Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Krafcik

Going out to 2010, the segment stays very steady at one million, 1.1 million units, which is a chunk of the market.

Douglas Coupland

I think as a species we're not designed to be able to think more than one year into the future - if that. Even trying to imagine one year from now makes most people feel like they've been given a huge boring chunk of homework that's too hard to do.

Travis Plunkett

Rent is often the largest chunk of a family's monthly budget. So the concern would be that these families would be tempted to use money they don't have by putting it on plastic.

Hugh Johnson

Investors become very guarded at the point that they think oil prices could take a chunk out of economic growth,

DeLoss Dodds

I liked him. That was a pretty good chunk of money back then. We could have handled it, but we wanted David.

Jack Hammond

This is a large chunk of the employees' income.

Brent Spiner

Everyone I've ever known in my life, or seen, or met, or loved, or hated, is at risk of being destroyed. That's a pretty big chunk of fear, and I think that's what we are all dealing with, if we don't save the day.

Ken Reeves

Everyone's going to be looking at significant increases related to heating costs. It is going to be a significant chunk out of people's pockets and wallets.

Lisa Speer

Once this happens, it's hard not to make other states expect to get a chunk of the change.

Steve Schmidt

Kerry's economic policies would raise taxes on minority small-business owners, whose numbers are steadily increasing as a result of the President's pro-growth policies. Under President Bush's leadership, a majority of minority families are homeowners for the first time in history.

Bernard Baumohl

Katrina has shaken the very foundations of the U.S. economic expansion when it ruined much of America's energy infrastructure, ... While a recession is unlikely, the probability of stagflation has greatly increased with inflation moving higher even as the economy slows.

Zhang Guobao

It also delivers substantial economic and environmental results, alleviating poverty.

Ken Robinson

You create your life, and you can recreate it, too. In times of economic downturn and uncertainty, it's more important than ever to look deep inside yourself to fathom the sort of life you really want to lead and the talents and passions that can make that possible.

Alan Johnson

Having the Blazers in Portland is important to the whole region and the state. The economic impact the Blazers organization has is very significant. And when you think about their payroll and what taxes they pay locally, it's a huge factor.

Larry Goldstein

Goldstein said. ''There does seem to be some lessons learned. Whether they are economic lessons or political lessons, or some combination of the two, I don't know.

John Hill

Gold prices have been resurgent, following oil, inflation data, and fretting over global economic imbalances.

Mitsushige Akino

Good economic reports provided us a relief and I expect stocks will rebound from yesterday's losses.

Tomoko Fujii

Good economic figures will surely be euro supportive. The euro-zone economy is expanding faster than expected.

David Boswell

We have to be guarded to keep a right-to-work law from passing, ... That will be one of our top priorities.

Ron Artest

We lost, so it doesn't mean much how I guarded (Bryant). He hit that last shot, I was like, 'That's Kobe.' He is wide open; he is going to hit it.

James Otis

A man's house is his castle; and whilst he is quiet, he is as well guarded as a prince in his castle.

Perry Walters

They guarded us better in the second half, and we didn't take it to them offensively.

Steve Fisher

We guarded better. We were the reason, in my opinion, that they were 5-for-20.

Oliver Goldsmith

The virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel

Tod Kowalczyk

We're guarding, and we've guarded all year. That's not the problem right now.

Kellen Easley

We should have because we guarded and rebounded like we normally do, but needed more players to step up on the offensive end. It just didn't happen.

Ann Gerhart

She is really not that guarded of a person in private, and I think she is more comfortable letting the public see some of that.

Mark Sue

I think investors are relieved about these results because there were thoughts they would have to ratchet down for this quarter.

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.

E. O. Wilson

investors may be saying 'it doesn't get much better than this, so let me take some money off the table and wait until some of the uncertainty flushes out.' After that, the stocks are back off to the races again.

Maelle Gavet

Investors have finally woken up to the fact that there is something called the 'Russian Internet' into which you can invest.

Markus Steinbeis

Investors are taking profits in insurers because it (the sector) has been one of the top performers since October.

Nick Angilletta

Investors are looking at this market and taking a step back.

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.

Hiroshi Sato

Investors are just taking shelter in those natural resources issues.

David Briggs

I think the oil prices (being) off helps.

Chris Perkins

What most people need to understand is that oil is not going to be around forever, and we need to start thinking ahead. The sun is going to be here for as long as we are.

Sarah Palin

Up here in Alaska we're sitting on billions of barrels of oil. We're sitting on hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of natural gas onshore and offshore. And it seems to be only the Republicans who understand that companies should be competing for the right to tap those resources, and get that energy source flowing into these hungry markets so that we will be less reliant on foreign sources of energy. In a volatile world, relying on foreign regimes that are not friendly to Americans, asking them to ramp up resource production for our benefit, that's nonsensical.

Rodrigo Rato

Oil prices have certainly become a threat for the world economy.

Robert Rauschenberg

A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

I didn't sign any contracts, and I didn't see any oil.

Walter Benjamin

Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

Veerappa Moily

Those who know me would tell you, 'Moily can't be cowed down.' I have plans to enhance domestic oil and gas production.

Veerappa Moily

Petrol price is a deregulated commodity, price of which is decided by our oil marketing companies based on input cost and other parameters.

Jeff Capell

Jamal can do that. He can score points in bunches.

Andrew Kohut

His ratings for being trustworthy, which were his strong point for all of his first term, have tumbled rather substantially this year.

Robbie Bach

Historically, there's been one price point and one configuration. You got it whether you wanted it or not,

Rich Baccellieri

I think (the point spread) would go to 3 before it went up to 4. But I think it's pretty solid at 3 1/2.

Bruce Jackson

I think that's all been settled, I don't know what their point is now, anyway.

Frank Thomas

We've got to try and do something with this, because it's getting to the point where it's getting really frustrating. This is excruciating. After I run, it's just really, really sore. I ran the other day (Friday), and I ran hard, and it was really sore. I don't know what we're going to do now. Hopefully, we'll come up with something.

Royce Chadwick

We've done pretty well. It just comes down to whether we put an exclamation point on the season or a period.

M. Thompson

I thought she was going to make a four- point difference. Turned out, it was five.

Roy Wright

I think we?re getting to a point of equilibrium. I think we?re getting back to the norm.

Christopher Murray

Just like in real farming, you want to sell when prices are high.

Tom Crosby

I think we'd better get used to it. I think we're going to see prices roller-coaster like this for a long time.

David Patterson

I think all the prices are crazy. They are just very expensive.

Mike Fitzpatrick

It is not surprising that prices are retreating.

Andrew Logan

If prices keep going up quickly, you?re going to see a real shock to the economy.

Richard Taylor

If prices got out of whack and stay out of equilibrium for a long time, then we'd want to know why and we'd go and find out why.

Ken Budd

These are not the prices we voted on.

Elmore Lockley

Once again, these prices reflect what is going on in the marketplace -- not just here, but it's a trend nationwide.

James Rice

It's unbelievable how the prices has jumped and I think they need to do something about it.