Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Joy

The persistence of high oil prices can't be lost on the Fed. Consumers have to pay for higher energy even though it's volatile. It is a real cost.

Gary Campbell

We are positive on stocks, especially those that are benefiting from very strong U.S. consumer demand.

Alan Ackerman

There are continued uncertainties, ... The U.S. economy is slowing and commensurate with that is slowing consumer spending and corporate spending.

Scott Brown

There are some encouraging signs in retail sales, but if you look at what the source of consumer spending is, it's really income growth, and wage growth has been lackluster, suggesting the consumer will not be robust going forward.

Bob Brown

We want to provide unfiltered and unbiased consumer education about the impact of what life insurance does, rather than how it works.

Marshal Cohen

Until they're able to prove that consumers are going to respond to the changes, the Street is very nervous. It's a very big undertaking to convince the country that a national Macy's is better than regional department stores.

Steve Stanley

While many will be disappointed that we will not necessarily see huge upward revisions to payrolls ... a significant upward revision to wages would also be a positive development, as it suggests that consumers have more firepower than we thought.

Janet Jenkins

We've become a customer service department for some of these companies. So many consumers can't seem to resolve their issues with telephone companies.

Michael Gallelli

We've always tried to give consumers what they want, not what we feel they need,

Stephen Baker

The powerful collaboration of industry leaders HP and AMD continues to yield successful results, as demonstrated by the HP Special Edition L2000 Notebook PC. With its rich feature set and distinctive branding, this notebook has proven to be extremely popular throughout the North American retail market.

Joe Donzelli

We are a district that's growing by leaps and bounds. Not that our administration is growing a lot, but we'll need room as the district continues to grow.

Phil Zepeda

We have never seen an outpouring of support like this in our existence. It's just tremendous, and the outpouring of support just continues to come.

Peter Cardillo

There is no question that the State of the Union message last night was very strong and very positive. Obviously the economy continues to do very well. Inflation is low and interest rates are still very low.

Jeremy Stretch

We're still going to get Japanese rates at zero for some time yet. The Fed continues to underpin the view that more rate hikes are highly probable, and yield premiums favor the dollar in the short term.

Michael Dell

We're seeing our Internet sales roughly double or triple every year, ... We were at $18 million a day in the first quarter. It continues to grow. It was 30 percent (of total sales). We think it goes to 50 percent, then to 70 and 80 percent.

Paul Olson

We're seeing a really healthy market right now. I do know our listing inventory continues to grow and even though that is happening, our market time has been stable for three months.

Joe Schwieterman

United had suggested that it was on a glide path to emerging from bankruptcy. This suggests there is more turbulence ahead. This continues to dog United.

Scott Baugh

We're ready to get after it. We have had great weather in January and February. I hope it continues like that in March.

Stefan Worrall

What we're seeing now is a very sharp turnaround in exports and this was reflected in the GDP numbers.

Juergen Michels

For 2006, I see very strong German exports and increasing investment, but I don't think it will have a big impact on the labor market and that's why consumption will remain relatively weak.

Jonathan Ravelas

This is good news but we can't say at this point that a recovery is now underway. We want to see first how exports will perform in the next two to three months before we can make any conclusion.

Tom Hunter

The Scottish government set a goal of increasing exports by 50% by 2017. That is ambitious. Is it achievable?

Mike Fitzpatrick

Nearly half of Nigeria's oil exports go to the United States.

Rob Henderson

More generally, it looks like the long-awaited trend improvement in Australia's exports could be upon us.

Marc Levesque

So exports actually contributed to net GDP growth in November.

Brian Redican

We're optimistic that exports will improve, but probably not until the second quarter of 2006.

Oliver North

Vladimir Putin is leading a dying country. Vladimir Putin's regime exports three things: petroleum products - coal, natural gas, and hydrocarbon energy in the form of petroleum. Number two, it exports arms, and, number three, it exports people.

Mitt Romney

We're going to need to find, in many cases, permanent housing for these individuals. Jobs, housing, transportation and the like,

Bonnie Adams

We're doing fundraising, providing food, housing clothing, whatever she needs.

Carl Guardino

It's fascinating that housing was No. 1 in all three of those categories.

Nina Holland

They (organophosphates) can be tracked from outside in because some of these people in our study live in housing just next to the fields.

Gray Swoope

It ranges from housing interest to retail development interest to warehouse and manufacturing interest.

