Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Bauer

I was surprised. I knew they would be down, but I didn't think by this much. Especially since there was a lot of sales activity in February.

Norman Mailer

Moving from one activity to another makes sense if you do it with a hint of wit or touch of grace. But I think moving from one activity to another can give momentum. If you do it well you can increase the energy you bring to the next piece of work.

No doubt housing activity was elevated over the winter because of very, very mild weather. One housing start in Syracuse, N.Y., in December is an awful lot. So we shouldn't be surprised by a big fall-off.

One of our goals is to provide young girls with character-building life skills that can help them avoid risky adolescent behaviors, such as drug or alcohol use, early sexual activity and eating disorders.

One of the areas where I see a lot of activity is in-building wireless coverage.

Online gaming has quickly grown from a closed circuit male teen activity to one embraced by the masses, and advertising dollars are beginning to follow. IGA Worldwide has emerged as one of the leaders in a hot area for marketing exploration in 2006 and beyond.

My daughter and I used to play games with buttons. Buttons are a very good activity with children, teaching patterns and colors.

We did get a report from the detectives that his credit cards haven't been used and there's been no activity in his bank account.

We design for activity as much for space.

There is a principle in exercise called the principle of specificity. What it says is if you want to do a particular activity very well, you need to train specifically for it.

There are glimmers of activity that remind me of the early days of the Internet bubble. I wouldn't call it irrational exuberance yet, but I would call it budding enthusiasm.

Certainly seeing more merger and acquisition activity going on encourages people too because it's a signal to them that things are undervalued.

Certainly merger and acquisition activity will pick up. There are many small- and medium-size companies that need to consolidate to compete, especially in Italy.

Chris Jones

Certain cities are poised to become satellite commercial centers. White Plains is analogous to Stamford in Connecticut and New Brunswick in New Jersey. But New Rochelle will probably never reach that level because it's not as centrally located, and it doesn't have the critical mass of commercial activity to begin with.

But when oil goes up, stocks go down. Crude prices have to crash, but it won't happen until about six weeks after the election. We'll see a lot of activity no matter who's in the White House.

But they are by no means yet approaching the levels of activity seen in 2004.

But the strongest factor by far is water temperature. If the temperature drops, walleye activity will slow along with it.

But the reality is H5N1 activity in a certain place does not mean that we will see a pandemic start there. It could start anywhere. And as always, poorer nations are more vulnerable to disease than wealthier ones.

But the real engine of the Coast's resurrection will be the powerful tax incentives provided by this legislation, principally the accelerated depreciation and private activity bonds.

Business concerns about the potential for a sharp fall in future activity have continued to ease.

Business activity in the services and construction sectors has been accelerating in recent months and is now growing quite quickly, providing momentum for the economy coming into 2005.

But digging the soldiers out of the trenches, out of the mountains and out of the caves is going to be prolonged activity because it's very difficult,

BDA was designated because its facilitation of North Korean illicit financial activity presents an unacceptable risk to the U.S. financial system.

Because of the rise in home values, much of that financial distress has been covered by the increasing amount of equity that people have had in their homes. That equity is now being created at a slower pace, and default activity is inevitably on the rise.

Menachem Begin

Because of the limited usefulness I see in my continued service, I have reached the conclusion that it is best to cease my activity in the public arena,

J. J. Johnson

I'm always happy to find an activity that's not sitting in front of a box.

James Jones

My activity alone got me going. I've been feeling pretty good for a few games. The shots weren't falling, but I'm energized.

More and more companies are discovering that defined-benefit plans are not well-suited to their business realities, their future and the nature of their work force management. We've had a lot of companies terminating for quite some time, and freezing activity has gathered steam as well.

money received by school districts from vendors pursuant to vending concessions contracts and school picture contracts is school district money. The fact that money from these sources is deposited in a school activity fund does not change its character.

Mortgage rates have crept up a bit, but not enough to dampen the enthusiasm for home-buying activity in Greater Cincinnati.

My great concern is that the tax will not benefit anyone because trading activity will decrease and the revenue collected by the government will therefore fall as well, and the trading will go to other markets.

Oakland is not what it was in the '50s. It's more of a government center now so you just have a different kind of office. ... That's going to foster a different club activity than if you had 25 Fortune 500 companies.

Now that the LCD and plasma TVs have come into the marketplace, they're so much more affordable, roughly a third less than a year ago. The newer TVs are much more decor friendly, so you combine that with the natural sort of affection men have for big TVs during the Super Bowl, and there's a lot of activity out there.