Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Carlyle

What we might call, by way of eminence, the Dismal Science

Ken Tower

Even though the news has been dismal this week, investors have to keep an eye on the July Lows.

Jeff Tweedy

Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation.

Oscar Gonzalez

The overall trend is still pretty dismal in terms of imbalances between imports and exports.

Steven Wood

We are looking for a very dismal report,

Alexander Smith

In winter, when the dismal rain comes down in slanting lines, and wind, that grand old harper, smote his thunder-harp of pines.

George Mallory

I look back on tremendous efforts & exhaustion & dismal looking out of a tent door on to a dismal world of snow and vanishing hopes.

Dennis Hastert

I know that the news of dismal economic forecasts and the layoffs in the technology sector has some people in the industry worried,

John McCarthy

The numbers produced a slightly firmer dollar: they weren't dismal and as a consequence people are taking back some of their short dollar positions.

Clyde Prestowitz

The possibility exists that they would get upset with us at some pint and sell dollars. And if they sold all those dollars right away, the value of the dollar would plummet, interest rates would spike and the U.S. would go into a recession.

Nick Woodman

You don't have to raise millions of dollars to be successful, you just have to work on something you are passionate about.

Charles M. Schulz

I proved to you that psychiatry is an exact science!" "An exact science?!" "Yes, you owe me exactly one hundred and forty-three dollars!

Charles Goodyear

Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents.

Ed Whitfield

I'm not a big fan of a lot of government dollars going into research and development for private enterprises... and you're not going to see the House of Representatives, I'm certain, provide a lot of money for research and development for electric vehicles.

Rodney Lewis

When it comes to a big game, a national championship game, either a five hundred or thousand dollar board.

Cal Thomas

In business, poor performance leads to bankruptcy or, at a minimum, a restructuring of the company. In American education, failure entitles the bankrupt system to even more taxpayer dollars.

Carl Icahn

Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.

Greg Anderson

We're still expecting the Fed to hike one more time and take a pause. The momentum for dollar weakening has been established and is well-entrenched.

Charles Caleb Colton

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.

Charles Simmons

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

Alan Greenspan

The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that's likely to change for the better.

Alan Greenspan

Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.

Alan Greenspan

The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

Alain Prost

I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.

David Walliams

There's a sort of magic and music to comedy. Some words, some numbers even, are funnier than others. A Caramac bar, for instance, is funnier than a Milky Way.

David Hilbert

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

Del Harris

We'll find out, won't we? It has produced 60 wins. But we all know that's not the ultimate goal.

Harvey Johnson

Mrs. Knox will be produced at the proper time.

John H. Reagan

The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion.

Richard Hatch

It's rare to get a really truly wonderfully written, acted and produced sci-fi show, period.

Benjamin Hoff

A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words, those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than those who consider themselves perfectly happy and neglect their weakness. So, in that sense at least, a Weakness of some sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it's there.

Chris Phillips

It's a short tournament. If you don't have it, you don't have much time to find it.

Craig Stevens

A lot of this has to do with speculation that there was going to be a shortage of supply,

Derek Halpenny

The yen is being supported by a liquidation of short positions.

David Chase

They're on edge, disquieted, off balance. What a short time we're on this Earth.

Cary Elwes

There's a shortage of perfects breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.

Cameron Crowe

I wanted it to feel like a short story, but it's a long short story,

Kevin Gray

It would be an interesting test on short notice,

Lois Perrin

It was very likely, and to be done in short order.

Suki Waterhouse

I've always loved slightly ugly shoes. Or even very ugly shoes.

Lykke Li

I always feel like I've been slightly misunderstood. As a woman, you get judged for appearances or things like that I don't really care about.

Adam McKay

I think when a lot of actors hear improv, they think of throwing a line in or doing a slightly different take.

Graham Cluley

What they did was not intentionally malicious. If anything, it was slightly inept.

Michelle Gomez

I'm always slightly worried if I do a film and we're filming it in Luxembourg. I know it's going to go straight DVD.

John Godfrey

I'm always for a weakened Conservative party, slightly or massively,

Rainer Guntermann

If anything it was a slightly more hawkish spin (than we were expecting).

Lena Headey

I think I look slightly like a horse. Hand on heart, I think I'm pretty average.

Ted Dexter

I think we are all slightly down in the dumps after another loss. We may be in the wrong sign... Venus may be in the wrong juxtaposition with somewhere else.

Steve Hall

We're still on a trend that is taking us downward.

Ron Everhart

We're just waiting to see what happens. He's taking his time.

Ladrika Gross

They're taking this pretty easy. They're taking it better than I thought they would.

David Carr

They're taking their time with him, and that's good,

Carol Olson

It's not like we're taking from other facilities. Everybody's experiencing an increase.

Laura McElroy

For him, repairing something is like taking a walk. He fixes everything.

Lee Gierczynski

This is very atypical. It's taking a very, very long time.

Kurt Tsue

Right now, the tides are taking it out. Should the wind change, it could come right back into shore.

David Carr

I see us taking more of a businesslike approach,