Famous Quotes & Sayings

I see a new merger deal announced every day, and M&A is one of the most profitable areas for investment banks.

OPEC's statements and quota decision announced at the beginning of next week could exert a somewhat bearish impact on prices.

Mark Green just announced himself as the part-time congressman.

John Roberts

Late this August, MALDEF announced its opposition to Judge Roberts.

I was a little surprised when they announced his record at the beginning of the game that he was 1-0. That shocked me because he has been pitching much better than that. He has got us deep into games and has been very sharp, but we have let a couple of leads slip away.

I think there's still some things to be done, but we're moving in the right direction. When it's done, it'll be announced that it's done.

Sathya Baba

Just as Western physicists announced the existence of gravitation after their experiments, the ancients of this land demonstrated the innate authenticity of the Vedas through their own experience.

Greg Norman

I was excited when we announced the earlier group of players and with the additions we have today, I believe we have a great blend of talented professionals. The fans are in for a treat.

I think right now what you're looking at is not whether or not the opposition will build or exist, but rather when that opposition will be announced with sufficient critical mass to indicate the battle has been joined. This is in the process of developing.

It has been a big distraction. We haven't announced the final penalty for Chad yet. We don't expect somebody to fall into the bad zone, if you will, too many times. So we're going to have to check ourselves from a deterrent standpoint to make sure the guys understand what we're trying to get done.

Partial results will be announced Saturday or Sunday and we will then announce the non-certified national total.

Oracle said it wanted to cut costs by a couple hundred million when it announced the deal. I would imagine it will come from a mix of the two companies, but more heavily weighted toward Oracle.

I expected us to be top five but when they announced third, I was shocked. We had some good swims, especially in the 200-yard medley relay. I was just glad to be there and see it happen.

I don't think it is terribly surprising, as we have been watching all the announced projects. I think we will continue having a lot of space coming on the market.

For the remainder of the year, this will continue, toward the 7% that we announced back in November.

It can't be known whether the disease is bird flu or not before the test result is announced in Ankara.

Peter Higgs

The Nobel Prize has been a disturbance at the beginning of October for some years. It would be gratifying to win, but it would be quite an ordeal, too, with all the events which go on for two days. I'd think carefully about what I was doing the day it is announced and maybe not be around, or be around, but elsewhere.

The governor is committed to more jobs and more opportunity for New Yorkers. That was the purpose of the trade mission when we announced it nine months ago. It's the purpose today.

The government has missed an opportunity, ... They have announced a huge relief effort. But what is the use of that relief effort if it is given after 15 days? Right now people need bread, water, tents and sweaters.

Andy Roddick

Well, immediately we announced yesterday or the day before we're building, with my foundation, a youth tennis and learning center in Austin. I'd like to be hands on with that and not see it periodically.

Ken Kutaragi

When we initially announced our plans to launch this spring, we had expected the standardization work on all of the technologies to be completed by last August, but there were improvements that were decided on since then.

Mohamed ElBaradei

But luckily, I think, we are here when they have not developed a full-fledged capability and luckily also they have announced that they are ready to eliminate all programs relevant to weapons of mass destruction, which I think is a very good step in the right direction.

Both the hotel workers and their families, and the tourists, were fed and given water in food lines, ... Food and water were growing scarce. On the 30th, it was announced that 10 buses were on their way.

This recent wave of merger news provides some of the strongest evidence yet that companies are willing to do some long-term planning. The kind of deals getting announced not just bolt-on acquisitions but transformational deals,

We announced the scheme in 2002 and postponed the start day twice due in no small part to requests of the Korean government.

We announced that we would delay the IPO until early this year and we're sticking to that. We plan to complete the IPO this year.

Well, I certainly think it makes more sense than the music deal she announced to release CD's with Sony BMG, ... This, at least, is more in tune with her core branding. But I don't expect it to have any major financial impact in the immediate term.

The reason for this is that the ban was announced after newspapers went to the printers.

We've not announced anything. We're always open, we're always looking.

We've not announced any plan for a successor. Meg is here. Meg plans on remaining here.

Jim Lehrer

To ascend to the leader's position, he (Daschle) would need to leap-frog over dozens of more experienced senators and defeat Tennessee Sen. Jim Sasser, who had also announced he would seek the position,

Robert Barry

What it takes for the currency to recover, however, is that the markets have some confidence that things are going to be mended. The problem is that Indonesia did all the right things early on and announced a number of steps that would have led to more confidence in what's going to happen there and then they didn't carry through on it.

Alastair Campbell

When Clive announced the team to play Southland on Tuesday, it was a rare occasion where players were hoping not to be selected. Because if they were, it meant they were not in the 23 being considered for a Test place on Saturday,