Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Limbaugh

It is not an overstatement to say that Obamacare was the single most important catalyst leading to the tea party movement.

Tom Parker

The API report was a big positive for crude prices. That was the catalyst for us going back over $30 a barrel.

S. Hughes

That would be my preference as a trader, because then we won't have this overhang. What would be the catalyst that offsets that overhang and causes stocks to rally?

Barry Hyman

Today, the catalyst in technology was the report that PC sales in the second quarter slowed. The PC sector feeds into the semiconductor sector, which feeds into other parts of technology.

Jonathan Ornstein

We're delighted to be a catalyst for change.

Alan Ackerman

My sense is that an earnings recovery is further away than expected and there is no immediate catalyst to turn this market sharply higher. We could have a trading rally, but on balance, people are still nervous about the earnings outlook.

Frank Barkocy

Fundamentals will probably be in line with expectations but that won't be the catalyst to move these stocks,

James Park

Today goes to show that the market needed a catalyst to get it going. Volume on the sell-side has been high. Everything is normal and not rapid, which is a good sign, but the numbers speak for themselves. When you combine everything we dealt with today it makes sense we're at these levels.

Tommy Amaker

He's a good player. I'm really disappointed on the way we guarded their entire team, but he was definitely the catalyst when they jumped out.

Doris Williams

I thought I was protecting myself for my declining years.

Rick Whittington

I think the stocks are going to go up from here, ... I think it's too early to start talk of contraction, prices declining and demand faltering.

Rosanne Cahn

Though there are some prices that are declining, in fact deflation means most prices are declining and there's very little evidence that is happening.

Larry Wachtel

On Friday, we had a ratio of 12 to 1 of losers to winners. That's the worst performance since 1997. We also had over 3,000 declining issues. This shows real weakness.

Sandra Petcov

Fundamentals still do not support a strong rebound in German retail sales: real compensation per employee is declining noticeably and, even though unemployment has started to fall, employment is still on a downward trend.

James Connolly

What we have now is a university town grafted onto a declining industrial city. The standard of living here is not going to be as great.

Hasitha Premaratne

Given the declining inflationary scenario, inflation should further drop in March due to seasonal factors and supply improvements that would help the food index to take a breather.

Todd Cherry

The region is declining as part of the state's overall labor market.

David Hanson

We still have too many students 12 to 17 who are drinking excessively but we don't have an epidemic. We have a declining problem. That's the fact of it.

Gail Carriger

I love the Victorian era, and I always have, but I had a leg up on the writing because I was familiar with a lot of the science from the Victorian era. And that led to a massive interest in the science of this time of history.

David Byrne

I meet young people who know me and are familiar with my stuff. They know the package. They might have cherry-picked five or six key tunes. That's how it seems to work. I sometimes wonder if they realise they are not getting the whole context.

Kathy Collins

The police officers are familiar with the facility. There's been noise complaints.

Brendon Urie

I love shopping online for clothes, but only from places that I'm familiar with their sizing.

Vladimir Prelog

To grasp the essence of chirality, it is instructive to withdraw for a moment from the familiar three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional one, into a plane, and enquire what chirality means there.

Tony Pena

We have a lot of new coaches. We need to get familiar with every player.

Benny Looper

We've made it a practice to make sure the guys are comfortable playing short or whatever their position is in the infield. Then we move them around so they get familiar with other spots.

Robert Gottlieb

For Russians, to whom Pushkin's poem 'Eugene Onegin' is sacred text, the ballet's story and personae are as familiar and filled with meaning as, for instance, 'Romeo' and 'Hamlet' are for us. Russians know whole stretches of it by heart, the way we know Shakespeare and Italians know Dante.

Pat Barker

My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.

Steve Sawyer

The Americans, Saudis and Japanese have got what they want.

Masahiro Tanaka

I do want to learn the way to do it over here. I'm not really looking to just go about my way and do it in the Japanese way that I've been doing. Basically, I'll try to get some advice, learn the way it's done here and go about it.

