several months of improvement.

A person's activity level is a better predictor of weight gain and loss. In other words, for those wishing to lose weight, changing your diet may not be enough.

So far, I am encouraged to see how well the regional economy has weathered the job and income losses centered in the auto manufacturing sector. Mild winter weather and the Super Bowl no doubt helped to support the economy early in 2006. As those effects fade, I would expect to see some fall off in activity over the next several months.

Skiers find Race for Kids to be a great and challenging competition. But it's the whole weekend of activity that brings so many to Stowe each year.

As you look around the United States and see activity on the electronic waste issue, many of the best measures are inspired by the Maine approach.

George Bernard Shaw

Every unnatural activity of the brain is as mischievous as any unnatural activity of the body and that pressing people to learn things they do not want to know is as unwholesome and disastrous as feeding them on sawdust.

The intention of the person or persons that threw the water balloon was probably a practical joke type thing but as you can tell it did cause some damage. . . . It's quite concerning to us that this type of activity resulted in people from Washington state not having a very good experience in our neck of the woods.

The large skew indicates that the market is bracing for short-term volatility in Harley Davidson ahead of its earnings report, and the defensive put activity seems to suggest that some traders are concerned that the volatile move might be to the downside.

their involvement in illicit activity is one, their human rights practices are another, their weapons programs is a third.

There was also some contact between a 12-year-old girl in there. We believe that he was attempting to engage in some type of sexual activity with her,

The retreat in housing-market activity that's now under way amounts to a simmering-down process from unsustainable market conditions in 2005, rather than a classic cyclical contraction that could spiral down for some time.