Nariman Behravesh

Of that 8.9 percent, maybe a third of it was weather-related. The rest of it is underlying trend of weakness in the housing market. You are seeing pervasive signs of weakness.

David Fields

a full-range of housing for all incomes and all people who wish to live in the neighborhood.

Steve Allen

Public housing units in New Orleans were huge,

Judy Burkett

The statistics show that 30 percent of the housing inventory is spoken for, but that's not accurate. There's not that much inventory.

Daymond John

I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

David Dreman

Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.

Mike Toohey

We're making a substantial investment into the town of Maggie Valley.

Bob Wheeler

We're saying, like a lot of communities do, that here's a value to these jobs. It's a wise investment to look at a differing rate structure for industry.

Benjamin Franklin

Knowledge of the investment is most profitable

Christopher Hayes

Women's skills and abilities are no different from men's but they put a tremendous pressure on themselves to make perfect investment decisions.

Dave Munson

With the investment we make in that zoo, it's a large investment. We want to make sure it's managed to it's maximum.

Jim Hall

It's a segment that's going to have a tougher time selling. But it still justifies the investment because the margins are so high.

Gary Larsen

This is a big investment on his part,

Greg Smith

The technology really only replaced the broker or a telephone.

Jon Alterman

The roadmap is inoperative and nothing has replaced it.

Lois Lowry

As female hormones decrease, they're replaced with an overwhelming urge to grow delphinium.

Randy Huth

We used to have a singer but he didn't work out and we never replaced him. We all do vocals on the record, and live, we, me and Joel, split it up.

Gavin Smith

We don't want them to evacuate the Coast, if you will, and be replaced with high-rise condominiums.

Robert Reich

We don't have to sit by and watch our meritocracy be replaced by a permanent aristocracy, and our democracy be undermined by dynastic wealth.

Doug Cole

Other things can be replaced ... but not photos.

Andrew Tyndall

Interviewing has replaced reporting as the high-profile position.

Dan Foster

They've been successful in slowing down the process.

Mark Reinhardt

It's about how little he's going to show you. You're waiting for the big image, the payoff, and he's slowing you down to think about how we see.

Erik Jenkins

It's a way of slowing down your truck without using your brakes. You're not stopping a 1,500-pound car, you're stopping an 80,000-pound vehicle.

Erik Jenkins

It's a way of slowing down your truck without using your brakes.

Terry Wilson

The sense is that there has been some slowing of traffic from it.

Amy Cutts

This is a slowing down to what I think of as good, sustainable levels.

David Stiff

Things have also been slowing down a little in Boston.

Alan Watts

What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

Al Sharpton

I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.

Robert Bach

Americans have been on a multi-year spending spree.

Jason Chaffetz

Federal spending is atrocious.

Bobby Scott

If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.

Raza Jaffrey

Everyone thinks with 'Smash,' because it looks glossy and big, they think they're spending a fortune, and they think it's taking weeks to shoot.

Tom DeLay

To all these new spending requests, I say, 'Mr. President, show me the money,

Dan Cooper

We'll look at the spending cap. We have to look at the legislation that was passed.

Craig Benson

I don't think anyone's pushing for spending limits in the campaign.

Eartha Kitt

I have used all the manure that has been thrown on me as fertilizer to make me stronger.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A concept is stronger than a fact.

Bob Marley

I went deep inside myself. I had time to explore my beliefs and because of that I'm stronger. Bob Marley (March 1981)

Adam Pine

We've always had it in us. The men's team will keep getting stronger and stronger.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

No matter how many times you have slipped or fallen, rise up... You are stronger than you realize.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

You are stronger than you realize. You are more capable than you can imagine.

Edmund Waller

Virtue's a stronger guard than brass.

Ai Weiwei

If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.

Alan Ball

Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.

Deepak Chopra

The basic theme of the kapha metabolic type is relaxed.

Roger Penrose

Well I didn't actually see the Matrix but I've seen other movies where with similar sorts of themes.

John O'Hara

They say great themes make great novels

Michael Heizer

This theme of bigness — all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.

Mason Cooley

The theme of my autobiography could only be repetition.

John Kearns

Many things done tonight come from the theme of renewal.

Eve Arnold

Themes recur again and again in my work.

Moby

I did a cover of the James Bond theme, and I felt like such a fraud, because the original is so good.