Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Postrel

Just as producers often give consumers things they want but didn't think to ask for, consumers sometimes come up with surprising uses for new inventions. When a new product appears, it can uncover dissatisfactions and desires no one knew were there.

Michael Workman

The pick up in house price inflation since mid-2005 has the potential to provide further positive impetus to consumer spending in the months ahead.

Heather Dougherty

The 2005 holiday season was a gadget year for consumers of all ages, and consumers continued to show their love for free shipping.

Paul Taylor

The affordability issue from rising interest rates takes some consumers out of the market. These are big-ticket items for consumers. They are going to be sensitive to interest rates.

Ken Perkins

The American consumer has been particularly resilient over the last year plus, ... They're finding ways to spend.

David Rosenberg

That will just reinforce the slowdown in consumer spending.

Howard Silverblatt

We have already started to see some consumer resistance on high oil prices and this is obviously going to increase, and it will hurt consumer spending.

M. Wolfe

We can throw variable pricing in and we can raise prices of a hit song, but it doesn't mean consumers will buy. They have an alternative - get songs for free.

Meg Whitman

We have tremendous momentum in our flagship business. Our customers now transact well over $200 million in gross merchandise sales per month, making this the most vibrant consumer e-commerce site on the entire Internet.

Barbara Steinmetz

That was a thing we were getting away from when the equity markets were on a tear. Everybody thought you were a fool to get into anything else.

Bob Parker

Valuations in European equity markets are looking stretched.

Saul Rubin

We hope that the equity markets perform as we expect them to, but it's impossible for us to project what equity markets are going to do.

John Schwartz

We can use the fund equity to get us through the next year. It's stable so we're able to do that.

Daniel Morgan

I would characterize March as a relatively good performance in the equity markets.

Ken Miller

Because of the cooperative's financial soundness, tonight we are returning over $ 1.8 million of your equity back to you.

Mike Lenhoff

Fundamentals remain positive for equity markets so our view is: stick with the trend, it's not the end, it's still your friend.

David Tepper

Given the question of where the liabilities lie, there should be a fight. That fight can't be made without an equity committee.

Luis Rodriguez

Global macro will produce the highest returns, followed by equity hedge funds.

Carl DeFebo

We've gotten very, very positive feedback on this facility.

Rich Smith

We've gotten such nice feedback about the festival - some of it from professional playwrights, talking about how well respected it is.

Connor Franta

Making YouTube videos while I was in school, I was fortunate enough not to really have any negative repercussions from it. I had a lot of positive feedback from my friends, who thought they were great and thought they were funny and that what I was doing was really cool.

Tom White

We get so much positive feedback from the regulars that come here, who just say,

Dave Riggins

We really would like to get some feedback from consumers.

Bill Hilf

One of the most interesting things about open source is the feedback loop.

Kenny Walker

For me personally, he always was very supportive and gave very positive feedback about my playing. He called me to play. I've always appreciated that.

Aaron Hill

He's helped me through everything, really. Having Johnny Mac to really show me everything and giving you positive feedback -- how I'm doing, how I'm looking. It's always good to have someone there.

Mark Stevenson

We took a lot of feedback from people who were in the event. ... They wanted the route to be more difficult.

Yousuf Karsh

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Todd Rundgren

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Idina Menzel

I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

Idina Menzel

I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

Ian Frazier

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

Ian Mckellen

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

Ismail Kadare

In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past.

Gaines Adams

I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

Gad Elmaleh

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

Gabriel Mann

But TV has changed completely. It's not until you come into people's homes that everyone says, 'You're a success now.'

Zaha Hadid

Society has not been set up in a way that allows women to go back to work after taking time off. Many women now have to work as well as do everything at home and no one can do everything. Society needs to find a way of relieving women.

Zach Braff

That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.

Zac Efron

I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Polenta is one of those ingredients that in many homes spends its days at the back of the kitchen cupboard, on the 'no one knows quite what to do with it' shelf.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.

William E. Conway, Jr.

Until a person has a home, they are always going to be dependent upon the system.

William Stone

If you don't come home with data, you've done nothing.

Zubin Mehta

I'm a pucca Indian. Bombay is my home.

Zadie Smith

I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.

Zac Goldsmith

I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.

Yoko Ono

I think it's nice to let people know that there is an invisible part of the world. I think there are many people now who are interested in the invisible world.

William E. Conway, Jr.

Generally, I have a strong interest in trying to help people who are maybe not as lucky as I am. I've been well rewarded in this world. I'm more worried about the next one.

Christina Baker Kline

As a novelist, I have always been interested in how people come to terms with difficult, life-altering events.

Clint Eastwood

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

John C. Calhoun

Remember, it is a deep principle of our nature not to regard the safety of those who do not regard their own. If you are indifferent to your own safety, you must not be surprised if those less interested should become more so.

Carrie Brownstein

For film and television, it's interesting how fans feel that their particular ways of manifesting their affections are the correct ones. It's not just about being a fan, it's about how you perform your fandom. That's always been interesting to me.

