Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hugh Johnson

The gains in those sectors is very good news, ... Investors are buying into riskier areas and it shows they're more optimistic about the economy and earnings.

Michael Tanner

The future of research is interdisciplinary, and will quickly take us into areas that today we cannot even foresee, ... This building gives us the space and the flexibility to go where the imagination of our faculty takes us.

The future of development, I think, is to not have an area that is just office space, or that is exclusively retail. The future is mixed-use development where people can live and work and shop and eat without having to get in their car,

The front is in our area and will move slowly through until it's off the coast at 1 a.m. We could see strong storms at any time.

(The freshmen) made a lot of plays in a lot of areas of the game, not only getting on the score sheet. Guys made plays in all three zones in the rink. That's positive.

The fumes spread from the construction area into the records office. Several employees reported smelling noxious fumes. Several became lightheaded. A few became nauseated.

The fountain of youth, if you want to coin that phrase, because it sort of gives the entire area a chance for rebirth.

Fernand Braudel

The fundamental reality of any civilization must be its geographical cradle. Geography dictates its vegetational growth and lays down often impassable frontiers. Civilizations are regions, zones not merely as anthropologists understand them when they talk about the zone of the two-headed ax or the feathered arrow; they are areas which both confine man and undergo constant change through its efforts.

The county can hire any registered engineer to conduct a speed survey. There many companies throughout the area qualified to do such a study.

Ron Allen

The closing of this transaction marks yet another pivotal step in our national growth efforts. We look forward to continuing the excellent reputation that CV Medical Solutions has established in Oklahoma by serving area patients with high-quality, innovative home care.

The Cleveland area has that exact type of housing that is seeing very good return. There's nice 1900 and 1929 vintage housing and the city of Cleveland was giving 15-year tax abatements for people moving to the city. ... Places have lost population, but it doesn't mean they're out of business. It gives them a chance to redefine what they are.

The city will not pave trails or transportation areas designated as conservation areas.

The first thing we have to do is make sure we have good sanitation, which right now for many areas in the Gulf region we have none: no running water, no sewers,

The first thing I did when I came down here was dial numbers for American Legion posts, ... A few of us made phone calls to national and wanted to know why there was no post in this area and found out others had asked as well.

The first report was what the city government could do on its own, and now we're working on areas where the city needs to work with others to take it to the next level.

These fleet additions will help to provide steady revenue, strong cash flows and profitability for the next several years in this area of our business. Overall, the momentum we experienced during 2005 is being carried forward in 2006 into all of our North American businesses. Demand drivers are positive, order levels remain strong and we are excited about the opportunities presented by this upbeat market environment.

These five individuals do not live in that area as well, so that strengthens the case about why they were there, should they have been there, and what were they doing there.

This is more than just a face-lift. We're continually identifying areas to expand and evolve how we distribute our services. Our customers can expect processes to be easier for all segments of our products, as well as more resources related to residential real estate. Our growth in service offering and continued profitability shows that the value in our products is proven instantly.

This has been one area where there has been some concern raised and so the department is taking a look at it and may issue a special instruction on it.

This is a group of guys who worked hard to get back to the playoffs again. I believe we're playing our best ball of the year right now. It's great for a school like ours to have a team win two straight area championships.

This is a great event for our area as well as the rest of the country. It's just great that we have something like this in our own back yard.

This is all a bit of a puzzle. It will depend obviously on how quickly these areas can be repopulated, and also you've got the positive of reconstruction spending and the fact that that will create jobs.

This is a highly competitive area -- it's a commodity business. The industry is very quickly getting over capacity.

This is a concern. Over the years as the area has been growing, we have had a lot of people call us saying they're concerned because they know there is a family cemetery out there on a piece of land, and people are out there bulldozing because it is being developed.

This is a community that is obviously geared to having outside visitors. These areas are going to provide a benefit in economic terms.

A long-term solution is to increase retail sales tax revenue. I think Copper Town Center will be a tremendous shot in the arm for the area and the county.

All I know is that a lot of businesses are closing. That's a lot of jobs in an area that didn't have a lot to begin with.

All development is deliberate. It's not just the hotel rooms but the meeting space, the food and beverage area and the parking.

E. B. White

The cutting of jobs in some areas has bitten too hard ... and customers are getting a lesser service and that will have ramifications for the business.

The idea is that where disorder occurs ... that sends the message that this area is not being monitored.

The hospital had received 1,500 injured children after the earthquake in the area and there were still 50 there. It was a pretty touching experience. Pakistan was awesome. Everything was much nicer than I expected. The hotel we stayed at was very westernized, so I wasn't roughing it all. I did not feel in danger at any point on the trip. The bus from the hotel to the squash center was led and followed by police cars at all times.

The Houston area is ground zero of the refining industry. If it suffers the scope of damage caused to refineries in Louisiana by Katrina, we could see rationing and queues at the gas pump.

The housing market is likely to do less well, but that happens as resources are shifting back to areas where there's more remuneration -- such as manufacturing and services. That's how the system works -- rising rates are a reflection of how the economy is going to do.