Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Savage

Prices are off after a big rise during Christmas and New Year. With uncertainty over the Venezuelan strike and OPEC's response, I would expect volatile trade over the next few days.

Sarah Taylor

During the Christmas season online retailers ship two or three times what they would normally do.

Britt Beemer

The success of GM's employee discount sale is a great example that consumers still are in a mood to buy. However, I think Christmas spending could be a little narrower than last year.

Stephen Graham Jones

Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas.

John Daly

So, ... what do you want for Christmas?

June Diane Raphael

One Christmas I had no money, and so I went home and just, like, wrote a poem; I mean, I didn't write them, but I just handed out poems as Christmas presents. Like, 'Here's a Pablo Neruda poem that really made me think of you.'

Brian Turmail

Thanksgiving and Christmas and New Year's are things you plan for, and you make sure you get your staff available,

Victor Borge

Santa Claus has the right idea: visit people once a year

O.B. Goolsby

Sales momentum during the Christmas holiday season in Mexico failed to live up to expectations and last year's performance.

Bill Gray

I think that our offensive line has really started to gel, ... We have three new faces up there on the front line and they haven't played a lot of football. Despite their experience, I think that every time we step on the football field, they get better.

Roseanne Roseanne

I think we're looking at a pretty strong housing market despite the fact that starts didn't rise, ... far from runaway.

Russ Yarworth

He's a very tough worker. Mentally, he's tough, despite what he might tell you. He's got a good feel for the water.

Willie Green

I know I've been in motor sport for 46 years and some might think it is time I grew up, but I am still here, despite smashing up my legs.

Jane Jensen

I love 'Gabriel Knight' and will always be proud of it. Despite the fact that I've done many other things, it seems to be the one thing that people remember. I hope 'Gray Matter' is as memorable.

Robert Hall

The health fears are what stuck out the most for me, but I think the stuff we see on television and all of the victims affected, pushes me into helping, despite the fear.

Margaret Atwood

I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it.

Patrick Fearon

So despite the indicator today, the report for February might not be quite as strong as this is suggesting.

Lee Cronk

As you're developing, all sorts of things come at you, like diseases and injury. If you're able to develop symmetry despite all of that, then that would indicate to others that you have what it takes to make a go of it in that environment.

O. Henry

A holiday in a new dress—can earth offer anything more enchanting?

Mindy Kaling

I'm Indian-American and I think that when I think of myself as being culturally Indian, it had so much to do with when I lived with my parents and was a kid because they would take me to the Diwali festivals. They would take me to the temple, and they would teach me about all the different holidays.

Paul Engle

I have published in 'The New Yorker,' 'Holiday,' 'Life,' 'Mademoiselle,' 'American Heritage,' 'Horizon,' 'The Ladies Home Journal,' 'The Kenyon Review,' 'The Sewanee Review,' 'Poetry,' 'Botteghe Oscure,' the 'Atlantic Monthly,' 'Harper's.'

Mike Carey

It's not a holiday until you overdo it!

Pope Francis

Workers should have Sundays off because Sunday is for the family. Calling for Sundays to be a holiday.

Rachael Ray

If you're preparing a dinner for friends or a holiday dinner, make sure to only prepare recipes you are comfortable with and have cooked before. Cooking for others is not the time to try out a recipe for the first time. You end up spending all your time in the kitchen instead of enjoying your company.

Mike Huckabee

And the ultimate thing is, I may not be the expert that some people are on foreign policy, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night.

Penelope Cruz

I have a little bit of an addiction to work. So I'm always hiding in the bathroom with my Blackberry to work when I'm on holiday.

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

Instead of waiting until the holiday season - when mail solicitations flood in from worthy organizations - and making a flurry of gifts because this is the time of year to give, sit down and take stock. Identify your passion, learn about it, and direct your time, mind, and dollars to aligned causes and organizations.

Brad Goreski

There are so many levels in fashion that I'm happy to dip in and dip out of it all.

P. J. Harvey

going on at the acquisition level and the requirements level.

Scott Butler

I think it's here now, but it may not stay, ... I don't know that it will level out at this amount.

F. Schumacher

I think with 12 to 13 minutes left, we stepped up our level of play. We were in a lull in the first half.

Michael Holland

I think we are down to levels were people have said enough is enough.

Peter Lai

Hutchison has risen more than HK$10 this week so at this level it will see some profit taking.

Dennis Wiese

He has a wide level of support, but it doesn't seem to be very deep.

Ron Atkinson

Scholes is very influential for England at international level.

Vince Young

My confidence level is a tremendous high.

Tony Visconti

The object is to make a great record and you have to do whatever it takes.

Tony Visconti

My profession is called record production.

Tony Visconti

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.

Willie Nelson

You can't make a record if you ain't got nothin' to say.

Kate Smith

In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.

Brian Giles

If you're in October, not at all. I don't care. It's a new season in October. Throw your records out the door, and it's about winning series.

Jessie Baylin

If you've ever had your heart broken, it's like, once is enough - you can live a lifetime on that. Ya know? You can write a lot of records on one broken heart.

Chris Stapleton

I like to put a record on and then listen to it again and then sit down and make my friends listen to it.

Chris Rodgers

I just wanted to set the record straight.

Brandon Roy

I think this is the year it can happen.

Richard D. James

My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.

Richard D. James

I've always got to change something. All the tracks I've done in the last five years were made in like six different studios. It gets a bit complicated.

Robbie Coltraine

Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.

Rob Chapman

The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed.

Richard Dawkins

All qualified physicists, biologists, cosmologists and geologists agree, on the basis of massive, mutually corroborating evidence, that the earth's age is at least four billion years.

Roz Savage

A few years ago I wrote two versions of my obituary, the one I wanted and the one I was heading for. They were very different. I realized I needed to make some big changes if I was going to look back and be proud of my life. I am making those changes, and now I have a life worth living.

Tyler Hoechlin

For me, as an actor, one of the biggest fears on a TV show is getting stuck in something where you end up feeling like you're doing the same thing, every single year.

Reza Aslan

But every year you grow, you will find me bigger.