Carl Sagan

UFOs: The reliable cases are uninteresting and in the interesting cases are unreliable.

Gwen Moore

I've been the co-chair of the Non-Partisan Women's Caucus and vice-chair for several years, taking a leadership role in this women's organization.

Ellen Key

War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.

Danny Glover

The points leader (Ferris) had nothing for me. Once I got outside, I was gone.

Cathy Rigby

There's no disgrace in failure, the disgrace is not to try.

Carrie Underwood

It's hard to look at things that are too close.

Carl Sagan

I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promise to develop my independence of thought. I promise to educate myself so I can make my own judgments.

Bergen Evans

Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement. For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.

Bergen Evans

Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.

Bergen Evans

For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.

Brian Brennan

Today's numbers threw some (inflation) fears. We could see some nervousness on the mortgage side.

John Porter

It's tough. My mortgage there is $2,000, and my rent here is $2,350, so we're not doing much but working and paying the mortgage.

Julia Gillard

I'm angry and I understand why Australians paying mortgages are angry.

Martin Lewis

It's a sensible rule that says before you get a mortgage it should be checked whether you can afford it.

Jim Butcher

I don't have a muse. I have a mortgage.

Jennifer Ellison

I got a mortgage at 17! I didn't even know you could get a mortgage at 17.

Chris Gabrieli

I realized I didn't need to go to work every day. I could work for the pleasure and the challenge, not for the mortgage payment.

Carol Rebello

I made all my payments on time, but I never got a mortgage bill.

Dexter Holland

You can't sing about the same things as you did when you were 20; it would be ridiculous to sing about, I don't know, being in the quad. You can't really write about mortgage payments or stuff like that... but you can talk about 'let's make the world a better place.'

Sean Taylor

Why was I not here? It was offseason, ... I could have returned his phone calls, but it was offseason.

Beck

I try not to do email; I try to talk to people on the phone.

Jodi Dias

On the phone we clicked. But when I saw him, I was like, 'Wow.' I got more interested.

Kevin Garnett

Good; I can talk some (trash) to him. That's probably the reason he's not returning my phone calls. It makes a lot of sense.

Charlayne Woodard

I talk to my girlfriends. And I have three sisters. I talk to them on the phone every day.

Bill Robertson

He was waiting. He was actually talking on the phone with the ex-girlfriend when the victim pulled up.

Chuck D.

He had businesses, he had locations, he had phone numbers.

John Madden

I didn't get a phone call. If you don't get a phone call, you know what that means.

John Ball

For sure, he would have wanted me to play. At least I got to talk to him on the phone (Saturday) morning.

Kris Janowski

Virtually all of the 28 have received verbal threats and begged to be evacuated.

Robert Lawson

I was unaware of water in garages in The Vineyards until I received these letters. That's disturbing.

James Rubin

We received assurances at a variety of levels.

Chris Beard

We received a lot of user requests for this.

Eric Dubin

When you received Rosie, did you say, 'It's now you and me, kid?'

Horton Foote

I've lived long enough to know things go in and out of fashion, and things not well received now can be totally reversed years later.

Hariadi Wibisono

I have just received confirmation from Hong Kong.

Christian Winthrop

He has received a lot of support from Yonkers and Westchester. A lot of them were contributions that were under $200 that were not itemized.

Nyoman Kandun

We have just received the results (from the WHO) and they are positive.

Chris Travers

I thought if we could get it down to three with 40 seconds left, we would have had a shot.

Ray Walston

I have 30 seconds to tell you I have been waiting 60 years to get on this stage.

Sue Donohoe

When he wanted to know what time it was, you had to get down there. You didn't tell him that it was 30 seconds left.

Jim Calhoun

We've got to take away 3-point shooting and not get fatigued by the shot clock. They make as many shots under 12 seconds as any team you're going to play.

Manish Jha

We need to tell a story in 30 seconds or in one minute.

Mike Caldwell

Our possessions were about 10 seconds long. Theirs were for about 40 seconds long.

Brenda Frese

I think it was like 10 seconds after the game.

Jim Court

I thought about it for 10 seconds or so.

Ashtin Primus

With 10 seconds to go (after the restart) I didn't know if I had time for a cradle, but I just went for it.

C. S. Lewis

There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.

Carrie Fisher

If talking were aerobic, I'd be the thinnest person in the world.

Bill Bryson

Taking a scenic route in Southeast Iowa is like talking about a good Barry Manilow album. You have to make certain allowances.

Ashton Kutcher

There's something advantageous about having people underestimate your intellect, insomuch as a lot of things are revealed to you. They assume you don't know what you're talking about, then all of a sudden, you do. And the next thing you know, you have information you wouldn't normally have.

Art Bell

I was crushingly bored talking about politics 30 hours a week.

Bill Vaughan

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Kyle Brown

Typically speaking, we're probably talking about around $100,000 for everything.

David Albright

You are actually talking to Obeidi? ... Where is he? What did he say?

Jim Tsenes

I think they're focused. I've been talking to them every day and telling them not be satisfied.