Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean Claude

I would say that consumers are not pushing enough,

Scott Anderson

Job growth is the main engine for consumer spending.

Wayne Ayers

I think the general message here is that despite the fears about a low savings rate, the consumer continues to hang in there, and that's essentially the only thing that's going to keep the economy on track.

Gerard Kleisterlee

There is a lack of value creation, particularly around consumer electronics,

Carl Gipson

It gets tough when you try to tailor-make a plan for every single person, but at the same time we are paying for things we never use. Right now, it is kind of a one-size-fits-all approach, and from a consumer standpoint, someone who purchases health insurance, that doesn't go a long way in curtailing health-care costs.

David Rosenberg

I think that the U.S. consumer is hot to trot. I think you're looking at a first quarter that's going to easily top 10 percent (in retail sales increase) on an annualized basis.

David Rosenberg

I think that the U.S. consumer is hot to trot, ... I think you're looking at a first quarter that's going to easily top 10 percent (in retail sales increase) on an annualized basis.

Tim Burns

Under Michigan law, unless something was intentionally misrepresented or defective, there's no mandatory right for a consumer to make a return. But if a store posts a return policy, they must follow the terms of the policy.

Katsuhiko Kodama

Had the outcome been better, it would have increased speculation of higher consumer prices immediately ahead, so it seems that investors are taking a weaker reading as a positive.

Greg Gallaspy

What we want to do is ensure there's a balance. That's the key.

David Hartley

Having a new state-of-the-art plant is encouraging, but it does not ensure that Cott will do a better job of managing its entire plant operations.

Denis MacShane

I will be urging him to ensure any shutdown is as painless as possible for local communities,

Charles Grassley

We must ensure that this nightmare NEVER occurs again,

Tim Frank

Our policy . . . does not require a player to take a drug test at any point during a game, and we will ensure going forward that no testing is conducted during this time.

David Emerson

Part of what we're doing right now is to ensure that what we do doesn't make matters worse.

Kip Hawley

In view of our need to establish trust with all of our stakeholders on the security and privacy of our systems and data, my priority is to ensure that we do it right, not just that we do it quickly.

Don Garber

In order to ensure that the team will have the appropriate time to prepare for the 2006 season,

Mbhazima Shilowa

In particular, we need to ensure that by 2009 all roads in the townships are tarred.

Kim Maher

I think it got to the point where we just got fed up. It was a gut check.

Barack Obama

I also think the media's presence simply raised the question: If the media could get to these places, why couldn't the federal government?

John Lonski

He didn't give the impression that the Fed is panicking.

Vicki Arroyo

It is going to be a piecemeal approach, people are not going to know what their regulatory commitments are from one state to another. And you are then going to have different product standards in different states. It just doesn't make sense. We need a federal policy and that is what we are trying to promote.

Nick Bennenbroek

There is enough strength in this report to suggest at least one more hike from the Fed and possibly more.

Jeff Turner

We've been wanting him to do that since Day 1. I think he was fed up.

Robert Brusca

I think we're going to have a slower recovery, ... There are other things that suggest there are limits to what the Fed can do.

Roy Wilson

I think we have some lessons to learn from the past week, realizing the federal government is not going to come to our rescue in the first 72 hours,

Graham Fraser

It is madness that the federal government is still spending millions on teaching middle-aged bureaucrats how to pass language tests rather than sending young, enthusiastic recruits to the public service to work in another language and culture.

Chris McConnon

Having three lines has helped us out a lot." ()

Paul Wagner

It helped that I knew Gail's story. If her Web page had just said, 'I need a kidney,' it wouldn't have pulled me in.

Willy Taveras

It helped my body, ... My wrist is not sore anymore, and I'm not tired.

Kate Ziegler

It helped a lot to have done well in the 1,500, ... I had a lot of confidence.

Gary Williams

I just didn't know a lot about the NIT, the new format, and in talking to C.M. Newton, that helped a little bit. I would think with the resources the NCAA has, they can make it a better tournament. We'll see.

Debbie Ford

If you don't have a doctor that inspires you, no matter what you have, you should find one that does. Because I feel like my doctor helped me stay alive.

Gary Molea

I just think it would have helped the small schools.

Dan Epstein

I knew it was going to be close. But the kids did what they needed to do. It was everyone. Every kid helped out.

Dusty Baker

I like our tandem. Henry has helped Michael a lot.

Art Hogan

I think we'll start getting investors into the marketplace later in the first quarter,

Andrew Clarke

Regionally, today is a consolidation day, and people are looking for less obvious plays. I don't think investors are that perturbed about the price of oil at the moment. They should be, but they're not.

Lee Hak

Investor sentiment is recovering on lower oil prices.

Alan Ackerman

Investors are likely to say, 'Aha! Merrill tried to pull the wool over our eyes,' ... It will make them even more suspicious and cautious.

David Hilal

This is just part of the software world. And because there's a remedy for these problems, investors don't lose too much sleep over it.

Barry Goldsmith

It won't wipe out stock fraud, but it will give investors a much better tool,

Hugh Johnson

They come to me because they want special treatment, ... There is nothing that irritates substantial investors more than paying taxes.

