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.

Charles Dickens

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

Charles Dickens

Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank God they were at home; and for the homeless starving wretch to lay him down and die. Many hunger-worn outcasts close their eyes in our bare streets at such times, who, let their crimes have been what they may, can hardly open them in a more bitter world.

Charles Caleb Colton

As the rays of the sun, notwithstanding their velocity, injure not the eye, by reason of their minuteness, so the attacks of envy, notwithstanding their number, ought not to wound our virtue by reason of their insignificance.

Charles Dickens

I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man's opinion of a picture of mine, who had no eye for pictures; or of a piece of music of mine, who had no ear for music.

Charles Dickens

But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions without engendering more death than life. So does the eye of Heaven itself become an evil eye, when incapable or sordid hands are interposed between it and the thing it looks upon to bless.

Charles Dickens

[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.

Charles Dickens

An unfinished coffin on black tressels, which stood in the middle of the shop, looked so gloomy and death-like that a cold tremble came over him, every time his eyes wandered in the direction of the dismal object: from which he almost expected to see some frightful form slowly rear its head, to drive him mad with terror.

Charles Dickens

With throbbing veins and burning skin, eyes wild and heavy, thoughts hurried and disordered, he felt as though the light were a reproach, and shrunk involuntarily from the day as if he were some foul and hideous thing.

Charles Dickens

She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.

Chris Shilakes

With the stock trading at premium multiples and momentum investors exiting the stock, it may take some time ... to re-establish an upward trend.

Martin Angel

A lot of investors are still unsure which way the market will go and so are reluctant to jump in.

Robert Hazlett

For investors in Pfizer, this is a meaningful event. This risk has been a significant overhang for some time.

Robert LaFleur

It's the uncertainty. Investors are pretty tuned into it and want to know what's going on.

Linda Killian

It was a very middle-of-the- road market, but the returns were decent. Investors are still very picky.

Steve Tuen

Any ray of sunshine that investors can find is a big plus for the IPO market.

Sukhbir Khanijoh

Prices quoted vary but most analysts set a target between THB50 and THB55 for Shin, so investors should keep vigilant if its price rises too high.

Richard Bernstein

Private investors are usually late to the party.

Mike Falbo

No one wants to sour the IPO market. That will make investors nervous.

John Potter

The Postal Service last raised rates in July 2002,

Neil Abbott

What he does come July 1 is wide open at this point.

Earl Weaver

Don't worry, the fans don't start booing until July.

Niambi Rowland

We'll be going back on the show July 12.

Chelsea Handler

A federal grand jury is investigating allegations that David Copperfield raped, assaulted and threatened a woman he took to his private island in the Bahamas in July. What happened to the good old days when a guy would just saw you in half?

Lee Schlesinger

Yes, absolutely. That's the way the officer will measure it starting July 1.

English 17th Century Proverbs

A swarm in May is worth a load of hay; a swarm in June is worth a silver spoon; but a swarm in July is not worth a fly.

David Amram

Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.

Carl Sagan

The cosmic calendar compresses the local history of the universe into a single year. If the universe began on January 1st it was not until May that the Milky Way formed. Other planetary systems may have appeared in June, July and August, but our Sun and Earth not until mid-September. Life arose soon after. We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st

Edward Lear

Who, or why, or which, or what, Is the Akhond of Swat?

Betty Friedan

I love newspapers. I've worked on newspapers, all my life. I've always loved it.

Bill Gates

Convert bad news to good news.

Bob Schieffer

Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.

Chandra Levy

abused by the typhoon of the news media.

Joey Skaggs

They don't want the public to question their credibility as an investigative news source.

Bryan Robson

It's very disappointing news because everything was agreed,

Stephen Kay

It's obvious Al-Jazeera is probably not the most objective news organization.

Bryan Colangelo

It's not the news we wanted to hear,

Bob Rae

I hear [my Twitter followers] say, you know, 'Bob Rae, you're an asshole'. [...] I'm working my way and trying to represent the people and speaking in Question Period and here we have vox populi, the thoughtful man on the street, 'you are an asshole!'. Thank you very much. I read it on my Twitter and I get up and ask a question.

Lionel Blue

I have begun to sympathetically understand Paul, though I don't like him much.

Cesare Pavese

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

Casey Stoner

I'm very thoughtful, and when I make a decision I usually stick to it.

Carl Jung

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Carl Jung

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

Brad Bird

Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level

Source Unknown

Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

Thomas Watson

THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.