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.

James Williams

Katrina has already had twice the price impact of Ivan on crude oil.

Michael Right

It ain't looking good. All the indicators that point toward the ultimate price of gasoline are negative . The only positive indicator is the stocks of crude oil are good.

Andrew Harrington

Having more or less traveled together, refined products and crude have become disconnected in recent weeks.

Brad Hintz

Physical pricing knowledge in crude and refined products represents the keys to the castle.

Dariusz Kowalczyk

The geopolitical risks are still there. Because of these risks, I expect crude prices to rebound.

Tetsu Emori

The economy seems to have completely absorbed high oil prices and people will be looking for steady economic growth next year. People expect a drawdown in crude oil stocks so they don't want to be short over the New Year.

Mark Pervan

The drop in crude oil was larger than expected, and that fueled buying.

Barclays Capital

The dichotomy in the US market between tight products and flush crude has become more pronounced.

Zhang Guobao

The current price is much higher than it should be, since there is not a real crude oil shortage in the world market.

Connie Rogers

We've done some darn important things over 40 years.

Peter Plagens

I like figure-ground (relationships), ... I like shapes. So, gosh darn it, I was going to put a great big turquoise shape on a great big vermillion background. No getting around it.

Dan Smith

They looked just like the team that won it all last year. They're a darn good football team.

Joe Barton

This is a darned good bill, and this is going to help this country. The sooner we get it implemented, the better.

Scott Hatteberg

It's a good win today, not a must-win but pretty darn important. The little things are something we've really got to do consistently.

James Blake

I've matured a little. I think I learned that a little while ago, but now it's translating to my game, ... Now I know that I can play pretty darn good tennis.

Michael Brown

I've overseen over 150 presidentially declared disasters. I know what I'm doing, and I think I do a pretty darn good job of it,

Corey Pavin

I see no reason why Tiger Woods won't become a great player. Man, can he smoke some shots. A little refinement on Tiger's short game and there'll be nothing. He's already pretty darn imposing.

Sam Sandmire

That trophy was darn nice. And we don't get that.

Lee Humphrey

He was big for us tonight. He's been around for five years; he knows how to prepare for games. He knows the right mindset to have, and he stays focused. Tonight he gave us great energy off the bench.

Siobhan Davies

What we do now is to be valued - but we need to do more, so that it's more exciting to other people, and therefore that excitement shines back on us and we're able to have the energy to do more, to widen our creativity.

Ross Gittell

Historically, spikes in energy prices are followed by a recession. The possibility (of a recession) is there; the probability is less than 50 percent, but it's there.

Chelsea Levine

There is energy and it's exciting performing on stage with other people.

Willie Wilson

I thought our guys really did a good job down the stretch. I thought we really played with a lot more energy and a lot more focus and played at a higher level that we need to play with to win in this kind of environment.

Brian Brohm

I think we were up pretty handily and some guys got a little complacent. We didn't have as much energy and didn't execute like we needed to, and that contributed to Kentucky getting back into the game.

Chuck D.

I think we are going to see the push for renewable energy gain a steadily higher profile.

Amber Bacon

I think us losing to JSU was a big wake-up call. ... I honestly don't think that will happen again. I don't think we will lose energy anymore, because that was a big loss and it hurt us really, really bad.

Dan Kammen

It is not a massive savings, not like putting in 10 percent energy and getting out 100 percent. We find it is somewhat better than gasoline, but it's not a home run.

Michael Francis

I will say one thing about our people: we are resilient, ... That is reflected in how we manage to just come from such a horrendous situation.

Richard Davies

Frankly, it was in response to a horrendous performance in Spokane. That needed attention.

Linda Baumann

Our traffic is so horrendous I don't think that Boca Raton can withstand it.

Venus Williams

I don't have time to be negative.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth (satya) is positive, nonviolence is negative.

Andrea Williams

It's incrementally positive. ... It's not a negative but does it open up a new opportunity? I'm not sure it does that.

R. Buckminster Fuller

What humans have spontaneously identified as good and bad - or as positive and negative - are evolutionary complementations in need of more accurate identifications.

Leif Garrett

I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.

Karl Rove

Negative politics have always been around.

Kapil Dev

Every person gets negative things, they learn from those negative things, and you become a positive person.

Joel Osteen

It's easy to see the negative, but every person has something great about them. Develop a habit of looking for the good.

Louise Hay

Every single thought I have and every sentence I speak is an affirmation. It is either positive or negative. Positive affirmations create positive experiences, and negative affirmations create negative experiences. My new affirmation habit is to only speak of the good I want in my life. Then, only good will come to me. I use my affirmations wisely.

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.

Robert G. Allen

Your network is your net worth. How do you value your network? Well, if you don't value it, cultivate it, nurture it, it becomes worthless. If you do value it, it becomes priceless.

Darren Benitez

I had some songs in that I had wrote, you know, priceless to me.

Guy Quaden

The first risk is the price of oil.

Malcolm X

The price of freedom is death.

LaVar Arrington

You can't put a price tag on principals and values.

Ernest Moore

You can't put a price tag on a child's life.

Rachel Barnard

You can't put a price on that kind of publicity. It's huge.

Markus Steinbeis

The sentiment for the whole telecoms sector has now cooled down.

Richelle Mead

Please don’t get sentimental,” said Jerome. “It’s nauseating.

W. Somerset Maugham

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

James Joyce

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

David Smith

They are overestimating the anti-gay sentiment in their own organization and the country.

Jane Jacobs

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

Jose Rizal

Orientals, and the Malays in particular, are a sensitive people: delicacy of sentiment is predominant with them.

Blaise Pascal

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

John Tkacik

There is no sentiment in the administration for humoring the Chinese,

Mason Cooley

The sentimental want to be thrilled by everything.

Steve Trimper

He's got a strong arm. It was a game-saving throw right there.

Larry Taddeo

He's got a strong arm. I think he'll get some looks.

Lance Armstrong

I think we have fielded our strongest team ever with this formation,

Brian Urlacher

He doesn't look any different to me. He was as strong as ever.

Rob Thomas

There weren’t many people in this world who would let you be vulnerable and still believe you were strong.

Richard P. Feynman

Our freedom to doubt was born out of a struggle against authority in the early days of science. It was a very deep and strong struggle: permit us to question - to doubt - to not be sure. I think that it is important that we do not forget this struggle and thus perhaps lose what we have gained.

Richard John Neuhaus

My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised.

Richard Dawkins

The story of Doubting Thomas is told, not so that we shall admire Thomas, but so that we can admire the other apostles in comparison. Thomas demanded evidence … The other apostles, whose faith was so strong that they did not need evidence, are held to us as worthy of imitation.

Roz Savage

I'm not claiming to be anything out of the ordinary. I am not especially big or strong or brave or intrepid.