Rich Yamarone

It's more important what investors believe, because those people are willing to put their money on the line like that.

Kenneth Lay

Investors don't like uncertainty.

Jeff Garcia

I am going to do everything that I can to maintain my physical strength, maintain my physical conditioning. I'll even sit on my butt and throw the football, just so I can keep that motion intact.

Carlos Ghosn

Our objective is to maintain the successful momentum of the team.

Tom Grzymala

You want to maintain a balanced, diversified portfolio.

Grant Thrall

It's important that communities maintain their sense of place identity, so that they are not just one more blob of suburban sprawl, that they are something special ... People do like themes.

Cheryl Cook

It's a lot of work for the owner ? maintain it, keep it in pristine condition.

Bill Cline

It may just simply not be cost-effective to maintain the physical trading floor.

Jay Weatherill

I don't think the AAA is an end in itself; we will maintain prudent financial management with or without the AAA.

Mike Black

We were trying to maintain where we were at (down by 10), but when you can't score it makes it really hard. Chesterton started playing better on offense, and we played worse.

David Liston

BOI needs an acquisition to maintain its growth,

Francis Gannon

I think in this market you never know what's going to happen,

Jim Robb

I think the market will not really react to it.

Brett Gallagher

I think the market is just biding its time, and we're going to have these back-and-forth days.

Howard Skolnik

We're prisons, and we're marketing what we are.

Doug Duncan

We're prepared to say the market has peaked in terms of the numbers of units sold.

Michael Dell

We're number-one in the U.S. in the server market and now we're going after the world,

Courtney Smith

I think we'll probably see an up session in the market over the next several days.

Howard Ward

I think what we're seeing in the market is the reflection of a lot of uncertainty right now,

Jack Baker

I think it's very positive that the market was down more than 100 points and has come back, but this is essentially a vacation week,

Jerry Dorsey

He decided, for personal reasons, that he needed to be off the board.

Mark French

When he needed to be, he was very good. They had some quality scoring opportunities early, and he made some real nice stops.

Alyn McCauley

We make it tougher than we needed to. We got away from things we wanted to do.

Norm Boyles

We made the plays when we needed to, and Tiffany buckled down when she needed to.

Bernie Bickerstaff

He needed to make those plays in the end to make up for some of those things he didn't get done early.

Alex Rodriguez

He needed it. I think the team needed it.

Nikki Rocco

This wasn't about making a blockbuster. This was about telling a story that needed to be told.

Toyin Odutola

I needed to create something I could take with me wherever I went.

Wayne Dyer

I Will Consult with God and Know that I will be Guided to Do What is Needed.

Charlie Smith

Her performance really surprised me, considering she's on a taper for states.

David Beckham

I'm pleased with my personal performance but particularly with the way the team played overall.

Harold S. Geneen

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Kim Yuna

In competition, when I start performance I try not to think about all the pressure from the fans. But, I got a lot of energy from them always. They make me more perfect.

Holly Hatton

It was a poor performance by the varsity boat.

Kyle Abraham

The first dance performance I saw was Joffrey Ballet doing 'Billboards' to Prince.

Lee Scott

It was a solid performance, but we can do better,

Rick Carlisle

It was a terrible performance. It's as simple as that.

Daron Rahlves

It's bad, it stinks, a poor performance by the team. It's really a poor showing. Big stage, little performance. I don't know why.

Paul Nicholls

I think it's a really positive idea and I'm sure I shall be having runners in the first stage at Haydock.

P. Herbert

I think to come out of here, you have to have a positive attitude. I've had remained discipline-free for two years to get this job.

Leigh Steinberg

I don't know what happened, but I know Ricky didn't test positive for anything. Someone made a mistake.

William McDonough

We prefer to talk about 100% renewable instead of zero carbon. When you say zero carbon, you are not positively defined.

William James

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

William James

The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time

Sarah Wilson

In life, you may face hard times. But in the face of adversity, always seek to remain positive. What we think, will eventually become our life. And if you think positive, you will have a positive life.

Wayne Dyer

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

William Blake

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Richard Dawkins

Human psychology has a near universal tendency to let belief be coloured by desire.

Wilhelm Wundt

Physiological psychology is, therefore, first of all psychology.

Wilhelm Wundt

We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.

Wilhelm Wundt

There are other sources of psychological knowledge, which become accessible at the very point where the experimental method fails us.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arms goes up from the fact that I raise my arm?

Karl A. Menninger

Psychoanalysis has changed American psychology from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by the psychoanalytic technique, but because of the new understanding of psychiatric patients it has given us, and the new and different concept of illness and health.

James Mark Baldwin

Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.

Jodie Foster

By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.

Jodie Foster

I will always love psychology, and the basis of psychology is family.

Roy Harper

I was determined if I was going to become a superstar it would be on my terms. I've had that ethic since the beginning.

Shane Valdez

I think that's the first time since I've been here that we had everyone qualify.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Samuel Smiles

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

Zane Grey

These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.

Chelsea Clinton

I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.

Michael Mayer

I haven't read a single word that a critic has written about me since 1994.

Kelly Slater

I haven't surfed since Japannot even one wave.

Saku Koivu

I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.