John Danforth

I was to Japanese visitors to Washington what the Mona Lisa is to Americans visiting Paris.

Shu Qi

I have a lot of Japanese fans, but in Korea they seem to go crazy for me. I don't know what it is, but they seem to like my style.

Tao Okamoto

I started modeling with a very negative part of me - I didn't really like myself or how I looked because I was very tall for a Japanese girl.

Toshihiro Wada

We are going overweight in Japanese stocks, which have a strong momentum and solid fundamentals.

Gopalakrishnan Venkataraman

We are looking at tourists as gods. If Japanese people come to India, we treat them as gods.

Robert Bach

Japanese software will be developed. It will be a breakthrough in Japan.

Clyde Prestowitz

I think the Japanese are in a very tough dilemma,

Al Gillen

Users say their movement to Microsoft's latest operating systems will proceed on their schedule, not on Microsoft's schedule.

Henry Flynt

I was trying to be up with the latest thing. To a point, I just took what I was offered, logical positivism in philosophy.

Tony Blair

Though there may be pockets of resistance, the idea that this is some kind of tactical retreat is just the latest Taliban lie. They are in total collapse,

Elizabeth Thornton

There are times when we are just not very kind to ourselves. The problem with our negative thoughts is that the latest science has revealed that thoughts are very powerful, even impacting us physically.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

When I'm in London, I get a veggie-box sent up every week, with the latest pickings.

Cheryl Ward

You know how some people just need the latest cell-phone technology? If you could say, I just got this from Punt, you were at the top of the heap.

Douglas Kirkland

Respect and mutual respect are important. I, for instance, often show my latest work so that people can see how I work.

Lawrence Dallaglio

Well, the latest news is that things are going as expected,

Patrick Lawler

What we saw is a modest slowdown in our latest quarterly data, but in the past we've seen slowdowns of this magnitude completely reverse in short order.

Chet Faker

I think you can move to everything, but with some music, you just want to sit still. That's me, anyway.

Joseph Grundfest

The pig may have moved through the python.

Carl Orff

Elemental music is never just music. It's bound up with movement, dance and speech, and so it is a form of music in which one must participate, in which one is involved not as a listener but as a co-performer.

Carl Rogers

There is in every organism, at whatever level, an underlying flow of movement toward constructive fulfillment of its inherent possibilities.

Dick Lee

That was a smart move on her part.

Mike Clarke

That was a gutsy move on their part and a visionary move. They saw there was a problem.

Rutina Wesley

At Julliard, they don't teach you where to move your face for the camera, you know?

Steven Arabia

We were going to move as quickly as we could to get the plant back into service . . . and this is the first step in that process.

Rick Carlisle

We've moved on. It's unfortunate. But we're just trying to win without him.

Ed Wade

I think public perception is a big part when you talk about selling,

Tim Allen

It bolsters the perception that this administration relies too much on spin.

Byron Katie

The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.

Agnes Repplier

The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

Alan Moore

We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away.

Cheryl Strayed

In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story.

David Icke

The only revolution that will change anything is a revolution of perception.

David Hume

I may venture to affirm the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement.

David Dreman

Bank One has got one of the best credit card divisions, ... The perception of investors is that financial services stocks are affected by interest rates and they're not.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Don Rickles

I'm not one of those guys who wants to die on a stage.

Pervez Musharraf

Wherever or whoever wants to do that, let's do it.

Kristy Gaudiose

It is exciting. It is something everyone wants to be a part of.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

Shaun Alexander

We're all just kind of in the groove. And no one wants to get off anything right now.

Gary Payton

I don't think Shaq really worries about it. I think he wants to play well, but he doesn't really worry about it. ... It's over.

Victor Rodriguez

For whoever wants to come, we're going to be here for them.

Brian Billick

He's got to look at what he wants to do.

Olga Kurylenko

You know it's harder to be a girl in this world because we're the weaker sex.

Kwame Brown

Actually, it was a little weaker than when I was here.

J. I. Packer

Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we don't teach the confessions and doctrine.